Pachauri's Carbon Choo-Choo off the rails

[Twat.jpg] — Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC Chairman Image: Jo Nova

There are some interesting developments in British press about the IPCC and Pachauri, both on the extraordinary financial conflicts of interest in the IPCC process.

In the UK Telegraph, Richard North of the EU Referendum and Christopher Booker strongly suggest IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri has earned what they claim are vast sums of money from his connection to the trade in carbon credits. North writes:

In addition to his paid post as Director-General of TERI, Pachauri has taken on over twenty additional posts since becoming chairman of the IPCC – another of his paid posts.

From the Telegraph:

What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.

These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.

Pachauri’s really not happy about this, and has blasted the article in The Indian Express and The Times of India.

I think Pachauri’s train might be off the rails though, since he’s claiming:

The accusations, published in the The Sunday Telegraph, were coming from the same group of people who had tried unsuccessfully to discredit the IPCC and the “irrefutable science” on climate change by hacking personal emails of some scientists a few weeks ago, Pachauri said.

Gosh, accusing journalists now of being the Climatgate hackers? Desperate are we?

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JonesII

December 21, 2009 10:40 am

Ric Werme (09:24:54) : . Jail door bars? To early perhaps?
That’s too much…just pull the chain!

Mauibrad

December 21, 2009 10:44 am

It’s Officially a Word – Obaminable http://obaminable.urbanup.com/4449215
Adj. description of an abominable mistake, dishonest, disagreeable or unpleasantry increasingly common from B.H. Obama.
ex: Copenhagen’s Obaminable Failure

Hoi Polloi

December 21, 2009 10:46 am

Admit it, would you buy a 2nd hand car from this man on face value?

Karl Maki

December 21, 2009 10:50 am

Sean Peake (09:32:54) :
So much for the gravy train
Nice! (Assuming you’re referring to Pachauri’s former job as a railway engineer 😉

Clive

December 21, 2009 10:52 am

Pachauri’s new book … may do a cartoon later today …
http://www.freelancerworld.com/graphics/laundry-business.jpg

Gail Combs

December 21, 2009 10:53 am

JonesII (09:50:12) :
He is undoubtly a Saint of this new religion, founded by the Most holy Saint ” El Gordo” (the fat one)
It was actually founded by Maurice Strong at the same time as he founded the Environmental movement. As Elaine Dewar wrote in Toronto’s Saturday Night magazine:
It is instructive to read Strong’s 1972 Stockholm speech and compare it with the issues of Earth Summit 1992. Strong warned urgently about global warming, the devastation of forests, the loss of biodiversity, polluted oceans, the population time bomb. Then as now, he invited to the conference the brand-new environmental NGOs [non-governmental organizations]: he gave them money to come; they were invited to raise hell at home. After Stockholm, environment issues became part of the administrative framework in Canada, the U.S., Britain, and Europe.”
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg106963.html
Even the people at Radio for Peace at the UN Peace University saw through Maurice Strong and his ties to big business and the big banks!
The university’s administrator, Canadian Maurice Strong, came in on a wave of influence based on the promise of Ted Turner’s foundation to give a billion dollars to the UN. His connections to the Turner foundation, the World Bank, and to those environmental groups you hear criticized for allowing domination by big business, are just the tip of the iceberg.
Anyone searching “Maurice Strong” on the web encounters a very interesting array of entries. (To quote Lewis Carroll, the story becomes “Curious and curiouser”) If we can believe even 10% of the story of his ascent to power and influence, an astonishing tale of subterfuge emerges, consistent with his attack on RFPI. Beyond the fig leaf of NGO’s that he uses for cover, Strong’s real alliances are with the enemies of the UN, which they are busily “reforming” http://www.w4uvh.net/dxldtd3g.html%5DMaurice Strong and Radio for Peace International
Strong makes even Al Gore look like a weeny when it comes to his carbon foot print.
…Ontario Hydro, an industrial concern, headed by Earth Summit secretary general Maurice Strong, which is the biggest source of CO2 emissions in Canada. This corporation is currently selling nuclear reactors to Argentina and Chile…. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27/061.html
Strong is a member of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance
Global Warming for Global Governance has a good collection of quotes organized to show how Global Warming is to lead to Global Governance by the Elite http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GlobalGovernance.htm

Leon Brozyna

December 21, 2009 10:53 am

There’s nothing that quite matches the stench of sanctimonious self-righteous hypocrisy that permeates the crowd out to save the planet. If a Wall Street broker or an oil company executive played by their rules, they’d be in jail so fast it’d spin their heads. The conflict of interest displayed by Pachauri is so extreme that it would make U.S. politicians look like saints.
A rhetorical question is, why aren’t the investigative journalists having a field day with this movement? Guess that bed is so big, warm, and inclusive.

