From the this sounds familiar department…comes this hot, steamy, but not climatic turn of events, along with the near immediate disappearance of the story down the memory hole.
Via Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on the front page of India’s The Economic Times comes word of the charges:
The complainant, who works as a research analyst at the New Delhi-based energy think tank, has cited unwanted physical advances.
Oddly, the link to the original story at The Economic Times, here…
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/TERI-director-general-RK-Pachauri-faces-harassment-charges-by-29-year-old-female-employee/articleshow/46280147.cms
…seems to have been disappeared, and now displays a “404”. Using web search on The Economic Times still reveals the existence of the story Fortunately, I was able to archive a copy from Google cache, and it is in the PDF below:
TERI director-general RK Pachauri faces harassment charges by 29-year-old female employee – The Economic Times (PDF via Google cache)
Update: The article can still be found here: http://www.pressreader.com/india/economic-times/textview
(h/t to reader Bart)
So either the editors learned that somehow the story wasn’t true and pulled it, or there has been some legal or political pressure, perhaps from the U.N., to quash the story. It seems the original article didn’t contain any mention of Pacahuri’s U.N. IPCC involvement, only his role in TERI.
Maybe they seriously believed this claim from the article:
Pachauri has denied all the allegations and said he’s been a victim of hacking. “The said email has indicated misuse of my computer resources and communication devices, without my permission or consent,” he said in a response to ET’s queries. “From your email, I have come to know the factum that my computer resources including my email ids, mobile phone and WhatsApp messages have been hacked and that unknown cyber criminals have gone ahead and have unauthorisedly accessed my computer resources and communication devices and further committed various criminal activities.”
UPDATE: From The Economic Times Twitter Feed comes this announcement:
But, this episode is reminiscent of Pachauri’s steamy potboiler sex novel A Return to Almora:
IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel
The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India, where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians has “endangered the fragile ecosystem”.
But talk of “denuding” is a clue of what is to come.
By page 16, Sanjay is ready for his first liaison with May in a hotel room in Nainital. “She then led him into the bedroom,” writes Dr Pachauri.
“She removed her gown, slipped off her nightie and slid under the quilt on his bed… Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate.
“May slipped his clothes off one by one, removing her lips from his for no more than a second or two.
“Afterwards she held him close. ‘Sandy, I’ve learned something for the first time today. You are absolutely superb after meditation. Why don’t we make love every time immediately after you have meditated?’.”
A book review about this potboiler had this to say:
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.
Speaking of Guru’s The Love Guru has this relevant quote from a hockey team member: “there’s no connection between hockey and my love life”
Turn this around, just for one second. Pick a white dude, a AGW skeptic, married with kids, a regular joe, like our host Anthony. Now put him on a seat in a subway with sunglasses and he could just as easily be shoved to the floor, handcuffed, and arrested for “thinking rape” because he was “manspreading” and being a creepy middle aged white dude.
Then…the thought police leftists, would have a field day especially if he was an AGW a$$-kicker. There would be mob rule outside his solar powered home, effigies burning on the end of a hangman’s nooses, followed by legislation to make “Watts” a swear word.
I see that is not just a possibility, but a fantasy to be engineered & enjoyed by the likes of Mann and Jone and Gleick.
Absolutely spot on sir.
Well done.
Well said. But “manspreading” in winter is could result in diminishing returns… 🙂
I must admit, I just learned this term. I didn’t know that sitting on a chair such that I don’t injure myself with the weight of my own inner thighs was rape. I just found out that men.. sitting… is rape. And Sunglasses is a “stare-rape” tool. I can see it happen…Imagine if Anthony is pulled over for littering!!! The entire EPA will be on him.
Presumption of innocence . . . ?
That is an Anglo-American concept. It ain’t green.
That’s the null hypothesis!
It is. So we should apply it.
Partisan politics is no reason to abandon one’s principles.
I guess before addressing the issue of whether or not he is innocent or guilty, one should ask whether it is known whether he and his fellow IPCCers have been known to smear opponents in a cold, calculating and cruel manner??
Over the past several years I have made a conscious effort to not be cynical about climate focused stories.
But today I glory in cynical ecstasy at the implications coming from the play out of the media charades on a report of U.N. IPCC chair Rajenda Pachauri being involved with sexual harassment.
Time to write a smutty fable where one of the climate change cause’s emperors has no clothes . . . . oops
John
Pachauri talks about hacking. But fails to address these bits in my bold. Maybe a handwriting expert can take a look.
This has nothing to do with climate but imagine if a well known sceptic was accused by his female employee. There would be no end to it.
Let me explain this.
There’s no evidence, there’s an allegation. It was duly reported, with what appears to be rather normal tones (not a witch hunt, just a description of the allegations). Then after an investigation it was found he was “hacked”, and cleared of all wrongdoing.
Except, WAIT! That last bit didn’t happen. An attempt was made to “disappear” the story without any resolution.
That is [why] this is wrong, and why it needs to be exposed.
Isn’t it odd how my brain can say “why” (last sentence), but my fingers type “what”…
Reminds me of the end of the movie “Chinatown”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cWnubJ9CEw
The last paragraph in the article on the harassment complaint should be the first paragraph. She is claiming he has grabbed her body many times and forcibly kissed her, that is sexual harassment, and that is obvious to the reader. All the rest of the article about e-mails and other unwanted written communication should be after the physical harassment is detailed. The baloney claims he makes about his computer accounts being hacked into are almost irrelevant because the physical harassment is not related to computer accounts.
the computer hacking tends to show that something was going on.
Meh….
Mac the Knife,
. . . & ennui?
