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
I have no sympathy for Pachauri whatsoever, but I don’t understand the obsessing over this silly porn novel he wrote. This has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING and it’s just stupid to keep pointing at it as though it’s further proof of his inability to run the IPCC.
There’s more than enough proof of that now. The book obsession is childish and idiotic.
Ed Murphy
All that was snipped was the final sentence, and in the grander scheme of things, it is not important.
I started writing about this stuff in the 1980’s in my newsletter, the “Inside News”, generally credited with effectively killing the introduction of an ID card down here in OZ in 1986.
I wrote several articles on the climate debate back then, mostly about the prime movers and shakers behind it, and their motives. In 1990 these articles were published in a book, “The Green Hoax Effect”, which was something of a best-seller down here.
So I can reasonably say I have been at this since a lot of the people here were still at school, and while I don’t claim to understand even half the “science”, I reckon after 25 years I know the people pulling the strings at least as well as anyone commenting here.
And while I can live with the censorship, it is sad to realise that the “good guys” (our side) are still losing, and will ultimately lose, for no other reason than a disbelief that the people on the “other” side could be, for wont of better words, “that evil”.
Unfortunately, they are.
Neil Crafter,
Looking at the image shows you two very distinct things. The vast majority of the greenery has been introduced to the area as the uncultivated shows no grasses but sparse bushes of which we no nothing(huge difference between a creosote bush and a raspberry bush no?) and is something any greens keeper would have noted immediately. The second is larger homes with what appear to be landscaped yards and inground swimming pools which takes the immediate uncultivated areas off of being community pasture which would indeed be under the strain of semi seasonal grazing.
Overall the area appears to be semi-arid and as such the evaporation rate would be enormous. Does not your “keeping up the green” need to account for just how dry those winds are? If not I can show you golf courses in Canada which require your magic methods of constant and consistent water requirements.
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Am I missing something? I thought Hindus were vegetarian or was he a meat eating Hindu who decided to become a vegetarian to reduce his carbon footprint or is he attempting to mislead people? Can someone help me out here?
As for Harvey, tell me where the science is in “I tell people I was born a Hindu who believes in reincarnation“?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/08/03/pachauri-skeptics-are-flat-earthers/
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/aug/03/opinion/chi-poi-pachauri_thinkaug03
It’s worse than we thought.
Just northwest of there:
DLF Golf Course, Sector 42, DLF City Phase V, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Sure looks nice.
See the DLF Golf and Country Club website. Beautiful!
So why don’t the TERI people just drive up the road to play golf, at an even nicer world-class course?
Let them drink cake!
/sarcasm off
Steve Koch (23:34:57) :
Pachauri is the gift that keeps giving. He’s hurting the AGW movement by putting a face on the venal, corrupt, incompetent side of AGW.
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Seriously, is there any other side to the IPCC?
There’s a bizarre comment by Rajendra Pachauri in his talk at the World Social Sciences Forum in Bergen in June 2009 here:
http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc/3_activities/3_worldforum_audio.html#CanSciSavUs
About 24 min into the recording Pachauri speaks about the dangers of sea level rise for low lying areas. He reports that in 1997 he attended a meeting in the Maldives, and he was told by the then president of the Maldives ‘the place where you are holding this meeting today, 10 years ago was under a foot and a half of water’.
So what is he saying? That the sign of sea level rise is irrelevant? 🙂
It’s not only Pachauri,but most of the elites saying: “Hand over your 4×4 !””Enjoy your mountains covered with wind turbines,Killing eagles,and Geese.”No water for your roses!” (roses are a bad thing too!) “No,you can’t have that trip to Hawaii-carbon foot print you know.”
As the lot of them,Pachauri,Algore,Ban Kyi Moon,Pelosi and crew, Travolta (in the family 707) et. al. tell US how to live green. Oh,and James Hansen how does he travel acros sthe globe to tell US our civilization is evil? Clipper Ship?
Conestoga? Mule Team?
Thank you Anthony, for this Forum….
The leader and his cohorts are despicable, no doubt, but that’s not what distorts the IPCC science. The IPCC was founded to promote and legitimize a political agenda, for which the ’emergency’ of ‘climate change’ (aka ‘global warming’) was the excuse. Any time science is chained to the service of a predetermined conclusion, it will be distorted.
/Mr Lynn
Harvey’s complaints about Anthony pointing out substantive problems and fundamental contradictions in the long list of public and private disasters Pachauri is associated with; is akin to someone back in 1920’s Chicago complaining that it’s not fair or appropriate to impune the motives and character of mob boss Al Capone, by calling him a ganster and a source of much of the corruption that plagued the local society of that day.
Give me a break (I guess Harvey was the designated troll for today).
While as others have noted it has gotten to where from a Machiavellian point of view having Pachauri stay in office may have its advantages, the fact that after everything that has come out he IS still in office; tells us how fanatically attached the AGW crowd and their political servants are to the core tenants of their dogma, and to those who have been designated as the leading prophets of their religion (ruthlessly stamp out all heretics).
For people with that closed and rigid perspective, once fundamental positions have been staked out all subsequent actions become efforts to justify and support the original positions; and the leaders who proposed them. About as anti-science as you can get.
