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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January 2010 to be the hotest Janaury globally in at least the past 12 years (and perhaps ever), so I guess his “steamy” novel fits right in…
Don’t you mean science friction?
Re: DJ Meredith (Jan 31 08:22),
Ross (09:02:46) :
Sadly most of the comments have been deleted (fortunately, I have a hard copy).
You’ll need a red silk hanky for that. 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉
Damn, spilt the tea again….
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Pascvaks (08:25:01) :
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 know that he spends a lot of time in the air. He wants to join the mile high club – the book was just a jerk out for it.
This book must be filled up with progressive philosophy!
The trouble with anecdotes, and lies, that are included in AR4 is that somebody influential ( but ignorant in this sphere ) will make a decision based on bullshit.
It doesn’t matter whether these lies formed part of the core of the report or not, different people get different cues from reports like this and these lies may have tipped someone over the edge into believing the CAGW parable.
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Ian Holton (01:52:50) :
> Google “IPCC head smutty sex novel” and you will see that this has gone around the world like a wildfire!
Careful – keep in mind that the count estimate from Google is fantasy and inflated more than Pachauri’s head. Also, your search string apparently caused Google to include references to “adult.” Searching for IPCC head +smutty sex novel and accessing the last page of hits only reveals 132 pages. Many are not on topic.
I searched for Pachauri “Shirley MacLaine” and while there were several hits, I found nothing that linked the two before the novel. If there is anything out there, this would be the time to look for it. My guess is that it goes back to college days when Pachauri was in the states and well before the Web.
MacLaine was a believer in reincarnation, IIRC, that might be a clue. I suppose someone could ask him.
Someone needs to start a blog titled The Red Silk Hanky, though I’m not sure why.
In fact this makes IPCC people more human. They better spend their time entertaining like Pachauri does than writing the incredibly huge pile of falsehoods, fallacies and omissiones that IPCC gave us.
“Otherwise, how did he do it?”
Review of Dr. P.’s Undercover Study: with the help of about 20 “whistleblowers” a noble Dr. P. has been working with a sole mission of replicating the fact that the Tribe’s own ‘Warming Models’ always ‘force’ a CO2 ‘hockey stick’ instead of the opposite! Sadly and at much risk to himself from the Patriarchy, Dr. P. must now reveal to us that the ‘Team’ members of the Tribe of the Climate Scientists were really all about the abuse and disparagement of Women.
Jim:
…or, perhaps, a bit of wishful thinking on her part 😉
Ralph, the catchphrase of the English comedian, Dick Emery, was “ooh you are awful….but I like you”. Now deceased, bless him.
R. Gates (09:11:30) :
Uh-oh. Now we know why the forecast comes back hotter than ever: The GCM’s they claim to consult…not the binary type of model. And the reason for the ‘faster than previously imagined’ : You’ve got to outdo the competition for time on the GCM.
So, we’d better assign her a name, this GCM. Glenda the Climate Mantra ?
I think you are all missing the point. When you know you are doing something dodgy/wrong and are about to be found out, it is perfectly understandable why you would want to take out some kind of insurance – in Pachauri’s case, his insurance is in the form of deciding to become a soft port novelist.
Moving on: I simply cannot believe this; I am stunned by the UK Met Office website’s answer to FAQs in regards to its recent release of temperature data from over a thousand sites- see some examples below. The quick translation is:
a) We have no idea which temperature data is real and which was adjusted/manipulated (‘added value’).
b) In our opinion, we have a perfectly good reason to explain why the original data was destroyed – after all, there was a lot of it and maybe it made no sense to store it on one of the many tens of thousands of mainframe computers available in the 1980s.
c) In regards to the data which was adjusted/manipulated, we have no idea by how much or why, but never mind, you can trust the data.
1. Is the data that you are providing the “value-added” or the “underlying” data?
The data that we are providing is the database used to produce the global temperature series. Some of these data are the original underlying observations and some are observations adjusted to account for non climatic influences, for example changes in observations methods or site location.
