Indie puts more pressure on IPCC and Pachauri

[johnfm]

India are going to form their own glacial studies body in another snub / nail int he coffin to the IPCC.


This is starting to go the right way!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/clima...

[s2art]

Or maybe not;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8499702.stm

Who is right?

[elster]

s2art said:

Or maybe not;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8499702.stm

Who is right?

I'll guess not the BBC

[johnfm]

you could not make this st up!!

[tybo]

s2art said:

Or maybe not;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8499702.stm

Who is right?

Let me think....

[FarleyRusk]

elster said:

s2art said:

Or maybe not;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8499702.stm

Who is right?

I'll guess not the BBC

They're both right! The Indian PM has been given a whiff of the millions/billions coming his country's way from the west and whole-heartedly stands behind the IPCC. This contradicts the environmental minister Ramesh's missive yesterday.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-expres...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has disregarded the controversy over the authenticity of projections made by Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change to say that climate change is a real threat.

Speaking at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit on Friday, organised by R K Pachauri’s The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Singh said, “Some aspects of the science that is reflected in the work of the IPCC have faced criticism. But this debate does not challenge the core projections of the IPCC... Let me here assert that India has full confidence in the IPCC process and its leadership and will support it in every way that it can.”

The PM lauded Pachauri for his “able and far-sighted leadership” in getting TERI its “well deserved respect and international acclaim”, but did not endorse Pachauri’s complaint that he was victim of a conspiracy.

In fact, coming a day after environment minister Jairam Ramesh told media that India would be sending a minder to all meetings of the IPCC Bureau to accompany the panel chairman in his deliberations, the remark failed to dispel the perception that TERI has now a trust deficit to bridge.