Pachauri’s withdrawal from public life continues
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has today accepted Rajendra Pachauri’s resignation from the Prime Minister’s climate change council.
According to the Indian Express;
“R K Pachauri, who has been accused of sexual harassment, has resigned from the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change as well, a government statement today said.
“The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has accepted the resignation of R K Pachauri from the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change,” said the one line statement.
The Council decides on broad policy guidelines on climate change, and is headed by the Prime Minister.”
The BBC reports that an Indian court has granted Pachauri bail, while police investigate claims of sexual harassment against the beleaguered former head of the IPCC.
“An Indian court has granted interim bail to former UN climate change panel head Rajendra Pachauri, who is facing charges of sexual harassment.
The court order bans him from leaving India or entering his office while police investigate the allegations.
A female researcher has accused him of sending her inappropriate calls, emails and texts and physically molesting her.
Mr Pachauri, who resigned from his post on Tuesday, denies the accusations. He is currently in hospital.
His lawyers say he is receiving treatment for a heart condition.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31636255
We obviously wish Pachauri a speedy recovery from his heart condition. Perhaps a withdrawal from public life is for the best, the last few years, as head of the IPCC, have obviously been very difficult for Pachauri. Once the police investigation and court case is over, Pachauri may have the personal space he needs, to pursue other interests, such as his interest in writing pornographic fiction.
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And not only “who is this Dr Rajendra Pachauri?” but why isn’t he the one the IPCC’s exaggerationists** saw?
** exaggerationist is an intellectual who bases arguments primarily on the fallacy of exaggeration and oversimplification.
John
I would have rather he allow sunspot activity and other solar studies to. Be added to the annual IPCC report than go out as a possible sex offender. We will just have the same old thing after he is gone.
There might be some improvement to the panel. Just have to wait and see.
Paul
Yeah, I agree Paul, but we don’t always get what we want but sometimes we get what we need. ( Rolling Stone: Let it Bleed )
I would have preferred he step down honorably in 2010 after the Himalaya scandal and his stupid “voodoo science” BS. but he is not an honorable man and how he goes down the pan as a perv with a “voodoo” heart condition.
No instant, but karma, none the less.
Now he’s been admitted to hospital, I hope they can find a doctor qualified in voodoo science to treat his “voodoo” heart condition.
Otherwise I fear he may be “too ill to stand trial”.
I do hope they find out who “hacked” his phone and managed to send all these harassing messages. It shouldn’t be too find out who the real perp is.
could be Peter Glieck I suppose, he has form: he admitted identity theft in USA.
Now he’s been admitted to hospital, I hope they can find a doctor qualified in voodoo science to treat his “voodoo” heart condition.
Otherwise I fear he may be “too ill to stand trial”.
I think we have a consensus of expert opinion at this stage that his toupee has reached tipping point:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/02/28/mumbai-columnist-creepy-crawlie-pachauri/
Maybe could take up a position as the new head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Creepy Crawlies and oversee their up-coming 6th Harassment Report. ( IPCC HR6. )
Darn I want to see that mugshot:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/pachauri_indianclimatecounc.jpg?w=384&h=299
Pamela Gray is absolutely right. “Global warming hype is best countered with facts”. It is best to leave the ad hominem to the warmists rather than to descend into the gutter with them. There is something rather distasteful in attacking a man for his supposed sexual lapses rather than exposing his proven scientific frauds.
I have no problem listing the facts as we know them of Patchy’s documented harassing behavior (trust me, “sexual lapses” does not suffice as a descriptive here) as well as his positions on global warming. It is the veiled yet unending innuendos against the victim of sexual harassment in this thread that distract from the facts here.
I believe we should speak out when a member of our own sex acts decisively and effectively. I also believe we should speak out when a member of our own sex acts inappropriately (which some have done here). The alleged victim has acted with a level head and may have, if the allegations are true, spared any more unwelcome behavior towards other females in her working environment. More power to her. The alleged perp has a lot to answer for.
I have searched the thread and have failed to find a “hoorah” given to the alleged victim. It takes courage to bring these charges forth.
You’re right. But I’ve seen some somewhere, either on earlier threads on this site, or at Jo Nova’s or Donna’s.
You must be new to the internet.
First: He does not do any scientific research, nor does the IPCC.
Second: We should not try to join the holier-than-thou crowd. The man has got his comeuppance. Rejoice.
Expect this is not an augment about facts , it may never have been . Which is way climate ‘science’ so often either does not need them or is happy to use ‘facts’ which are nothing of the short .
I’m sure he has a secure future on the Lecher circuit. 😉
The reason Pachauri was able to stay almost twice as long in the IPCC as the minimum term of office is that the IPCC loving intellectuals embraced his cognition simplex.
Pachauri’s cognition simplex: he believed therefore anything alarmist & everything alarmist.
John
I wouldn’t get too het up about BBC, they are reporting that poor ol’ Jihadi John – the evil ISIL executioner of reporters and other innocents was a poor old lad that got hassled by MI5
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31647271
The chairman flees, sorry, retires, but the concept of this weird committee remains unchanged.
I wish him a soon recovery, so that he may refute all these allegations in court and under the eyes of the world like a man.
He probably thinks that 97% of women like him.
Based on a 77/79 respondents ( from a canvassed population of 34,000 ) who confirmed that had slept with a 74 year old railway engineer in the last 3 years. ( Other were considered ineligible to give their opinion ).
It would be great if Mr. Cook could cook some numbers in this case. It is my firm belief that at least 97,1% of Indian women have never filed a complaint against Mr. Pachauri. Consensus is on his side.
