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.
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Christopher Booker in The Daily Telegraph 26 December 2009
Similarly it is Tata which next month is to close down its Corus steel works at Redcar, to make a potential £600 million in “credits” from the carbon emissions this will save, while in India it will earn a similar amount in UN CDM “credits” by building a plant of similar capacity in Orissa. It will thus make a potential gain of £1.2 billion, at the expense of 1,700 jobs on Teesside, for no overall reduction in the amount of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere.
£1.2 billion subsidy for outsourcing steel production to India from UK. Setting up TERI was a good idea, the Tata management are pretty sharp.
The article said:
> Next time somebody says “skeptic “x” is connected with big oil,”
> show them this [article].
Oh, yeah!
The “Big Oil” blurt is the first chirp used to ad hominem attack anyone who speaks against the orthodoxy of the Universal Church of Climate Change nee Global Warming.
The reality is that most of the skeptics–the natural state of REAL SCIENTISTS–are not connected to Big Oil, but as we are finding out, many of the AGW/GW crowd are either bedded-down with Big Oil, or are intimately attached to Big Oil’s carbon trading apparatus.
This tactic is straight from Saul Alinsky’s book. Accuse your opponents–vociferously and continuously–of your biggest potential problem. By the time anyone accuses you of it, you’ll have the guilt of your opponents–that you promulgated–to shield you from the blame.
The “climate-Scientologists” have duped the press into accepting the broad-brush painting of skeptical scientists as “in the pocket of big oil,” when it is a lie. Then as it comes out that Pachauri and Gore–and Gore’s daddy, too–are so deep into Big Oil’s pocket that they are underground in the pocket-lint farms, that they can’t see the wintry light of day.
So, the AGW/GW crowd will again project their guilt onto the innocent, and sadly, the [adjectives have failed me] “main stream” press will attempt to “make it so” for Pachuri, et al.
How long before J. Q. Public realizes that the “mainstream press” are only in the main stream of the global sewer? I hope it is soon! I hope that Abraham Lincoln was right, that they cannot fool all the people all the time.
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@Chili Palmer
The climate team of the previous US administration was very clever. With Pachauri, they got what they wanted.
Dr Mo (15:24:11) :
One might also ask, “Where’s Guardian’s rabid anti-capitalist and climate-change bulldog George Monbiot?”
…He’s busy with his “weather isn’t climate” line to brainwash people that global warming “climate change” is really the cause of our biggest freeze for 100 years.
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” Dr.T G Watkins(Wales) (15:38:05) :
Where are the UK investigative reporters, where are the presenters of BBC flagship news programmes, Paxman, Neal or Marr…. 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.)”
…Actually, no. I posted detailed breakdowns of Lord Stern and Pachauri’s interlocking financial and business interests last year in the Telegraph and they were both deleted. As for the BBC, what do you expect? Yesterday they went out of their way to say the big freeze does not refute so-called “global warming”, and they will continue with this line until the roof of Broadcasting House collapses under the weight of an advancing glacier, hopefully with them all stuck inside it.
Does this look familiar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catweazle_-_Richard_Carpenter_-_Puffin_book_cover.jpg
DaveE.
“Pachauri is one of the two directors of TERI. He is also a trustee, along with Sir John Houghton and Sir Crispin Tickell, .”
Not TERI in this case but TERI Europe – related but different legal entities. It’s a tangled web but accuracy is important! The link goes to the right place but the text should be precise IMO.
Those are Nobel Prizes? The pictures look like something made by a 3rd grader…
boballab (17:46:25) : I think that this post is worth treating as a full discussion. It opens up on the real principal of AGW, Maurice Strong whom it seems, is not averse to making a “profit”, works hand in hand (bag in bag?) with “Big Energy”
He also lives in China (who get a “pass” on AGW costs and may even get subsidy) while investing there. Oh, and Soros made his biggest “killing” by betting against the British Pound. I’d love to see his trade book and see if he is betting “long China short U.S. Dollar and UK Pound” while stacking the deck…
The steel industry has been painful to any British person who has any semblance of national pride. That’s at least 50% of the people. This has the potential to be far more damaging to climate change activism than anything else so far. You don’t rub salt into the wounds of people in their feelings for their fellow working class families who have suffered for decades during the decline of steel in this country. High finance bubbles have burst. People want to know that we are still productive. Whole communities have been eroded by the decline of steel. The greens have been trying to appeal to the working man by promising more “green jobs”. Well, there’s your green jobs mate, now get on yer bike and peddle off to India. This story is huge.
