{"id":7380,"date":"2010-02-05T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:44:27","slug":"un-global-warming-apparatchik-loses-his-composure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/un-global-warming-apparatchik-loses-his-composure\/","title":{"rendered":"UN global warming apparatchik loses his composure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, climate science is rational, dispassionate, non-political and irrefutable. That\u2019s why the UN\u2019s climate chief suggested that anyone who questions him should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/02\/05\/climate-chief-critics-rub-faces-asbestos\/\" target=\"_blank\">rub <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/IPCC%20Head%20Rajendra%20Pachauri_monster_397x224.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"199\" height=\"112\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/02\/05\/climate-chief-critics-rub-faces-asbestos\/\" target=\"_blank\">his face in asbestos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rajendra Pachauri, the besieged head of the U.N.&#8217;s International Panel on Climate Change, told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he is the victim of a &#8220;carefully orchestrated&#8221; campaign to block climate change legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say [there are] nefarious designs behind people trying to attack me with lies, falsehoods,&#8221; he told the paper, swatting away allegations that his India-based climate institute, TERI, has benefited from decisions made by the IPCC, which he also chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change skeptics &#8220;are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that they apply it (asbestos) to their faces every day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that there are actually no scientists claiming that anthropological global warming is a reality. After all, scientists are <em>supposed<\/em> to be sceptical, yet anyone who expresses scepticism is told by the chief UN tinpot alchemist to rub his face in asbestos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, climate science is rational, dispassionate, non-political and irrefutable. That\u2019s why the UN\u2019s climate chief suggested that anyone who questions him should rub his face in asbestos: Rajendra Pachauri, the besieged head of the U.N.&#8217;s International Panel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/un-global-warming-apparatchik-loses-his-composure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[2156],"class_list":["post-7380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}