Greenpeace Demands Resignation Of IPCC Boss

Greenpeace director tells IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri to stand down over glacier claim

Telegraph | February 4, 2010
By Matthew Moore

Dr Pachauri has refused to apologise for an inaccurate claim published in an IPCC report that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.

The error has been seized upon by climate change sceptics as evidence that the case for man-made global warming is being exaggerated, and now Dr Pachauri's allies in the environmental movement have spoken out against his handling of the affair.

John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK, called on the Indian academic to be replaced to rebuild the "credibility" of the UN's climate change body.

“Mistakes will always be made but it’s how you handle those mistakes which affects the credibility of the institution. Pachauri should have put his hand up and said ‘we made a mistake’," he told The Times.

"It’s in these situations that your character and judgment is tested. Do you make the right judgment call? He clearly didn’t.

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