Like a heroin addiction, the carbon addiction is difficult to break and this is clear not only from the articulation of lobbies, but also several politicians in the USA who directly profit from those who employ lobbyists. Hopefully the media will understand that Jairam Ramesh, who has literally fathered India's climate awakening after it lay comatose for over a decade is, de facto, on the same side as Pachauri (fighting climate change) even if he strongly (and correctly) pointed out the unfortunate 2035 glacier melting error of the IPCC. If they are looking for junk science, I would urge investigative journalists in India to examine almost any of the hundreds of Environment Impact Analysis (EIA) reports lying in the files of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Some should win prizes for "Fiction". Ed.
The Interview text: Dr. Pachauri, could the IPCC not have done better in admitting to its mistakes and correcting them quickly?
There is only one error (Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035), to which we have admitted. After that the errors reported are spurious. They (some western media) said the IPCC claim on the losses from disasters was not from an authentic source. We checked the source; it was authentic. The IPCC was also correct on its claim on Amazon forests…the IPCC isn't here to answer deniers of climate change. Their sole objective is to damage the credibility of IPCC, not answering people whose only motive is to deny the science of climate change. We will put up a statement on IPCC website (clarifying errors), this is it. We are not going to answer these spurious individual complaints coming in only two sources, The Times (London), and, more importantly, The Telegraph.
The full interview is available here.Â
