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
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I’ll bet you told your kids there was no Santa when they graduated from college too. You real mean;-(
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Shhh… I know, but maybe the Nobel Committee hasn’t read it and I’ll get ‘gored” like Big Al.
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“Raving, I…”
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Stop and smell the roses. Hang in there!
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@ur momisugly Pascvaks (04:58:33)
“Interesting bullet/numbering system: a, 2, III, d.”
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I think I saw it once on a U.N. document. Maybe it was DOD:-)
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pascvaks and Tom:
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Maybe we’ll get a Nobel? Oh! You made my day. Do they give you a check for Dollars or Euros?
Memory Vault
I’m going to look for a copy of your book, sir.
Good time to revisit this, wouldn’t you say? Wish Anthony could repost it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/21/ikes-second-warning-hint-it-is-not-the-military-industrial-complex/
Ike’s second warning, hint: it is not the “military-industrial complex”
John R Walker (02:24:24)
A paragraph from the article you cited.
“So strong is his love for cricket that his colleagues recall the time the Nobel Winner took a break during a seminar in New York and flew to Delhi over the weekend to attend a practice session for a match before flying back. Again, he flew in for a day just to play at that match.”
The tone seems to be that they thought this an admirable thing to do!
I live a very ‘sustainable’ life, grow my own vegetables and fruit, have no central heating and so on due to the fact I have very little money.
If these hyperhypocrites (thank you mr.artday!) thought for one minute we were in danger of burning up from AGW they would be too terrified to use all that jet fuel, water electricity etc.
God, it does make me CROSS…….
Cisplatin, gentamycin, and streptomycin along with any blood pressure regulating substance (such as furosamide) taken together is a no brainer for hearing loss. Many vets were given these combinations, and I do mean all three as in chemo, antibiotic, and blood pressure med that completely destroyed their hearing. My mother had chronic antibiotic resistant infections and suffered hearing loss from streptomycin (she had chronic kidney-related infections) as a young teenager. She then suffered from otosclerosis as an adult that dampened the rest of her hearing. She was the main reason I went into the field in the first place and wanted to study drugs that could damage kidneys and hearing.
6 months ago I told my aunt to go see a doctor right away because she had ringing in one ear and she said she couldn’t hear as well out of that ear. My guess was a small non-malignant tumor pressing on her auditory nerve, a rather common slow growing tumor that is often left in place if discovered late in life. She called me last month and said they found the tumor right where I said it would be.
That is to say, though I don’t practice now, I still read about it and try to keep up on recent developments.
The drug you were on can cause kidney damage if used passed its expiration date. Any drug that can do that can also have a negative impact on hearing (our kidneys and inner ear are related physiologically). There are ways to detect early hearing loss before you go deaf and there is evidence that high-frequency hearing loss (at frequencies 8k and above) is a very early sign of possible kidney damage. I take it you were not monitored with frequent high-frequency hearing tests while on the drug. How are your kidneys?
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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),”
Thankyou, I did read that in the article, which is why I made my post in the first place!! I think you will find that figure is the journalist’s guess as to how much water is used by the golf course, I seriously doubt they would have the actual figures. My point was that the actual volume used would be less than a third of that. I am not defending Pachauri or his golf course, just putting a few facts out there for consideration. And do we know whether it is potable water that is irrigating the golf course? or is this just another guess? And golf courses do recharge the groundwater.
I should add that men (and females like me) with one-sided hearing loss and/or ringing who have also used long-barrel rifles will find that they have a loss on their left side but not as much on the right side. At first you might think this is weird since the right ear is closer to the gun than the left. However, the right ear is shadowed away from the gun blast by being turned to the right shoulder, while the left ear gathers it up in full force. So if you shoot but hate to wear hearing protection (I don’t like them either but I wear them anyway), as least put one in the left ear and make sure you stuff it in there. With foam rubber hearing plugs, squeeze and role, squeeze and roll between your thumb and index finger tip, then put it in as far as it will go, cone end in first (and yes, I just spit my coffee out). If it works its way out rather quickly you didn’t put it in far enough or tight enough (spit, cough, cough).
