Rajendra Pachauri – who heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC – says global warming is real, and that the recent warming has been caused mainly by human activity. But, Pachauri added:
Rajendra Pachauri: I think we certainly need much more precise information through research in several parts of the world on the impacts of climate change.
Pachauri spoke with EarthSky’s Jorge Salazar at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December of 2009. He said that, since 1990, IPCC experts have documented over 25,000 examples of observed changes to Earth’s climate. These include early springs, snowmelt, premature bud bursts, and loss of coral. He spoke to his critics.
Rajendra Pachauri: We have assessed every piece of literature that has gone through the peer-review process. And there’s been no exclusion of anything at all. I think the IPCC authors have been completely open and objective.
Still, he hopes that, in the future, his organization will be able to make even more specific projections about climate change in this century.
Rajendra Pachauri: I think those need to be downscaled and we need to project those impacts in a way that we get much more reliable information on what’s going to happen in several parts of the world. There are gaps which I hope will get filled up, partly.
The press conference with Rajendra Pachauri happened during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December of 2009. World leaders considered the legally binding commitments to actions that will slow and lower CO2 emissions, many of which could be economically costly to some parties, mainly developed countries such as those in the European Union and the U.S. EarthSky asked Dr. Pachauri what role science should make in filling the gap between what’s happening with Earth’s climate and what action is needed.
Rajendra Pachauri: We can produce the science. We can provide the assessment on climate change. I would say the media has an extremely important role to convey the truth to the public. And I think it’s time that that happened on a larger scale. Frankly, I’m very encouraged from what I’ve seen in the last two years. The media has been extremely active in this area. And they’ve made a difference, there’s no question about it.
Mr. Pachauri is one of those like Mr. Gore, who stands to lose significant power, wealth, and prestige if the world doesn’t jump through the hoop in Copenhagen for him…The “science” has been called into serious question, and it is utterly foolish to trash the world’s economies and political sovereignty at the behest of these men who have a vested interest in stampeding us all into caves. Mand made, Co2 caused Climate change is pure snake-oil, and those who piously purvey it do so for a $pecific rea$on.
Go look at the real data here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/09/hockey-stick-observed-in-noaa-ice-core-data/#more-13939
Get a handle on that Mann-made hockey stick, see it in the perspective of thousands of years.
Stop this nonsense…
Doug, no one really knows what’s going on with climate. It’s a complex subject. But the best scientific thinking is that human-caused changes and natural changes are currently working together in such a way that warming will dominate in the century ahead.
It’s not an either/or situation. Human-caused changes and natural changes work together.
All the best,
Deborah
If the gigantic size of global human population could be a primary driver of the global ecological challenges that loom so ominously on the horizon before humanity, when can the leaders of the human family be expected to focus upon this leviathan. It appears as if the skyrocketing growth of human numbers is, in and of itself, a clear and present danger to the human community. Billions more human beings, who strive the way the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe among us do so recklessly now to conspicuously overconsume and relentlessly hoard Earth’s limited resources, could soon ruin our planetary home and its environs as a fit place for human habitation by the children and coming generations. If the leaders of the family of humanity willfully refuse to acknowledge this primary threat to human wellbeing and environmental health in our time, how can human beings with feet of clay be expected to address and overcome the challenges?
If sensible discussions of what looks like the proverbial ‘mother’ of all global threats to the future of children everywhere and coming generations cannot be openly and honestly held in Copenhagen, would Mexico in 2010 be a better place and time?
If not here-now, if not next year in Mexico, then when?
All the dunderheaded disinformation, deceit, delay, denial and disasterous decisionmaking of the past 8 long dark years are in past. With a little luck people with feet of play will overcome the arrogance, wanton greed and stupidity perpetrated by the Masters of the Universe among us, the most avaricious and self-righteous ones who widely proclaim their greed-mongering is God’s work.
What mental disorder describes those among us who proclaim themselves Masters of the Universe doing the work of God?
Years of hard work by people with feet of clay all come down to this week. The “now or never” week is at hand for the children, global biodiversity, life as we know it, the integrity of Earth and its environs. This week is the moment that the Masters of the Universe cannot avoid any longer; all of human family are bound in this long-awaited momentous week. The time for action has come, finally. The opportunity held in this blessed moment must not be missed.
If anyone thinks of something that I can do to assist any of you to reasonably, sensibly, responsibly and humanely realize the goals of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, please send word to me.
Steve Salmony
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
I wonder if Mr. Pachauri is one of those scientist that introduced “The Fudge Factor” into his readings.
I must say you have some good evidence,but i hope that your Invention works soon.
Perhaps the last act of the last week of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is the last, best chance for the leaders of the human community to save a good-enough future for the children, life as we know it, the Earth and its environs from the ravages of global human overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities that can be seen with the naked eye engulfing the surface of our planetary home, irreversibly depleting its resources and recklessly degrading its ecosystem services. If ever there was a time for action, that time is presented this week.
A truthful, reliable, complete, useful, significant, timely, fully funded and legally binding international agreement is required. What are the chances that the right thing will be done?
abruptamente o homem irá destruir a si próprio por suas mãos lívidas e ávidas pelo sabor final da sua existência. sem arca, sem noé, sem fé!
