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.
Sponsored IT training links:
The credible HP0-S27 training really helps you pass CISM certification. Get the 642-982 latest dumps to fasten your success in first try.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Nothing has changed… that is what he does, selling fiction to those who will buy.
This is a joke, right?
No, it’s not a joke.
I wonder if “Bizzaroland” is actually “Bizarroland.”
REPLY: works either way. -A
“Return to Almora” was originally going to be “Return to Copenhagen” –but the publisher thought it would detract from the serious nature of the conference and sales of another book with a similar title.
Looks like a TARDIS on the cover.
Watts Up With That, Doctor?
OF course it’s not a joke. Pachauri is the joke.
R Shearer (18:09:46) :
You did say anything for a buck? Didn’t you.
What is this, ‘How To Succeed In International Kleptocracy Without Really Trying’?
Is he going to break out in song next?
Is someone else trying to “hide the decline”?
Pachauri has a smutty romance novel coming out?
I’m a published mystery writer, having sold 3 novels to 2 publishers. One is in print, the others “in the pipeline.”
Maybe if I commit multiple felonies and completely debauch the scientific method, I’ll get as good reviews for my novels as Pachauri.
Since I have integrity, that won’t happen… I’ll just remain “The most famous person nobody has heard of.” At least I won’t have to write future novels in jail.
I wonder if, when the fraud indictments come through, will Jonesy and Pachy get to see each other during exercise time in the penitentiary?
Newt Love (my real name) newtlove.com
Aerospace Technical Fellow: Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
I sometimes think public figures write these trash semi-autobiographical novels because their public duties forbid them from discussing the truth of the seemy side of their lives–that which they see and experience, but cannot describe publicly. Writing a work of “fiction” allows them to assure their admirers that they are not the dull, one-dimensional figures their public personna suggests. They are in effect saying that, “Yes, I’m naughty and sexy too!”
If he knew he was about to be exposed professionally as a fraud, I doubt he would have allowed the novel to be published at the time it was published.
He’s done. Stick a fork in him.
Maybe the Nobel Prize is now being awarded to the biggest screwball of the year.
Don’t quit your day job, Rajenda . No, no, wait, DO quit your day job. Embrace your inner Jackie Collins.
It’s almost too bad the slip up on the glaciers came out when it did. If it hadn’t, he could have marketed his novel as “So hot, it melted the Himalayan Glaciers”.
Wonder how many are now going to pass on the handshake.
Not to be outdone, Michael Mann has announced his own book, inspired by his student days at climatology school:
Perry Hotter and the Tree-Ring of Fire
Dr. P on sex.
Now there’s an image that I truly didn’t need.
[REPLY – The Nobel Piece Prize. ~ Evan].
I never use stupid acronyms, but I really did laught out loud at that one. VFF
I presume that the Hockey Stick makes a frequent appearance. Though I suspect that the male lead will be end up using viagra to hide the decline.
More seriously, is the book semi-autobiographical?
This guy now looks like such a crackpot that he makes the people caught in Climategate appear like rigorous scientists… Hey… Here’s a clever idea!
going out with a “bang”.
I doubt this book will kill very many trees.
What an embarrassment.
For anyone who missed it the first time around:
Pachauri… The Wolfman of Copenhagen: click
[Fits with his picture in the article.]
Ewwww. What a durtay old effer.
UK climate secretary “Ed Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/31/ed-miliband-climate-change-scepticism
This is unacceptable, people.
I’m trying to work. I’m designing a dam and I have deadlines to meet.
“Tiger Woods has changed his name to Cheetah Woods”.
I might have to start using LOL to save time.
Anyway, no more comedy, OK>
Indian Rupee (INR) 296 = United States Dollar (USD) 6.3945
That is still more expensive than heating oil, he will have to lower the price.
This looks like a media distraction, and a good one at that.
If something about the what does not ring true or make sense, always look for the why.