Sunday, April 11, 2010

Pachauri rules out stepping down even if UN panel finds fault- Hindustan Times
To a poser on whether it was a system failure, he maintained it was more of a "procedural failure" and said, "We will do everything humanly possible to ensure that the error in the fourth report is not there in the fifth report."

"Absolutely", was his reply to a question on whether one single failure was being 'taken out of proportion'.

"Absolutely. One error does not dilute the findings of the IPCC that the glaciers are melting," he said.
Dallas crews finish clearing debris from record snowfall
The trucks wore the names of different contractors, from places as far away as Ocala and Gainesville, Fla., an indication of the city's efforts to get all the debris from February's record snowfall collected on what officials had set as their deadline.
Carbon credit documentary should not have been shown, BBC admits | Media | The Observer
A BBC documentary about socialite Robin Birley and his carbon credits business venture in Africa should never have been broadcast, an internal inquiry by the corporation has found. Millions of viewers were misled because the sympathetic documentary shown on BBC World News failed to declare that it was financed by a secretive trust that was linked to Birley
'There is no longer such a thing as a purely natural weather event' | Mike Hulme, March 2000 | The Guardian
In this sense, therefore, the weather we now experience is the result of a semi-artificial climate; in a fundamental sense, it is different from the weather we would experience on a parallel planet which humans had not polluted. All weather events we experience from now on are to some indeterminable extent tainted by the human hand. There is no longer such a thing as a purely "natural" weather event.

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