Just when you think things can’t get any more bizarre with the IPCC, having just learned that the IPPC 2007 report used magazine articles for references, head of the IPCC, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, provides comedy gold. According to the UK Telegraph, he’s just released what they describe as a “smutty” romance novel, Return to Almora laced with steamy sex, lots of sex. Oh, and Shirley MacLaine.
Here’s the good doctor, grinning like a Cheshire cat at his book launch in India on January 10th.
The Telegraph’s Robert Mendick and Amrit Dhillon in Delhi write:
As the UN’s climate change chief, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has spent his career writing only the driest of academic articles. But the latest offering from the chairman of the UN’s climate change panel is an altogether racier tome.
Some might even suggest Dr Pachauri’s first novel is frankly smutty.
WARNING ADULT CONTENT FOLLOWS:
(First time I’ve had to do that on WUWT)
Return to Almora, published in Dr Pachauri’s native India earlier this month, tells the story of Sanjay Nath, an academic in his 60s reminiscing on his “spiritual journey” through India, Peru and the US.
On the way he encounters, among others, Shirley MacLaine, the actress, who appears as a character in the book. While relations between Sanjay and MacLaine remain platonic, he enjoys sex – a lot of sex – with a lot of women.
In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter.
The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India, where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians has “endangered the fragile ecosystem”.
But talk of “denuding” is a clue of what is to come.
By page 16, Sanjay is ready for his first liaison with May in a hotel room in Nainital. “She then led him into the bedroom,” writes Dr Pachauri.
“She removed her gown, slipped off her nightie and slid under the quilt on his bed… Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate.
“May slipped his clothes off one by one, removing her lips from his for no more than a second or two.
“Afterwards she held him close. ‘Sandy, I’ve learned something for the first time today. You are absolutely superb after meditation. Why don’t we make love every time immediately after you have meditated?’.”
More follows, including Sanjay and friends queuing to have sexual encounters with Sajni, an impoverished but willing local: “Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay’s bed. He was overcome by a lust that he had never known before … He removed his clothes and began to feel Sajni’s body, caressing her voluptuous breasts.”
Take a cold shower, and read the rest of the steamy (possibly a water vapor feedback loop) novel at the Telegraph here
Note to the U.N. – Time to kick Pachy to the curb, he’s not just toast now, he’s carbonized.
In other news, The Love Guru has this relevant quote from a hockey team member: “there’s no connection between hockey and my love life”
UPDATE: Steve McIntyre quips:
In breaking news, Vivid Entertainment has bought the film rights to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. They plan to give new meaning to the terms Working Group 1, Working Group 2 and Working Group 3. They promise to give “peer review” an entirely new interpretation.
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David S (19:54:31) :
“Maybe the Nobel Prize is now being awarded to the biggest screwball of the year.”
Nah, the Nobel Prize committee is going for the Darwin Award. http://www.darwinawards.com/
Who would ever have thought climate science could be so titillating?
I don’t think this article should have been posted. Writing a novel has no bearing on the validity of a separate science report, or the credibility of an individual. It looks like cheap smears are now not beneath WUWT? 1st one I’ve noticed here.
I know the counter argument to this… – tony bliar wouldn’t have posed for cameras the next day after an ‘attack iraq speech’ with a seedy novel in his hand and a cheeky grin, it’s poor PR relations. Even if WUWT takes the position this article was more a report on Pachauri’s lack of PR gumption, it’s still a spur for a mudslinging contest.
WUWT should have more gumption about posting articles about lack of PR gumption.
Please everyone, from now on refer to Dr. Pachauri as “Dr. Pachauri, head of the IPCC and world-renowned author of romantic novels”. It really increases the gravitas and bolsters the credibility of all claims the IPCC makes in the future i think.
Where are the warmists on this thread BTW? Not interested in romantic novels?
IPCC AR5 WG5, impact of climate change on romance in a warming world.
Haven’t read the book yet..will probably wait to use it as Kindling..
But an excerpt I’d expect………..
“…Sanjay had been peeking around the Stevenson Screen, trying to seize a furtive glance at May’s Himalayas, but all it did was excite him more when she moved at a more rapid rate than before.
They had been talking earlier, about their unprecedented warming. May reassured Sanjay that he shouldn’t worry about his little El Nino, because it was the PDO that mattered. This had given him hope he could put his Hockey Stick in the receeding glacier that night….and now his failure to see her as she hid her decline just made him grow more anxious.
The room was now full of intoxicating CO2, and they had moved closer together on the couch playing GCMs. His mind was in the upper atmosphere, but kept floating down to her lower troposphere. He could not stop thinking about splicing some real data onto this proxy fantasy.
He knew a clever trick would be needed to ensure a successful NAO…..so knowing how she loved fiction, he began to read to her excerpts from his Statement for Policy Makers. But she surprised him when she said she wanted to see something graphic, something stimulating, something totally erotic and with no real plot. She wanted to watch with him…An Inconvenient Truth…”
In classic Indian cinema style, Gore rides in at the end and saves the day and everybody sings.
I always thought IPCC had the terminolgy wrong on a few things.
Himalayan- Is really “He’s a layin”
Nobel Peace Prize- Is Noble “Piece” Prize
Hockey Stick- Is just a pill a day away ….Bawaaahaaaa
Hide the decline- Is really a commercial for “Viagra”
After Peer Review- The Consensous Is “Pachauri” really is not that good :~(
Pachauri’s Next Climate Book- “Let’s Get Hot and Bothered Together”
I keep thinking, “How did he do this so fast?” We all know he was much too busy getting ready for Copenhagen, and at the conference itself. So it wasn’t something he put together before hand. No, it had to be since the conference. So how did he do it? You don’t suppose it was something he put together while reviewing all the dicey security TV tapes of the conference do you? Maybe it’s his way of letting his “friends” know he’s got the tapes of their little exploits and trists and they better not try to pull him down from his nice cushy UN job.