Stefan,
“The greens have been trying to appeal to the working man by promising more “green jobs”.
And the Trades Unions have indeed bought into the con. They are applauding the prospect of all these green jobs springing up to service the impending wind industry. Probably, most of these jobs will go overseas – to France and Germany, who are much more skilled at rigging the markets – but I’m sure they will remain grateful for the crumbs that fall from the table.
Meanwhile they will be scratching their heads trying to understand why manufacturing jobs start to disappear at rates of 2 or 3 times those created in the green sector. Well, look to Spain for the answer.
Actually, the reason is pretty basic economics. If you divert labour and capital from the productive sectors of the economy and force them by government dictat into unproductive work, the output of the whole of society is lowered. Lowered output equates to lowered wealth. But still these morons won’t get it.
Norsk: Bukken Til Havresekken.
English: Like A Bee To Honey.
Is this the correct translation of the Norwegain proverb?
🙂
Where’s Andy Revkin? He’s here:
As we know, Andy is leaving……
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/my-second-half/
“I’m taking a position as senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University, situated in the school’s young Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. There’s more background on my plans in the Columbia Journalism Review, the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media and CEJournal.
I’ll also be working on two books, one for middle school kids on resilience to disasters and another, for adults, on ways to navigate the next 50 years with the fewest regrets.
Finally…I want to help build networks of journalists and communicators in rich and poor places so that good ideas can be efficiently shared and flawed ones modified. The Earth Journalism Network is one example. Developing Radio Partners is another. When writing my book on the Amazon, I learned about the power of radio (which was an organizing tool for the rubber tappers seeking to gain land rights). But this potential goes way beyond radio. What happens to all those “ one laptop per child” machines? Are they simply dropped off, or are the recipients cultivated as a network?”
http://www.earthjournalism.org/
Internews Network developed the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) to empower and enable journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively. EJN will establish networks of environmental journalists in countries where they don’t exist, and build their capacity where they do, through training workshops, support for production and distribution, and dispersing small grants.
http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=14128&frame=news/read.cfm?id=866
“We are extremely pleased that Andy Revkin is joining what we believe is one of the strongest university environmental programs in the nation,” said Geoffrey Bracket Brackett, DPhil (Oxon.), the University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. “His intellectual expertise and ethical balance will make enormous contributions to helping the Pace Academy in its aim to be a global resource for policy development.”
Pace awarded Revkin an honorary doctorate in 2007.
Green expertise. Over the years Pace has become well known for environmental education. The Pace Law School’s environmental program is consistently ranked among the top three in the US. The law school’s Environmental Legal Clinic, co led by Professors Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Karl Coplan, trains environmental lawyers who, while still students, have set national precedents in a number of cases involving the Hudson River. This fall Pace Law launched the first curriculum in the nation entirely dedicated to climate change, offered within the school’s Masters of Environmental Law (LLM) program.
He is starting what will be his third book for adults, about the interlinked issues of sustainability and population, and finishing the second of two books for children on environmental issues. The first has the ironic title “The North Pole Was Here.”
This is what Revkin is promoting
http://www.internews.org/
Climate Leaders Honor Reporters at Internews Earth Journalism Awards
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri and Internews celebrated the best in climate change reporting at the Internews Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen. Among the presenters were key figures on climate and environmental issues, including Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland; Marina Silva, the former environment minister of Brazil; and award-winning Chinese movie star Li Bingbing, who is also the Global Ambassador for WWF’s Earth Hour.
