Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole – Disgraced former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri has struck back at accusations he has been , with claims that he was set up by his opponents.
According to The Guardian;
Faced with prison, ruin and disgrace when his case comes before the Delhi courts next month, Pachauri has resigned from the IPCC and stepped back from Teri, the huge energy research institute that he founded and which has taken solar lighting to hundreds of millions of Indians. Meanwhile, his many enemies are revelling in his discomfort, his health has suffered and he has been subject to death threats and demonstrations by women’s groups.
His accuser, who cannot be named, is a science graduate. She says he besieged her with offensive messages, emails and texts in the 16 months she spent working with him. In February 2015, she gave police a cache of several thousand electronic messages as evidence.
She says she rejected Pachauri’s “carnal and perverted” advances. “On many occasions, Dr Pachauri forcibly grabbed my body, hugged me, held my hands, kissed me and touched my body in an inappropriate manner,” she told police.
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Until now, Pachauri has said nothing about the case beyond denying all the charges, and claiming that his emails and computers had been hacked or misused. Now, however, in a series of emails with the Observer and in one meeting in London, he claims that his accuser was acting for money, and was probably set up to trap him by persons unknown.
He claims that she had access to all his five email accounts, and to his electronic files which included personal correspondence and many poems that he had written over the years.
“What is disturbing [is] that right from the first day over a period of about 16 months she was creating and assembling an archive of messages, which to anyone would seem very unusual. As far as I know, the emails, text messages etc that she collected were personal, semi-personal and only in a few cases official,” he says.
He claims it would have been easy for someone to have assumed his identity and sent messages seemingly from him to her, without his knowledge.
In my opinion Pachauri’s defence is implausible. Quite apart from the confused nature of Pachauri’s claim, in which he appears to suggest he was entrapped and hacked at the same time (so which perverted messages were sent by Pachauri, as part of the “entrapment” process, and which messages were sent by hackers?), it simply seems implausible that the alleged victim received perverted sexual messages over a period of 16 months, without mentioning it to someone.
If you received suggestive, perverted messages from a friend or colleague, messages which seemed completely out of character, surely the first thing you would do is tell your friend or colleague that something was wrong. At the very least you would ask them to stop, or if it seemed utterly implausible that they were sending such messages, you would tell them their account had been hacked.
If your polite request to stop making lewd suggestions was rebuffed, and you were worried about your job and reputation, then the obvious next step would be to collect evidence that you were the victim of sexual harassment – especially if the perpetrator was an authority figure. So in my view there is nothing odd about the fact that the alleged victim has a large record of messages received from Pachauri, which she submitted to the police, when her alleged situation finally became unbearable.
This is not the first time Climate Alarmists have attempted to deflect criticism of their conduct with wild conspiracy theories. Perhaps conspiracist ideation is what climate alarmists do, when they are caught with their pants down, metaphorically or otherwise, when there is no reasonable defence for their actions.
If you have any lingering doubts about who the victim in this case is, consider the credibility destroying gaffs Pachauri has made over the years, such as his ridiculous melting Himalayan glacier claim. Pachauri was far more valuable to skeptics as the bungling Chairman of the IPCC, than he will be as a forgotten nobody. His entertaining IPCC clown show will be missed.
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My wife says, that excuse won’t work.
Ah the “indian” male exit. It was her fault!
Poor old Rajendra Pachauri has been in trouble recently. Hope this makes him feel better.
Come, come ladies and gentlemen; where is your sense of compassion? Dirty old men need love too, you know!
Change a few key words here and there and it could be an excuse for climate model failure.
This would be a fitting place for his incarceration.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-to-iceland-where-bad-bankers-go-to-prison
“You make the work environment hotter than El Nino. Do you want to adjust the shaft of the latest hockey stick?”
-Dr. Pantsdowni
His sexual crimes have not harmed, as many people, as his climate crimes. GK
Next thing, Old Patchy will be claiming his assistant ghost wrote his seedy book then published it without telling him
Pachauri is so desperate, why would anyone hatch a ludicrous 2 year plan to convince Pachauri to become an alleged pervert control freak?
So someone cunningly used a woman, who was ordered to not invite relations in order to dray in this good man who upon being faced with such womanly wiles that he was overpowered and became the sleazy corrupt pervert he did.
The script of Batman v Superman was better, and that is saying a lot!
Batman v Superman made more money.
Patchy’s knowledge of email appears to be superficial. The transmission path, ie, the IP address or the DNS name of each server which handled that message, is contained in the header of that message. Tracing its origins is a piece of cake … Email clients never show this info, but it’s in there and visible when you look at the raw text.
The prosecutors probably know this. Patchy may learn it during his trial.
This was pointed out last year here and elsewhere. It’s amazing that Oreskes et al. and the interviewers at the Guardian and others associated with them aren’t aware of this email characteristic. It’s something that’s been discussed in other contexts for over ten years too.
