IPCC head Pachauri booted from "Global Thinkers" list

Though, he still has a chance at being on the Best Smutty Romance Novel Writers of 2010 list.

Click for more photos from his book release.

Tom Nelson writes:

What a difference a year makes: [IPCC head] Pachauri was allegedly #5 of the world’s “top” global thinkers a year ago; now, he’s not in the top 100

The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010| Foreign Policy

[Where’s Pachauri?!]

November 30, 2009: Foreign Policy’s First Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers | Foreign Policy

Rajendra Pachauri

for ending the debate over whether climate change matters.

Chairman, intergovernmental panel on climate change | India

As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom and governments work urgently to establish a global climate treaty, Pachauri deserves no small amount of credit for creating such an extraordinary shift in public opinion.

…Any progress toward thwarting climate change this year owes a great deal to Pachauri.

Best idea of 2009: Vegetarianism as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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INGSOC
November 28, 2010 5:40 pm

From Global Thinker, to Global Stinker in one year flat!

Ian Mc Vindicated
November 28, 2010 5:47 pm

Like I said on previous posts, things happn very slowly at that level. What the climategate has proven will take abou 5 years to unwind. Public opinion has switched , and reality is starting to sink in. Give it another year or 2. and the scam of AGW climate disruption ( whatever ) will be more in pieces than ever.
In 5 years it will be a joke…hey…they almost got away with it.
Ian

H.R.
November 28, 2010 5:50 pm

“Best idea of 2009: Vegetarianism as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Nawww… best idea ever to reduce the vegetable population. Attention all carrots: watch your back or Patchy’s gonna’ GET ya!

November 28, 2010 6:02 pm

Patchi means GREEN in Tamil and chauri in Hindi is ROBBER
Ethical hacking would bring the mythical reason why he did such a thing using Rattan Tata’s Glass-House to break the ethical codes

Bystander
November 28, 2010 6:06 pm

Why does anybody give a **** about this list anyway?

John Blake
November 28, 2010 6:06 pm

“Vegans reduce CO2”– is Railroad Bill promoting cannibalism?

November 28, 2010 6:07 pm

He was allegedly booted from the list after peer reviewed research on his “Best idea of 2009: Vegetarianism as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” proved that the eating of broccoli significantly INCREASED methane gas emissions (a powerful greenhouse gas) in humans.
When asked for comment, all’s Patchy would say was “The whole thing stinks.”

November 28, 2010 6:16 pm

Pachauri was a “thinker” only in the sense that he and his gang thought how to make the AGW claim as scary as possible. It is somehow difficult to think of a grand, global design to fool and scare the public at the global level. He achieved that goal, until about 2008. By 2009, skepticism increased, especially after the climategate.

brc
November 28, 2010 6:32 pm

Of all the failures and windbacks in climate alarmism over the last 12 months, this one would undoubtedly hurt the most.

PhilinCalifornia
November 28, 2010 6:36 pm

Hey, we’re talking about a Nobel prizewinner here, at least an “acceptance speaker”.
Bernie Madoff’s probably wondering if he could still get the Nobel Prize for Economics.

KenB
November 28, 2010 6:37 pm

BoomBoomKP says
I thought it was “Voodoo Science” did it!!

AntiAcademia
November 28, 2010 6:48 pm

What an appalling list of leftist academics and politicians! Actually ask people and not some board of some magazine or academia and you will find a very different list. I bet Anthony Watts or Christopher Monckton would appear in a list of “100 thinkers” that is actually voted by people and not by Academia or Media.
Greatest American ever: Ronald Reagan (Conservative politician)
Greatest German ever: Konrad Adenauer (Conservative politician)
Greatest Frenchman ever: Charles de Gaulle (Conservative politician)
Greatest Englishman ever: Winston Churchill (Conservative politician)
Greatest Italian ever: Leonardo Da Vinci (Scientist and artist)
It is the media, the academia and the political class that is leftist, not the people

Rick Bradford
November 28, 2010 6:55 pm

You can get an accurate view of the public mood in the UK over AGW alarmism, by reading the comments on Louise Gray’s latest article Global warming has slowed because of pollution
It is not friendly stuff at all.

