Right Pulse

Oh well, looks like the IPCC is about to fall over.

India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it “cannot rely” on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.

Gee, shucks. If India pulls out I doubt the IPCC would be able to continue in its current form. What little credibility it has left would simply vanish, with 17 per cent of the world’s population automatically checking out of the body. I wonder how the ABC would try to spin such an event? Imagine the clamour of scientists in Australia worried about their funding stream for continued doom mongering if they don’t get more funding to study their own doom mongering predictions. Talk about positive feed back loops.

The reason for this threat is that India is none too pleased about the IPCC’s deliberate misrepresentation of the effects of global warming on Himalayan glaciers, claims that benefited funding for the IPCC’s head Dr R K Pachauri, and his research institute.  Add to that the IPCC’s sloppy research covering the Amazon, relationship with the Climagegate scientists, misrepresentation of sea level rises, using non-peer revised material to make shocking headline graping claims for publicity sake and seemingly exaggerating virtually every other climate related issue of note. Seems the manufactured scientific consensus has reached its used by date. Even the Guardian’s prophet of doom George Monbiot is getting worried:

These scandals have done tremendous damage. This is not because they threaten the canon of climate science– that would require similar exposés of tens of thousands of scientific papers – but because they create an atmosphere of opacity and evasion.

The canon of climate science?!? There are not ‘tens of thousands of scientific papers’ supporting the IPCC’s claims about the heating effect of human carbon emissions on global temperatures. Monbiot’s statement is complete bonkers. In order to disprove the IPCC’s claims one only has to show that carbon dioxide will not heat the climate to the extent the IPCC proposes it will. Every other scientific paper written in the name of climate change will fall if the IPCC’s claim about climate sensitivity can be shown to have been exaggerated. Some claim that it already has, in the context of Rudd’s ETS:

…the IPCC’s central estimate of CO2’s warming effect, according to an increasing number of serious papers in the peer-reviewed literature, is a five-fold exaggeration. If those papers are right, after a further decade of incomplete compliance and billions squandered, warming forestalled may prove to be just a thousandth of a degree.