Dr Pachauri has clearly been set up by the Fossil fuel industry, Big Oil, the Koch brothers and a media that is hostile to Climate Science, all working together in one vast, coordinated global conspiracy.
Yeah….
All “class” this article is. So we are having record temps and lowest arctic ice and the “science site” is looking the other way and would rather dig in the dirt. So what is the point of all this? Is it to somehow imply that because one man may or may not have stepped over a line, then everyone who accepts the obvious reality of CC is somehow tainted by his behaviour? Have we really stooped to this level in the debate? Oh dear.
No one is forcing you to read it. Anthony posts hundreds of timesmore of scientifically based articles refuting CAGW but here you are whining about one of the few that is purely political.
The Original Mike M
This is not a political commentary, it is muck raking and it minimizes/devalues the better articles that are written here.
The problem is that so many of the leaders of the AGW “movement” are having similar problems regarding their public morality.
If these guys are really the best your side can dig up, then perhaps it’s time to find a new gravy train.
I see simple Simon is back and still trying to convince us that the world is not what we see, but rather what the models predict it should be.
“All “class” this article is”
Do you really think this is about the meaningless behavior of one man?
Please read and comment on my comments.
What does they tell you about the star climatists? What does it tell you Naomi O.’s self awareness?
What does it tell you about ideation? Who ideates now? (I love that word.)
This is psycho-sociological seismography.
Look Simon 1:09, if you are truly concerned about the quality of content here, a simple solution.
Stop posting.
You are attempting to change the subject, nice bit of concern trolling there, whats the matter?
Your international spokesman turns out to be a rather odious creep, but you want to discuss the current alarmist talking points instead?
Get some better talking points, fool,
According to previous Team IPCC ™ proclamations; There is no Arctic Ice.It all melted years ago.
And your “record high” temperatures are way below IPCC projections.
I see you attempt to defend the indefensible, the one man erred defence.
Sure and 2500 IPCC “experts” looked the other way.
All the snickering and innuendo pointed at Patchy here is still way classier than your pathetic trolling.
Are you paid?
Cause you are sad, your employers,if any, should get a refund.
Now if only others would follow Pachauri’s lead –
Anyway, where’s Lewandowski? Come on, Lew, there’s a paper in this.
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Woman in a Push-Up Bra is a Agent of Big Oil – Therefore, Climate Science is Sound.
I love the rhetoric of the “progressive” “feminist” reply: push-ups, young girls predators, old male victim, conspiracy.
And yet, they will still do the “Republicans war on women” thing next week.
And the “Republicans don’t accept reality, Republicans believe in fairy-tales (world is 6000 years old) so Republicans can’t do science” thing.
What’s next? “The Koch brothers have been using women to adjust Pachauri’s hockey stick up”?
Set up, as in victims coming forward? At least there was no Vatican cover up involved.
Not yet
To all those who don’t appreciate this article, I’d like to point out that an important issue here is the honesty (or lack thereof) of someone who once led the IPCC. The fact that Pachauri is testing out two lies (“I was hacked” and “She set me up for money”) to see which one might fly is appalling.
It seems any report of wrong-doing of the CAGW leaders-in-crime draws a tantrum from their followers along with accusations that such reports are “unworthy” of this site or somehow foul-play.
If your esteemed leaders are caught cheating, lying, stealing, committing f+raud and/or t+reason, abusing others, threatening others, blackmailing others, dodging retribution (or trying to) and blaming anyone and everyone else for their crimes – Shouldn’t that open your eyes just a little bit?
Such dishonesty should be exposed. Such criminality should be exposed. I value articles like this one because it strips away the veneer of holier-than-thou from one who is manipulative and out for himself.
That’s not a leader I want. That’s not a leader anyone should want. Maybe those defending this man should give some thought to what it is they are defending.
Thank you Eric Worrall for posting this. I am very interested in Pachauri’s excuses and the case itself.
A.D. Everard
“If your esteemed leaders are caught cheating, lying, stealing, committing f+raud and/or t+reason, abusing others, threatening others, blackmailing others, dodging retribution (or trying to) and blaming anyone and everyone else for their crimes – Shouldn’t that open your eyes just a little bit?”
Sheeesh, I hope you are not gonna vote for Trump.
Deflecting I see, Simon. Don’t worry about me, look to yourself.
A.D. Everard
“Deflecting I see, Simon. Don’t worry about me, look to yourself.”
Actually that is what this article is trying to do. Deflect. From the latest data that is rather inconvenient to the skeptic team. Temps are through the roof and it is getting very hot in the seat it seems. So what do the team do. Drag up some lame story about a guy who may or may not have been involved in inappropriate activity. If he did the crime let him do the time. Now let’s get back to the science.
