A new paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) explores recent revelations of the commercial links and associations of IPCC Chair Dr Pachauri, including his direct involvement with carbon trading as advisor to the Chicago Climate Exchange and as chairman of its Indian subsidiary. SPPI is a Washington, D.C. non-profit research and education organization.
In Dr Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC – No Fossil Fool, author Dennis Ambler shows that the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) directly benefits energy companies in India with which Pachauri has previous or present connections, demonstrating a very clear conflict of interest with his position as head of IPCC.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 to investigate the pre-determined and contentious conclusion that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are causing unprecedented warming of the planet. It has delivered four assessment reports on the state of climate science and is currently preparing a further, fifth report. The first three reports were used to underwrite the political objective of carbon trading, which translated into the Kyoto Protocol, whereby developed countries agreed commitments for reducing their emissions relative to 1990.
The protocol is due to expire in 2012, which means that the legal basis for carbon trading would then end and lucrative carbon markets would be lost unless a successor is produced. The pressure continues to try and secure a binding agreement in Cancun, Mexico, later this year.
Reports Ambler, “At stake is the long-term UN agenda of wealth transfer from rich nations to poor nations. As one of the main beneficiaries, India is in the fortunate position of having the head of one of its major energy institutions, Dr Pachauri of TERI, in charge at the IPCC, a post he has held for the last eight years. During his tenure he has actively campaigned for emissions control legislation in western countries, particularly the US. On occasions this has been in private meetings with US legislators.”
One of the many unacceptable features of the CDM, is the way in which international policy advisers, often contributors to the IPCC, and often former UN bureaucrats, suddenly appear as carbon trading consultants, in prime position to benefit from the policies they have been advocating. Says Ambler, “In a different environment this would be described as insider trading.”
Dr Pachauri has ridden the recent criticisms and vowed to stay in post until the completion of the IPCC fifth report, in 2013 or 2014. He has called for extra funding of $1 million for the IPCC to pay for spin doctors to sell the UN/IPCC message.
Concludes Ambler, “It is time for the public to realize they are being deceived on a massive scale and insist that their legislators opt out of policies which will have zero effect on climate but massive impact on their daily lives.”
The full paper can be read at: (http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/no_fossil_fool.html)
Readers here might be interested in something I’ve written, drawing a parallel between Luther and McIntyre, and defending the right of outsiders to investigate climate science: http://elizaphanian.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-for-reformation-of-science.html
“The issue is whether the current practice of peer-review is sufficient for establishing truth, or whether, in this particular case as an exemplar, the process of peer-review has been corrupted, allowing vested interests to control the flow of funding and research. In other words, in just the same way as the medieval church preserved the rhetoric of Christianity whilst collapsing into corruption and turning salvation into a cash-cow, is the scientific establishment now colluding in the covering up of malpractice in order to keep the lines of funding open?”
@Stirling English (thumb up)
@jorge (thumb down)
Conflict of interest is a matter of ethics not a judiciary issue if the activities it invokes are within the framework of the Law. Period.
Regards
P.S. Every child knows the UN is replete with crookism, nepotism, cronyism, intelligence agency-ism, and so on. IPCC is not THE exception, it is downright PROOF (material evidence). Why to wonder the Sun sets on the West? 🙁
Lots of the US Senators and Congressmen are up to their neck in these carbon schemes and other similar things too. How do so many of them start out moderately well off and retire super rich? It’s time to clean house. Where are the Nathan Hales and Thomas Paines? Alas.
Can´t help seeing a DOBERMAN!
Pachuri is just another scamster. If his “pretend science” held up on it’s own, he wouldn’t need social networking to protect his interests. He uses his name to sell soft porn. He sure isn’t Mother Theresa and he isn’t doing a single thing selflessly.
One reason many are slow to turn their back on him is they will be ashamed and embarassed.
I’ve considered nominating the last IPCC report for the UK’s Booker Prize, a contemporary fiction award, but I’ve now been told there are at LEAST three facts in it. Also it has more than one author, but perhaps the judging panel will stretch a point for an important work with TWO authors?
Dear Mr Huhne, congratulations on your cabinet appointment. I understand that you are an ardent believer in the theory of man made global warming. Now that you are in a position to take major expenditure decisions on behalf of the electorate, more than half of whom do not share your belief, can I ask you to at least study the many criticisms of AGW currently on the blogosphere. The main stream media have swallowed AGW whole and are not doing their questioning job properly.
Many of us believe in conserving the Earth’s resources,in recycling and in energy conservation but do not believe that man understands, never mind can control, the climate. It behoves you to study carefully that this so called “settled science” is fully credible before you commit our limited financial resources to a costly climate control policy.
Insider trading is not illegal, it just requires certain timing and disclosures.
To the comment that the SPPI paper seems like a “blogger’s rant”: No, this is disinformation at it’s best.
