Satellite evidenece has shown for a long time that the Earth has not warmed for 17 yrs. Extreme weather does not = global warming.

Dear Arjay,

You wrote;

“Satellite evidenece (sic) has shown for a long time that the Earth has not warmed for 17 yrs.”

A long time? Oh I would say less than a year.

Wouldn't you?

Dear Spindoc,

Perhaps you can help me as spindoc seems to have lost his tongue. Did Rajendra Pashauri actually say the very words “30 to 40 years at least” as suggested in the original post of this thread?

Sorry that should have been SPQR.

Actually to illustrate how absurd this is refute the following if you will.

Over the last 13 years the world has warmed notably.

Over the last 20 years the world has warmed considerably.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_Jan_2013_v5.5.png

Dear CSteele (aka chief witness for the defence)

The court is here to decide whether or not Mr Rajendra Pashauri who “has chaired the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002 and has been director general of The Energy and Resources Institute since 2001” actually made the statement that there had been a “17 year pause in global temperatures rises”

In the capacities of both the chair of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the director general of The Energy and Resources Institute Mr Rajendra Pashauri will have been privy to the very best and very latest research --and as we have been led to believe by warmist sources -- would have weighed and sifted all the evidence and formed the best/most likley conclusions

If after having been party to all that, Mr Rajendra Pashauri found fit to make the statement that there has been “17 year pause in global temperatures rises”.The members of the court can draw their own conclusions about the implications for the AGW theory ,OR alternatively, draw their own conclusions about its implications for IPCC research or perhaps, the IPCC executive selection process.

The court will not allow extraneous evidence from sources (however reputable) such as Dr Roy Spencer.Please Confine yourself testimony to the case in session-- or I will hold you in contempt and sent you to the little room out the back to cool your heels, with Poirot and Wobbles.

csteele,

“Perhaps you can help me as spindoc seems to have lost his tongue. Did Rajendra Pashauri actually say the very words “30 to 40 years at least” as suggested in the original post of this thread?”

Answer, absolutely yes.

Read it for yourself at the link provided by Poirot. If you can’t get past the pay wall, log on to GWPF site and you will find the full article reproduced.

Now that you have got us all excited about challenging this quote, what point do you wish to make?

Do you wish to sanitize Pashauri’s words, do you wish to feast upon the “30 to 40 years at least” comment, is it just another diversion from the painful facts, do you need someone else to do the arithmetic, do you want to desperately sift through Pashauri’s “escape clauses” or are we going to see one of your better examples of post-modernist deconstructions and socialization?

We wait with great anticipation.

You remind me of the story of W.C. Fields on his death bed. His family gathered round only to find him thumbing through the pages of the Bible. But W.C. they asked, you are an atheist, why are you reading the Bible? He replied, “Just looking for loophole’s sweetie, just looking for loopholes”.

Just as an aside, and addressing the "skeptics here referring to Pachauri as merely a "railway engineer", I came upon Lord Monckton laying out his CV in a letter of complaint to the ABC.

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/02/abc-helen-caldicott-sinks-to-mocking-the-unwell-monckton-responds/

Groud 2 deals with his "right" to call himself a member of the House of Lords.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton/

Ground 3 states:

"Dr Caldicott inaccurately stated that I do not know any science However I have a degree in Classical Architecture from the University of Cambridge, and the degree course included instruction in mathematics. I was last year's Nurenberg Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. I have contributed several papers to the learned science journals on climate science and economics, have lectured on climate science at universities on three continents at faculty as well as undergraduate level, and am an expert reviewer for the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report of the UN's climate panel, the IPCC. I have testified four times before the U.S. Congress on climate science."

On his role as an expert reviewer:

http://www.readfearn.com/2012/11/lord-moncktons-new-climate-role-for-the-ipcc-isnt-what-it-appears/

Anyone can register as an expert reviewer.

On his testimonies before congress:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/21/climate-scientists-christopher-monckton

spindoc, you could learn much in the "spin" department if you concentrate on Monckton as your mentor.