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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For the sake of holding onto any residual credibility left in the IPCC after the Copenhagen failure in December 2009, GW crusaders should have insisted Pachauri leave the IPCC in December 2009. That he hung on for a little over 5 more years was a boon to skeptics and a liability to CAGW consensus worshippers.
So, who is on the short list to permanently replace Pachauri?
My thoughts on considerations for replacing Pachauri:
a) If there is no formal AR6 (as in one produced on the same schedule and in similar format as FAR, SAR, AR3, AR4, AR5) then the profile of the next IPCC leader will be almost zero. So, that means even Lewandowsky puppeteer John Cook could be just as inept as Pachauri was.
b) If the IPCC charter remains to produce more full scale ARs, then Pachauri’s replacement cannot be a hard scientist, it is too late for that to work. His replacement will be a senior bureaucrat from some innocuous backwater organization.
c) China as the home country of the next IPCC leader would have many cunning and intriguingly layered aspects.
d) Brian Williams (temporarily suspended NBC news anchor) could be almost as good a fabulist for the IPCC as Pachauri was.
e) Pick a new IPCC leader who wants to relocate the IPCC HQ to a base on the dark side of the moon where they cannot directly see the Earth . . . you know the old adage ‘out of site, out of mind’.
Have fun, it is the comedy of comedies, the IPCC.
John
Spelling error correction to ‘John Whitman on February 24, 2015 at 11:05 am’ :
” . . . you know the old adage ‘out of
sitesight, out of mind’.”John
As always Mark Steyn says it better than everyone else.
http://www.steynonline.com/6826/fake-nobel-laureate-facing-sex-arrest-for
If you really think about it this guy and the IPCC Anthropogenic agenda is world rape.
The worse scandal of all is the Antropogenic Climate Change theory!
Googled “Pachauri resigns” and WUWT came up third after the Guardian and BBC. That’s how little coverage it’s getting in US papers. –AGF
Hard to say, false allegations do occur. In ON about 9.0 % of sexual abuse allegations are false. The OPP officer coordinating such matters is a barracuda against false claims, as she believes they really hurt many of the valid claims (the 91 %).
Revenge is a typical motive. (Some people get whacko – in the disgusting case of the McMartin school in California the first claimant was psychologically troubled, her allegations were bizarre so should have been investigated immediately.)
A case in court in Vancouver BC accusing a former school teacher, since then a prominent official in sports, found that two of the claimants were enrolled in schools hundreds of miles away at the time of the alleged offenses. The third dropped her claim after evidence was revealed to her. Theoretically possible I suppose that they got time confused, less likely place, but I have not seen details.
So while I’d like to see the IPCC jerk bounced firmly and disgraced, it is early to predict the outcome. (Since the whole climate alarmist scheme is unravelling anyway he’d be wise to duck out, but as a True Believer he may soldier on. Of course, if the court system in India is as slow as it is here it’ll take years to decide his guilt or innocence.)
Clarifying: disgraced for valid cause.
I read he has been accused of many ethical errors, and now several women have come forward to support the claimant’s accusation of inappropriate behaviour to females.
(In the case of the jerk air personality of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation there seems to be fire beneath the smoke, but he gets his day in court eventually, meanwhile is out of the job.)
Pachauri’s resignation would seem to remove him from the IPCC for good, especially if his lawyer’s claim of serious health problems is not exaggeration. (Hard to tell from single words like “coronary”.)
Let’s keep an eye on how the court proceedings pan out. We may learn interesting things that we haven’t been privy to yet.
Couldn’t have happened to a sexier guy…/s
Rolf Harris was stripped of his Australian “honours” after sexual harrasment charges were proven (He’s in gaol now). Will Rajendra Pachauri have his Nobel peace prize and other awards and honours stripped too if proven to be guilty (And hopfully sent to gaol)? Not been reported in Australian MSM, but I do feel there is some distraction going on with Willi Soon (So far not reported in Australia) and Abbott (I feel he is about to lose the leadership of the LNP and the postion of PM sadly) under attack in the media.
Defenders of the climate faith are now claiming that the personal indiscretions of Dr. Pachauri are irrelevant to the matter of climate change. While strictly speaking this may be true, his behavior is nonetheless very relevant to the credibility of the IPCC. Those who put ethics aside in seeking to gratify their personal desires are unlikely to restrict such behavior to only one narrow area of activity and are not comfortable with those who adhere to a higher standard of ethics. In positions of leadership they tend to surround themselves with others of similar ilk and are prone to preside over corrupt administrations. Pachauri’s resignation only serves to confirm the already well founded suspicion of dubious integrity associated with the IPCC. One wonders how much more blatant the IPCC corruption must become before sovereign nations begin to themselves find the integrity to disassociate from it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VgcxE9Lpw
I am utterly astonished that the BBC would even report this.
PATCHING THE QUILT
Old Patchy’s gone and I for one
Will not be shedding any tears,
He can now play with trains all day
Have his mores reviewed by peers;
No more reign ‘oer the gravy train
That’s pulled out of Delhi station,
The young girls there will say a prayer
Of thanks for his resignation.
So drink a toast or call it Prost!
A small win for proper science,
The Orsted in the Hydra head
Will mean logic’s misappliance;
Bet your house ‘gainst a torn blouse
That yet another snake will rise,
Pen a paean to Goddess Gaean
And corrupt right up to their eyes.
Scams come home to the Dome of Rome
Where it started the Agenda,
This Pope’s on board with one accord
Global Warming’s new Defender;
Who ‘they’ can hatch to follow Patch
Wont matter to us Realists,
They’ll find a clone to match Capone
Climate scientists are surrealists.
Patrick Healy
Those swollen climate chakras get pretty uncomfortable, I guess. Who knew?
Do people get the Al Gore reference? That did not make it big in the news…
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/06/gore-pleaded-with-masseuse-to-release-his-second-chakra/
It was getting warm in his pants and so he projected that onto the whole world.
I was wondering whether he’s using this as a way to get out before the brown stuff hits the fan. But then I read this piece of news on the BBC and guess he must see this as a chance to get in on something where the money looks like continuing to roll. He’s probably better qualified than he was for the IPCC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-31635901
Pachauri being brought low not because of his junk science but because of his sexual peccadilloes is like Al Capone being caught for tax evasion.
Sexy Sadie, you’ll get yours yet, no matter how big you think you are
Absolute power corrupts absolutely…in more ways than one. Nice gold course you own, Pachauri!
correction…golf course .