From the “the hornier they are the harder they fall” department: The head of the United Nations climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, has stepped down amid sexual harassment allegations.
The BBC reports as of 12 noon GMT today:
The head of the United Nations climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, has stepped down amid sexual harassment allegations.
A spokesman for Mr Pachauri told the IPCC that he had resigned from his position with immediate effect.
Indian police are investigating a complaint from a 29-year-old woman working in Mr Pachauri’s office in Delhi.
Mr Pachauri has denied the allegations.
Lawyers for the woman say the harassment included unwanted emails as well as text and phone messages.
On Monday, the 74-year-old had pulled out of a high-level IPCC meeting in Kenya because of “issues demanding his attention in India”, as an IPCC spokesman put it.
The IPCC has since confirmed that the meeting will instead be chaired by its vice-president Ismail El Gizouli.
Mr Pachauri had chaired the IPCC since 2002. In 2007 he collected the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organisation for its work in the scientific assessment of the risks and causes of climate change.
We all knew it was simply a matter of time.
h/t to WUWT readers John V. Wright and Harold Ambler
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Since everything they’ve ever done has been an orchestrated pack of lies, I’m assuming this is business as usual. He’s stepping down without having to admit to the world what a scientific fraud this whole exercise was. I can see why he would exit via the open back door, so to speak. What world class slimeball is next up?
Climate change causes increased creepy behavior, with overtones of molestation. Raj is a victim of skyrocketing CO2.
Don’t forget about the “increased risk of middle aged male suicide” we read about a few days back…
This whole story is about as distasteful as you can get. Yes it had to be revealed and all that. But the stain it leaves on science and those who wish to practice it honorably and without bias must now scrub this putrid stench off, indeed if that can be done.
Ugh
Pamela Gray
Actually it is not a bad thing. It may effect the IPCC but not science. Pachauri will be linked with the IPCC. The man is not the organisation but the MSM will not separate it. Those sharks will attack him and the IPCC at the same time. Probably a win for sceptics and God knows we need something on our side to battle the MSM bs..
The MSM will separate Mr. P from the IPCC, but it willl be more difficult for them in the future to smear sceptics with “guilt by association”. The MSM will report the case and put the lid on it (Guardian does not allow any comments on their article).
He just promised human induced warming.
I applaud (or should I say clap) Pachauri’s resignation.
It seems that it’s not only temp data that the IPCC fiddles with…
I hope he doesn’t have clap. That would be gilding the lily.
I suspect there will be attempts to adjust the tramp data as well.
The man is an idiot and deserves everything he gets.
I am 65 years old and have been teaching in a chinese university for 10 years. I have had numerous offers from young girls ( I am handsome) and didn’t go there. Am I a saint? No. I am just not an idiot. Universities in China don’t care if students have relationships with students, as long as there is no ‘drama’ about it. The laws have changed recently but no-one really cares about it that much. I am still not interested even though the girls are very cute. Too much trouble and too many possible problems.
I could possibly understand if he was 24 or 34. I would still think he’s an idiot. But, [snip] he is 74. He has to be suffering some mental disorder with his bs conversations.
He should go away and have a wank or organise some prostitute or something. I am sure there are many lovely Indian girls out there who would be happy to satisfy him (for ever).
Maybe he wants what he can’t get. I suggest he joins the rest of the human race and gets over it. Wanker
Self-center4ed, fantasy-crazed, ferret-faced creep. (Talking about his climate work.)
Sounds like things were heating up
I guess Pachauri can always blame global warming for his touchy, feely ways on young, innocent women who were just trying to make a living.
What is reallly surprising is that the BBC reported because they have not said a word about this since it began (the scandal) last week. If fact no major US or British paper has covered this (MSM I Mean) which shows their complicity in the AGW scam clearly.
Guardian does, they have realized it is no good to silence the case, it would be the opposite of damage control. It is better for them to write about it (in a very quiet way, not as if they would have done if a sceptic had been accused of this) and hope it will blow over. No doubt a sensible tactic.
I love that you all think he’s guilty, without evidence. Ironic, no?
Carbon dioxide is considered being guilty without evidence as well. So what?
GET IN Non Nomen, you will do for me!
Guilty as charged or guilty of arrant stupidity, which is the same thing. Several years of contact with her and the only ‘hacking’ was his conversations with her. No other conversations in the world that he had were ‘hacked’. Give me a break
Do not say all. We don’t know he did it. And some of us have said so.
But we do know that this is embarrassing for an organisation that claims moral authority for its SPMs.
Also the observation that he confesses Climate Change as is his religion is important. As well as blasphemous.
He should avoid Saudi Arabia.
But saving the planet is so much more important than minor infractions…
I also have no opinion to express on his guilt regarding the accusations. I am entirely ignorant of the prevailing Indian law, so I can’t even comment on the process. My only comment is that in terms of IPCC policy and practices, the resignation and replacement of Pachauri will make no difference.