“If we are to have any hope of reversing the effects of climate change, then we have a monumental task of educating the six billion people on our planet about how climate change works and what they can do to help,” Dr. Pachauri said. “The media is critical in this effort, since just one reporter has the ability to reach thousands, even millions, of people. These awards help to expand and honour these vitally important efforts.”
http://www.internews.org/articles/2009/20090316_scidevnet_ejn.shtm
Climate change: How to report the story of the century
Use different sources. Too often, journalists only report what they hear from government officials speaking at conferences. Scientists are also excellent sources — they generally share your pursuit of the truth. But try to explain what they’re saying in everyday terms.
Andy has certainly followed these guidelines especially on asking climatologists for their views. As shown in the CRU e-mails, he often reported to base before writing his column, here are a couple of examples,
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http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=492&filename=1107899057.txt
At 02:14 PM 2/4/2005, Andy Revkin wrote:
Hi all,
There is a fascinating paper coming in Nature next week (Moberg of Stockholm Univ., et al) that uses mix of sediment and tree ring data to get a new view of last 2,000 years. Very warped hockeystick shaft (centuries-scale variability very large) but still pronounced ‘unusual’ 1990’s blade.
i’d like your reaction/thoughts for story i’ll write for next Thursday’s Times. also, is there anything about the GRL paper forthcoming from Mc & Mc that warrants a response?
I can send you the Nature paper as pdf if you agree not to redistribute it (you know the embargo rules). that ok? thanks for getting in touch!
andy
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:52:53 -0500
To: Andy Revkin
From: “Michael E. Mann”
Subject: Re: FW: “hockey stock” methodology misleading
Hi Andy,
The McIntyre and McKitrick paper is pure scientific fraud. I think you’ll find this reinforced by just about any legitimate scientist in our field you discuss this with. Please see the RealClimate response:
[1]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=111
and also: [2]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=114
The Moberg et al paper is at least real science. But there are some real problems with it (you’ll want to followup w/ people like Phil Jones for a 2nd opinion).
To recap, I hope you don’t mention MM at all. It really doesn’t deserve any additional publicity. Moberg et al is more deserving of discussion, but, as outlined above, there are some real problems w/ it. I have reason to believe that Nature’s own commentary by Schiermeier will actually be somewhat critical of it.
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http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=593&filename=1133366680.txt
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:14:45 -0500
To: mann@ur momisuglyxxxxxxxxx.xxx
From: Andy Revkin
Subject: u seen?
purely fyi.. u seen?
Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 24, Issues 20-21 , November 2005,
Pages 2164-2166
http://tinyurl.com/b95ee
Climate: past ranges and future changes
Jan Esper a), Robert J.S. Wilson b), David C. Frank a), Anders
Moberg c), Heinz Wanner d) and J
andy
From: “Michael E. Mann” <mann@ur momisugly
To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@ur momisugly
Subject: Re: [Fwd: u seen?]
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:04:40 -0500
Reply-to: mann@ur momisugly
Cc: Phil Jones <p.jones@ur momisugly
Keith Briffa <k.briffa@ur momisugly
The real problem is the fairly inflammatory wording of this, and the really flawed interpretations w.r.t. implicatinos for natural vs. anthropogenic variaiblity.
normally I'd ignore, but the fact that Andy Revkin received this suggests they are trying to publicize this review paper, which I find a bit odd…
mike
His (R. Pach.) flying around is just to prove his point, that exhaust and contrails are affecting climate, -so there, now do you see? he says, with a smirky grin.
tarpon (15:15:26) :
“Oh my, bring in Al Gore to help him out.”
Pachauri better have a “plan B.” Poor little big Al is having problems of his own lately.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-gore-answers-his-critics.html
That’s the problem with living in Auatralia, when I finally get on line all the fun stuff has been said. So all I can say is dtto to all the above.
The man is a fraud.
Ian
Canberra
WUWT mentioned in this exposé of Pachauri: click
“Douglas Field (16:04:37) :
Don W
MSM reporters? Don’t make me laugh! They have long been emasculated.”