Diogenes
November 28, 2010 7:00 pm

It should also be noted that Nicholas Stern and James Hansen have both been kicked off the list.
Conversely Bjorn Lomberg is now on it for “for questioning whether we’re going after climate change right.”

theduke
November 28, 2010 7:00 pm

Ah yes, what a list.
Half of them are fossilized thinkers. Bill Clinton? John Kerry? LOL. William Perry? George Shultz? [guffaw]
If I want to see fossils, I’ll go to the Museum of Natural History.

theduke
November 28, 2010 7:03 pm

These are not “global thinkers.” They are circular thinkers. Their thinking always ends up in the same place.

AntiAcademia
November 28, 2010 7:11 pm

To Mr Watts: Please, do not publish this.
I formerly called myself SouthAmericanGirls, you probably know that by my IP address but you banned me from your website. That hurt in an extreme way. I do not plan to come back here to comment, I just wanted to say farewell because you never allowed me to say anything, you were extremely rude and simply banned me and such behavoir harms your forum. I am trying to read other blogs but your blog is just too interesting. I never knew that I was breaking the forum rules and that I was causing disruption, sorry if I disrupted your excellent forum. This is my farewell, I swear I will never ever make a comment on your blog and will try to avoid reading your blog since the tentation to comment will ve very big and I do not want to have to fight such tentation.
Best regards and thanks, as a citizen of the world, for demolishing through your blog an obsolete Academia that is unable to produce science.
[Reply: All is forgiven. Just be nice, and stay on subject.]

Ale Gorney
November 28, 2010 8:01 pm

If I ever were given a full body massage by somone.. I would pick Pachauri. I’m yearning for it.

AlanG
November 28, 2010 8:47 pm

Anyone who nails their reputation to a weather (or climate) forecast deserves all they get.
New word: polycatastrophist. A person who makes a list of everything that could go wrong in the world and assumes they all happen at the same time. Very common in the environmental movement.

November 28, 2010 9:29 pm

My favorite picture of him is the one where he and another poser, Al Gore, are “posing” for their ill-gotten and undeserved Nobel Peace Prize.
Carpetbaggers!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA

rk
November 28, 2010 9:34 pm

I can’t resist posting this (maybe OT)…but relevant to the MSMs world view.
This is a simple contrast of Revkin’s refusal to publish the climategate emails with today’s head over heels festival of wikileaks:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/11/027788.php

ImranCan
November 28, 2010 9:42 pm

Somewhat disappointing to see Stephen Chu still on the list (at #18). At least his photo shows him in deep thought … although clearly that can’t be possible.

CRS, Dr.P.H.
November 28, 2010 9:44 pm

AntiAcademia says:
November 28, 2010 at 7:11 pm
To Mr Watts: Please, do not publish this.
I formerly called myself SouthAmericanGirls, you probably know that by my IP address but you banned me from your website. That hurt in an extreme way. I do not plan to come back here to comment, I just wanted to say farewell because you never allowed me to say anything, you were extremely rude and simply banned me and such behavoir harms your forum. I am trying to read other blogs but your blog is just too interesting. I never knew that I was breaking the forum rules and that I was causing disruption, sorry if I disrupted your excellent forum. This is my farewell, I swear I will never ever make a comment on your blog and will try to avoid reading your blog since the tentation to comment will ve very big and I do not want to have to fight such tentation.
Best regards and thanks, as a citizen of the world, for demolishing through your blog an obsolete Academia that is unable to produce science.
[Reply: All is forgiven. Just be nice, and stay on subject.]
——
Thank you, Anthony, and welcome back, AA!
We have a common goal, i.e. to demolish obsolete academia that is unable to produce science. However, as I’m in the snake pit (University of Illinois), it sounds a lot easier than it looks!
Sorry, off topic….I didn’t see any Hockey Team members on the list of thinkers (Chu doesn’t count in my book), and I’m really surprised that they didn’t jam John Holdren in there as well. After all, he DID invent the phrase “Climate Disruption.” Maybe we should have a Top Skeptics page?

November 28, 2010 10:28 pm

So how did he go from #5 to nowhere in a year? Did his brain fall out?
Or is the quality of someone’s “global thinking” determined so superficially, so faddishly that none of this matters? An editor barks: “Make a list, people like lists…even posh types who follow our tosser website. Just give ’em a list of…I dunno…top one hundred…I dunno…global something-or-other.” One hopes it’s as cynical as that. But, no, these people are more likely to be in earnest.
Time to close down the bulk of university courses, including all which contain the word “studies”.

Methow Ken
November 28, 2010 10:30 pm

How the might have fallen (thank goodness). . . .