As the mid-Atlantic region endures a couple more feet of wintry snow, we get news from half-way across the globe of more fallout from Climategate… Emerging economy India has decided to ditch the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — ironically headed by its own scientist Dr. R.K. Pachauri. India will establish its own National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change’s impact on the glaciers:
“There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report, [the] IPCC doesn’t do the original research which is one of the weaknesses… they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.
“I respect the IPCC but India is a very large country and cannot depend only on [the] IPCC and so we have launched the Indian Network on Comprehensive Climate Change Assessment (INCCA),” he [India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh] said.
It will bring together 125 research institutions throughout India, work with international bodies and operate as a “sort of Indian IPCC,” he added.
The global warming movement is dead. Al Gore will have to find another job.
