{"id":3995,"date":"2010-01-22T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:38:00","slug":"scientific-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/scientific-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"
The tastiest bit of the recent controversy over the IPCC’s mistake<\/a> is this nugget<\/a>:<\/p>\n Interestingly, the IPCC study is reported to have taken the deadline on the melting of the Himalayas from a Russian study, which predicted the melting of the glaciers by 2350. IPCC changed it to 2035, making it a ‘Himalayan’ blunder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If you’re predisposed to reaching a particular conclusion, and all your incentives are tailored towards it, then such mistakes become inevitable. It doesn’t help that RK Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, calls himself “unsinkable”<\/a>. Mr Pachauri, remember the Titanic, for which that term was also used? There’s an iceberg of truth heading your way.<\/p>\n Also, Pachauri really does owe VK Raina an apology<\/a>. Maybe, following the example of David Frith<\/a>, he should literally eat up all the IPCC reports. That would make for a good YouTube video.<\/p>\n (I got some of these links via an online discussion involving Mohit Satyanand, Barun Mitra, Yazad Jal and Sruthijith KK, among others.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The tastiest bit of the recent controversy over the IPCC’s mistake<\/a> is this nugget<\/a>:<\/p>\n Interestingly, the IPCC study is reported to have taken the deadline on the melting of the Himalayas from a Russian study, which predicted the melting of the glaciers by 2350. IPCC changed it to 2035, making it a ‘Himalayan’ blunder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If you’re predisposed to reaching a particular conclusion, and all your incentives are tailored towards it, then such mistakes become inevitable. It doesn’t help that RK Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, calls himself “unsinkable”<\/a>. Mr Pachauri, remember the Titanic, for which that term was also used? There’s an iceberg of truth heading your way.<\/p>\n Also, Pachauri really does owe VK Raina an apology<\/a>. Maybe, following the example of David Frith<\/a>, he should literally eat up all the IPCC reports. That would make for a good YouTube video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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