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
“…It’s time for Pachauri to go….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…”
NO! Try to keep him where he is!
Even amongst the hypocritical Greens, where will we get another target half as good…?
“Mail Today which tells us that R K Pachauri’s “not-for-profit” TERI –”
While London based TERI Europe still (laughably) registered as a non-profit I see nothing on the TERI site to indicate TERI is non-profit.
Correct this if I’m wrong.
While I think the charities commission and probably the Inland Revenue and the fraud squad should look into TERI Europe, it would be best no to claim TERI main body in India in non-profit. They are clearly involved in some very commercial realations.
“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 …”
Willis. I am a golf course architect so I do know a little about irrigation requirements for golf courses. In peak summer conditions I would expect an 18 hole golf course to need around 1 million litres of water for irrigation (not necessarily potable, could have salinity up to 2 to 3,000 parts per million). That would equate to around 265,000 gallons. However, looking on the aerial photo on Google the course is only a 6 hole course so I would expect therefore that the max irrigation need per day would be around 90,000 gallons. And of course that is peak daily demand and there would be many days in the wet season where no irrigation would be needed given that it would be raining. Hope this helps.
http://www.teriin.org/about/AnnualReport_08_09.pdf
The “financial summary” of the TERI annual report consists of just two pie charts , marked in percentage rather than actual amounts. More strange accounting practices. (Maybe this is how accounts are submitted in India ?)
However, another page fleshes this out stating a total income of 21m USD
http://www.teriin.org/facts_about_teri.php
With 40% put down as “travel” I shudder to think of the “carbon fooTprint”
Does the absence of the word profit in “financial summary” summary indicate it is a non-profit organisation?
Oddly nothing on their website seems to make any mention of this.
Certainly TERI Europe having submitted simplified accounts on the basis that they have income of less than 10k GBP is laughable.
Having had a very conservative upbringing I have to be careful in my trust, having meet Dr. Pachauri on 3 occasions, my first impression was that he has no mirrors in his house, after listening to him speak, I was not impressed, he says what he thinks you want to hear, and on one occasion I heard him give 2 conflicting opinions to 2 different people, I would say that if one was interested in the workings of this man, a very close examination of his education would probably be for him, a disaster, even today, with money, you can buy a medical doctors degree in India, just ask any Englishman they have ‘suffered’ in past years from quack Indian doctors.
A couple points:
a. I have it from a good authority that all the water in question is Himilayan snow melt and NOT local water. (One source even suggested it is trucked in at very great personal expense to Mr. P from the Chinese side of the great mountain range; however he would not elaborate.)
2. Mr P is only doing what great men have always done: paying themselves and their friends first. Don’t they deserve to?
III. If the Indian Government -which knows and sees all– thinks Mr P’s illegal little 9-hole country club is OK, why should americans and the lower caste Indian people be upset? That’s the way the Raj did it.
d. Everyone knows that there are a few whacko newspaper owners in every country who just try to stir up civil unrest; respectable, mainstream media would never touch such a story. Consider the source.
Rajenda Pachauri is no different from any rockstar/moviestar/superstar………..Al Gore type figure.
If you look into each IPCC member, they are no different. Some may do a small triffle thing for publicity but on the whole they waste like we do.
Some shadier than others in the political arena or wherever some people can get away with “favorable activities”.
If you strip down science, there is a huge pile in the middle.
Harvey,
Not sure if you’re reading this far down the thread, but anyway. Yes WUWT calling Pachauri “dim witted” sounds like a personal attack. I think it is anyway. (At least WUWT put in a link to the quote for which they accuse him of being dim witted.)
Now, if a court judge said, in effect, “what’s wrong with growing cannabis anyway? after all, didn’t Sherlock Holmes also do drugs?”
What would you say about that judge? What would you think about his judgments?
PS. yes there really was a judge who said that.
Neil Crafter (04:05:51) : FYI…
From the article…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),
Memory Vault (01:41:31) :
What got snipped? That was a very powerful comment up to that point. Very powerful, indeed, well communicated and likely true. One more close together group of larger volcanic eruptions and it would be a disaster. The food crisis and riots of the 2 years ago seem to have become a faded memory.
What did the UN do with food donated to them? Sold it and profited off the crisis, exploiting the situation. Keep up the good work, MV, this world desperately needs responsible honest leadership and accountability. Not criminal doings.
Maybe some leaders look at this blog, but I for one send them powerful letters formulated with ideas that often are from what I read here. Its time to demand better leadership.
It is repetitious at this point, but I want to reiterate for Harvey. Most of the global warming debate is politics, all of Pachuari’s job is politics, and therefore, it is appropriate to comment on how he handles his politics and his life.