But still, any one-sided hearing loss should always be investigated. And anyone on chemo, blood pressure meds, and broad spectrum antibiotics (any combination or alone for some meds) should be getting regular hearing tests, preferably in the higher-frequency range if you still have ability to hear those frequencies. We lose our high-frequency ability as a normal process of aging.
Daniel H (01:17:23) :
“Can you provide a link to an article that outlines the strategies you’ve mentioned in relation to the Virginia vs EPA case?”
They are not tipping their hand but are making broad based allegations.
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Petition for EPA to review:
This is what most of the petitions are like, simply a request for reconsideration and will focus on authority to enact this regulation, standard stuff.
Commonwealth of Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency —
Petition to Review of the Commonwealth
http://www.oag.state.va.us/LEGAL_LEGIS/CourtFilings/Comm%20v%20EPA%20-%20Pet%20to%20Review%202_16_10.pdf
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Petition for EPA to prove Cause:
This is the interesting one (the key is the addition of “& Cause”) , they are going question to the base data, methodologies, and the assumptions “attributing climate change to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions” […that were…] “not subject to U.S. data quality and transparency standards and whose reports were prepared in total disregard to those standards”. Then it goes on to question the “scientific process”, have a read.
Commonwealth of Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency —
Petition for Reconsideration of Endangerment & Cause
http://www.oag.state.va.us/LEGAL_LEGIS/CourtFilings/Comm%20v%20EPA%20-%20Pet%20for%20Reconsideration%202_16_10.pdf
German climate researcher Latif has accused IPCC for “a fair swindle” in an German TV interview, you can see here
For the first time, a real clear statement in German TV about IPCC-Gate !
Daniel H (01:17:23) :
“Can you provide a link to an article that outlines the strategies you’ve mentioned in relation to the Virginia vs EPA case?”
Note: The two petitions I just mentioned are filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia, not to the EPA.
http://www.oag.state.va.us/LEGAL_LEGIS/CourtFilings/index.html
Interesting that one commentator should be curious about what is to the east of the TERI Institute. Going west there are a number of other sites of interest including Sector 53… in fact visit these sector areas and click on some of the images.
These are evidently industrial and business areas and it is also evideent that considerable investment has been made in landscaping and, of course, water use.
Not the only one with quetionable water use?
But, in some US states water is necessary to maintain a degree of fire resistance in the grasses and plantings. Does the same apply here?
Anyway, golf courses are over the top, even in the UK with its abundant rain, golf courses do create some concern.
Many depend on mains water supplies. If you want to bore a well then you need a ground abstraction licence. If you can get hold of an existing license then fine because new licenses are very difficult to obtain. But note, not just anyone can drill a bore hole and abstract water, nor pump watre from rivers.
One would expect that if you live in an area with water shortages, then similar legislation would be necessary. Water is an important resource.
I have supported you, and this site, for years.
Passionately in my day-to-day life to the occasional alienation of my friends, to with available randy females.
Anyhoo.
You have done wonderful work which, together with luminaries like Steve McIntyre, has helped to save the world economy trillions of dollars and prevent, dare I say it, needless death due to lack of economic growth and resources.
I am a fan.
However, perhaps my lede about putting off “available women” (which is true — Global Warming makes a poor debate topic even and especially when the woman says its one of her favourite topics — by NO means assume she wishes to objectively discuss the science because she SAYS she wishes to objectively discuss the science) will have given away my hand.
Anthony, it is absolute B.S., absolute NONSENSE to make hay over the fact that Pachauri wrote a book that — gasp — deals with sex.
Oh no.
Aside from the fact it is truly irrelevant to the point of absurdity, it simply goes to reveal American and/or religious prudishness.
Okay, maybe it is “dirty”. Maybe there’s something really dirty about sex, and about thinking and writing about sex, that escapes me. Maybe it is just terrible for me to admit I’m a male and actually like sex, and good science, and really don’t see a strong relationship between the two anyhow.
For you to assault this ineffective, corrupt man because he wrote a novel that has titties in it is just nuts.
Grow up.
P.S. Thanks for saving the planet.
I have supported you, and this site, for years.
Passionately in my day-to-day life to the occasional alienation of my friends, to wit, available randy females.
Anyhoo.
