Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head - Telegraph

Pressure is mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the UN climate change panel over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt global warming.
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Climate sceptics have long been vocal cricitcs of Dr Pachauri, but environmentalists and politicians have now joined a chorus of voices calling for his resignation after eight years in the job following an independent report last month that recommended chairmen of the IPCC should serve for no longer than six years.
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Questions have been raised about "conflicts of interest", with some arguing that Dr Pachauri had a vested interest in proving climate change by business dealings with carbon trading companies. However he was cleared on any financial wrongdoing recently by an independent review.

- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo wants Patchy to go

Tim Yeo, the deep-green chairman of the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has called for Rajendra Pachauri to resign.
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Apparently Sir Brian Hoskins has also called for Pachauri to step down.

The Reference Frame: Schmidt, Mann, Rutherford: just clueless

It's clear that Schmidt, Mann, and Rutherford haven't really addressed the main point raised by MW - and others - that the methodology is just guaranteed produce the same result regardless of the actual reality (in this case, of the past climate). They seem completely deaf. It must be annoying for a sensible climate scientist to be a part of a community where a clique of arrogant, combative, and completely deluded zealots who shouldn't be there is clearly and systematically unable or unwilling to listen to rational arguments even if they're presented in the most transparent way.

Another Global Warming Fable Bites The Dust | Real Science

The next big step for the hockey team will be to admit that the rapid warming from 1880 to 1945 could not have been caused by CO2.