P Wilson

December 21, 2009 10:58 am

Smokey (10:28:44) :
certainly no one from the UK voted for Gordon Brown as PM.

Gail Combs

December 21, 2009 10:58 am

James Sexton (09:54:59) :
I’m feeling kinda dumb. I knew the absolution credits would be a big business, and if one sold immediately after the e-mails were released, one would have made a big profit. Sigh, and I’m still trying to get my brother talked into planting trees on his pasture for an obscene amount.
Reply:
So how do we do that. I just clear cut 100 ac to make pasture, sounds like I could make more money planting trees but I do not know the mechanism.

M White

December 21, 2009 11:02 am

Making investments based on privileged information!!!!!!!!

Bruce Cobb

December 21, 2009 11:09 am

From The Times of India (link to Indian Express isn’t working):
“They are getting desperate because the world is now serious about moving away from fossil fuels. I want to ask them how much money
they spent in the operation? Hacking a server is a costly exercise,’’ he said.”
Choo-choo Pachewy isn’t just grasping at straws, he’s grasping at microfibers (less than one denier). Time to lawyer up, Chooch. Your climate gravy train has jumped the tracks.

Mauibrad

December 21, 2009 11:13 am

New Cap-and-Tax Energy Inflation bill tracker http://bit.ly/8eiwq5
We have added there a new S. 1733 **Cap-and-Tax Energy Inflation** bill tracker.
This is what the vacant agreement out of Copenhagen was intended to foster.
It is the next battle front of Climategate.

JonesII

December 21, 2009 11:15 am

I think WUWT has just aimed at the right target. All about him reveals all this dark business and occult relations. It seems to be openly decaying now. Something was rotten in Denmark ideed.

a dood

December 21, 2009 11:16 am

These UN folks aren’t messing around…
“We have pretty good agreement on short-term, fast-track financial support in the order of $10 billion for the coming three years. When we agree on a politically binding agreement, this will have immediate operational effect, including financial support from next year.
This financial support will reportedly be ongoing for the life of the treaty.
So when will the treaty end?
Can the United States ever get out of it?
Well, reports from those who have seen the draft treaty indicate that the only way a nation can leave the treaty is if every single other nation agrees.
Now, if “developing nations” are receiving large payments from the United States every single year, how likely do you think it is for every single one of them to vote to allow the U.S. to leave the treaty?”
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/0000000000001382

mrjthomas

December 21, 2009 11:18 am

There is a local UK flavour here. We have had our Member of Parliament mired in an expenses scandal for most of this year, so we have become somewhat hyper-sensitive to “public servants” perceived to be cashing in on their positions. From this (UK) perspective Mr Pachauri’s position is indefensible, hence Richard North’s bullish phrasing at the end of his “It’s all lies!” thread.

PMII

December 21, 2009 11:21 am

It will be interesting to see who gets to turn the lights off….

Henry Galt

December 21, 2009 11:22 am

Ecotretas

December 21, 2009 11:22 am

I believe that Christopher Monckton started this, with his “OPEN LETTER TO CHAIRMAN PACHAURI”:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/pachauri_letter.pdf
Ecotretas

Gary Pearse

December 21, 2009 11:25 am

Come on folks, lets not jump to conclusions. Lets have a forensic accountant go over his financial dealings, review his emails, phone calls, etc. Perhaps in his outrage, he will volunteer all this (and the transactions of his family, associates and friends) and then the Telegraph will fornally apologize.

Henry Galt

December 21, 2009 11:26 am

While my comment is fished out of the spam filter for gross urling 😉
P Wilson (10:58:09) :
Smokey (10:28:44) :
certainly no one from the UK voted for Gordon Brown as PM.
Smokey – no one in the history of “The Mother of all Parliaments” has ever voted for the Prime Minister. The public vote for a party who then choose their leader.
Anyone who believes “Dave” will be PM if the Tories get in at the next general election is dreaming out loud IMHO.

Polar Bears and BBQ Sauce

December 21, 2009 11:26 am

Repower America is requesting your photo and message on their “Wall” of believers right now. you may want to go there and state your opinion. It helps to post a photo. http://www.repoweramerica.org/wall/#

M White

December 21, 2009 11:30 am

“Copenhagen deal causes EU carbon price fall”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8425293.stm
He may have made a loss on the European carbon market.

Phillip Bratby

December 21, 2009 11:32 am

Insider trading. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go.

Barry Foster

December 21, 2009 11:35 am

OT. Worse snow here in the south of England since winter of 1981/82.

mbabbitt

December 21, 2009 11:38 am

Whatever happened to avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest? Oh yeah, this is the UN we’re talking about. Sorry, my bad.

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