Oui mais… non. This is Clintonesque; so it’s entertainment.
John
Then you will enjoy this as well:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957480/Not-Mr-Vice-President-Joe-Biden-gets-handsy-Stephanie-Carter-husband-Ash-sworn-new-Defense-Secretary.html
Patchouli is a creep. So is Bin Biden. We already know that. There are all kinds of creepy men and women in politics, as reported daily in the tabloid press which they do well.
Finding tabloid jourinalism on this blog – WUWT? Meh…..
Mac the Knife,
Yeah, I can understand that the science focused high road is primarily desired at WUWT, but I can also understand that clowns are a natural cause of laughter. And, if a clown acts out while in the avant guard of the climate change corps . . . . then LMAO : )
NOTE: at the same time any victim of any harassment hopefully is being given all due consideration.
Take care.
John
More here
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/18/worlds-most-famous-yogic-railway-engineer-in-hacking-scandal/
Whereas Bolin and Watson were powerful chairmen of the IPCC, Pachauri’s incompetence has long ago reduced him to a largely irrelevant figurehead. He was on the way out anyway. Still, he is the public face of the IPCC and therefore his gaffes, the whiff of financial improprieties and now personal ones too can only further degrade the public image of climate research.
Depending on your position in the climate debate, Pachauri is the gift that keeps on giving — or with friends like Pachauri, who needs enemies.
As to the current allegations, insiders will wonder what took them so long.
If the allegation resonates by additional reports from other women in other countries then this will go super viral. Then it could not be suppressed by the local legal system in India.
John
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_blnN-QHR9C4/S0PmdYBSzwI/AAAAAAAAAP4/NOvc7GMvX1U/s400/big_WFA08_day1_S6_11_Rajendra-Pachauri.jpg
Can’t say it adds anything other than comic irony. At any rate as others are pointing out had it been a sceptic the warmists would be all over this.
Clinton ran the country well.
or
Well, Clinton ran the country.
Nice guy Bill, I personally like him, despite his politics.
Pauchari, nary a clue. Hate his politics.
Fair enough to put the article up, I guess, it is in the press.
I would close debate on it here.
It is not a Climate story but it will run well in the press. Guaranteed..
Enough commentators will make snide comments in the months to come without having 500 free hits here on the man.
Tamino did a set of similar blogs on his site awhile ago.
Why I will not organize a #YesAllWomen rally I’m not going to. Because my wife asked me not to.
Posted on June 2, 2014 . He stopped posting for 4 months.
Do you want to fall into the same moral vacuum.
Message across. Close story.
Or listen to the tripe for 3 more days..
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[trimmed, off topic.] How shite is this guys writing?
Hey, we are all being harassed by this jerk.
Not interested in mud slinging and gossip mongering about private lives. Stick to science please.
The Indian legal system really does not work [too] well for those that wish to take on powerful men , and its local power that matters , so even if true I would not hold my breath for its legal system that can kick a can a very long indeed in the future , years even decades are not usual time spans for court cases. Meanwhile the lady herself gain little out of this process while she could lose quite a bit , so its being quietly dropped is most likley . But the ‘hacking’ claim stinks to hell , but form an head of organisation where BS and self-preservation is the number one objective , it is to be expected .
Numerous peer reviewed studies report aberrant behavior attributable to climate change. Poor Rajenda, undoubtedly his behavior has been caused by climate change.
I think it will be interesting to see if the pro-global warming supporters now close ranks and continue to support Pachauri. Nobody ever gets thrown under the bus in this movement if they continue to believe.
Wow, the hacker hacked his desktop computer, his mobile phone, got access to all his mobile device ids, emails and WhatsApp and all his communications devices. I say wow, seems like a lot of things for a hacker to go after. Wonder if he also, copied his car keys, pin numbers and passport.
maybe they even copied his words?
We should be talking about this:
Great Lakes Ice Coverage Tops 80 Percent in Consecutive Years For First Time Since 1970s
http://www.weather.com/news/news/great-lakes-ice-cover-february-2015
Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 82.3 percent on Feb. 17, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest total ice coverage in records dating to 1973.
http://s.w-x.co/graph.jpg
wasn’t there also this 1996 Delhi High Court ruling?
http://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pachauri_1996_court_ruling.jpg?w=656&h=470
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/03/02/explosive-pachauri-profile-in-australian-magazine/
Without knowing the Indian legal system, it’s impossible to say whether the injunction was nefarious or not. It may be that such charges are heard by jury and the take down order comes so that jury selection is not prejudiced.
As much as I might dislike the guy I have to assume innocence. As others have pointed out, we can’t dump principles because they are inconvenient at times. I notice that some have compared it to the Null Hypothesis in science. Interesting that both law and science share a similar fundamental concept when both are also pretty unique in the planets history. Makes you wonder if there was a philosophical connection in the formative period.
I give the computer hacking excuse only a 4. While possible it lacks originality and imagination. Compare it to the far superior story from former Australian politician Craig Thompson, that his house was broken into twice. Once to steal his credit card and use it to pay for prostitutes and the second time to return the card to his wallet. (The dastardly thieves apparently did this three times, making 6 break ins in all.)
That is certainly what happens under English law and Scottish law.
So I would expect it to be the case under Indian Law too.
Icky Icky Icky
What does “inappropriate touching” mean anyway. Did he grab her by the shoulders from behind and whisper in her ear? “Smokin’ Joe” Biden did that, right out there in front of God and everybody according to recent news stories.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/17/387035292/joe-biden-gets-a-bit-too-close-to-new-secretary-of-defenses-wife
CH