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.
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Raving, I have had the same feelings about my past related to being a research Audiologist. I find myself pausing to think before referring to that career. The idea that I once was in the Ivory Tower is beginning to feel like a dirty memory. And as a teacher, I wonder how we will be able to encourage boys and girls to pursue being a scientist when we have very little to show for its current integrity.
Pamela – A research audiologist? as in hearing impairment?
We need to talk.
Anthony
Dodgy Geezer (06:46:40) :
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….
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Dodgy Geezer-
The power of google and other searches is just amazing. I used “Mr McIntyre’s expedition to Almagre” from your posting in google and quickly found:
http://alt.nntp2http.com/global-warming/2007/10/7d6b3aa946a94ad859667fa58ffba8bf.html
With a little more searching you can probably find McIntyre’s original article.
IanM
Richard North (01:36:40) : Pachy’s personal “world class” cricket ground
Well, I’ll be cricketed! My low carbon footprint doesn’t take me to many cricket matches nor polo parties either. I was surprised that there is a cricket ground in the State of Washington! At WSU.
46.725797 N, 117.161281 W
http://cricket.wsu.edu/cricket.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_field
Ian L. McQueen (09:21:01) :
Dodgy Geezer (06:46:40) :
See page 15, near bottom: The Proxies
http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2005/09/ohioshort.pdf
Memory Vault (07:16:53) :
“…it is sad to realise that the “good guys” (our side) are still losing, and will ultimately lose…”
IF we get a cooling phase that lasts out to 3 decades then I predict AGW will come under increasing attack, people will become increasingly sceptical and climate scientists will increasingly jump ship and the consensus will crumble. So we may win in the end; it’s just going to be a long drawn out victory as it will depend on the weather over time. We climate sceptics have two key factors on our side — the truth, and the weather
A model sustainable habitat based on new and clean technologies
http://www.teriin.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32
from the page:
RETREAT, a residential training facility for executives, is designed to be self-sufficient, and independent of any external power supply.
Waste-water recycling
The World Health Organization recommends that for healthy living, each person needs 135 litres of water a day. This figure includes water for drinking, cooking, washing, laundry, and so on. RETREAT meets these requirements but ensures that water is used more effectively by using an efficient flushing system, aerated taps that deliver water at pre-set rates, and a centralized laundry.
Waste water is recycled by the ‘root zone’ techniques, in which the roots of plants with special capabilities are used to clean the water, which is then used for irrigation.
Sewage is collected initially in a settling tank (an Imhoff tank) that allows sludge to settle to the bottom. Part of the waste is decomposed at this stage by microbes. Next, the water is passed through a bed of soil, which also supports specially selected reeds well adapted to waterlogged soils. The roots of these plants act as living filters: the plant roots absorb and remove many of the toxic substances from waste water. This combination of microbes and plants can make even very dirty sewage water clean enough to be used for irrigation and even a shower.
mikelorrey (23:37:27) :
‘Sure, but he was PROUD of THAT… its not like we exposed any deep dark hidden secret, like…OMG! Overwatered Golf Course!!!’
I can’t understand why it is not a full 18 holer.
Doug
This hypocrisy is not only with Pachauri, but runs right through all the warmists, elitists, Hollywood phonies and the Cap and Trade politicians.
“Rob (08:04:12) :
[…]
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…”
Be careful, though:
http://www.essortment.com/home/plumbingtipsho_sfat.htm
“9. A common urban myth of toilets is that a brick placed in the bowl will save you water by decreasing the amount used per flush. While it’s not exactly a lie, there’s another side that hasn’t been so widely circulated. The brick crumbles away over time and can block the flow of water into and out of the toilet bowl, ultimately ruining it. The only remedy for such clogging is to replace the toilet altogether. ”
Maybe the BBC’s pension fund owns a plumbing business too….
Just found this on Pachauri’s website:
@ur momisugly Pascvaks (04:58:33)
Interesting bullet/numbering system: a, 2, III, d.
Cool, er, hot, steamy sex, lots of hot steamy sex, with Shirley MacLaine as well… raising the heat factor to another level…
Did Shirley MacLaine agree to have her name used in this book? Or was this just the Shirley MacLaine. – You know, the one who lives in Delhi.
Doug
hi,
Any reason my posts not appearing?
REPLY: Stuck in spam filter, restored now
Enviros, No more Mr Nice guy!
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/02/21/enviros-no-more-mr-nice-guy/
pascvaks and Tom:
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?:-)
Contrails, and especially contrail events, do have a significant effect on temperatures.
I am travelling now, and I don’t have my references, but several papers have been published on this, with the most significant paper based on data around the weather before and after 9-11.
As I recall, there was also a blog that showed a contrail event forming over the entire UK, from contrails over the North Sea. Perhaps Anthony’s?
There has been a call from some groups, to base jet altitude on time of day. Putting planes higher during the day, would reflect heat; and lower at night, would allow heat to escape.
Of course, this would use more fuel…..
Darrell (07:12:15) :
‘……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.’
Aw Darrell – stop spoiling our fun.
On the contrail event forming over the UK, it was BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8309629.stm
Sharma and Haub estimate the larger Delhi Population was about 21.5 million in 2007. At the 4.7%/year growth, I assume the current 2010 population is about 10% or 2 million higher or about 23.5 million.
The water demand of 800 million gallons/day leaves only about 34 gallon/day per person average. Paucharia’s golf course water use of about 300,000 gallons/day nominally uses the water allocation of 8,800 people. The rich illegally paying to waste the water of the poor!
