You will recognize this male from the radio as no the single in the universe exercised some-more change upon the events heading up to the Copenhagen discussion upon tellurian warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, authority of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel upon Climate Change (IPCC) as well as designer of the ultimate inform in 2007.
Although Dr Pachauri is mostly presented as the scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s tip meridian scientist”), as the former railway operative with the PhD in economics he has no education in meridian scholarship during all.
What has additionally roughly wholly transient attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has determined an startling worldwide portfolio of commercial operation interests with bodies that have been investing billions of dollars in organisations contingent upon the IPCC’s process recommendations.
These outfits embody banks, oil as well as appetite companies as well as investment supports heavily concerned in ‘carbon trading’ as well as ‘sustainable technologies’, that together have up the fastest-growing commodity marketplace in the world, estimated shortly to be value trillions of dollars the year.
Today, in further to his purpose as authority of the IPCC, Dr Pachauri occupies some-more than the measure of such posts, behaving as executive or confidant to most of the bodies that fool around the heading purpose in what has turn well known as the general ‘climate industry’
Read some-more from the Telegraph here…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html
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I can’t see where he can find the time to actually be in charge of the IPCC.
I wonder how many of those 1700 workers support the IPCC. That’s a cruel irony.
As usual…. follow the money.
It is time for a thorough investigation into this Pachauri character.
This whole ‘Man-did-it’ global warming thing….. wreaks!!
“It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri’s links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world’s leading ‘climate official’ can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC’s recommendations.”
“As a vegetarian Hindu, Dr Pachauri repeated his call for the world to eat less meat to cut down on methane emissions (as usual he made no mention of what was to be done about India’s 400 million sacred cows). He further called for a ban on serving ice in restaurants and for meters to be fitted to all hotel rooms, so that guests could be charged a carbon tax on their use of heating and air-conditioning.
One subject the talkative Dr Pachauri remains silent on, however, is how much money he is paid for all these important posts, which must run into millions of dollars. Not one of the bodies for which he works publishes his salary or fees, and this notably includes the UN, which refuses to reveal how much we all pay him as one of its most senior officials.”
“IPCC’s policy recommendations” may be a bit of a stretch of the facts but, perhaps you could explain how someone who only chairs a “panel” that does not set policy could be viewed as a conflict of interest?
When I read that article it seemed to me that that this article is more than an ad hominem attack on Dr Pachauri. I particularly got this feeling when they felt a need to mention the religion he practices. That may seem a bit inconsequential until you remember that many British still have attitude of the empire and anyone from Pachauri’s part of the world are lowly heathen “wogs”. I witness this attitude every time I meet up with my relatives still living in England. This intent to smear was loud and clear when the author stated “as usual he made no mention of what was to be done about India’s 400 million sacred cows”. It was a clear swipe at the man and his culture. The truth is, to bolster his argument lied about the cattle population he increased India’s cattle numbers by thirty percent http://www.cattlenetwork.com/World-Report—Cattle-Population-By-Country/2008-06-02/Article.aspx?oid=600361 . Not all are sacred. India is world’s largest producer of milk, there is a small beef industry and cattle still provide one of the oldest known biofuels known to man, dung.
There is money to be made in new industries that reduce atmospheric carbon, what is wrong that? Why do conservative capitalists have such a problem with capitalism?
Gwen get your head out of the our orifice, the whole thing wreaks of corruption.