IPCC's Pachauri swarmed by reporters – refuses to step down

He is guy telling us about the evils of modern living and the need to find alternative fuels while:
In 2005, he [Pachauri – head of UN IPCC] 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.
http://www.glorioil.com/technology.htm
Also he is well vested in carbon credits to make him money both ways he turns.

Correction:
He is the guy telling….

Come now colleagues, we have all had a laugh at the poor man’s expense. Now for another.
The Caitlin expedition is off and running. This time:
“Scientists and explorers will brave polar bears, thin ice and frostbite within the next fortnight as they embark on an Arctic expedition to examine the impact of an acidifying ocean on the region’s animals and plants.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/25/catlin-arctic-survey-ocean-acidification
No doubt WUWT will follow their progress closely.

There are hundreds of languages in India. In the republic each state has at least 3 official languages, Hindu, English and the dominant state language eg Bengali in Bengal State. Hindi for historical reasons is unacceptable to many in some states English is commonly used for nationwide communication. Also higher education in India is mostly in English so for reporters to question the Patch in English is unremarkable.

Choo choo isn’t going anyplace on his own.
The only sensible course of action is to disband IPCC, and encourage the UN to focus on humanitarian aid.
Think how much money was wasted on sending climate clunkers to places like Bali.
Think of the HORRIFIC job the UN did to help anybody in the South Indian Ocean after the tsunami or in Haiti.
Ever hear the klunky Choo choo say anything the least bit edifying or humane or uplifting? Never.

I see there are some in this thread who think the British gifted India with English. Carry on with your pre-judices. Have fun. I wonder how much of the Pachauri bashing is anti-third world hatred and nothing else beyond.
Pachauri is a symptom of the corruption that the global warming movement engenders – he is not the cause of anything. His resignation wont change anything. His continued presence actually greatly weakens the AGW movement. Pachauri shot his own foot with his defence of the IPCC report without checking background, before Copenhagen. He would have done that however strong the expose be at that point. Anybody in his position would have done the same.
Pachauri picked up the corrupt ways of the revolving door between policy-making and business from his UK/EU and US friends – there is no doubt about that. Call out Dick Cheney and Al Gore first is what I say.
Someone’s else egging NDTV on in another post. He doesn’t perhaps know Prannoy Roy’s obsequious friendship with Pachauri. Or the Greenathon fundraising campaigns.
India perhaps knowingly has done enough to keep the AGW carbon credit/emissions trading juggernaut at bay, as much as it has made money off it. Its inflexible position has held up negotiations from Rio in ’92 onwards. Jairam Ramesh the environment minister is responsible for bringing down Pachauri from his high perch. Pachauri continues onward only possibly because he has Farooq Abdullah (and perhaps thus the Indian PM) in his ever-shrinking corner. Jairam Ramesh called Hillary Clinton’s bluff at Copenhagen (Google it). The Indian PM’s dressing-down of Yvo de Boer at New Delhi can be considered eventually to have led to his resignation. The Americans haven’t been twiddling their thumbs either – twice they have tried to sneak in the word ‘scrutiny’ into the Copenhagen Accord – a useless document in itself – only to be shot down by the Indian contingent.

Suitable replacements for “Patches”:
1. Al Gore
2. Phil Jones
3. Michael Mann
Oh, you want the IPCC to survive? Then the most suitable candidate:
Steve McIntyre!

Hey I don’t like his modus operandi either, but we did state, didn’t we, that personal insults only muddy the issues and create a crass tribalism.
Pachauri may be many things, but calling him slime or a creep makes skeptics look petty, don’t we have a better approach.
Since when has name calling assisted a debate, in a positive and scientific direction? (OK fair do’s – they started it with the ‘D’ word, and the papers ran with it, shame on them, lets not join them eh?)

Ref – Nigguraths (15:30:27) :
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“Pachauri is a symptom of the corruption that the global warming movement engenders – he is not the cause of anything. His resignation wont change anything. His continued presence actually greatly weakens the AGW movement. Pachauri shot his own foot with his defence of the IPCC report without checking background, before Copenhagen. He would have done that however strong the expose be at that point. Anybody in his position would have done the same..”
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Fully agree. Pachauri is only one of many thousands who rule our world via the ‘United Nations’ mega-bureaucracy. He is benign as long as he is paid and left alone to ‘make a little on the side’. If you threaten him his coworkers and the full weight of UNWOWI (United Nations Workers of the World International) will descend upon you and make you wish you’d been born in Antarctica and had never left.
The only problem with the United Nations is the Secretariat and the General Assembly. Scrap these two minor institutions and it might not be so bad. Think about it.