Meanwhile, some of the serious news outlets in the U.S. like FoxNews, IBD, and the WSJ; along with the U.K. and Indian print media; continue to get the story out on the AGW scam. One of many recent pieces worth noting:
George Will with a good piece today on RCP about Pachauri: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/21/blinded_by_science_104494.html
And another on what is a HUGE scandal in its own right:
After everything that has come out, the EPA STILL sez that the ”science is settled”. See:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/president/ci.EPA%2C+Countering+Critics+of+Greenhouse+Gas+Findings%2C+Says+%27Science+Is+Settled%27.opinionPrint
Major attaboy to the Attorney General of Virginia for taking the EPA to court on the travesty of their endangerment finding. I believe Texas is looking at doing the same thing. Let’s hope justice prevails in the end. . . .
>> Pascvaks (05:51:03) :
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. <<
Stand outside and wait for a contrail to pass between you and the sun. What fraction of a day (days?) did you have to wait? Now see if you feel any cooler while the contrail blocks some of the sunlight. After performing this experiment, I think you'll agree that contrails are insignificant to the global temperature.
It is not just about science. These days it is about corrupt science. And while TERI (formerly TATA Energy Research Inst) is run by a Board of Directors, their funding comes from grants both public and private. Mr. Pachauri is their Director General.
“In November 2008, they [TERI] were successful, being awarded a $500.000 grant for “research, analysis and training on water-related security and humanitarian challenges to South Asia posed by melting Himalaya glaciers.” This helped Dr Pachauri set up the TERI Glaciology team, putting at its head now professor Syed Iqbal Hasnain.” Telegraph
http://xrl.in/4l0y
There is however, no need to hang him on his novels and poetry – both unrelated to his work with public environmental issues.
OT: Oops – hit the button too quick… I found this while browsing for a 4×4 upgrade. These are coming back in style in a big way:
For Sale: Global Warming Emergency Response Vehicle
Nice machine – can clear the Gore Effect at 65 TONS per minute!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Unimog-Snowblower-Truck-4-WD-Mercedes-no-snow-plow_W0QQitemZ220557376928QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item335a3e7da0
Moderator – feel free to delete previous post – Thanks!
OT,
CBBC, (childrens BBC) newsround,
What is global warming?
Global warming is the rise in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere.
It’s said that by the time a baby born today is 80 years old, the world will be 6 and a half degrees warmer than it is now.
What can I do?
Put a brick in a plastic bag into your toilet cistern, then the toilet will use less water each time you flush. Don’t worry that’s plenty of water to get rid of…
Use paper on both sides.
The food riots, or so-called, a couple of years back were caused mostly by media-driven fears. One spark is all it takes to send mostly illiterate and poor people on a riot even when the situation they face isn’t as dire as the media projects.
Michael Crichton had something to say about this with regards to Chernobyl. Most of the deaths that occurred in the aftermath of the famous disaster had nothing to do with the explosion of the reactor and more to do with depression and suicide related deaths because Ukrainians were being made to believe they had no future (they would all have cancer and their children would be born with five heads).
It’s time for media reform. Well overdue, sorry.
Talk to the ‘science’?
The science is patchy, marginal and rudimentary.
The science is promoted, funded, evaluated and used in a single sided manner by a constituency that has a strong vested interest in gaining a patina of credibility, from such single sided consideration.
It is as ethical and objective as pharmaceutical companies paying physicians to carry out efficacy trials on patent medicine.
Who said something like “Politics is the art of organising public policy for the purpose of private gain.”
This is pretty similar to the green position in Las Vegas. Lack of water = proof of climate change.
Of course, when someone happens to point out the inconvenient truth, Harvey gets his knickers in a knot. Sad day for you Harvey, water usage IS a manmade problem, but not indicative of climate change. In this case it is that Pachauri speaks from both sides of his mouth, in Las Vegas, it is the obscene water usage by casinos and resorts. In both cases, water management is the issue.
Now, does Pachy fertilize his golf course with BS about C02, or does he fertilize by expelling C02 to drive his vocal cords to make noise about the BS?
A 5 acre, nine hole golf course? What’s par? 18?
harvey
here’s the science (in case you and Pachauri are interested)
The King is only the King because everyone else agrees that he is.
“Dr.” Pachauri, Al Gore and their cohorts have used failed junk science to foist a scam on the gullible public. The intent of their scam is to transfer power and billions of dollars from the fools into their control. The long term effect of their scam would have been to destroy the economy of the industrialized nations with no benefit to anyone except the Al Gores and “Dr.” Pachauris of this world.
This is not about science. It is about money and power and the future of our children.
In that light, you have to show that the King is only a buffoon. Otherwise, there will always be fools that believe in AGW just as children believe in the Tooth Fairy.
Fortunately, they are making sooooo easy!
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
PS
Pascvaks (05:51:03) :
Poor Jimmy Carter cancelled the Super Sonic Transport program in part because the con trails would reflect light into space and contribute to GLOBAL COOLING. That was the apocalypse du jour before Y2K and AGW. So yes, it must be a proven fact that con trails counter AGW because Jimmy Carter said so!
Hey: Pascvaks (05:51:03) :
CO2 is limited in the amount of heat it absorbs, there is a threshold where adding more is not like adding money. i.e. doubling the CO2 is not like doubling a million dollars, in that you don’t wind up with 2 million dollars.
See here:
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/4-carbon-dioxide-is-already-absorbing-almost-all-it-can/
Golf =”A good walk, spoiled”.
Pachauri = A good man, spoiled.
AGW = Science, spoiled.
It fits.