As we skeptics have been saying for years, you don’t need to follow the “science” to figure out what’s going on with AGW politics, you need to follow the money.

The latest disclosure: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s (formerly) prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (known as the IPCC), may have raised millions of dollars for his New Delhi institute on the basis of the totally bogus ‘glaciergate’ claim by the IPCC that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.

According the the London Times, Pachauri’s institute got money from the European Union and the US-based Carnegie Corporation to investigate a prediction that never had any scientific backing whatever, and one which all serious glacier scientists instantly recognized as impossible. The bogus claim was frequently repeated in the fundraising efforts — and reiterated as recently as January 15 when the IPCC was already under intense pressure to admit it had blundered.

via IPCC Head in Glaciergate Crime? – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog – The American Interest.

I have absolutely no doubt that this is a criminal act. But it’s still one that they will justify as “saving the world.”