Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is refusing to apologize.1 The issue this time is a factual error in the Panel’s 2007 report claiming that the Himalayan glaciers were very likely to melt as a result of global warming by 2035. It turns out the information cited in the report actually came from observations made by some hikers, and a school paper writing by a geography student. Dr. Pachauri said he can’t be held responsible for every word in the 3,000 page report. That’s alright. Many of us are refusing to apologizing for correctly identifying global warming theory as nothing more than a socialist plan to redistribute wealth under false pretenses held together by conspiracies; because we’re not responsible for global warming.
1. David Adam and Fred Pearce, “No apology from IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri for glacier fallacy,” guardian.co.uk, February 2, 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/02/climate-change-pachauri-un-glaciers
