“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant
analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest.
It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.
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By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the
skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited
the entire climate-change movement. The political damage will be severe.
As Mr. Mead succinctly puts it: “Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade
dead.” That also goes for Canada, whose climate policies are inevitably
tied to those of the United States.
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Worse still, the Times has discovered that Mr. Pachauri's own Energy and
Resources Unit, based in New Delhi, has collected millions in grants to
study the effects of glacial melting – all on the strength of that bogus
glacier claim, which happens to have been endorsed by the same scientist
who now runs the unit that got the money. Even so, the IPCC chief is
hanging tough. He insists the attacks on him are being orchestrated by
companies facing lower profits.
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Until now, anyone who questioned the credibility of the IPCC was
labelled as a climate skeptic, or worse. But many climate scientists now
sense a sinking ship, and they're bailing out. Among them is Andrew
Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria who acknowledges
that the climate body has crossed the line into advocacy. Even Britain's
Greenpeace has called for Mr. Pachauri's resignation. India says it will
establish its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because
it “cannot rely” on the IPCC.
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