Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the grant terms under which the land was given. Plus a lot of water in a city that has water shortages. So much for sustainability.
Pachauri, famous for telling other how to live sustainable lives has a private chauffeur, spurns his electric cars provided for him, and once said in a newspaper interview:
‘Unfortunately, “social and environmental issues are often left without effective support when economic growth takes precedence,” he added.’
So, that’s why you charge memberships to your golf course and keep out the public from land given to you designated for public use?
It’s time for Pachauri to go. He’s dirty, deceitful, and dim witted. His personal life is hypocritical of what he preaches to the rest of the world via his IPCC position and is a public relations disaster.
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“Happiness in life is based on expectations,” writes Rajendra K Pachauri on his own blog. And if your expectations include ownership of a nine-hole golf course, then Dr Pachauri must be a very happy man indeed.
The ownership is reported today by the Indian newspaper the Mail Today which tells us that R K Pachauri’s “not-for-profit” TERI – imbued with a mission to “work towards global sustainable development, creating innovative solutions for a better tomorrow” – is the proud owner of a water-guzzling nine hole golf course in Gual Pahari on the outskirts of Gurgaon a satellite town to the southwest of New Delhi.
This much is not new. It was described in glowing terms by the Business Standard in February 2007, when we were told of a “beautiful golf course” that precedes the entrance of a “completely different world from the precincts of Gurgaon”.
It is part of the “amazingly landscaped 36-hectare TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) campus at Gual Pahari.” And nestled inside this campus is an unassuming building called The Retreat, a training and recreation centre for TERI staff and executives.
Furthermore, TERI has made no secret of the facility, noting in its Annual report 2006/7 that the golf course had been created “with the intention of promoting golf amongst TERI personnel residing in Delhi and Gurgaon.” It was then that the six-hole golf course was being upgraded into a nine-hole green. A 200-yard driving range was “an added attraction” and there was a nine-hole putting course adjacent to the Retreat building.
But, it appears, TERI is harbouring a guilty “secret”. The five-acre golf course is part of the 69 acres of institutional land it acquired from Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in 1985 (below – Google Earth), for the exclusive use of TERI staff. Commercial exploitation is prohibited.
Yet the paper has found that the golf course has been opened up to selected members of the public who are being charged Rs 25,000 (£350) for membership.
According to Gurgaon’s district town planner Vijender Singh Rana, commercial activity through sports on institutional land is illegal. “HUDA gave this land to TERI for institutional or public and semi-public purpose.”
Rana said. “Though they have asked for change of land use (CLU) regularly from HUDA, permission cannot be given for any sporting activity. If TERI is selling golf course memberships, it is wrong.” Rana said the conditions for use of institutional land were clear. “If TERI uses it for its own purpose, there is no problem. But it cannot use it commercially and sell golf memberships,” he said.
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Equally contentious is the water usage to keep the golf course green. As chair of the IPCC, Pachauri is voluble in demanding of governments around the world that they cut down on carbon emissions and save water, among other things, to sustain the environment. He is equally voluble about potential water shortages in his home country, arising from melting glaciers and all that.
TERI claims that water conservation measures on the campus include “an efficient central rainwater harvesting system in accordance with water conservation guidelines such as drip water irrigation, early morning and late evening half circle sprinkling to minimise water evaporation and loss.”
But with the golf course and environs requiring up to 300,000 gallons a day during the summer to keep the lush greenery in condition (pictured above), questions are being asked about the sustainability of the facility, which would have difficulty in meeting the volume required solely from harvested water.
more at the EU Referendum
harvey (21:04:42) :
I want to see know and understand what is going on. These political machinations do not in anyway help this situation. Too me its just a smoke screen.
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A smoke screen to divert from what?
I also want to understand. And I found out a long time ago it isn’t about science. The science shows everything is ok, theres nothing to panic about.
So really global warming is about power and/or money. This post froof of that. This post from Anthony Watts informs so they can “see know and understand what is going on”.
Rajendra, suggestion, build a golf couse in South America. Paraquay has a large aquifer, and its a great place for shamed criminals to make a fresh start.
Don’t forget this classic from the good Dr.
Q: What have you done personally to shrink your carbon footprint?
A: I’ve become a vegetarian. I try to minimize the use of cars. Where I’ve failed is my impact with regard to air travel. I tell people I was born a Hindu who believes in reincarnation. It will take me the next six lives to neutralize my carbon footprint. There’s no way I can do it in one lifetime.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/08/03/pachauri-skeptics-are-flat-earthers/
The guy is an ….(snip). He should go back to driving trains !!
I realize that most of you are aware of the many court cases against the EPA CO2 finding, what you might not be aware of is the strategy being taken by the State of Virginia.
The State of Virginia is not challenging the EPA’s authority; The State of Virginia intends to challenge the findings of climate scientists, under oath, in open court. That gives the State of Virginia all the powers and facilities of a court case, discovery, financial forensic investigation, corporate and private relationships, burden of proof, investigating chain of custody of data, originals not manipulated copies, subpoenas, search warrants, depositions, etc.
The AGW believers will have to prove the science in open court.
