Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman

&#62; Some commentators, including the former chancellor Nigel Lawson and the environmental campaigner and Guardian writer George Monbiot, have called on Jones to resign but Pachauri [chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] said he did not agree. He said an independent inquiry into the emails would achieve little, but there should be a criminal investigation into how the emails came to light.<p>The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri, does not inspire trust in the scientific results. Rather than focusing on the misdeeds of the scientists, he's pushing for those who exposed the misdeeds to be punished. Mr. Pachauri's reactions are more consistent with a fake who is afraid of being found out than with an honest scientist who is just interested in exposing truth.

The chairman is not very concerned that his scientists are behaving badly, but is very concerned that they were caught.<p><i>I really think people should be discreet … in this day and age anything you write, even privately, could become public and to put anything down in writing is, to say the least, indiscreet … It is another matter to talk about this to your friends on the telephone or person to person but to put it down in writing was indiscreet. If someone was to say something like this in an IPCC authors' meeting then there are others who would chew him up."</i><p>That last sentence almost makes me want to ask the obvious follow-up: do you keep records of what people say in IPCC meetings? Where are they?

Surely if the original data sets upon which important decisions will ultimately be based are missing or destroyed, such that the results can't be independently reproduced, that alone ought to be cause for concern and discussion.

HAHAHAHAHAHA !!! The surface station audit is almost completed BTW, Check out the graphic at <a href="http://www.surfacestations.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.surfacestations.org/</a>

The IPCC and CRU are really starting to look very guilty in their words and actions, whether they are or not. This whole thing reminds me of the 'sexing up' of intelligence reports to justify invasion of Iraq. It started out as a trickle of leaked information and turned into a torrent that eventually led to a lot of people losing a lot of respsect. They need to come clean now, admit their faults and invite others to look at the data and come to independent conclusions.<p>It's turning into a big mess, and it's not going away. Whoever was behind it knew exactly what they were doing.

It is very funny that many of the people that spent 8 years saying amen to the broad war against science by the Bush administration are now "oh, so chocked!" by some out of context comments and suppressed data by some researchers in a UK university.