Friday, August 10, 2012

Having made to beat a hasty retreat on its stand on ‘retreating glaciers’, the IPCC might have lost more than just credibility!

The IPCC has come under flak on three counts, the first of which is that due diligence was not followed and the claims were not peer-reviewed. Secondly, for the misleading authoritative tone in its predictions of the future, and lastly, for merely being the words of authors who are no experts… and this after Mr. Pachauri claimed that “IPCC procedures were robust and the world should have no doubt about the reality of climate change,” just a few days before leaving for Copenhagen. “The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, is now doomed. Not a word it or its Chairman says can any longer be taken seriously. The news that it is at last abandoning its entirely false claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas will disappear entirely by 2035 is one of the last nails in the coffin of this unlamented corpse,” cries Monkton.

While it might be too early to deny the reality of climate change and global warming, the recent spate of errors does not augur well for environmentalists battling to save an already over-burdened Earth. Besides, with a skeleton falling out of the IPCC closet every few days, one only wonders how many more are to follow. With climate change sceptics scoring points over ‘believers’ with such inconvenient frequency, the IPCC has some serious questions to answer, something it has so far failed to do convincingly...

Agreed, action has to come thick and fast if the humans are causing or accelerating climate change, but passing off unverified reports as gospel truth is an unpardonable act especially given the vast economic disparity faced by the world. Clearly, catastrophic predictions and prophesies emanating from half-baked truths can have far greater repercussions…


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