“While a number of the suits are expected to focus on the EPA’s legal right to regulate emissions and whether or not the Clean Air Act is an appropriate mechanism for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, Virginia attorney general Kenneth T Cuccinelli II indicated the state’s legal action would seek to challenge the findings of climate scientists.”
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2258194/virginia-alabama-crank-legal
I can hardly wait to hear a computer science engineers up on the witness stand explaining what the climatology programs they have examined do to real data; or a Court Bailiff indicating that the original data required for the proof could not be found; or the Treasurer from CRU will explain paying some ‘scientists’ in installments just under the $10,000.00 limit so that they could avoid taxes; or Michael Mann on the stand explaining the hockey stick, without the data or programs that created it; or NOAA explain the logic of using hopelessly sited thermometers to judge the worlds temperature. The mind boggles.
The warmists will actually have to come up with proof, not models, not software, but real data form the real world.
I wonder how many of the thousands-and-thousands of scientists will be willing to appear, we will finally get the actual list of names (if such a list ever existed).
I doubt the court will take kindly to be insulted, the usual tactic for the warmists when questioned.
All this and much, much more, this is going to be very, very interesting.
I do not know which we will run out of first; popcorn or busses.
This guy is toast. The last stand will be sea ice
and satellites and we’ll slay those dragons too.
Harvey seems unable to make the distinction between ad hominim attacks and
criticising corrupt practice based on evidence. Without public accountability as the popular song went, ‘anything goes!’
anthony, the last line of your last rebuttal says it all, although i’ve been snipped before for saying it. it’s all about the money, folks!
This is why it will take at least five years for this scam to fully unraval.
In the uk,for example, the whole taxation of motor vehicles is based on co2, what politian will have the balls to change that then?
Here where I live in the lower mainland of B.C. Canada, we have lawn sprinkler restrictions every summer. July and August are dry months and it seems to be always raining during all of the other months of the year. This regular occurance of dry summer months, except for the last one, September when the cool wet weather appears again, has been my observation since living here beginning in 1967. Last summer when we once again began the lawn sprinkler restrictions, the CBC National news reported this event and linked it to Global Warming.
Our population here has grown considerably over the years without much expansion of our water reservoir system and since we have plenty of water the rest of the year we don’t want to spend the $450 million or so dollars to improve the reservoir capacity and instead live with brown lawns for a few weeks.
Also a few years ago it was discovered that the parks department of the city of Vancouver had used 450 million gallons of water one summer to top up decorative ponds. Perhaps one of the reasons the sprinkler restrictions were started in the first place.
Willis Eschenbach (22:38:32) :
The Basic Water Requirement is generally given as 25 litres per person per day.
In the US the EPA recommends 75 gal/day per person. The Pachauri/Teri Golf and Country Club would therefore serve only about 4,000 Americans.
It is the UN recommends 25 litres/day (which is about 10% of 75 gallons) as a basic subsistence level – as in no baths and dirty clothes, just human minimum requirements.
Hang on Harvey (21:04:42
This site WUWT has done as much and more than any other to debate and debunk “the science”.
However, when it comes to Pachauri and his IPCC, it is not, was not and never will be a scientific organization. It is a political organization. As such, any hypocracy, deceit, willful lies and misrepresentations are fair game. Period.
As the head of an organization that effectively “interprets” the science for policy makers, Pachauris integrity is paramount for the process.
So, what have you to say about the mans integrity Harvey?
@Andrew30
Can you provide a link to an article that outlines the strategies you’ve mentioned in relation to the Virginia vs EPA case? The original article you cited does not go into any specific detail regarding the legal strategy that Virginia is planning to use. Thanks.
Re: David L. Hagen (Feb 20 20:34),
Delhi has a population of 14 mill. If the above 0.05% is true, then that’s enough water for about 700,000 people.
I’d like to hear somebody defend the morality of that.
John F. Hultquist (21:46:54) :
The golf course is there but what are the big circles with faint rectangles near the middle: 28.427305 N, 77.147956 E (in Google Earth)
Maybe horse related?
The first circle is the “TERI Oval” … Pachy’s personal “world class” cricket ground … the one he used when he flew from New York and back over a weekend to play a game. The second is the spare (I think), to give the first one a rest.
Harvey,
You say:
“I want to see know and understand what is going on. These political machinations do not in anyway help this situation. Too me its just a smoke screen.”
Let me make it real simple for you Harvey. The weather is cyclical and goes in 20-30 year warming and cooling cycles. We have just been through a warming cycle, and now we’re going into a cool one. For various reason I won’t bother with here, it will almost certainly be a protracted, especially severe cold period.
The three things the world (especially the northern hemisphere) will need in abundance are excess food from “elsewhere”, plenty of energy for transport and warmth, and money to alleviate the worst suffering.
However, after two decades of global warming hysteria, we see excess food being turned into biofuel, countless windmills instead of any REAL growth in energy sources, and a western world already crippled by the financial crisis, now frittering away what’s left on “green taxes”, “green industries” and “green jobs”.
