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Pachauri — The IPCC Is Impermeable to New Science
Roger Pielke, Jr.
Prometheus
Friday, Dec 12, 2008
The Guardian reports
a remarkable statement by Rajendra Pachauri, head of the IPCC:
What the IPCC produces is not based on two years of literature,
but 30 or 40 years of literature. We’re not dealing with
short-term weather changes, we’re talking about major
changes in our climate system. I refuse to accept that a few
papers are in any way going to influence the long-term projections
the IPCC has come up with.
According to The Guardian, Pachauri’s comments are not
made in reference to the nefarious climate skeptics, but to Jim
Hansen who has said that the IPCC is out of date and the problem
is worse than suggested by the IPCC.
I suppose that Pachauri’s dismissal of a few papers takes
care of our own criticism in Nature last spring that the IPCC
may have gotten its emissions scenarios dramatically wrong and
thus significantly underestimated the scale of the problem.
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
I presume it is safe now to conclude that the science is indeed
settled, if it is indeed the case that a few new research papers
have no chance of changing the conclusions of the IPCC. Even if
Pachauri was talking about the work from those skeptical of the
IPCC consensus, his statement that no new research papers can
alter his views is not really the position that inspires confidence
in the ability of the IPCC to evaluate evolving science.
From where I sit it is clear that the IPCC’s views on the
magnitude of the challenge of decarbonization need to be dramatically
revised, no matter how many people and governments signed on to
the IPCC.
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