Rena Monty Python

Nu har till slut FN-organet IPCC:s chef Rajendra Pachauri tvingats uttala sig om Climategate i en intervju. Och det han har att säga är nästan rent farsartat:

Pachauri was responding to one email from 2004 in which Professor Phil Jones, the head of the climatic research unit at UEA, said of two papers he regarded as flawed: "I can't see either … being in the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

Pachauri said it was not clear whether the wording of the emails reflected the scientists' intended actions, but said: "I really think people should be discreet … in this day and age anything you write, even privately, could become public and to put anything down in writing is, to say the least, indiscreet … It is another matter to talk about this to your friends on the telephone or person to person but to put it down in writing was indiscreet. If someone was to say something like this in an IPCC authors' meeting then there are others who would chew him up." (fetstil adderad)

Problemet, enligt karln, är alltså inte att en av hans instituts i särklass viktigaste uppgiftslämnare tycker att det är OK att ändra spelreglerna för att tysta opponenter utan att han hade mage att skriva ner det! Detta blir bara värre för varje timme som går...