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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Dr Mo (15:24:11) :
One might also ask, “Where’s Guardian’s rabid anti-capitalist and climate-change bulldog George Monbiot?”
He was last reported in CarbonHagen by BCC’s NOW Show, peddling past “on a bicycle built of his own pomposity and rage.”
Pachuri defines conflict of interest the way crooked lawyers and financiers do:
“anything that puts money in my pocket is not a conflict at all.”
“jaypan (16:09:35) :
OT but good.
Cover story of Germany’s weekly news magazine “Focus” tomorrow (www.focus.de): “Will climate catastrophy fail?””
Great. That’s some serious traction.
Conflict of interest involves influence that improperly benefits either a personal or corporate interest. Even if P. didn’t earn a dime himself, did his corporate interests stand to benefit? Of course.
IIRC, “TERI” is occationally spelled out as “Tata Energy Research Institute”, but in their HP it is “The Energy Research Institute.”
Is this to hide something?
Off topic but pertinent. Thank you WUWT for your “education” instead of the useless drivel I get from the News. Anyone watching 20/20, they start the program with “Animals are going extinct at a faster rate than ever before….”
and then more blabbering about species going away fast. But I had my trusty Education in my back pocket. Priceless.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/04/where-are-the-corpses/
The Pachauri fossil fuel connection was mentioned in the ClimateGate emails,
April 19 and 22, 2002, 2 emails to Phil Jones discussing the nomination of Pachauri. State that he was George Bush’s choice, that Bush had been heavily lobbied by Exxon, that Pachauri was the choice of the fossil fuel industry. That his econ background would be good because CC is much about money these days.
Douglas Field (16:24:44) :
You are correct. I have noticed a deluge of skepticism by ordinary citizens.
And, they are learning very quickly, I might add.
The General Public is not fooled, for they have a secret weapon: They know what’s going on outside thier window.
Here’s more on Pachauri :
Lies to court:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/hypocrite-as-well-as-liar.html
Earning billions from the AGW scam:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/2683-pachauris-lucrative-world-of-climate-change
Some of the companies Dr Pachauri could say that his aim was to help move them to less CO2 emitting technologies. But GloriOil, where he is founder and science advisor, their “mission is delivering state of the art bio-technology solutions to improve and increase recovery from mature oil wells”.
http://www.glorioil.com/advisors.htm
MORE JUICY PACHAURI STUFF
RE: Pachauri, apparently there are more juicy revelations that were to have come out in Today’s Sunday Telegraph. However due to the extreme amount of Global Warming falling in the UK, economic activity has ground to a standstill, and advertisers have cut back, resulting in Today’s Sunday Telegraph being rather short on pages. So, the juicy story has been postponed to next week. Make sure to check it out then. Also read this site which has crosslisted WUWT.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-hold.html
A very big hit for the AGW crowd.
Before it was just a matter of bad science, now it is pseudoscience in the service of financial and political corruption.
And it is all happening at a time when people are looking out of their windows asking themselves why does global warming feel so cold.
I’ve found the answer to my own question. In 2003 the former “Tata Energy and Resources Institute” was renamed “The Energy and Resources Institute.”
monbiot did a small item in a pro warmie paper, the flack from commenters was..mostly removed as always! some got by though:-)
as to Pachauri I have been reading thr eureferendum daily, big expose is due, held up due to…the cold and snows.
so keep looking in,there and here:-)
I am Buzzing it madly and annoying everyone I know with the truth, gee some of them really hate it.
tpp bad! 20 years of lies and hype, vs some months of truth and fact.
they can learn to think maybe?
loved the dry ice suggestion above… R bateman R shearer Funny! 🙂
the Bishop also has news on this see hereLinkText Here
Trillions of dollars at stake and the U.S. congress, Obama and Lisa Jackson are still wowed by a Nobel peace prize. Not a science prize but a politically motivated peace prize. The Dr. has lined his pockets while giving access and control to a pseudo religion, he still will retire a wealthy man. Tough luck world, I got mine.
Thanks, Anthony, for the picture of the fraudulent pair with their Nobel Prizes.
They used anything to make their “science” look legitimate, including NASA and even the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee.
Those that predicted global warming deserve the “hot seat”.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
It wll be of much interest to set up a poll as to whether the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report will come out in due course. Let me bet against.
VigilantFish wrote re George Monbiot of the UK Guardian “…Where’s Guardian’s rabid anti-capitalist and climate-change bulldog George Monbiot?”
His silence is peculiar, but reading Pielke jnr this morning led me to this, from the Monbiot archives… “Black Shirts in Green Trousers ”
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2002/04/30/black-shirts-in-green-trousers/
I wonder if reality has got hold of Mr Monbiot by the scrotum ?
Caught red-handed.
But just one in a line of folks playing both ends against the middle.
Could be a domino-effect coming down the train tracks.
Oh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth has just begun…
India’s onto him, “Pachauri in a spot as climategate hits TERI – Ajmer Singh, New Delhi, January 10, 2010
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/78466/India/Pachauri+in+a+spot+as+climategate+hits+TERI.html
It seems that, apart from his ability to prevaricate, Pachauri is also quite a talented businessman, as well. What a shame he’s such a con-man.
Mark Steyn puts his hypocrisy in perspective, “Dr Rajendra Pachauri flew at least 443,243 miles on IPCC business in …[a]… 19 month period.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2JiNGY1MzllMTc4YWFlMzJkMTk4NDk4YjY2OWZiZDg=
(Which is the equivalent of flying around the world almost once a month for EACH of those 19 months) — hmmm, maybe he’s not a con-man. Maybe he’s just so jet lagged, he can’t think straight?
I presume that Pachauri has received a substantial amount from federal grants and subsidies that were diverted for personal gain. If so, he along with Al Gore and the American Climategate fraudsters may be vulnerable to citizens suits under the US False Claims Act. Anyone who brings a successful suit to recapture misuse funds can be awarded a bounty in the form of the costs of the suit including reasonable attorneys fees.
Bring it on!!!!
There is more to come. Richard North of EUreferendum was to have had another article published in today’s Sunday Times. However, due to the present snow and cold in the UK, it is delayed until next week. Apparently, it is quite a scoop.
The ever so honourable Dr Pachauri
To me this link (below) sums up this Pachauri, ‘person’ perfectly. It also sums up the EU and Prime Minister Brown as well. God help democracy when these ‘burkes’ are in control.
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVXHcF2RNM
Whats funny is that the IPCC and the CAGW crowds ties to Big Oil were never really hidden. First look at CRU it was founded during the Ice Age scare of the 1970’s by two Big Oil companies (Shell and BP) and the last I looked that hadn’t been removed from their Wikipedia page (yet):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit
Then you look at what two agencies founded the IPCC the WMO and UNEP. From there look at who founded the UNEP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme
Where did Strong get his start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong
Now we know that no UN official would use the UN to make money now would he…..OOPS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong
So lets see you have a UN backed IPCC that is led by a man with extensive ties to Big Oil, the UN group backing the IPCC was founded by a man that has extensive ties to Big OIl and is tied to a UN scandal over Oil and they rely on data from a research unit that was founded by Big Oil and funded by Big Oil. Those people have the gall to accuse people like me that are sceptical of the crap they spoon fed me to be “shilling” for Big Oil? Riiiiigggghhhhtt.
And the icing on the cake is that when Pachauri was first being pushed to the top spot at the IPCC Tom Wigley and Phil Jones was after his guts because he was being pushed by GW Bush who after all has ties to Big Oil, but somehow in the passing years he has no problem with now.
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=270&filename=1019513684.txt
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