Here we go again. Today’s Associated Press article blares “Top UN climate expert faults G-8 goal without deed.” They’re referring to Rajendra Pahcauri.

Pachauri, as I have noted here before, is alternately styled as the IPCC’s chief “climatologist” (New York Times and USA Today) and the U.N.’s “chief climate scientist” (AP) by the same publications who see no relevance in Cal Tech physics grad and MIT Ph.D. economist Alan Carlin’s recent whistle-blowing that the global-warming emporer has no clothes.

Pachauri is a near-lifelong U.N. functionary; Carlin a career EPA employee dating back to its inception. Both are economists. According to the global-warming industry, one is a top climate expert, the other an economics hack. By now it should go without saying that one’s qualifications on this issue are determined by the old schoolyard standard: whether you agree with me.

What also goes without saying is that the media are fully in the tank on the agenda.