You have done wonderful work which, together with luminaries like Steve McIntyre, has helped to save the world economy trillions of dollars and prevent, dare I say it, needless death due to lack of economic growth and resources.
I am a fan.
However, perhaps my lede about putting off “available women” (which is true — Global Warming makes a poor date topic even and especially when the woman says its one of her favourite topics — by NO means assume she wishes to objectively discuss the science because she SAYS she wishes to objectively discuss the science) will have given away my hand.
Anthony, it is absolute B.S., absolute NONSENSE to make hay over the fact that Pachauri wrote a book that — gasp — deals with sex.
Oh no.
Aside from the fact it is truly irrelevant to the point of absurdity, it simply goes to reveal American and/or religious prudishness.
Okay, maybe it is “dirty”. Maybe there’s something really dirty about sex, and about thinking and writing about sex, that escapes me. Maybe it is just terrible for me to admit I’m a male and actually like sex, and good science, and really don’t see a strong relationship between the two anyhow.
For you to assault this ineffective, corrupt man because he wrote a novel that has titties in it is just nuts.
Grow up.
P.S. Thanks for saving the planet.
REPLY: Even the best of friends and the dearest of family have differences in opinion. Not to worry. -A
Pamela Gray (12:27:14) :
Thank you! I’m one of those ‘left deaf right ok’ old military guys too. They never told me and I didn’t know until now how it probably happened. You made my day:-)
Smell the roses yet?
Pamela- ditto too for me,did lots of trap shooting in my younger days, then
twenty eight years of aviation (Noise attenuating head sets are not that good.)
Only med I’m on now is Lisonopril still shoot some but with good hearing protection…
Thanks…
Pascvaks, I have a cold so I can’t smell anything right now. By doze id so sduffed ub.
It is admirable that the TERI facility is recycling their wastewater, however, whatever water they have left for irrigation is only a drop compared to the hundreds of thousands of gallons needed to keep their campus luxuriantly green.
The plants used to filter wastewater can be used to produce methane for fuel and the remaining pulp can then be dried and burned. They should not be used for food or fodder because of the elevated levels of heavy metals
The greens will only recharge groundwater if they are severely overwatering, which is doubtful.
There are ways to significantly reduce the watering requirements for golf courses. Drought tolerant grasses can be used in the rough and fairways (some desert courses only have grass on the putting greens, some even use artificial turf), and sub-surface drip irrigation can be used under turf to reduce water use up to 90 percent.
TERI could have applied some of these options when designing their 9-hole expansion, but I assume they preferred to convey a message of conspicuous consumption.
And on a slightly off-topic note, the imposition of western sanitation solutions on water-stressed developing areas is inappropriate. As much as I enjoy a good flush toilet, it is the principal water user in most households. There are sanitary alternatives that use little or no water, and don’t stink up the house or neighborhood.
Perhaps Dr. Pachauri could channel Gandhi and rake his own latrine?
Why not a miniature golf course? Those are more fun (especially if you’re a poor golfer).
Three years will suffice to “turn the herd.”
I think many of them realize that already and for them this will be the last straw. Perhaps they will arrange a graceful exit for him in another UN post, or with a consultancy, or kick him upstairs, but I can’t see him hanging on much longer at this rate. He makes too easy a target for critics and thereby discredits the IPCC and its reports
Top “digs”:
PS: “Let them drink Perrier” would have made a wonderful title for this thread.
Jimbo
You wrote
“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.”
Please read my much earlier post (22.07.07) regarding what is, and has been happening in our schools for the past twenty years, and go have a look at the links.
Truth is, the current crop of future “believers” have already been schooled to accept that “global warming causes global cooling”. Or, more precisely, “climate change causes global cooling”.
These acolytes will not need three decades of global cooling to be “convinced”. They have already been “convinced” of the probability of “climate change” causing global cooling.
I predict with reasonable confidence that next year’s northern hemisphere winter will be even more severe than this year.
I predict with even more confidence that, when it happens, it will be hailed as “positive proof” of the “horrendous effects of (man-made) climate change”. The proles are already being prepped for this – see just about any MSN article on recent record snow falls in the USA.
All this, of course, is the natural outcome of letting the “other side” control the language – “global warming” should never have been allowed to become “climate change”.