This is just a small example of north India’s water deficit. See:
Is Northwestern India’s Breadbasket Running Out of Water?
Paucharia has been crying “wolf” that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035. Instead, he should deal with the growing catastrophe that north India is will inevitably lead to a famine unless dealt with.
In 1971, Solar pioneers Aden and Margorie Meinel projected that providing solar thermal power for the USA could provide 2/3rds of the fresh water needed by cooling the solar systems. See Power for the People, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, 1971, 280 pp. *LOC# TJ810.M44
In addition to increasing rainwater harvesting, the water shortage in north India could be solved by large scale solar seawater desalination and fresh water delivery. Now there is a positive productive challenge!
Les Johnson (10:28:16) :
On the contrail event forming over the UK, it was BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8309629.stm
That figures!
“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? ”
There are no dietary laws in classical Hinduism, only lesser sects like Jainism. The most ancient forms of Hindu beliefs found in the Vedas are very much into meat eating with a whole sermon dedicated to making horse broth.
Reincarnation does not belong to the most ancient schools either (They favoured the idea that we are one universal soul but ignorant of it because of our physical individuality). Reincarnation beliefs solidified roughly around the time of Alexander the Great from a collision of Greek and Bactrian schools of philosophy, then became slowly manifest in some Upanishads and Buddhist doctrine.
There are older example of belief in reincarnation, in prehistoric Egypt during the Naqada periods. We can see from the burial rituals that the Egyptians believed that the soul would journey like the Sun to the West and be reborn again like the Sun for a new day in a new life.
For Pachauri, of “green sustainable development”, this golf course is no better than putting a golf course in Death Valley and calling it, “green sustainable development”.
Now, the golf course might be fun and have a few enjoyable holes.
But Pachauri’s golf course stands as a monument to his hypocrisy.
“The roots of these plants act as living filters: the plant roots absorb and remove many of the toxic substances from waste water.”
What is done with these plants, particularly ones having absorbed large quantities of heavy metals?
Jimbo (07:22:25) :
Good questions, Jimbo. Perhaps I can help. Much like Christianity, Hinduism is not just one religion but rather a wide range of denominations, sects and cults with varying beliefs and practices. In short form, some Hindus are meat eaters, some are not. For most, the cow is held sacred and is not eaten, but that is not an absolute prohibition. Most Hindus believe in reincarnation, that you are born and re-born in a seemingly endless cycle of lives until you have purged yourself of Karma and can escape the cycle. Whereas most Westerners would consider the prospect of reincarnation very appealing (Hey, you mean I can live again? Kool!) Hindus do not. It is a source of existential misery. Eternity does not consist of an individual communing with his God at the end of a virtuous life or suffering eternal damnation for mortal sins, rather all the souls of the earth, once they’ve been liberated from the cycle of re-birth and re-death, will join the one-ness that is the true essence of all reality, like an individual rain drop falling into the sea: as a rain drop it has individuality, but once it has joined the sea its individuality is lost but the essence remains. Does a rain drop mourn that loss?
Karma is a doctrine of ethics. Bad deeds have consequences for your future lives and you carry that debt until it is purged. Some attempt to purge it with good deeds, others through ritual and sacrifice. Pachauri is suggesting that he will purge his debt with asceticism and austerity. Pachauri is also suggesting that his willingness to shoulder this debt is a form of virtue and nobility. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, as Jesus suffered death to save mankind, so Pachauri will suffer life for that same cause.
As for finding the science in his declaration of Hindu faith, keep in mind that all of us act on our perception of what is real and not real and our religions define those perceptions. Facts do not speak for themselves, they are organized into theories or explanations and are in turn filtered through cultural lenses that define what is possible and what is not, what is real and what is not. Science finally and ultimately rests on unproveable assumptions and leaps of faith.
Anthony
The second author is me. This was my Master’s research thesis (Oregon State University), reworked for publication in the journal mentioned below. The research topic came from Fausti (a central figure in the area of early detection of ototoxic hearing loss), Frey was tremendously helpful in teaching me the ropes of research, and Mitchell was added to help us write a journal worthy submission.
In my opinion, it was Mitchell’s assistance in re-interpreting the research results that led to the research being published. He was such an encouragement to me in a very male-dominated place (he called my master’s research project a “gold mine”). Had I the courage to stay in the dog-eat-dog environment I would have. Unfortunately the experience left me very jaded.
The machinations of who gets cited and in what order is a major issue in research. The second issue is the process of gaining access to patients. I was working on more than one research project for the clinic. In general each medical facility granted approval of a study before allowing access to patients. Many studies were closely related and benefited from using the same subjects in the different studies. At the time, this issue lived in the grey area of pre-medical privacy rules and regulations. It left me very nervous about some of the projects I was assigned to and was one of the reasons I hit the road. The now very strict regulations would have made my path much clearer and on more solid footing, so much so that I can easily see myself still being there had that been the case.
The research clinic continues to produce good research that has had a positive affect on hearing loss prevention and early detection. I just could not stand the heat, so I left the kitchen.
1991: Fausti S A; Gray P S; Frey R H; Mitchell C R
Rise time and center-frequency effects on auditory brainstem responses to high-frequency tone bursts.
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 1991;2(1):24-31.
Pamela – I suffer from a profound Ototoxic induced sensory-neural hearing loss due to Tetracycline.
Do you still keep your hand in audiology?
See figures at: NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India’s Vanishing Water