'This guided the selection of all the key scientists chosen to compile the IPCC's findings (such as those involved in the Climategate affair).'

'It is only a matter of time, therefore, before the stench from its decomposing corpse, washed up on the beach, becomes so overpowering that even its supporters are forced to take note'

Pachauri admits politics rules IPCC 'science': 'We are owned by governments...[we are] an inter-governmental body and we want governments' ownership of what we produce, obviously they will give us guidance of what direction to follow'

'I was among the fiercest opponents and have challenged that document because it is not scientifically valid. The UN Framework Climate Change Convention says the concentration of greenhouse gases must be such as to rule out the danger of anthropogenic impact on the climate. But where is that level? Nobody knows, so it can be fixed arbitrarily....Climate will become colder and not warmer and that the planet is entering another cycle of cold'

'The climate bible surreptitiously incorporated numerous opinions expressed a few years earlier by the activist-oriented person in charge of writing this chapter. Then the media told the world that the IPCC's proclamations regarding global warming and diseases such as malaria were the considered, consensus view of thousands of experts.'

'Just as fears over Alar toxicity, destruction of the Amazon rain forest, a new ice age and other apocalyptic warnings lost their relevance, the global warming scare is destined to fade entirely from the public mind'