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Klimapanelets formand er ikke en helgen. Han laver lige så mange fejl som os andre. Meget tyder på, at han er en dårlig leder og bør reformere Klimapanelet.

Men det ændrer ikke ved, at hans arbejde står uantastet, og at panelet i hans tid som formand har formået at skabe global konsensus om klimavidenskaben.

"Eventually Pachauri had to acknowledge the IPCC's error but the record in the assessment report (AR4) was never corrected, and remains incorrect to date."

One under-reported aspect of this scandal was the fact that Pachauri had a charity called TERI, which was poised to benefit from millions of euros and hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside to study the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. It turned out that TERI had used the IPCC's very prediction of glacier doom in asking for funds. It also turned out that Hasnain was at work at TERI studying Himalayan glacier melt. It also turned out that Hasnain already knew about about the exaggerations in the IPCC report. The Sunday Telegraph became the venue where Richard North, who had uncovered major portions of this story, published these stories. Perhaps, as a result of this exposure, the Carnegie Corporation of New York decided to release no further funds to TERI.

The UK Charity Commission made available TERI-Europe's published and revised accounts. I presented them to Monbiot.

(Til nedenstående tekst følger opstilling af konti før og efter og kan kun ses ved at gå ind på bloggen (som der er link til nedenfor) og se det dér)

Ritu Kumar, TERI's director at London was compelled to revise their accounts, following the Telegraph's inquiries into its dealings. The differences were astounding. What the new accounts showed was that, for three years running (the period shown above), TERI-Europe had grossly under-declared the income of the charity. It did not have any known subsidiaries. This was the same period TERI-Europe obtained DEFRA public funds, just for the IPCC synthesis report alone, an amount almost twice what it declared on the books.
In the period shown, only 15% of their income had been put through the charity's accounts and 85% of TERI-Europe's income had simply not been included in their declared income. Their complete accounts have not been submitted to date.
Monbiot asked visitors to his Guardian thread to come up with evidence of Dr Pachauri's unreliable bookkeeping. He must have thought this impossible. The one account unable to be veiled from public scrutiny was Pachauri's TERI-Europe's and that had 85% of income missing from the books until prodded. I provided Monbiot with what he asked for.
Monbiot declared Pachauri's personal accounts and financial practices were shown by KPMG as being clean. In the light of the above however, Monbiot's unquestioning confidence in such conclusions were puzzling.
About midday the inconvenient evidence that I provided at the Guardian forum, along with discussions of that evidence with aghast Monbiot fans were removed from the thread. The thread was closed down.
Every single comment about the accounts was removed.

Skeptics "are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder – I hope that they apply it to their faces every day...I'm totally in the clear. I have absolutely nothing but indifference to what these people are doing," Pachauri said in a February 3 2010 interview with the Financial Times.

For selve ordet klimaændringer kan jo både være naturlige og så menneskeskabte, ligeledes med global opvarmning og ligeledes med ekstremt vejr – men klimaforstyrrelser?