Found an interesting website today run by Luboš Motl, a physicist in the Czech Republic. He frequently comments about scientific frauds and crackpots, and AGW is not excepted from evisceration with facts.

He reviews (and links to)  a PowerPoint presentation by acting IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri on 14 May 2010. Here’s an excerpt:

…Pachauri “cautioned” the meta-IPCC panel not to “undermine the scientists’ motivation”. In other words, the railway engineer blackmailed the would-be independent panel and asked them not to dare to insult the AGW bigots’ religious sensibilities and funding.

The slides are mostly about the “impressive” U.N. institutions and their complicated relationships. But let me choose slide 6 of 12 from Pachauri’s talk. It shows the number of papers about climate change:

That’s a pretty scary growth, especially if we appreciate the fact that the research hasn’t found anything substantial about the climate in the last 15 years.

Clearly, the increase of the work – and corresponding salaries – entirely depends (or depended) on the recent AGW hysteria. The period 2006-2010 is omitted: it would probably be even worse, even if you assume that 2010 is the first year when this tumor will begin to be operated away from the scientific community.

…Now, try to imagine that 90% of your income rests on an assumption or a belief. Wouldn’t you be tempted to defend the assumption or the belief? You surely wouldn’t but I guess you can imagine many other people who would.

He continues with the facts about worldwide glacier growth and reduction:

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