Man, these guys are persistent. The global-warming media apparently think that the more you say something, the greater the chance it will become true . . . kind of like “global warming,” I guess.

Here’s the headline and opening from a story — and what a story! — in today’s Greenwire:

CLIMATE: Top U.N. climate scientist backs deep emissions cuts (08/26/2009)
Rajendra Pachauri, climatologist and chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has endorsed ambitious goals for cutting emissions.

Unless he passed some mail-order class of the “Draw Tippy” variety on matchbooks of yore, Pachauri remains an economist and a former railway engineer.