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Pachauri has become one of the primary targets following the Climategate revelations, and his reputation was further demolished last week when it was revealed that he is a total hypocrite when it comes to the “green” credentials he thinks everyone else should embrace.
But it’s Pachauri’s involvement in what has been dubbed “Glaciergate” that has led to calls for his resignation, a mantra joined today by Greenpeace, whose director John Sauven said that Pachauri’s refusal to step down had tarnished the credibility of the IPCC.
The Indian government's move is a snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.
"There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report ... [the] IPCC doesn't do the original research which is one of the weaknesses ... they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.
AGW theory is toast. So’s Dr Rajendra Pachauri. So’s the Stern Review. So’s the credibility of the IPCC. But if you think I’m cheered by this you’re very much mistaken. I’m trying to write a Climategate book but the way things are going by the time I’m finished there won’t be anything left to say: the battle will already have been won and the only people left who still believe in Man Made Global Warming will be the eco-loon equivalents of those wartime Japanese soldiers left abandoned and forgotten on remote Pacific atolls.
James Delingpole on Alex Jones Tv 1/5: After Climategate, Pachaurigate, Glaciergate, Amazongate parte 1 | parte 2 | parte 3 | parte 4 | parte 5
O Instituto Português de Corporate Governance (IPCG) está em guerra. Um grupo de grandes empresas portuguesas, que integram o PSI 20, o Banco Espírito Santo, o Banco Comercial Português, a EDP, a Portugal Telecom (PT), a Mota Engil, a Brisa, a Zon e a Jerónimo Martins, recusaram-se a assinar a versão final do Código de Bom Governo das Sociedades e auto-excluíram-se do IPCG, não comparecendo à reunião magna que hoje se realizou para aprovar o documento.
No Facebook, o ex-director (ainda sem link na blogosfera) do jornal emitia a sua opinião:
Uma história absolutamente lamentável: Grandes empresas recusam assinar código de boa gestão
Notas rápidas:
1. "gestão" e "governo" são conceitos diferentes. uma empresa pode ter excelente gestãio com um sistema de governo abandalhado, e uma gestão ruinosa com um sistema de governo by-the-book;
2. Empresas em fases de vida diferentes, ou de naturezas diferentes (familiares, sociedade anónima, ...), ou de diferentes dimensões, ou a operar em mercados geográficos diferentes, ou em indústrias diferentes tenderão a ter sistemas de governo diferentes
3. Mais, todos os sistemas de governo têm vícios, porque são geridos por pessoas diferentes. E é por isso que os sistemas de governo também devem competir entre si. Aliás, é o que acontece num mercado competitivo - também competem modelos de negócio e de organização das empresas;
4. Não existe um único modelo de gestão "socialmente correcto" para todas as empresas. Seria muito duvidoso que um grupo de grandes empresas tivesse descoberto a cura para a má gestão ou o mau governo. E é infantil pensar que todos os outros são "maus".
5. É patético "reprovar" que empresas tenham boicotado o circo corporativo que se montava. Lá porque recusaram assinar um código não quer dizer que preferem conduzir os seus negócio de forma desonesta.
6. Antes pelo contrário: é motivo de regozijo que as maiores empresas do país tenham recusado participar numa cartelização deste género. Em pouco tempo, o cartel estaria a usar a sua influência política para que o Estado impusesse a "norma da indústria" (mais onerosa) aos concorrentes de menor dimensão. Dispensa-se toda e qualquer corporativização da economia.
Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong.
Real calamities take our minds off hypothetical ones. Besides, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade, or one-third of the span since the global cooling scare.
Today, politicized "science" has too big a stake in the global warming hysteria to let the facts speak for themselves and let the chips fall where they may. Too many people-- in politics and in the media, as well as among those climate scientists who are promoting global warming hysteria-- let the raw data on which their calculations have been based fall into the "wrong hands."
Smoking, then, has become like freemasonry or homosexuality. We have our secret signs. Our equivalent of funny handshakes and gaydar. We use tricks and nods and winks to establish a bond with other smokers. We coerce them into lighting up first, to gauge the reaction, and then we huddle around the lone ashtray, feeling lost in the room but somehow emboldened by one another’s company.
They fail to see what's really happening. People have traveled to Pandora to take something that belongs to the Na'vi: their land and the minerals under it. That's a stark violation of property rights, the foundation of the free market and indeed of civilization.
AVATARded - Inspired by James Cameron's recent epic, "Avatar," Avatarded is an adjective used to describe a situation, person, place or thing that has reached a level of such complete retardation that it can only be described as exquisite or the first of its kind. Can also be used to describe something so new (such as Avatar's groundbreaking technology), that the reality of it is stupefying and leaves you dumbfounded, retarded, or...Avatarded.
It is true that capitalism was named by its enemies. Thus, it's interesting to note that a socialist is someone who believes in socialism, a communist someone who believes in communism but a capitalist is someone with capital.
It's also true that capitalism is a truly social system, a system that unites the world in cooperation, peace and trade. Thus, if all were tabula rasa socialism might be a good name for capitalism. But that boat has sailed.
So if we name crony capitalism, capitalism, and if we can't name capitalism, socialism, then what should capitalism be named?
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
The media are finally beginning to admit that the World Health Organization's "pandemic" - made possible, as I've argued before, only by completely redefining the definition for political reasons - is the mildest ever. Several European countries have cut back their vaccine orders, and the chairman of the influential health committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, who is an epidemiologist, has asked the body to investigate what he calls the WHO's "false pandemic" and "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century."
Wodarg encara a gripe A (H1N1) como um dos maiores escândalos médicos do século. Na sua opinião o alarme era escusado o e custou muito dinheiro aos governos - só na Europa, foram gastos 5 mil milhões de euros com as vacinas, nota, acrescentando que este investimento resultou da pressão da indústria farmacêutica. Wodarg critica o alarme desnecessário, lançado pela OMS, considerando que se ficar provado que houve manipulação é preciso tirar as devias lições.
