Pachauri’s IPCC report faces fresh questions

The latest discrepancies relate,among other things,to the claim that global warming could cut crop production in rain-fed north Africa by up to 50 per cent by 2020,that has been quoted by Pachauri and UN chief Ban Ki-moon in speeches.

This weekend Chris Field,the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team,told the newspaper that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The paper claimed it had discovered a series of new flaws in the IPCC report,including the publication of inaccurate data on the potential of wave power to produce electricity around the world,which was wrongly attributed to the website of a commercial wave-energy company. PTI

British scientist ‘considered suicide’

London: The British scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has admitted he considered suicide in the wake of the global backlash. Professor Phil Jones (57),the head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia,said he was unprepared for the scandal. In emails that were hacked into before the Copenhagen climate summit,Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change. PTI