WUWT readers may recall this article and photo from earlier this year:
IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel
Click for more photos from his book release.
Well at least one person bought his book Return to Almora, and has, ahem, given an interesting review of it. Here’s an excerpt:
Lucky for him, Sanjay never encounters any serious criticism in this book. No one accuses him of scientific fraud, no one seriously disagrees with his ‘research’, no one takes him to task over the fee structures of his Meditation Huts (or whatever he calls his 400 plus franchised enlightenment outlets). It seems likely that if controversy ever came Sanjay’s way he would respond badly. First he’d try lofty, above it all condescension; when that failed to stifle opponents he’d result to angry and unthinking vituperation. In neither case would he show much talent for detailed, evidence-based argument. At the end, he would vanish from the scene, looking and sounding hurt, and go off to seek inner peace among the forgiving silence of the Himalayan hills. There, where the Force is strong, he would heal. The gurus and saddhus would throw themselves at his feet; women would batter down his door; memories of his past incarnations would distract him from unpleasant events; from time to time he would consider ways to help the poor and spread the light.
Read the whole review here at The American Interest
h/t to WUWT reader Ken Smith
Railroading: To force, push forward unduly, as a person into a particular course of action, a bill through parliament etc.
Here’s the link to the Amazon page for the book ($32 new, $14 used):
http://www.amazon.com/Return-Almora-Dr-R-K-Pachauri/dp/8129115743/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282550929&sr=1-1
“Hurry, only 2 in stock”
That review was not peer reviewed.
Does it include the red silk hanky again???
😉
Many a scientist/policy maker has had a seriously eccentric streak. Let’s not get too distracted – but one wonders about the book’s carbon footprint 🙂
I just realised after I clicked post that a dozen or so other people tied up in moderation have probably just made the same joke. So mods- please delete if necessary. I don’t want to see this line repeated all through the thread. 😉
(sure to be a few ‘grey literature’ references as well)…
[of topic ~ ctm]
That was indeed a very good book review. Pachy it would seem has an ego as big as Texas, and a hide as thick as a Pachyderm.
Comedy gold! Thank you, Walter Russell Mead for your profound intelligence and gift with the English language.
Roger Knights says:
August 23, 2010 at 2:02 am
I hope the ‘used’ copies come with a knife to separate any pages that may be ‘stuck together’ for any reason…..
Seems like Patchy’s opus is as shallow, superficial, and unthinking as the entire AGW enterprise.
I will not read it – life is too short – but I enjoyed Walter Russell Mead’s highly entertaining review.
I don’t know what he is up to now, but please next time without a picture of Rasta Rostelli please? Think of the childeren.
Wouldn´t it be better to listen to Dr Tim Ball in his latest interview than talk about this nonsense?
The Complexity of Ocean Exploration
by Kim Greenhouse on August 17, 2010
http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2010/timball/
You just had to resurrect that whole sordid story from January, didn’t you?
Oh well, at least that well written review made it worthwhile as Mr. Mead thoroughly shreds Mr. Pachauri’s pompous smut novel — or is it a self-aggrandizing semi-autobiographical tale?
So, what’s up with the “Dr. Pachauri has vanished down a rabbit hole, though he may pop up again on August 30, when the UN assessment of the IPCC report will be released?” I don’t think I’ve heard of it.
Excerpts (there’s not much worth excerpting) from http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iN5ZjOI1WOwOIJNxNldE56stdqTQ
PARIS – A UN-requested review of the world’s top panel of climate scientists, accused of flaws in a key assessment on global warming, will be unveiled on August 30, the investigating committee said on Friday.
The five-month probe into “the processes and procedures” of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being conducted by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), gathering 15 leading science academies.
Its report will be handed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri in New York on August 30, and will be followed by a press conference, according to a statement for the IAC by Britain’s Royal Society.
“What are the chances this will be another whitewash?” I rhetorically asked no one in particular.
Meanwhile, the rather spineless Daily Telegraph has printed an “apology” of sorts in the face of demands from the most rapacious of the UK’s rapacious libel lawyers.
But all is not what it seems:-
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/08/non-apology.html
Pachauri isn’t just a clown. He appears to be a seriously nasty piece of work.
@Robert says: August 23, 2010 at 4:05 am
“I don’t know what he is up to now, but please next time without a picture of Rasta Rostelli please? Think of the childeren.”
Actually, I use a picture of him on the mantle shelf to keep the grandkids away from the fire.
Works a treat.
An oldie but a goodie! ☺
JER0ME says:
August 23, 2010 at 3:15 am
It’s not that good of a book.
Let’s not forget Patchy’s greatest work of fiction is still to come – the next IPCC report.
I am sure that Real Climate, Gavin, and Tamino will mount a convincing defense.
Sorry, but I won’t be reading it, joke or not. Occasionally I want to slip into a woman’s fantasy book and this read would likely spoil the benefits of that endeavor for the rest of my life.
If he pays me 5000 Dollars, I agree to read his book!
I’m just reading Franco Selleri!
Is it just me, or does that picture look just a wee bit Satanic?
Fortunately, it’s the end of the Kali Yuga era!