It is well written, has vitually NO inflamatory language, and has references and sources for everything in it.
If you want RANTS, see http://www.realclimate.org
Max
@jorge
I have no personal views about Ambler whatsoever. Until this morning I had never heard of him, nor of his institute. I neither like nor dislike him as an individual. I know nothing about him.
All I did was to read his article, and give my view of it. I was very disappointed with the quality of what I found.
As one who often writes and occasionally commissions, professional reports, this one is a long way from cutting the mustard. The subject would be far better served by a less emotional, calmer and more evidence-led treatment.
I recall a respected colleague’s criticism of one of my early and over-emotional attempts…’You are trying to present a rational and persuasive rationale for a particular and difficult course of action. You should not treat it like an argument in the Saloon Bar after too many bevvies’
Sadly it seems that Ambler has not yet learnt this lesson. Perhaps he is not alone.
And in case there be any doubt, my personal opinion of Pachauri is that he and the recently departed British Prime Minister both come lower than used car salesemen, journalists, estate agents and Tony Blair in my estimation. (For those outside UK, these are not professions held in high esteem on these shores). But Ambler’s piece is not a persuasive tract.
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
Yes, I saw”convicted” too-my” fruedian slip ” is showing…
Patchy needs to be tried, convicted and emprisoned like the thief he is. Too bad we can’t go for capital punishment for crimes against humanity.
At first glance I thought the headline said; “Chairman Pachauri Convicted”. I guess that was just wishful thinking.
The massive corruption throughout mankind ( government, religion, U.N.) is astounding to me. The wastefulness of it all. Is anyone immune to the temptation? Where is the accountability? Part of me just wants to lay down in a fetal position (think Radiohead’s video for “Just”) and the other part wants to storm the “Bastille”, so to speak. I’m certain that Pachauri (and Gore, etc.) have no inner turmoil with their conscience, mainly because you have to have one.
Great confessions. Freudian slip is mentioned. Anthony and the team are brilliant is playing with words.
The point regarding conflicted vs convicted actually ties to the science or pretend science.
It is called selective perception. The reflex response for the warmistas is to selectively see every newsworthy event as a confirmation of global war,ming. Snow in Denver today is warming. A chill into New england today is warming. The fluud in Nashville was warming as was the much lower rainfall amounts 100 miles from Nashville were also warming. Malfunction of the bomb at Times Square was tied to pollution that came from warming and hampered the flash point of the bomb.
Patchouli was a New Age perfume which came from India, Pachauri is a New Age prophet who came from India too but he doesn´t smell as good as Patchouli.
Gail Combs says:
May 12, 2010 at 5:19 am
They are the most selected representatives of how to achieve the “american dream” (at least its New Age version -a more philosphical one which it does not involve working hard -that part was removed because it was too dirty for fine and nice people-)
Can´t help thinking he needs a bath!
Judith Curry for head of IPCC. She may be an AGWer, but at least she has an open mind and a willingness to engage in respectful dialogue.
I guess this is all old news, but here it is anyway
Intercontinental Exchange Announces Acquisition of Climate Exchange
Under the terms of the acquisition, Climate Exchange shareholders will receive 7.50 pounds Sterling in cash for each share in Climate Exchange held at today’s date, valuing the entire existing issued and to be issued share capital of Climate Exchange at approximately 395 million pounds ($604 million(1)).
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/intercontinentalexchange-announces-acquisition-of-climate-exchange-92483854.html
Enneagram says: “Can´t help seeing a DOBERMAN!”
Which is the answer to the question: “What is brown and black, and looks good on Chairman Pachauri?”
[Disclaimer: recycled lawyer joke]
Guess who can buy an even bigger mansion in Montecito? (Keeping up with the Gores.)
Anthony Hanwell says: Re Huhne the new climate tzar…..
Better still he might consult the following website http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm
and scroll down to the “generation fuel type table – wind” to discover that today the total contribution to the national grid from those nonsensical excrescences was 0.2% – exactly the same as the average that they contributed from mid December to mid March, the coldest period of the UK winter.
I have no doubt that this blog is monitored by the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change and I challenge them here and now to justify the investment in the currently operating plant and to present their case for the planned expansion of a further £100Bn on 7,500 bird shredders.
They seem to have enough money to take full and sometimes double full page adverts in the national press on a regular basis, so why not dedicate just one of these to a cogent fully costed input and output account so that we the taxpayers can make our minds up.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118953
“Another carbon-trading scam tying back to Pachauri involves Great Britain’s richest man, Lakshmi Mittal, an Indian citizen who resides in London.
Mittal stands to gain a £1 billion windfall, not from the operation of his ArcelorMittal steel company, but from carbon credits given his company – at no cost – by the EU emissions-trading scheme.”