In other words Harvey, over the next ten years or so you are probably going to witness (or even be part of), the greatest disaster in the history of Mankind, with hundreds of millions of people displaced, starving, and freezing, and with no hope of salvation.
Since it is now far too late to do anything constructive to prevent the suffering and deaths, all you have to figure out Harvey is whether it has come to this through massive incompetence, or planning.
To help you decide, I suggest you take a look at the people behind all this from the very start, and see what they have been saying for over thirty years about the “need” for massive population reduction.
You are upset that Mr Watts indulged in a bit of name-calling?
[snip…bridge too far. ~ ctm]
The point is that VIPs like Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Fidel Castro and Pachauri are obviously entitled to a few personal luxuries.
As these individuals all provide such wisdom, understanding and intellectual enlightenment to the masses, we should support their endeavours and not snipe at their occasional minor failings.
For the record: The price of water rose sharply in Delhi last month: As per the new structure, the monthly charge for consumption of 10 kilo litres of water will go up from rupees 52 to rupees 82 from January. (ANI)
There are 46 rupees to the dollar.
PS Baa Humbug: it is 70,000, not 700,000 people.
Cricket ?
Willis Eschenbach (22:38:32) :
“The Basic Water Requirement is generally given as 25 litres per person per day. Since the golf course is using 300,000 gallons per day, that works out to enough water to supply 50,000 people …”
I take it that your number includes bathing and hygeine?
By my calculations that golf course is using water that could be better spent providing 363k people their daily drinking water – probably close to a million people if rationed.
And his mother dresses him funny…oh sorry…that’s his real hair. Let’s all make sure that his crimes do not pay. too bad he’s not the only one we need to make sure get’s justice. But if they do slip trough the cracks we can make sure that their lives are miserable with the wonders of the web. Time to make a master list of D Bags to harass on the web and on the street. This is just one more reason to defund the UN and expose all their crimes. Their activities on our soil are un American. Even their sculpture of a gun with a barrel tied in a knot is an affront to the right that keeps democracies safe world wide. The USA pays athird of the UN expenses. Cut them off and kick them out. Build a coal fired power plant on the land and use the power to run a desalination plant…to supply clean drinink water for humans. You know…humans…What the UN accusses as bad for the planet. Maybe tap some power to run elerctric chairs for these climate change crooks.OK I’m done ranting for now…Next!
Personal attacks are only fair if they are true. A scientist’s work should not be attacked on the basis of say him commiting adultery, however a politician who preaches family values is fair game.
Mr Pacauru is a sanctimonious hypocrite.
The BBC just blew up more taxpayer’s money by sending a reporter to report on a complete non-event at a boring bar full of hookers in Bulgaria. Literally!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8522006.stm
That place looks very suited for the likes of Pachauri after they steal taxpayer’s money and finish their round of golf within sight of starving farmers. I hear the next Bilderberger Frat Party is going to be just like that.
John F. Hultquist (21:46:54) :
The golf course is there but what are the big circles with faint rectangles near the middle:
Cricket is also a necessary (un)sustainable activity at the TERI Retreat! World class facilities no less! Why not – it’s only our tax money he’s spending…
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/heat-on-cricket-pitch-warms-this-climate-change-laureate/231802/0
I’m surprised there isn’t a polo field, a soccer pitch, and hockey is quite popular in India…
I’m surprised at the number of posters critical about this article; to summarise the argument seems to be “play the ball, not the man”.
Well, that’s fine if you’re talking about deciding between scientific conjectures, discussing engineering approaches, critiquing a novel and so on.
Trouble is folks, the IPCC is an inherently political body and that makes it a whole different game; it becomes very much about the personal integrity of those in positions of power.
When given a mandate to direct and influence how inordinately large amounts of time and money are spent on a global scale, one’s own personal motives and conduct take on paramount importance and must come under scrutiny and examination.
Cheers
Mark
Maybe there is a bright side! The local water table is sagging. But think of how bad it would be without the support of all that water seeping down from above.
Geoff A
Re: AdderW (Feb 21 01:48), Good spot Andrew, of course that’s right. Dr Pachauri is apparently still a high class cricketer at nearly 70 years of age, or so he says. He must practice somewhere.
Since we are told the money for TERI does not come from Tata Steel, presumably it must come from UN and government grants and be intended to be spent on “climate research”, as if Pachauri knows anything about that. So in addition to hypocrisy, abuse of the planning laws and contempt for his poor neighbours, we can add expense fraud, or theft to use plain English.
Pachuari’s “Return to Almora [is] laced with steamy sex, lots of sex. Oh, and Shirley MacLaine.”
Cool, er, hot, steamy sex, lots of hot steamy sex, with Shirley MacLaine as well… raising the heat factor to another level…
All that steam… adds to global warming… as steam is water vapor and the largest green house gas is, as we all know, H20 in it’s various forms.
Plus all that physical exertion must be putting a lot more CO2 into the atmosphere as well than normal non-steamy sex would.
So, Pachuari writes smutty sex novels that encourage contributing to green house gases two ways! At least two ways! I’m sure can be thought of more once we apply our selves to this scientific endeavor.
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