From the “follow the money” department, this story has been building momentum ever since the story was made public by Christopher Booker and Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum who three weeks ago co-wrote a major piece in the Sunday Telegraph. WUWT initially covered the story here on December 21st: Pachauri’s Carbon Choo-Choo off the rails.
The following week the Telegraph had a follow up story, and more questions than answers were raised.
Now it appears the story “has legs”, and is being covered in India by India Today, front and center on their Sunday edition.
The subheadline reads: “Climate change hero was on boards of oil and power PSU’s with large carbon footprints, got crores worth of business for TERI from them”
Pachauri of course denies any conflict of interest. Details on TERI (The Energy Research Institute) here
The India Today newspaper writes:
Pachauri’s answer to this charge is: “I haven’t pocketed a penny from my association with companies and institutes,” he said.
“All honoraria I get go to TERI and to its ‘Light A Billion Lives’ campaign for reaching solar power to people without electricity. My dealings are above board.” The climate change hero is quick with his answers, but doubts over his links linger.
Now that this story has legs, we’ll see more investigative journalism coming and those “doubts over his links” will get filled in, one way or another. There are questions now arising as to the legality of some of the dealing TERI has had in Britain and the way it reports its dealings to the Charity Commission.
There’s another interesting twist to this that involves Climategate and the CRU.
Pachauri is one of the two directors of TERI. He is also a trustee, along with Sir John Houghton and Sir Crispin Tickell, (see here) formerly England’s man at the UN and the person who converted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to a belief in global warming, which led her to allocate the money Houghton needed to set up the HadleyCentre for Climate Change.
As WUWT readers know, Hadley (along with the CRU) has played a key part in the story of climate research (and Climategate) ever since.
We have Al Gore who is viewed by many as being the most influential communicator on the climate change issue who is up to his neck in carbon trading and also has many board associations that help his cause. Now we have the leader of the UN’s IPCC with questionable business associations. Where’s NYT’s Andy Revkin? Where’s 60 Minutes? Where’s Dateline NBC?
Above: Gore and Pachauri get the Nobel Prize.
And here’s the kicker from the Telegraph’s follow up story:
Initially, when Dr Pachauri took over the running of TERI in the 1980s, his interests centred on the oil and coal industries, which may now seem odd for a man who has since become best known for his opposition to fossil fuels. He was, for instance, a director until 2003 of India Oil, the country’s largest commercial enterprise, and until this year remained as a director of the National Thermal Power Generating Corporation, its largest electricity producer.
In 2005, he set up GloriOil, a Texas firm specialising in technology which allows the last remaining reserves to be extracted from oilfields otherwise at the end of their useful life.
However, since Pachauri became a vice-chairman of the IPCC in 1997, TERI has vastly expanded its interest in every kind of renewable or sustainable technology, in many of which the various divisions of the Tata Group have also become heavily involved, such as its project to invest $1.5 billion (£930 million) in vast wind farms.
Next time somebody says “skeptic “x” is connected with big oil”, show them this.
Tiger Woods downfall was external affairs outside of his vow of matrimony. By the same token, Dr. Pachauri is “married” to the IPCC and is apparently conducting “business affairs” that appear to be a conflict of interest outside of his vow of public service. If this isn’t grounds for a divorce from the IPCC, I don’t know what would be.
Follow the money, not the temperature.
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Oh my, bring in Al Gore to help him out.
I wonder how investors in Al Gore’s ‘green investment company’ are thinking of doing about Al Gore these days?
All these spokesmen are early investors into the planned AGW fraud’s money bonanza.
The Indians are a moral people. Conflict of interest matters.
The supposed swine flu “epidemic” is similarly tainted.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242147/The-false-pandemic-Drug-firms-cashed-scare-swine-flu-claims-Euro-health-chief.html
One might also ask, “Where’s Guardian’s rabid anti-capitalist and climate-change bulldog George Monbiot?”
What is the probability that all of the shady dealings of these “important scientists” will finally wake people up to the grand fraud that is CO2 will kill us all unless we do as we are told?
I’ve read elsewhere that TERI – The Energy Research Institute, was previously call Tata Energy Research Institute, but the name was changed for some reason. Maybe to hide the association with heavy industry. Tata is one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world.
Initially, when Dr Pachauri took over the running of TERI in the 1980s, his interests centred on the oil and coal industries, which may now seem odd for a man who has since become best known for his opposition to fossil fuels.