The lack of transparency, political selection of principal authors, copious citation of activist “grey” literature, and claims of diplomatic immunity to FOIA requests will all continue as before.
If you like your Global Warming Alarmism, you can keep it.
… and if you don’t like your Global Warming Alarmism, well you can still keep it.
No one can be sure until there is a verdict. But consider all the media blaze he was in for when he would be leaving the IPCC, all the glamour and praise from politicians and greenies. I doubt he would refrain frmo all this if he was in a position to easily defend himself against the accusations.
Who is accused (that, we know) ot what, precisely? When, where, with whom, by whom? The principles of press agencies should apply. The journalists -and some other persons- are a bit shy at telling us what it’s all about.
You haven’t done much reading on the internet (Indian newspapers). There is enough information to draw your own conclusion. Unless, of course, you don’t want to believe it. I read what I read from many sources and draw my own conclusions
Indeed good news. But we know this idiot and sometimes it is better the devil you know than the one you don’t. i.e. who will replace him? Maybe Bankeymoonie. ☺
No matter, this still taints the IPCC and adds doubt to its credibility.
feeling hot hot hot…
Stop reading his novels and seeing 50 Shades of grey.
Pachauri had claimed someone hacked into his online account[s]. If a handwritten note was part of the harassment then he would have had to wriggle out of that.
On the 18th February 2015 it was reported
Maybe the physical advances were hacked too? Hacked hands…
Did she ever reply to the alleged communication?
I just flashed on something….
During the discovery process of the sexual harrasement investigation, all of Pachauri’s computer hard drives and e-mail accounts will be confiscated….
Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if Pachauri’s sexcapades inadvertently led to the discovery of scientific corruption at the IPCC?
He is probably not privy to the lies. He is just a CEO of an organisation and doesn’t really have a clue about anything(my experience of many CEOs). He just wants to use his position to ‘stick his end’ into a junior staffer. Good luck if you can get away with it. Oops! Didn’t work that time.
Going by my own expertise (watching the teevee), that would be inadmissible.
I would much rather he’d resigned amid allegations of institutional corruption and scientific fraud.
I’m glad I’m not a woman. I’m not sure I would have welcomed his advances.
I may have to reassess my thinking. You mean most women don’t throw themselves on the ground, wet and expecting sexual exstacy with a 74 year old man? I think I will kill myself.
Small potatoes, Bill Clinton is still the gold standard against which all other horn dogs are measured.
And he’s a rockstar for it!
He comes up wanting. Although I will grant he had the balls to do it as the President of the USA (while in office).
Well, Bollywood or not, you just can’t beat the Americans in that game.
Well, I’m not so sure. All we know is (besides more than a few credible rape accusations) is Clinton molested at least 2 of his White House staff.
Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and France’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn seem to be giving our guy a run for his money.
‘Small potatoes, Bill Clinton’
Really? Funny. 🙂
The hockey stick got him down.
…and Pachaurigate is a woman.
Patchy’s resignation letter is here…
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/150224_Patchy_letter.pdf
…courtesy of Donna Laframboise:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/02/24/rajendra-pachauris-resignation-letter/
Adios, Patchy. No novelist, other that yourself, would have bothered to invent a character like you.
Sometimes reality beats fiction. Like in climate change.
What about the unwanted harassment of science and science process?
The most Pachauri will get is a slap on the wrist or some fine. He didn’t actually do anything apart from the occasional touching. Probably some annoying perv that didn’t accept ‘no’. It was true love from his part. The reason the girl was resistant was because he chose the wrong words and wrong time to communicate with her. Not his fault. The stupid bitch should have known he truly loved her and cared for her. He showed much patience by doing this over an extended period of time. Stop picking on a man in love.
It is alleged that there was some kind of ‘forcibly kissing’. I suppose it’s touching by another name.
Maybe our man Pachy got real life and fictional all mixed up. He thinks the IPCC reports belong in the non-fiction section of your local library.
Is he dementing?
Appears to have been quite a hacking job. The question is why now? Why has this been covered up for so long, only to break now as the world races towards a legally binding agreement?
Sad to see him go. I mean, who better than a railroad engineer to drive a gravy train? On the plus side Geico is getting another caveman.
I think his resignation letter should be described as “Take the money and run”. Sexual harassment is only one aspect of the malfeasance perpetrated by this fraud. His and Al gores climb to wealth was built on the back of AGW. Why these obvious conflicts of interest is of no concern is mind boggling.
So I get a few scientists to claim the road salt used in winter could cause the zippity frog harm. I petition the government for relief for the zippity frog, greens come to the rescue of the zippity frog and oh by the way I have a company that has developed a product that may counteract the effect of road salt on zippity frogs. I make a bundle, even though it was never really clear if any zippity frogs were in danger and everyone is happy except the taxpayer who would rather have money spent on safe non-icy roads rather than perhaps averting possible ambiguous harm to zippity frogs.
Replace road salt with CO2, the zippity frog with climate and you get the idea.
They should also follow the money with Patchy.