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Science, not Evangelism: India quits IPCC

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 5th, 2010 at 06:52 PM  | 

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Now that word has spread that the works and sources of the International Panel on Climate Change are neither “peer reviewed” nor based on “peer reviewed” publications, here come the consequences and loss of credibility. India is quitting the IPCC, and the quote from Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is just beautiful:

There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science.

Don’t mess with this Ramesh, either.

The fraud at the IPCC is particularly relevant to India because the Himalayan glaciers are a local matter, so India is now to found its own National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to study the matter. It will begin producing its own reports in November. Of course, those will probably be blacked out in the press because they’re not blessed by international bureaucrats and WWF reports.

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  • http://fairfaxgardener.blogspot.com ddstrain

    Folks like to name big storms. For example the big 1922 snow storm in Washington DC is calld the Knickerbocker Storm.

    I’d like to nominate a name for the Feb 5-6 storm …

    Gore’s Folly

  • DONTREADONME

    or the “economy turns the corner” storm of 2010

  • 6eorge Jetson

    nt

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    And India is the first to realize it. Why should they give up the growth that will raise hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty, for a shoddy scientific theory?

    If the global warming movement wants any credibility, which they currrently lack, they better go back to solid scientific fundamentals.

    http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9692

  • throwback59

    inches of snow. Without global warming that total might be double, or triple.
    Just like Obama’s economic policies have kept the real unemployment rate to “only” 17%, instead of doubling or tripling.
    We can call this the “Obama Effect.”

  • reagancajun

    It is good to see such a large country with a strong scientific community stand up and tell the IPCC where to shove their faulty made up hoax. When is the main stream media going to take their collective heads out the sand and start challenging this garbage?

  • mustango

    Next weekend sees the opening of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”, a movie whose trailer features the rise of strange weather phenomena, prompting scientists all over the world to line up to explain how the whole thing is clearly the result of human activity as detailed in their pet climatological theories.

    Oh, wait, no, that’s what would happen in the real world. In the movie, “scientists are baffled”. My mistake.

  • honorable

    He is a technocrat who is has an impressive academic credentials:

    Ramesh graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1975. Between 1975-77 he studied Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He then spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying Technology Policy, Economics, Engineering and Management as part of MIT’s inter-disciplinary Technology Policy programme. In 2001, IIT Mumbai presented him their Distinguished Alumnus Award.

    Ramesh is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Asia Society and a founding member of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He is also the author of two books – ‘Kautilya Today’ on economics and public policy; and ‘Making Sense of Chindia’, which analyses Indo-China relations and the emergence of both countries in the global economy today.

  • RedBeard

    One more case study of Obama’s effort to drag America backwards. India’s clear common sense in this case did not pass us up. Rather, this administration has put the bus in reverse and floored it.

    Thank you, Barack, Harry, Nancy, et al. Thank you as well to all the mindless and gullible leftie drones in Congress and the media (and at the ballot box) who dutifully follow their “leaders” off a cliff.

    I want my country back.

  • kateusa

    that one of India’s own is IPCC chief. Pachauri spent a good deal of his time writing a porno novel and spewing out carbon while zig-zagging the globe instead of reading real science and weeding out all the fraud on global warming, aka climate change. These people would be jokes if this wasn’t so deadly serious.

    The US needs to get out of not only the IPCC but also the UN, now!

  • Common_Cents

    A snowjob and rapid cooling of the economy

  • MikeWas

    NT

  • mosander

    Wonderful! You are right, of course. I merely wanted us to resign from the UN all together. They are all just stealing from us! Call you senators and reps and ask to resign from the IPCC based on imaginary science for political and financial gain!

  • fleta

    India is showing more common sense than the followers of “Chicken Little” Gore. I hope everyone is now noticing the change in the wording. No longer Global WARMING. ..BECAUSE IT IS NOT WARMING! Now it’s Global CHANGE. …Funny how Chicken Little now has to defend his position, no one is going along with him except the Socialists who want to use it as a means of controlling the entire world….and those Democrats who once thought their party was what it USED to be are waking up and realizing that the term “progressives” is just a new word for Marxism or Socialism. Good for India and God Bless those Scientists who refuse to sell their souls to fit into the politically crowd. May God expose the jerk who removed from expedia over 5,000 references to former global warming periods…before we had any manufacturing, cars etc.

  • revivefederalism

    The AGW wingnuts need to read some Karl Popper and reformulate their claims with specific statements describing the observable phenomena that would refute them. Such detectable occurrences would include sets of observed temperatures clearly defined in terms of their temporal and geographic statistics that if observed, would conclusively refute the hypothesis that the world was warming at all, without regard to any specific stimulating factor. Of course, this wouldn’t be the end of things. There should be lively scientific debate surrounding the definition of these disjunctive sets of temperature data. We see none of this. We are dealing with a religion, not science.