I slagged off The Guardian yesterday (see post below), not for anything too awful, just terminal silliness, but this morning I awake to something much more serious. Their senior commentator, George Monbiot, appears to be a bully, a coward and a nincompoop. I am ashamed to say that once upon a time I actually wrote nice things about little Georgie because following the scandal at East Anglia University, commonlyknown as 'Climategate', he actually set aside his fundamental support for the notion of AGW and criticised the scientists concerned. I should have waited. Once the ludicrous, sloppy and innacurate, so-called investigations were over little Georgie withdrew his criticisms.
Shortly after, a putrid pile of nonsense erupted concerning Himalayan glaciers which the IPCC, under the 'leadership' of a fat, hairy Indian called Pachauri, had forecast would all melt in a short number of years and India's rivers would dry up. This turned out to be based on a complete misunderstanding and misreading of just one scientific paper. When another Indian scientist pointed this out and suggested, by implication, anyway, that Emperor Pachauri had no clothes, a ton of smelly, brown stuff was hurled at him from on high. Unfortunately for the IPCC, the critic turned out to be correct and the naked Pachauri was forced to back down - although the IPCC report concerned has still not been corrected.
Then aspersions were cast, by Richard North and Christopher Booker, who discovered that Pachauri heads a 'charity' called 'TERI' which has a brief to undertake glacial science and which is in receipt of tens of thousands of pounds, much of it from HMG, or you and me, as I like to think of it. North and Booker cried foul and the accountancy group KPMG were employed to undertake a "review" (NB: not an audit, a 'review'). Little Georgie leaped to the defence of Pachauri against the attacks by North and Booker and demanded this in the Comments section of his blog:
A persistent little devil called Julian Williams remained unconvinced by little Georgie's impassioned defence and managed to produce from the Charity Commission the revised TERI accounts, revised because The Daily Telegraph had begun to sniff around:
|
Year |
Income as submitted before inquiries |
Corrected figures submitted after inquiries |
|
2006 |
7,000 |
16,610 |
|
2007 |
9,000 |
49,878 |
|
2008 |
8,000 |
103,980 |
|
TOTAL |
24,000 |
170,468 |
One is tempted to repeat the words of a distinguished former editor of The Telegraph - "surely shome mishtake!" Julian Williams points out:
In the period shown, only 15% of their income had been put through the charity’s accounts and 85% of TERI-Europe’s income had simply not been included in their declared income. Their complete accounts have not been submitted to date. (My emphasis)
All that money to investigate melting glaciers which are not actually melting! Well, that is one example of rank humbuggery, if it is not an example of something a great deal more serious which I would hope that the Charity Commission will investigate. But let us return to the festering pile of rank hypocrisy which is The Guardian, and the pathetic little bully, creep and censor who sits atop this midden hectoring his opponents. "Prove it", he squeaks and when Williams does exactly that his comments are constantly and perpetually censored from little Georgie's blog, and in the end, the entire thread is deleted.
I would ask you all to do three things. First, bookmark Bishop Hill's blog because not only is this story set out in full detail but also because Andrew Montford, the blog owner, is a calm, considered critic of all AGW fanatics. Second, the next time you see the oxymoronic title 'Comment if Free', have a good hawk and spit (er, in the privacy of your own home, of course!), and third, I would ask all of you never to buy The Guardian again. It is intellectually rotten and corrupt and the sooner it goes broke the better.
Additional: I have just noticed that Richard North on his blog, 'EU Referendum' (which actually covers a much wider scope than the title indicates), has punted the post at 'Bishop Hill's place'. He writes:
Julian Williams and Shub Niggurath co-author a guest post over at Bishop Hill, taking on George Monbiot and his defence of the tainted Pachauri – all under the title "George Monbiot: scrubbing the record clean".
Meanwhile, just in case you are wondering, the Press Complaints Commission complaint against Monbiot, The Guardian and The Sunday Times proceeds apace. All the preliminaries have been dealt with and there has been a robust "exchange of views". Now, the issue is scheduled to go to the full panel of newspaper editors for adjudication during their next meeting in October.
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