Schadenfreude Alert: IPCC Credibility Melting Like a Snow Cone in August in Arizona

Well, well, well, what have we here? (Besides the new tag labeled "Scandal and skulduggery," which I dare say will find much use.) Here is a blurb:

The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.

Was he afraid that the truth would torpedo Copenhagen? Sins of omission are still sins. So here we have a personal sin of omission meant to combat the global Greenie sin of emission? Heh. It certainly displays a disturbingly Machiavellian streak in the Greenie cause.

And for your Schadenfreude bonus, Copenhagen was STILL a wreck, its only prominent feature being its mass hypocrisy.

Remember ClimateGate too. Hide the decline!

RELATED POSTS on Copenhagen here and here, with the "dictionary" here.

UPDATE: Heh!