Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the grant terms under which the land was given. Plus a lot of water in a city that has water shortages. So much for sustainability.
Pachauri, famous for telling other how to live sustainable lives has a private chauffeur, spurns his electric cars provided for him, and once said in a newspaper interview:
‘Unfortunately, “social and environmental issues are often left without effective support when economic growth takes precedence,” he added.’
So, that’s why you charge memberships to your golf course and keep out the public from land given to you designated for public use?
It’s time for Pachauri to go. He’s dirty, deceitful, and dim witted. His personal life is hypocritical of what he preaches to the rest of the world via his IPCC position and is a public relations disaster.
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“Happiness in life is based on expectations,” writes Rajendra K Pachauri on his own blog. And if your expectations include ownership of a nine-hole golf course, then Dr Pachauri must be a very happy man indeed.
The ownership is reported today by the Indian newspaper the Mail Today which tells us that R K Pachauri’s “not-for-profit” TERI – imbued with a mission to “work towards global sustainable development, creating innovative solutions for a better tomorrow” – is the proud owner of a water-guzzling nine hole golf course in Gual Pahari on the outskirts of Gurgaon a satellite town to the southwest of New Delhi.
This much is not new. It was described in glowing terms by the Business Standard in February 2007, when we were told of a “beautiful golf course” that precedes the entrance of a “completely different world from the precincts of Gurgaon”.
It is part of the “amazingly landscaped 36-hectare TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) campus at Gual Pahari.” And nestled inside this campus is an unassuming building called The Retreat, a training and recreation centre for TERI staff and executives.
Furthermore, TERI has made no secret of the facility, noting in its Annual report 2006/7 that the golf course had been created “with the intention of promoting golf amongst TERI personnel residing in Delhi and Gurgaon.” It was then that the six-hole golf course was being upgraded into a nine-hole green. A 200-yard driving range was “an added attraction” and there was a nine-hole putting course adjacent to the Retreat building.
But, it appears, TERI is harbouring a guilty “secret”. The five-acre golf course is part of the 69 acres of institutional land it acquired from Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in 1985 (below – Google Earth), for the exclusive use of TERI staff. Commercial exploitation is prohibited.
Yet the paper has found that the golf course has been opened up to selected members of the public who are being charged Rs 25,000 (£350) for membership.
According to Gurgaon’s district town planner Vijender Singh Rana, commercial activity through sports on institutional land is illegal. “HUDA gave this land to TERI for institutional or public and semi-public purpose.”
Rana said. “Though they have asked for change of land use (CLU) regularly from HUDA, permission cannot be given for any sporting activity. If TERI is selling golf course memberships, it is wrong.” Rana said the conditions for use of institutional land were clear. “If TERI uses it for its own purpose, there is no problem. But it cannot use it commercially and sell golf memberships,” he said.
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Equally contentious is the water usage to keep the golf course green. As chair of the IPCC, Pachauri is voluble in demanding of governments around the world that they cut down on carbon emissions and save water, among other things, to sustain the environment. He is equally voluble about potential water shortages in his home country, arising from melting glaciers and all that.
TERI claims that water conservation measures on the campus include “an efficient central rainwater harvesting system in accordance with water conservation guidelines such as drip water irrigation, early morning and late evening half circle sprinkling to minimise water evaporation and loss.”
But with the golf course and environs requiring up to 300,000 gallons a day during the summer to keep the lush greenery in condition (pictured above), questions are being asked about the sustainability of the facility, which would have difficulty in meeting the volume required solely from harvested water.
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“He’s dirty, deceitful, and dim witted.”
Right, its all about the science….
REPLY: Indeed, if it were about the science, Pachauri would have come clean on the 2035 glacier melt issue right away, he wouldn’t need a chaffeur, and he wouldn’t be involved in all sorts of questionable enterprises that detract from the work of the IPCC. But go ahead, defend the man if you must. I’m sure you can find a way to link his smutty romance novel to global warming science. – Anthony
Synonyms for a person of Pachauri’s ilk from thesaurus(dot)com:
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep’s clothing
We all know how Golf sports brings up the “best” qualities of man.
Who cares about little water! We only use battery powered Golf Carts.
Tiger Woods, Pachauri, Gore and Obama, they truly are the biggest hypocrites and liars the world has ever seen.
An Al Gore Golf Shirt anybody? Order it here:
http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby.95283964
The IPCC should be able to see from that satellite photo that if they want to offset sea level rise all you have to do is irrigate land.
That will take people out of poverty and make lots of golf courses for their buddies.
Oh forget that point about taking people out of poverty though. They might want to use our energy resources. So leave them to live poor, diseased and in harmony with Gaia!
That explains why he wears to pair of pants.
I am wondering how long it will take some enterprising engineer with the city to change the kind of water that is delivered to that golf course.
Paucharia’s illegal actions are wasting water in the midst of Delhi’s desperate water shortage. See:
Delhi for Water petition
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Rainwater Harvesting Drive
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Delhi water
TERI’s water use alone is 0.05% of Delhi’s supply.
IPCC motto, “Do as I say, not as I do”.
Like Al Capone, the big and evil can do anything.
Do as I say, and not as I do.
Doug in Seattle; You left out hypocrite and (neologism alert) hyperhypocrite.
I am not defending the man.