There are reportedly many text and email messages demonstrating harassment. If so, the guy is toast. Publishing lascivious novels while working for the IPCC just might have been a smallish hint of the potential problems to come.
Pee Pee Pachauri in a hospital to fix a broken Pee Pee. Ha ha.
And while there he wants to continue writing pornographic sex novels …. Nurses need to carry loaded sidearms for “Insurance”.
Wonder if Stockholm wants to withdraw the “Nobel”.
But Stockholm’s been after Julian Assange for what … going on two years now.
Maybe Pee Pee should move the the Ecuadorian Embassy in London! Pee Pee might be able to expunge his e-mails, tweets and such.
Ha ha
Just BTW: The Nobel Peace Prize is not given by “Stockholm” but by “Oslo”.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
But this does not change the fact that you can’t take that prize seriously any longer after such “zeitgeist” clowns like Pachauri, Al Gore or Obama were awarded with it. Alas, it’s a pity for the other half of laureates who deserved this title of honor indeed, as for instance Malala Yousafzai 2014.
Pachauri did not get a Nobel Prize.
@Shub Niggurath
Sure, the prize was meant for the IPCC, but he and Gore accepted the Prize medals and diplomas on the Oslo stage, so Pachauri looked (and behaved) like a Nobel laureate, at least for the public. See e.g. here:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/ipcc-photo.html
The text below the first picture reads accordingly:
“Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Al Gore (left) and Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with their Nobel Peace Prize Medals and Diplomas at the Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2007.”
Yep, how dare you? We Norwegians are very proud to have our Peace Prize. True, donated by Mr. Nobel the Swede so that the smaller brother-in-union (Norway and Sweden were in a loose union 1814-1905),should have a small bonus, he probabvly never imagined that this would be the most famous prize.
That is, not so proud these days, with the Al Gore / IPCC prize and the one to Obama, generally thought to be a way of getting Norwegian politicians to be invited to the White House.
donated by Mr. Nobel who made his money through selling high explosives used in weapons manufacture
Didn’t Prof Phil Jones get “ill” when he was found out during Climategate?
In faith, I believe he did. Generally, this is a politician’s disease, to which they succumb whenever accused of something naughty. But then, climate change is nothing if not political.
It’s those dam horrormones again. Some people just can’t control them.
Railroad engineers gotta make sure their choo-choos don’t make them go woo-woo.
Every time I see his picture, the lyrics of Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ start running through my head.
His personal climate certainly has heated up! An ironic juxtaposition, or karma?
Hmmm, in my mind it is more the graphics on the cover, not so much the text.
“Locomotive Breath” also comes to mind.
How quickly will this name, face and history be “disappeared” by the progressive organization he ran? And how quickly will the IPCC itself follow?
There is a link to “Pachauri’s full love text send to the girl” in this article:
“The Post-Pachauri World”
http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/the-post-pachauri-world/
“When the Pachauri messages came out, they read like the sex-crazed ravings of a octogenarian. Much of the initial excitement and focus has been on the sleazy aspect. But a 14-page list of electronic- and hand-written messages from the police report, filed following a complaint by the TERI employee who was their recipient, paints a damaging picture.”
I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the report, I’m just including it here.
Reminds me of David Suzuki’s contract for speaking engagements .:Specific demands were that the school surround him only with nubile “young ladies” and “dressed to impress,” “not dressed like butch security guys but dressed ‘nicely.’”
Really? Any documentation would be very interesting. As a foreigner, the word “nubile” has always tickled my….something. What, specifically, does it mean? Ok, ok, this is way off topic here om WUWT, but surely some lewdway can be allowed in this case?
He probably breathed dangerous CO2 down her neck. With his schnoz, could have been fatal.
Here are the alleged text messages from Pachauri to the 29-year-old woman.
http://www.liveindia.in/Read-Pachauri%E2%80%99s-full-love-text-send-to-the-girl
“50 Shades of Green”?
Yecchh!!!
Whatever the truth is with regard to the allegation that has been made, Jimbo’s spotted the issue that will (should) eventually hang the good doctor out to dry.
His claim is that he is innocent and any email traffic evidence that implicates him is a result of a hack of his computer. If that’s the case, no doubt it will be readily provable and he’ll be able to trumpet that fact. If not, mmm…
As Jimbo says, if there’s email traffic from the complainant going the other way complaining and warning about the approaches she had received, I for one will ask (as should any logical individual) why the doctor didn’t react in some way. I’m Mr Ordinary, and in these circumstances would have enough common sense to recognise how my reputation was in the balance and respond to the complainant’s approach by challenging it. That response would be a matter of record and I’d want that ŵrecord, especially if I were in the position held by the doctor, with all the political baggage that comes with it. The fact that he didn’t do so gives me grave doubts about the “hacking” defence that is now proferred.
No doubt all will be revealed, but if the hacking defence is disbunked, in my view the doctor will find himself more vilified for the blatant cover up lie than the sleazy but all to commonplace original offence subject of the complaint. Let’s see.
It is probably the “Voodoo Sciende” defence all over again. Or maybe he is trying to play upon the hacking of the UEA. He was in any case bound for permanent shore leave in a few months’ time. The world will probably obey the MSM and forget this case. But he will not receive all the pomp and praise when leaving the IPCC, which no doubt had been planned for a long time. Instead, he will disappear in an embarrassed silence, which will not make it easier for his successor.
Robert Scott, thanks for spotting the illogicality too. I would certainly react with astonishment if someone was sending me emails accusing me of unwanted physical and verbal advances. Maybe he did not have access to his SMS or emails for OVER 1 YEAR! and did not talk to computer support. You would think they learned something after climategate.
The other telling thing is that Pachauri has not accused her of lying. Well I can’t find it yet.