Even if they did write the story the OWNERS of the press will pull it as the owner of a New York magazine did to John Munsell’s story of Conagri e-coli contaminated beef killing a woman. The USDA and his Congressman were aware of the problem months before the death, did nothing and covered it up. As usual there was a “Congressional Investigation” and the cause, HACCP, is specifically protected from any changes by Congressman Waxman’s food fraud bill.
The politicians and the MSM are run by billionaires who are intent on fleecing the sheep (us) no matter what.
Has anyone out there made similar enquiries about the previous histories and current business interests of members of the UK’s Commission for Climate Change?
I think you’ll find that the CCC can in effect direct UK government policy in this area. So they couldn’t possibly be allowed to make recommendations that could benefit former employers/colleagues or enterprises in which they still have interests, could they…?
Imagine that there are wealthy and powerful people in the world who actually control most of the world’s governments. Imagine that those people control those governments to suit their own interests. Imagine that they could get congress to give $700 billion to the crooked bankers who caused our current financial mess. Imagine that they could get the US congress and other governments to pass cap and trade laws from which the powerful will personally benefit. Imagine that they control the MSM which is why they rarely publish articles critical of AGW. Imagine that they control the committee that nominates Nobel candidates. Imagine that they could convince the uninformed masses that the world is in grave danger of overheating while we are in fact freezing our butts off. Now stop imagining. It’s all really happening. Our government and others around the world are corrupt to the core.
This is very promising. Having spent a lot of time in India, I can tell you how much the press there generally eats up the GW alarmism, jumping on the bandwagon for “green” sponsorships themselves and touting AGW as a fact, and proud that an Indian is heading up the IPCC.
However, what has happened is what I was hoping to count on– that world-famous built-in “skepticism” and cynicism that Indians have (it’s a good quality to have). Finally.
The conflicts of interest are SO glaring and built-in, it’s impossible to ignore. Was beginning to worry. This guy needs to be shown for what he is.
E.M.Smith (03:00:20) :
I don’t know if Soros is into the currency market but he is very heavily into Oil.
His single biggest investment is PetroBra (combined common and preferred stock) the Brazilian Oil company that the US gave 2 Billion in loans to for exploration but he also has big stakes in Hess and other oil based stoks:
http://www.stockpickr.com/port/George-Soros/
But it gets even better: At the height of Climategate and the run up to COP15 Soros makes a move on a Canadian Oil Sands company.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B24ZV20091203
Hmm doesn’t look like he believes that Oil is dead.
David Segesta (07:53:48) :
I wouldn’t put it as being corrupt. They are employed and appointed by these people. The biggest con though is they present us with “choice” come election time; most folks are out there rooting for “their” candidate, meanwhile the guy/gal is already on the shortlist back at company HQ. If they don’t play ball or deliver the company manifesto there is a waiting list of others ready to step in.
David Segesta (07:53:48) :
‘Imagine that there are wealthy and powerful people in the world who actually control most of the world’s governments. ——- Now stop imagining. It’s all really happening. Our government and others around the world are corrupt to the core.’
You got it in one Dave. But there is a groundswell of people who have also ‘got it’. It still begs the question of how many does it need and how much does it take before there is enough to clean this cancer out.
David Segesta (07:53:48) :
‘Imagine that there are wealthy and powerful people in the world who actually control most of the world’s governments. ——- Now stop imagining. It’s all really happening. Our government and others around the world are corrupt to the core
It’s the age old story of Greed and Fear. The greedies have harnessed the fear generated by the new ‘religion’ of the greens. They have converted this into a means of creating wealth for themselves. Their cynicism is boundless. The only weapon that is effective against the greedies is fear. What is needed is determining what the greedies fear the most then finding a means of instilling this fear into the greedies.
Oliver K. Manuel (17:24:35) :Could we be doubtful of former Nobel Prizes too?…At least some of them were rather suspicious or given to non tested theories..
Science and politics need a re-check.
It’s the age old story of Greed and Fear.
Once the church commanded this paradigm and transgressors roasted in hell. Well with the new religion you roast on earth. Rather more effective as it’s closer to home. We seem to have got rid of God but replaced him with Mother Earth.
Take me back to the ‘dark ages’