Rajendra Pachauri is back to tell us: Trust me

Telegraph,Christopher Booker.
"One of the more bizarre episodes of the week was the arrival in London of Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as part of what appears to be a concerted bid to rehabilitate the IPCC after the deluge of scandals that assailed it last year. ......What this campaign is trying to erase, of course, is the memory of just why those scandals so damaged the IPCC’s authority that it can never be recovered. The absurd claim about the Himalayan glaciers, derived via the WWF and deliberately inserted over protests from one of the IPCC’s own senior scientists, was only one of the report’s alarmist predictions which turned out to have no scientific basis at all. Other scary claims, such as that global warming threatened to halve African crop yields or to destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, were shown to have been simply the inventions of activists. All this took place under the chairmanship of Dr Pachauri, who continues to insist that the IPCC based its report solely on “peer-reviewed science”. Yet an exhaustive study has shown that some 30 per cent of its 18,531 sources were drawn – in flagrant breach of the IPCC’s own rules – not from peer-reviewed science, but from press clippings, student theses and propaganda by environmental pressure groups. "