The database consists of the “value added” product that has been quality controlled and adjusted to account for identified non-climatic influences. It is the station subset of this value-added product that we have released. Adjustments were only applied to a subset of the stations so in many cases the data provided are the underlying data minus any obviously erroneous values removed by quality control. The Met Office do not hold information as to adjustments that were applied and so cannot advise as to which stations are underlying data only and which contain adjustments.
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2. What about the underlying data?
Underlying data are held by the National Meterological Services and other data providers and such data have in many cases been released for research purposes under specific licences that govern their usage and distribution.
It is important to distinguish between the data released by the NMSs and the truly raw data. e.g. the temperature readings noted by the observer. The data may have been adjusted to take account of non climatic influences, for example changes in observations methods, and in some cases this adjustment may not have been recorded so it may not be possible to recreate the original data as recorded by the observer.
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3. Why is there no comprehensive copy of the underlying data?
The data set of temperatures, which are provided as a gridded product back to 1850 was largely compiled in the 1980s when it was technically difficult and expensive to keep multiple copies of the database.
For IT infrastructure of the time this was an exceedingly large database and multiple copies could not be kept at a reasonable cost. There is no question that anything untoward or unacceptable in terms of best practices at the time occurred.
Pamela Gray (07:53:51) :
He has muddled his “what goes on in the office’ with ‘what goes on behind closed doors’. Neither place or relationship is valued.
In his religion, he’ll get reincarnated as a rotifer as payment in full.
Is “baring the all of scantily clad beauties” in a book equivalent to “bearing your breast” for your own peccadilloes? Wonder what kind of example he is setting for budding scientists of future generations? Not much for scientific technique, but the investigation can be interesting.
Has this book been peer-reviewed ? What will be his answer to this question ?
Will he refuse to give the names of the anonymous scientists ?
In holland nowadays , i was at an art fair today , pieces of art were sold with a guarantee that they were frostproof , nothing was remarked whether they were heatproof , indicating that even the artists intuitively are feeling that not heat is a problem , but that cold has a much more dangerous impact !
Mr Pachauri is showing that he is fan of overheating and gaily does not touch cool or cold matters .
It seems the good doc is into giving everyone the shaft! Too bad he wasn’t nipped in the bud.
Latest from Smutgate: Pachauri evidently cherry picked his fictional encounters from leer-reviewed magazines says publisher Larry Flint. “It’s porn-plagiarism. I wrote Chapter 4 myself in 1985.”
this post makes me lose my appetite
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…..it tells the story of a climate expert…..
Very reminiscent of the countless books about the experiences of a homosexual college English teachers on sabbatical in Europe written by…..a homosexual college English teacher on sabbatical in Europe.
IanM
amicus curiae (06:56:40)
and was sharon? looking for the Bodacious word in front of TATA’s:-)
Yes, that was me, but no, “bodacious” is too cliché. I’m thinking “robust” works better in this context.
And who upthread referred to this book as “friction fiction”? If I’m not mistaken, that is the technical term used by reviewers at the ASME’s Journal of Tribology when they reject an article.
“Rajendra “Robust Lust” “Pachauri, Chairman and Love Doctor of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), author of Return to Almora…
Think of the rain forests to be decimated for wood pulp to manufacture your smutty romance novels. Think of the children!
Anyone want to guess how many times “robust” appears in the book?
the last day of January 2010 truely is momentous here in the UK. it is the day the MSM has finally seen the light. sorry if all this has already been posted – but it’s an indication of how the soft stuff is really hitting the windmills.
we have the two major serious Sunday ‘papers doing major exposes on the Non Man Made Global Warming scams.
the http://www.sundaytelegraph.co.uk has no fewer than 5 pages. modesty precludes me from directing bloggers to the telegraph letters page (have a look anyway). they have a good editorial on the scandals. the http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk also has an article worth the read. as does the http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk.
of course the global warming http://www.observer.co.uk, has the obligitory government propaganda from a guy (?) called Milly Band, extrollng the virtues of MMGW.
all in all agood day for realists – especially those of us who are not into soft porn