Nobel laureate to lead climate institute
Rajendra Pachauri, the current chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the newly formed Yale Climate and Energy Institute, University President Richard Levin announced March 10.
Pachauri, who accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, is a world-renowned economist and leader in the international policy debate on climate change. He will work half-time at the institute — a collaborative initiative by 100 Yale scientists and social scientists that will fund and support research on climate-related topics — while continuing to...
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By McMenon
9:18a.m. on November 7, 2009
"Pachauri, who accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC" - it just doesn't make him a Nobel Laureate.
Think AGW theory is "settled science?" Carefully peruse the article in this Sunday's NY Times Magazine titled "The Civil Heretic." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?pagewanted=all
Here's an excerpt:
[E]minent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., ... his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Oliver Sacks, Dyson’s friend and fellow English expatriate, [says] “His mind is still so open and flexible” ... Dyson is a scientist whose intelligence is revered by other scientists .... Among Dyson’s gifts is ... a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do. ... [He is] a trusted arbiter of ideas ranging far beyond physics. .... When Dyson joins the public conversation about climate change by expressing concern about the “enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories,” these reservations come from a place of experience. .... Dyson announced that “all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated” .... “the fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn’t scare me at all.” [Dyson says] climate change has become an “obsession” — the primary article of faith for “a worldwide secular religion” known as environmentalism. Among those he considers true believers, Dyson has been particularly dismissive of Al Gore, whom Dyson calls climate change’s “chief propagandist,” and James Hansen ... Dyson accuses them of relying too heavily on computer-generated climate models that foresee a Grand Guignol of imminent world devastation as icecaps melt, oceans rise and storms and plagues sweep the earth, and he blames the pair’s “lousy science” for “distracting public attention” from “more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet.” .... “They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.” .... “The biologists have essentially been pushed aside,” he continues. “Al Gore’s just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.”
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