"Of course if you look at conflict of interest respect to authors
who are there in the 5th Assessment Report we’ve already selected them and
therefore it wouldn’t be fair to impose anything that sort of applies
retrospectively."
Rajendra Pachauri is every climate sceptic’s
dream. He proved it again in an interview to Oliver Morton of The Economist at
an IPCC event in Brussels when he admitted that conflict of interest policies
would not apply to AR5 authors. IPCC thereby sabotaged recommendations from the
Inter-Academy Council and announced its plans to evade the conflict of interest
policies passed at the 33rd IPCC plenary only a month ago. The event was the
release of IPCC's latest report : Special Report on Renewable Energy which
projected scenarios looking at the energy mix over the next four decades under
various assumptions. Read the full article here
The penetration of renewables in Tamil Nadu is 30% and its effect was of
transformation of the state from a net surplus energy producer to a net energy
importer. This policy has plunged the state into massive power cuts and has
shaved off at least 2% of its GDP. And here is the latest IPCC report
projecting the highest penetration of renewables at 77% by 2050.
Imagine the plight of Tamil Nadu if penetration of renewables is 80%, most
notably through a massive expansion of wind and solar power! So what is the
empirical basis of this study? It was found that the report was a rehash of a
campaign material of Greenpeace and the author itself a Greenpeace renewable
energy campaigner. This revelation engulfed the IPCC in a new controversy. Read
Christopher Booker's article: The IPCC declares Greenpeace in our time.
The US Chairman of the Oversight
Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Technology sent the IPCC a strong letter on
their conflict of interest debacle and demanding the IPCC not be permitted to
delay implementation of Conflict of Interest policy until after AR5. Here's
extracts of the letter to letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban
Ki-Moon, calling for the adoption of a Conflict of Interest Policy for the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“Recent press reports have once again highlighted the need for the IPCC
to address conflicts of interest” Broun wrote.
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