Notice how the troll, when caught out, immediately tries to change the subject.
Temps are through the roof?
Are you really this delusional, or are you just being paid to make yourself look bad?
This year’s temperatures are a few hundredths of a degree above last years, completely due to the now ending El Nino.
You want to portray that as through the roof?
As to ice levels, your side was predicting that it should be gone by now.
Between the just ended warm phase of the PDO, the currently ending warm phase of the AMO, and the now ending El Nino, that’s hardly surprising. The ice should have melted a lot more than it did had the models had even the slightest bit of credibility.
Go ahead, keep spinning the lies, I’m sure it keeps you employed.
“Deflect. From the latest data that is rather inconvenient to the skeptic team”
No it isn’t. YOU are trying to deflect from arguments that are “rather inconvenient to the (anti-skepticism) team”.
There is a very serious issue that isn’t about one man being discussed here. See my comments: I am not quoting the lawyers of the accused, I am quoting one of the most known supporter of the Cause in academia. It ain’t pretty.
Science is about integrity and respect. Climatists have neither.
If you don’t get that, you don’t see that Science isn’t “Nature laws”. Science is about people, people who care about the truth. It’s about a discovery PROCESS.
Ideally it shouldn’t matter what people want to conclude. Why do you think people care about conflict of interest? Because the system isn’t self correcting in practice. Actually, the system is toxic. The errors are repeated. The cargo science cults are worshiped. All kinds of bad behaviors (I did NOT say conspiracies) exist: see Climategate.
In Science you need to be able to get to the right conclusion even if it wasn’t what you expected and what you wanted. Even if the hypothesis was “pretty” and the observed behavior is NOT.
The suspected behavior of Pachauri isn’t pretty. This forum isn’t a courtroom. We will not make a determination of guilt, but we can discuss the validity of the logical claims. Noami O. is described in the leftist “progressive” (the scare quotes are needed more than ever) press as “Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate”.
“push-ups”? What kind of light is that?
Also, Noami O. thinks she not being sexually molested is evidence. Lack of self awareness.
“Actually that is what this article is trying to do. Deflect. From the latest data that is rather inconvenient to the skeptic team”
Let me summarize your scientific claims:
– Almost 19 years of flat linear fit (no warming at all, not “no significant warming”) with no period with significant (statistically) non zero trend (which is often abbreviated as: “no significant warming for 18 years”) means nothing. It’s a “short term” WEATHER variation.
– A few months of “Temps are through the roof” (no, they are not) is CLIMATE.
I need something bigger than L O L here.
Good luck to him, I tried the same excuse when I got a parking fine but the magistrate was having none of it.
In one of his books, William F Buckley Jr explained, paraphrased, that while proving one man in an organization is corrupt or grossly in error won’t indict the organization as a whole, the responses of that man’s colleagues to the matter can. If they let his misconduct go unrebuked or actively defend it, you have grounds to suspect the whole club is complicit in the up-to-no-goodness. WFB wrote in the context of the post-WW2 liberal establishment, but could easily have written the same about the post-Clinton liberal establishment, or the IPCC.
Some worshipers of the Cause think Lord Monckton being a real Lord or not is extremely important to establish scientific credibility, but being able to be a sexual predator for more than one year in a science institution isn’t… very telling.
There is no “conspiracy” to send unwanted sexual invitations.
But there is an “objective conspiracy” to look away. Objective alliances don’t require people to ever meet and discuss strategic plans.
We are see the typical and systematic dismissal of evidence of the fake scientists.
Science is about method. The methodology of “Cause scientists” is to dismiss anything not “pretty” for the Cause.
No meeting is necessary to establish such antimethodology. There is no antimethodology cookbook. No course of antimethodology. No university of antimethodology.
@Simon
Contrary to make you think, this is one of the most important and relevant article in this blog full of important and relevant articles.
Why not let the court just do their job ?
Yeah go to court and tell them.. my enemies set me up …three times . Good luck with that .
There were also hand written notes on pieces of paper from septagenarian Pachauri to the 28 year old woman.
I read the file which organized the various and numerous types of messages by date. He wrote them, undoubtedly. Only a fool or an Attorney would say otherwise. It’s as obvious as hair on a dog.
Based upon the facts above, it is my opinion that Pachauri is one dirty, rotten old pervert.
He deserves to serve at least 2 or 3 years in prison.
“Climate Anthropologist and Feminist” Naomi Oreskes. What on earth does she actually do? And she claims she’s sexy? She’ s at best a 4, there are men I’d rather do than her. The delusional entitlement of such a woman is hard to quantify.
So if any of these women actually had an affair would he still be saying he was set up …three times . ?
I feel sorry for any wife who has to read such evidence .
There seems to an uncanny resemblance between James Hanson and Naomi Oreskes .