Hello Mario 1 - There were 192 countries and heads of goverment in the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Fancy you noticing only Mugabe and Chavez! As it turned out Chavez made some very good interventions, but you wouldn't understand it.
2 - The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis. Review is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment of current information. Differing viewpoints existing within the scientific community are reflected in the IPCC reports. The IPCC is an intergovernmental body, and it is open to all member countries of UN and WMO. Governments are involved in the IPCC work as they can participate in the review process and in the IPCC plenary sessions, where main decisions about the IPCC workprogramme are taken and reports are accepted, adopted and approved. The IPCC Bureau and Chairperson are also elected in the plenary sessions. Because of its scientific and intergovernmental nature, the IPCC embodies a unique opportunity to provide rigorous and balanced scientific information to decision makers. By endorsing the IPCC reports, governments acknowledge the authority of their scientific content. The work of the organization is therefore policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive. Rajendra Pachauri is not IPCC and IPCC is not Rajendra Pachauri . If indeed he is profiting from his position as the report on Telegraph said, that is not very nice - But than I would take the Telegraph reports with a pinch of salt. I don't particularly care much for Pachauri and I am not very impressed by him. But what ever businesses Pachauri is involved in, at least they are "green" and that is a mitigating fact, and more important it does not mean climate change is not real. It is real, it is here, and it is already affecting seriously millions of people in many countries including India and you can go on living in denial until it hits you hard! That is your problem. You live in the USA where the business of misinforming the public is big business paid by the oil lobby. 3 - As for your irrational hatred of Al Gore, it is not surprising given that you are probably a Republican or at least sound like one? Besides, the judgement about showing The Inconvenient Truth in schools or not....is the Judge a climate scientist by any chance? No! So who cares ?! British children will be exposed to much more inconvenient truths on everyday television. They just have to watch the news everyday....and see the inconvenient truth materialized and reported on all our TV channels.....I have shown the film in many parts of India and I think it is a good film. Have you seen it by any chance? I recommend you see another film however - *The Age of Stupid* which is very appropriate for people with your mentality. It will shock you into the reality of climate change for once and for all. Last but not least, I will *not engage anymore in any further discussions*no matter what you write in reply, but I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Carmen