I am looking at what YOU do in the circumstances
REPLY: Indeed, if it were about the science, Pachauri would have come clean on the 2035 glacier melt issue right away, he wouldn’t need a chaffeur, and he wouldn’t be involved in all sorts of questionable enterprises that detract from the work of the IPCC. But go ahead, defend the man if you must. I’m sure you can find a way to link his smutty romance novel to global warming science. – Anthony
What I see is not a response on the science, but a response on his personality.
It cuts both ways Anthony. If you want to fall to personal attacks so be it, but it is a reflection upon yourself.
REPLY: Well I’m not the one that has to defend misuse of public funds, public properties, and public science. The criticisms are valid. Just as valid as criticisms of the failings of Tiger Woods, or any other public figure who violates public trust.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
– Anthony
harvey (20:13:20) :
“He’s dirty, deceitful, and dim witted.”
Right, its all about the science….
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Reply:
I’ve never heard Pachauri say anything intelligent about the science. I fully believe he’s clueless when it comes to anything regarding climate science.
So its absolutely, irrevocably NOT about the science. He’s just scratched enough backs to have that chair, but certainly none of the respect.
But without a doubt, he’s the best friend we climate realists could ever have. I hope he keeps his job and continues to drag the IPCC through the dirt as long as he can.
Forget these personal attacks Anthony.
Or some day they will come back and haunt you.
Or do you enjoy destroying yet another persons life and career?
I want to see know and understand what is going on. These political machinations do not in anyway help this situation. Too me its just a smoke screen.
Attack the person, and not the science.
Harvey, the simple fact of the matter is that the man has no integrity. He has been lining his own pockets. He has been boosting his own position. He has been in a position where he can personally profit from his “work” on climate change. His advocacy then seems to be more about enriching his own personal bank account than about saving the planet in any way.
When it turns up that grants to his own operations resulted from IPCC quoting of his own employees, it begins to become more a matter of stealing from the public.
harvey (21:04:42) :
Forget these personal attacks Anthony.
Or some day they will come back and haunt you.
Or do you enjoy destroying yet another persons life and career?
What is that old saying, All is fair in love and war.
Well Harvey old boy this is a war, and guess what we are going to win it.
REPLY: Well I’m not the one that has to defend misuse of public funds, public properties, and public science. The criticisms are valid. Just as valid as criticisms of the failings of Tiger Woods, or any other public figure who violates public trust.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
– Anthony
Well this is not what I expected…
Its like replying to my statement that 3+2 is 5
by saying 4 +7 is 11.. So There
WHATS UP WITH THAT?
The value of attacking a person is in destroying his political or cultural position.
It has nothing to do with the facts.
So this implies that you really do not care about what is really going on, but rather to just score points.
I want to evaluate and understand what is going on, not to read these soap opera attacks.
REPLY: It’s not soap opera. The man preaches sustainability, yet acts like a mega consumer of water, flies around the world in a private jet, misuses land granted to him for public use by closing it to the public and then profiting from it, lied about it when he knew about the 2035 glacier issue, and profited from the lie with grants to study the non-problem, and writes smutty romance novels.
If you can’t see the glaringly obvious problems with all that related to his position in the IPCC, then you are inept at understanding the value of character and integrity as it relates to leadership positions. Let me spell it out: The IPCC science is flawed because the leader hasn’t enough personal integrity to correct such things, even when made known. He’s all about the money, not the science. – A
harvey (20:53:48) :
The fact that you consider exposing mendacity and corruption a despicable personal attack says quite a bit about you.
Here’s the secret if you want to know when it comes to reducing carbon emissions to the levels of a century ago.
Become a member of the world’s uppercrust class of people, then you can emit as much Co2 as you want. The trick is to get everyone else to slice their Co2 emissions to almost nothing and bring an end to modern society, then the uppercrust will all gather in a development around that golf course where they not only have their own personal factories producing goods and new technology for them to enjoy, but if you’re lucky you can be a servant with your own outdoor hut.
Pretty much joking around here, they may just as likely plug everyone else into the Matrix (which would be solar powered), so you would think you’re in a place of freedom, but monitored by their law enforcement program titled Agent Smith.
Harvey
‘Forget these personal attacks Anthony.
Or some day they will come back and haunt you.
Or do you enjoy destroying yet another persons life and career?’
Harvey. Harvey. Harvey. Give me a break – pleeeeeese! Spare me the crocidilian tears1 Destroying Pachauri’s career? Pray tell me which of his careers do you have in mind? Perhaps the one in Teeside – you know – the one where he ripped the heart out of the town of Redcar transferred the factory and 1,700 jobs to India as a favour to Europe’s effort to save the planet? Now that’s a great career to keep!
May I change my handle?
REPLY: sure, par 6?
Science isn’t a democratic process. It doesn’t matter what the “majority” believe to be true. There is only that which is. So far there is no evidence to show that human created CO2 emissions are doing anything harmful to the environment, no matter how many believe they do.
The golf course is there but what are the big circles with faint rectangles near the middle:
28.427305 N, 77.147956 E (in Google Earth)
Maybe horse related?
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My say: If you can’t trust the man, you can’t trust his science.
harvey what’s the issue here? The man is obviously corrupt, unethical and an unmitigated scam artist. It is what it is. If you can’t see the issue here then as another poster said, I think you have a problem.
It seems the only green Pachauri is familiar with is the one on his golf course..