I am torn between him needing to go, and staying because he is so damaging to his own cause. At this point I think he needs to go. He is not damaging enough to his own cause if he stays–too many people think too highly of him–the media, etc.–the damaging facts don’t seem to be making it out. Maybe they would hit the mainstream if he went.
harvey (21:04:42) :
Harv, I have to assume that english is not your first language, so I can try to interpret your fairly incomprehensible post and try to help you out.
Just read the posts (or have someone translate them for you) and try to understand what the discussion is about.
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Best regards,
Jack
I see we are attacked for attacking Pachauri. No one is attacking him. We are just publicising incidents where his behavior attacks his sermons.
Religion
Global citizen eco friendly and other expressions tell us greenie weenies put on a face to please their adherants. It appears Pachauri really considers himself superior to most. It will come back and haunt him
Since I have been convinced most global warming claims are false and fabricated, I in no way support pollution. I have always supported conservation. In fact an urban lifestyle is more wastefull than a rural sustainable one. I can see a water tax for high consumption that is not raising crops. India raises a lot of food eaten by monkeys, rats and cows. They also have rats hijacking the water supply apparently. (I play golf and enjoy yachtracing)
OT: “Contrails”
Yesterday and today the weather conditions have really made contrails stand out. In fact they’re about the only thing in the blue blue sky. They’re all over.
Can’t imagine that they have no impact. Seems Spencer at UAH or someone at the IPCC should have said something about them. All that “stuff” must be doing something to the weather. Haven’t the number of aircraft increased in the past 30-40 years? Might they be “spikeing” the CO2 and temps up there?:-)
There seems to be a relationship between the stature of someone in the AGW promotion community and their use of natural resources.
Think of Gore and his utility bills and need for private jets. Now, his pal needs a golf course, big home, private cars and of course, private jets.
And they have so much else in common:
Nobel Peace prize, neither are climate scientists, both promote things for tax payers to do that make them personal money, neither can debate what they claim to understand so well, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
For those who feel guilt in attacking Pachauri, let me assure you – you are not aware of Pachauri and his organization TERI’s track record of environmental destruction.
Let me give you a hint. Use Google, and look for
Pachauri and Commonwealth Games
Pachauri and Murdeshwar Dam
Who is attacking the man? The attack is on his politics – his interface with the rest of the word. The tentacles of TERI reach to the furthest corners of India.
Whatever he might be, he is NOT dim-witted. He does OK.
For the curious-minded:
http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/suzlon-bollywood/
Pascvaks (04:58:33) :
A couple points:
a. I have it from a good authority that all the water in question is Himilayan snow melt and NOT local water.
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Yes, of course, this explains perfectly why Pachuri had such a hard time believing that the IPCC’s 2035 expiration date on the glaciers was wrong.
And there’s more:
In 2005, Pachauri helped set up 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.
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As the old saying goes: “Do as I say, don’t do as I do.”
Correction:
“set up set up” should be just “set up”
“harvey (21:04:42) :
Forget these personal attacks Anthony.
Or some day they will come back and haunt you.
Or do you enjoy destroying yet another persons life and career?”
Oh please, Harvey… are you serious? It is Pachauri who is destroying Pachauri’s career.
Sorry it’s a bit off topic, but does anyone remember Mr McIntyre’s expedition to Almagre in 2007? He gathered some tree core data and was going to publish a piece. Someone is now asking me for this – does anyone know if anything was published, and if so where?
Thanks….
harvey (20:13:20) :
“Right, its all about the science….”
First of all have you looked at WUWT sub-title:
“Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts”
You may not find it puzzling how a man who preaches us to go green excersices this by going on the green [pun intended]. How can the public believe his climate change warnings when he doesn’t carry out what he preaches? The public is entitled to be sceptical about the science because if he can behave in this way then maybe Pachauri doesn’t believe in AGW and that just maybe AGW is a pack of lies.
“His personal life is hypocritical of what he preaches to the rest of the world”
Sounds like he plays on the same golf course as Al Gore!
there is a saying related to perjury:
“Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus” (False in one thing, false in all}
And if hypocrisy is not falsehood what is?
I think that it is fair to say that most people take advantage of the position that they find themselves in. I recall a true story of a parent who was asked (why his son had stolen some pens from a local shop) if he knew why his son would do such a thing. He replied that he was amazed that his son had stolen the pens because all that he had to do was to ask his father and he would have got him some pens from work.
I am not justifying the actions of the head of th IPCC because in my opinion he is not sincere and his stated views are not those by which he lives.