And yet allow it you did. Most people posting on sites like this, including Mr Watts (whom I have the greatest respect for), use the the term themselves.
Once one side gets to define the meaning of the terms (the language), they in effect control the debate.
One can no more “debate” climate change than debate “wet rain”.
I read recently a comment by a journalist that WUWT probably has the highest percentage of advanced degrees and PhDs amongst its readership, of any blog in the world, an observation I would not dispute.
I appreciate I am only a technical writer moving in truly exalted company, and I’m not being cynical. I stand in awe of some of the things I read here, especially in the comments section.
However you people have to realise this is not, and never was a “scientific debate”; that it is and always was a propaganda exercise, and that the so-called “science” and the IPCC and all the rest are mere props, like the lights and fog in a David Copperfield magic show.
As such, in the hands of the clever speech writer the language is far more important than the “facts”, which can be molded and manipulated as required.
In summary, for as long as you go on using the term “climate change” instead of man-made global warming, you are losing. You can’t debate “climate change” – that is the whole point of the term.
For as long as you readily accept the title “skeptic” you are losing. “Skeptic” was a title deliberately foisted on you as an engineered bridge between “critic” and “denier”, and you people are helping in the construction. You are critics, or even better, “realists”.
For as long as you continue to use “soft” terms like “believer” and “warmist” for the AGW crowd, you are losing. They are brainwashed followers of a faith-based dogma. They are cultists.
Finally, for as long as the brainwashing is allowed to continue in our schools, you are losing. You cannot “debate” anything with someone who has been subjected to 12 or more years unrelenting mind-programming.
@ur momisugly Pamela Gray (09:09:22) :
I am a lapsed PhD candidate who is painfully close to a few aspects of the AGW movement and the manner by which it’s debate has evolved. I resist getting involved. I am well aware of my own emotional involvement in the situation and how it can alter my perception of things.
I don’t really know much of anything, yet what little I do know is unpleasant to me. Peculiarly, I have always respected both hard nosed objectivity and holistic sensibility.
I feel dumb struck and disgusted.
Ed Murphy
Thanks for the comments, which I’ll take as a compliment. “Green Hoax” was reprinted in the USA for many years – Library of Congress No 90-084333, ISBN – 0-87034-098-0.
Personally I wouldn’t bother. It is now very much out of date, and only a third of it was about global warming anyway. The other two sections were “The Unleaded Petrol Myth”, and the “The Ozone Hole Scam”.
Only the ozone part has any current-future reference. I believe a resurrection of the dreaded “holes in the ozone layer” is quietly being prepped as the Next Big Thing should global warming start to falter.
After all, if you can create a world-wide panic over “holes” in a non-existent “layer” that was only ever a virtual mathematical construct to aid computation of a physical property, you can do just about anything with it.
Questions for Ellwood:
Can a pookah be a troll? Can a troll be a pookah?
Ed Murphy
Thanks for the comments, which I’ll take as a compliment. “Green Hoax Effect” was reprinted in the USA for many years – Library of Congress No 90-084333, ISBN – 0-87034-098-0.
Personally I wouldn’t bother. It is now very much out of date, and only a third of it was about global warming anyway. The other two sections were “The Unleaded Petrol Myth”, and the “The Ozone Hole Scam”.
Only the ozone part has any current-future reference. I believe a resurrection of the dreaded “holes in the ozone layer” is quietly being prepped as the Next Big Thing should global warming start to falter.
After all, if you can create a world-wide panic over “holes” in a non-existent “layer” that was only ever a virtual mathematical construct to aid computation of a physical property, you can do just about anything with it.
Ain’t it the truth.
Christoph (18:46:45) : edit
” You cannot “debate” anything with someone who has been subjected to 12 or more years unrelenting mind-programming.
Ain’t it the truth.”
Depends. I’m a product of US public schools, but then again I didn’t go along with peer pressure either. Public school brainwashing happens with those who need to fit in to boost their self esteem. Teaching kids from a young age to resist peer pressure and do their own thing is essential to reducing this influence. Anything that smacks of making kids “well rounded” (i.e. rounded pegs for hammering in round holes) is to be rejected outright as the sort of conformist BS that Anna Freud and her ilk support.