Actually, I wasn't thinking of Mr Obama, but the alphabet-soup agency that once shared the Prize with Al Gore. (Mr Pachauri is the gent on the right.) Says the Guardian, which used to be my dowdy morning paper when I was a student in Manchester, but which has since gravitated to London and to the left:
The IPCC and its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, have come under unprecedented pressure following a false claim that all Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 and the controversy over the hacked climate science emails at the University of East Anglia. Yet before that, the IPCC was credited with having settled the debate over whether human activity was causing global warming, sharing the 2007 Nobel peace prize with Al Gore. Here, the Guardian asks experts around the world what needs to change to enable the IPCC to continue to play a central and positive role in enabling the world's governments to take the right action against climate change."The Nobel prize was for peace not science," said one of the agency's former writers. The report, he said, "is not a scientific analysis of climate change." He thinks a name change might do the trick! Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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