The facts on the ground:
Trillions in dodgy financial instruments, fraudulent ponzi schemes and ill-gotten gains for self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe. Billions in bonuses and ‘rescue’ dollars for dishonorable fat cats and their minions on Wall Street. Millions in job losses, foreclosure notices and unemployment benefits for human beings with feet of clay on Main Street. A pittance for saving the Earth from greed-mongering wealth concentrators, the irresponsible economic powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians who are the perpetrators of the colossal ecological mess that will be left for the children to clean up after the conspicuous overconsumers and obscene hoarders of my generation have pleasured ourselves to death.
The last, best chance for the children is “now-here”. Let’s hope those with power to create the colossal ecological mess that is now presented to humanity will agree to help clean the global mess up before it is too late for human interventions to make a difference.
Human-induced challenges can certainly be acknowledged, addressed and overcome by human-driven action.
Steve- I am fairly certain that you live in a city and very rarely, if ever, get out in the country – try it sometime and you will see that Mother Nature takes care of things quite well actually. I am also fairly certain that you have never worked in a for-profit venture. The world owes you nothing Steve.
Deborah – What a cop-out! Your site has continually spouted how man is causing \”climate change\”. Now you are saying that it is man in conjunction with natural conditions? Pretty soon you will be admitting that man has no control over the global climate. E-mail me when you do. Climate change has occurred throughout the history of the earth, and man cannot control it anymore than we can stop the floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, rainstorms, and sunny days.
Paul,
Your comment to Deborah was just silly. Do you really imagine scientists, or this site, espouse the idea that natural conditions have nothing to do with the climate? Ridiculous. Furthermore, I have never seen anyone on this site claim that man can control the climate, just the opposite in fact. The concern is that our impact is out of control.
Dear Paul,
People are not speaking out loudly and clearly about the colossal threat that is posed to humanity by the skyrocketing growth of human population numbers on Earth.
Despite the unfortunate, inhumane ways a “ONE CHILD PER FAMILY” policy was implemented in China, the policy could be vital for the future of humankind and life as we know it in our planetary home. The immediate, free, universal and compassionate implementation of a voluntary “one child per family” policy could decisively limit adverse, human-driven impacts on Earth’s body and its environs, and do so more powerfully than any other conceivable human intervention.
Given the already visible, converging global threats to human wellbeing and environmental health that are presented to the family of humanity in our time, the humane implementation of one child per family could be an indispensible centerpiece of a set of adequately designed, actionable programs that serve to actually rescue a good enough future for the children and coming generations.
If a root cause of the global threats on humanity’s horizon now is the unbridled growth of absolute global human population numbers, our willful denial of this primary cause could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the children to reasonably address and sensibly overcome these threats. Then the children are likely being directed down a “primrose path” to confront some unimaginable kind of ecological wreckage, the likes of which only Ozymandias has seen. The children will not understand why the catastrophe is occurring. Because their elders refused to acknowledge the best available scientific evidence of human population dynamics and, therewith, adequately “diagnose” the distinctly human-induced global predicament all of us face now, the children will not know what hit them, why it is happening, and what is required of them so as not to commit the same mistakes made by the elders.
This is only a guess but please note the likelihood that history will not be kind to the woefully inadequate leaders in my not-so-great generation of arrogant, extremely foolish and avaricious elders.
I would be more trusting of Mr. Pachauri opinions if he weren’t so heavily financially invested in the outcome.
“Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations. These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.” – UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html
A number of other sources confirm Pachauri’s business affiliations. My concern is that Pachauri’ personal investments and appointments in companies involved in carbon trading and world banking is a serious conflict of interest given that they are all hedged on the IPCC recommendations he oversees. This seems business as usual in the IPCC – a world political agency with no system of checks and balances or quality assurance.
Hank, thanks for the info. I don’t know if Pachauri is guilty of actual wrong-doing (is it a crime to invest in something you believe in?), but I do believe these sorts of stories are making him a less-than-ideal head for the IPCC.
It was and is a scam, folks. THe IPCC was commissioned by the UN to make up a crisis and the global warming scam was it. It was to frighten the people into giving up individual sovereignty and to accept being slaves to the world rulers. When global warming proved to be a farce, the term “climate change” was substituted. A great term, that. No matter what, climate changes. Whatever happens now can be blamed on human activity. It is so bogus. The “science” is bogus. The premise is bogus. You are in danger from socialism and global government. Not from “global warming” or “climate change”. The powers that be cannot understand that they have been busted. They have been caught with their entire arm in the cookie jar.
Scum, communist, criminal politicians.
steve and paul
maybe i have read your messages incorrectly, but are you actually saying that the world should adopt a ‘one child per family’ policy??
this is a very extreme measure to ‘solve’ climate change which would have a massive impact on every aspect of the world. have you thought it through properly??
Sinead, Dublin
I should think that this fellow would shut up and resign after the facts have seen the light of day. The entire AGW/Climate Change farce is a scam. Theylied about everything. It is about power and money. The UN is a socialist scam itself. Doing no good anywhere, causing lots of harm in many places. Acting like a government without the consent of the governed. The climate of the earth is unnaffected by the efforts of humanity. The same \\\”progressives\\\” that gave us Keynes, Marx, Hitler, Mao, Che Roosevelt and that ilk are on this bandwagon. They are truly evil people that kill millions when offered the opportunity. They are patently anit-human. And that is bizarre, given I assume their worthless selves are human as well. What sort of twisted self loathing can drive folks to such intricate and devious thought processes?