Otherwise, how did he do it?
I wonder what the folks at futerra (and Fenton Communications) think of this?
Oh wait, we can look it up in the handy FOI2009 folder. Here it is, “Rules of the Game”. Let’s see….yes this looks about right:
Create a trusted, credible, recognised voice on climate change:
We need trusted organisations and individuals that the media can
call upon to explain the implications of climate change to the
UK public.
Use emotions and visuals:
Another classic marketing rule: changing behaviour by
disseminating information doesn’t always work, but emotions
and visuals usually do.
Use both peripheral and central processing:
Attracting direct attention to an issue can change attitudes, but
peripheral messages can be just as effective: a tabloid snapshot
of Gwyneth Paltrow at a bus stop can help change attitudes to public transport.
They tried to get Gwyneth Paltrow.
Instead they got a dirty old man with a comb-over and a red handkerchief.
OT, but maybe news
Lucia ponders if charges may indeed be filed;
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/foi-maybe-there-will-be-charges-filed/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7113552/Climategate-confusion-over-the-law-in-email-case.html
meemoe_uk, I am sure that no-one here would dismiss the work of Dr. Pachauri on the basis of this novel alone. It is merely part of a pattern of behaviour and apparent gross errors of judgment and conflicts of interest that make it extraordinary.
I think it is also fair to observe that although the issue of AGW is extremely serious, from all sides, and everyone needs some light relief now and again. Don’t take it too much to heart. We all know it is the science that matters, not the personalities.
Do you think he wants us to think it is autobiographical?
AEGeneral (20:01:42) :
I doubt this book will kill very many trees.
What an embarrassment.
There will be an e-book version, which will kill electrons. And brain cells.
Ref – meemoe_uk (08:19:44) :
“I don’t think this article should have been posted…”
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You’re probably more right than most realize at first glance…
I’m still thinking…
I wonder why he didn’t use a penname…
dkkraft (08:26:53) :
“…a tabloid snapshot of Gwyneth Paltrow at a bus stop can help change attitudes to public transport.
They tried to get Gwyneth Paltrow.
Instead they got a dirty old man with a comb-over and a red handkerchief.”
…who wouldn’t be caught dead within a parsec of public transport.
My husband thinks Pachuri looks like a villain in a Bond movie. Don’t the girls all flock to the villain before James shows up?
Pachauri’s Next Climate Book- “Let’s Get Hot and Bothered Together”
After that Book Comes
“Sixty Nine Ways to Melt a Himayan Glacier”
“Viagra Does May Cause Mental Incapacitating Tendancies”
And finally the tell all book…….Drum Roll Please….
“Michael Mann is Hot” by Chu-Chu Pachauri
>>Ross (08:31:14) :
>>I think it is also fair to observe that although the issue of
>>AGW is extremely serious, from all sides, and everyone needs
>>some light relief now and again.
You mean with a red silk hanky??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, – we shall never hear the last of this. Oh, dear, spilt my tea again….
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I believe the great author’s next undertaking is building himself a white marble mausoleum somewhere near Agra based on Mughal architecture. Ha ha, anyone can write a book Al!
Dos Gail comprehend that The Darwin Award is made posthumously (this means “after death” Gail); the nominated party having removed themselves from the gene (genome) pool due to their own mis-guided actions.
This has been pointed out before (maybe Gail is vying for Darwin Award nomination herself – on different, vis-a-vis non-comprehensional grounds???? There is more than one way to ‘win’ the nomination I suppose …)
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From the “You know it’s going to happen, don’t you?” department:
The WWF, in a polemic in one of its magazines, will cite one of the scene-setting descriptive passages in this novel as “proof” of glacier retreat in the Himalayas.
The IPCC, in turn, will cite the self-same WWF article as evidence of the glacier retreat in its upcoming fifth Assessment Report.
Ref – meemoe_uk (08:19:44) :
“I don’t think this article should have been posted…”
I know at first blush this appears to be peripheral to the science and beneath the dignity of this sight.
But, make no mistake, PR and Communications are not peripheral to the pro-AGW multi-institutional complex. The “Rules of the Game” are a central platform upon which the hockey team attempts to influence public policy. This is the front where the public policy battle will be won or lost.
In this context, Pachauri’s antics are relevant.
Do you want to know what would have a bigger impact on public policy than the UEA leak? Get this story on TMZ…..
Q. Does anyone know whether Pachauri used recycled paper for the book?
Ralph, me too, I haven’t had so many chuckles since the glorious Bill McGibben at Copenhagen. Sadly most of the comments have been deleted (fortunately, I have a hard copy).
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/14/mckibben-faith-and-work/
Spector (05:16:08) :
Thanks for the plug on the book. The biggest issues we have had getting the issues covered is the speed at which the story is moving in 6 different directions at once. If WUWT readers want to insure that the story stays in the news AFTER Pachauri resigns, the best thing you all can do is send a mail about the story ( investigations in UK ect) and the book to your:
1. Local library, and ask them to buy a copy.
2. Online newspapers.
3. your favorite radio show.
4. Drudge.
Don’t know if this has been posted before. Pachauri interviewed in AlJazeera. dated jan 30 2010
“There are some skeptics and their numbers are dwindling rapidly…”