Smell rat?
More carbon money is sequestered by Pachauri than originally thought.
After seeing all the people making money off this AGW belief system, it seems it’s now the lawyers’ who’ll hit the big bucks, as soon as they can get all their clients to quit talking to the media.
Pachauri’s answer to this charge is: “I haven’t pocketed a penny from my association with companies and institutes,” he said.
and it’s a travesty that he didn’t, maybe he’ll have better luck in mexico city.
not.
Hopefully, this story will “have legs”. Where are the UK investigative reporters, where are the presenters of BBC flagship news programmes, Paxman, Neal or Marr. Do they have zero editorial control? Why has this become a right vs left political issue? and I am from the Rhondda Valley of coal mining stock. There must be an editor of a MSM outlet brave enough to put his/her head above the parapet. Are Chris Booker, Rich North and Lawson the only ones to put their heads on the line? (and James D.)
It´s all over baby!…time to lose has come.
Does the name Ken Lay ring a bell. He and Algore dreamed up carbon trading at Enron.
He may get fired and become a rickshaw dealer. They get good gas mileage.
@ur momisugly Joseph in Florida.
Slim to none as long as governments still see this as a money raising opportunity and the media remains biased to climate change. The truth no longer matters in the western world. I for one will be amazed if these organizations back down on this issue. Too much has already been invested, personally and politically, by all these players. They will perpetuate the lie rather than give up on their money. The whole thing is depressing when you look at the injustice it is causing and nobody wants to talk about justice in this situation.
photon without a higgs
The Indians are very clever and very moral but, sadly, a very small percent, which is still a large number, are clever and devious. I have many Indian and Asian friends, not acquaintances, who tell me that most of India’s problems come from the corrupt politicians. An active investigative press,however, they may get to the bottom!
Dr Mo (15:24:11) :
One might also ask, “Where’s Guardian’s rabid anti-capitalist and climate-change bulldog George Monbiot?”
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Moonbat hasn’t posted on climate science or anything connected since Dec. 21. The silence is deafening. I wonder if he’s decided to pull a John Moore? (refers to the unctious and pompous Canadian radio blowhard who suddenly decided, after years of deriding skeptics as flat-earth deniers, and referring them to the experts at IPCC to prove them wrong, that he really wasn’t that interested in climate science and the whole global warming thing – after Climategate, of course).
“Now that this story has legs, we’ll see more investigative journalism coming and those “doubts over his links” will get filled in, one way or another.”
I’m hoping you’re right! As far as I’m concerned “investigative journalism” is dead to climate change, the IPCC and the UN in general. One would think that with all the fraud, corruption, double standards and conflicts of interest laying just beneath the surface of this fiasco, MSM reporters would be knocking each other out of the way to get the real story!
He shouldn’t be “under” fire, they should be raking him OVER the coals.
I think that can be said for pretty much every people on the planet. The only fundamentally criminal class is politicians and that also goes for pretty much every people on the planet.
Don W
MSM reporters? Don’t make me laugh! They have long been emasculated.
OT but good.
Cover story of Germany’s weekly news magazine “Focus” tomorrow (www.focus.de): “Will climate catastrophy fail?”
Balanced article, featuring the sun’s influence, showing everything but a settled science, quoting Hadley like this “2010 may become one of the hottest years because of the awakening sun and El Nino combined.”
Because of what? I am confused …
Gawd, nice article Anthony.
This is so true. The top dogs, including Obama, all have interest in the money here. Obama’s are less direct as he only voted on the board which formed the chicago carbon exchange and hung and out with the people on the exhange but we’d have to be pretty slow witted to imagine the resulting money in the pocket is not just as solid.
Over at the little tiny Air Vent blog, Dr. Leonard Weinstein seems to have discovered very compelling evidence that Google has eliminated over 20 million links to climategate.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/climategate-ii-rewriting-history-google-style/
crosspatch (16:02:44) :
Oh, no, not hot coals, that is reserved for true men of religion, and they walk on them.
They might rake him over dry ice.
Comments in MSM papers
If you read the comments by readers on items in the MSM on Climate Change they are overwhelmingly sceptical of anthropological CC. The ordinary people are NOT fooled. They still have and can exercise common sense. However, it seems that it will take a long time for the politicians, and the MSM to turn on the profiteers in this scam. I am not even sure that the ballot box will help either since politicians of all colours seem to be enthralled by the tax harvest that will be theirs to play with when they are in power.