Chair of IPCC facing allegations that claims made in key reports did not have required standard of scientific reviewDamian Carrington Rajendra Pachauri, who has faced criticism as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following allegations of inaccurate statements in panel reports, suffered a fresh blow last night when he failed to get the [...]
Climate secretary Ed Miliband warns against listening to ’siren voices’, in an interview with the ObserverThe climate secretary, Ed Miliband, last night warned of the danger of a public backlash against the science of global warming in the face of continuing claims that experts have manipulated data.In an exclusive interview with the Observer, Miliband spoke [...]
Davos: A panel on the global gender gap puts up some welcome challenges to the idea of women as shoppersOne of the things the Davos think-in is famous for is a optimistic take on world problems. Get the world leaders together and rethink, re-evaluate, rebalance, restore whatever it is and we should get somewhere. This [...]
Rajendra Pachauri falls out of favour in home country, as scientists and campaigners add to pressure on him to step downWhen it was announced that the International Panel on Climate Change would share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri became something of a national icon.Propelled into the spotlight, [...]
TORONTO, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE) (“Sino-Forest”), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino-Panel (China) Investments Limited has entered…
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ahead of the State of the Union address and in the wake of recent and ongoing climate science scandals, President Obama should appoint an independent panel of experts to evaluate the purported climate chan…
Attempts to dig up an old academic row in order to create the impression of an IPCC under siege are predictable opportunismThe recent controversy over Himalayan glaciers has led to a predictable display of opportunism by the long-term critics of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who are now digging up all of [...]
UN body rebutts Sunday Times allegation that it exaggerated link between costs of natural disasters and climate changeThe UN body that summarises climate science for governments has condemned as “misleading and baseless” claims that it overstated the effect of global warming on natural disasters.A newspaper report alleged a section in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Head of climate change refuses to resign over false claimsThe head of the UN’s panel of climate scientists, Rajendra Pachauri , has dismissed suggestions that he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, though he pledged that future research procedures by his organisation would be tightened up.A 2007 report [...]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The head of the U.N.’s panel of climate scientists promised on Saturday to tighten research procedures but dismissed talk he should resign over an erroneous projection that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.