Maybe I can be bothered

I have read bits of this scattered around, but yesterday they were assembled into an open letter to Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC.

I would like to thank Australian Climate Madness for pointing this out. Read the whole document, damn well worth your time.

A few core snippets, tearing strips of the good doctor and the IPCC, both report and process:

Open Letter to Chairman Pachauri

From Lord Monckton and Senator Fielding

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First and foremost, the IPCC’s documents are not peer-reviewed in the accepted sense. In the true peer-review process followed by the learned journals, it is the anonymous reviewers and the editors who have the last word on whether a correction should be made.

However, with the IPCC’s climate assessment reports it is the authors who have the final say. They can – and usually do – simply override or ignore reviewers’ comments.

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Secondly, the IPCC’s process is political rather than scientific, and the pressure on authors and reviewers to conform to the official story-line is overwhelming.

Thirdly, since the defective diagram is merely one of many grave errors in the IPCC’s documents, it is evident that the review process is not fit for its purpose.

Fourthly, since all of the errors we have identified tend towards inventing a climatic problem where there is none and exaggerating it where there is one, the possibility of scientific and financial fraud must be considered.

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(regarding Dr P’s other interests, outlined in the document) - We have looked for your declaration of these interests in the documents of the IPCC, particularly in its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, but we have not found them.

Our conclusion is that you have numerous substantial direct or indirect vested financial and commercial interests profiting from the emissions reduction processes that the documents produced by the IPCC under your chairmanship have triggered.

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In the context of your material financial and commercial interests that we have outlined, it is necessary that you should now ensure that any errors or exaggerations in the IPCC’s case for reduction of carbon emissions are corrected forthwith.

We should be grateful, therefore, if you would write to us within the next 48 hours to reassure us, as a first step, that the IPCC graph that we have here identified as defective be removed from the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, together with your false conclusion, and that of the IPCC itself, that the rate of “global warming” is itself accelerating, when it is not.

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We should be grateful for your response within 48 hours, failing which we shall be entitled to presume that you, the IPCC and the EPA – to whose administrator we are copying this letter – intend to conspire, and are conspiring, to obtain a pecuniary advantage by deceiving the public as to the nature, degree, and significance of the global surface temperature trend. In that event, conspiracy to defraud taxpayers would be evident, and we should be compelled to place this letter in the hands of the relevant investigating and prosecuting authorities.

In any event, errors and exaggerations such as that which is evidenced in the IPCC’s defective graph do not inspire confidence in the reliability of the IPCC’s scientific case. Given this and other mistakes that an international body of this nature ought not to have made, and given your numerous and direct conflicts of interest that have, in our opinion, been insufficiently disclosed, we are also copying this letter to the delegations of the states parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with a request that you be stripped of office forthwith.

Woo hoo - This is naught but the first step.

Whether he complies or not, Pachauri is dogfood. If I may mix my metaphors he will be dropped like a hot potato - the whole thing is moving from blogs to formal action. Senator Fielding will create a storm in the Australian Senate, and a formal presentation to the various authorities will require a formal response. I guess the motley CRU and the rest of the hockey team will be next.

Tell me, how many US Federal laws do you think they have broken? Extradition from the UK to the US is real easy these days.