Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Two more women have stepped forward, accusing ex UN IPCC Climate Chief Rajendra Pachauri of workplace sexual harassment.
Former UN climate change chief to face trial for sexual harassment of employees
Two more women file claims against Rajendra Pachauri after 29-year-old colleague from Energy and Resources Institute speaks out.
A court in Delhi has ruled that Rajendra Pachauri, the former chairman of a Nobel prize-winning UN panel on climate change, will stand trial on charges of stalking and sexual harassment of a former employee.
A 29-year-old former employee of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), based in the Indian capital, filed a police report against Pachauri last year. She said Pachauri, who led the organisation, had made inappropriate advances soon after she joined in 2013.
Earlier this year police filed 1,400 pages of evidence, including text messages and emails from Pachauri, and testimony from 23 witnesses, many of them Teri employees. Judge Shivani Chauhan said the evidence was sufficient to proceed with the trial.
“There are allegations against the accused that he made sexually coloured remarks upon the complainant on several occasions,” she said. “He touched the complainant inappropriately, despite a clear expression of disapproval from her side. He also sent inappropriate SMS and WhatsApp messages to the complainant.”
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Since the initial police report, two other women have made public statements against Pachauri, accusing him of sexual abuse in the workplace.
The women who were allegedly subject to this abuse deserve our sympathy. But the fact Pachauri allegedly got away with gross sexual misconduct for an extended period, in my opinion opens real questions about the broader conduct of the IPCC. If the UN IPCC’s less than transparent workplace culture facilitated the coverup of outrageous sexual abuse and bullying by the boss over an extended period, what else are they concealing?
Brad Keyes exposes what the T in TERI stands for.
https://cliscep.com/2016/05/14/exposed-all-pachauri-accusers-financially-linked-to-same-think-tank/
Pachauri was chairman of TERI. TATA, which financed TERI, has made a fortune out of the green thing.
http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/118659/
‘The respected anti-hate blog DeSmogBlog today dropped a bombshell that could derail the persecution case against former IPCC visionary Rajendra Pachauri.’
Respected? Anti-hate? LMTO.
Brad Keyes is a master of satire…read again.
Me bad – very funny 🙂
Is that not beautiful?
Mocks all of DesmogBlog is one sentence.
When they’re ugly lying ba#*ards, they’re really ugly lying ba#*ards!
Very little upsets Joe Romm? Somehow, I think he means that explicitly where almost noting sets of Joe’s bun burners.
No wonder he lacks hirsuteness. The smell of burning hair follows Joe Romm; since we know what burns first, that isn’t a good thing.
A capital “T” fired off Romm’s boosters this time resulting in Joe’s furious digging…
Courtesy the Music Man musical:
“Trouble. I’m talkin’ ’bout trouble, with a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for pool.
Ya Got Trouble.”
Darn that TERI pool of women for frustrated Pachuri.
But, as anyone who searches for information relating to any one of thousands of companies has discovered; Companies that begin their name with ‘The’, mean that definite article.
e.g. “The North Face”
visionary?
delusional more like 🙂
So DeSmogBlog is going to list the three women as being Disinformers because they worked at TERI? Surely that means that they also have to list TERI’s Director General Pachauri as being a Disinformer.
You are beginning to grok this vicious satire. But apparently just beginning.
Don’t forget desmog’s adulation for karoly; that’s a disinformer too.
You needed a trigger warning, ‘may contain traces of satire’.
DesMog lol, the lies that lot come out with are hilarious.
I am reminded of Hilary Clinton’s assaults on the women who were victims of Bill.
What a filthy, low down sexist attack by Clipe. How desperate are the Warmists these days?
Thanks Clipe, your kind words are appreciated. Amazingly, we scored another #1 mention today: http://joannenova.com.au/2016/05/weekend-unthreaded-117/#comment-1805204
Our loyal readers are the best!
Thanks Eric, your posts are so appreciated!
omg- he’s freakin hilarious!
put down your drinks- and prepare:
https://cliscep.com/2015/12/19/not-just-a-pretty-face/
Yup. Except I hoisted my drink in a salute, instead.
No wonder Pachuari never touched her. I think my screen just cracked.
He’s a handsome bloke though, isn’t he?
what else are they concealing?
It’s not so much what they are concealing, look at the GWU issues from this week, as the fact that these are people that are so unprincipled that they will do and say anything to advance their own position.When they find political patrons they just make up the stories that please their masters … (i.e., they really are wretchedly pathetic individuals)
Why doesn’t Patchuri have seven relatives to put in no-show jobs? Then he could be a perfect UN staffer.
You bastards, airing these allegations just to bring down a good man who has done so much to save the World.
/sarc
“what else is he concealing?”
he admitted that the glaciergate lie was meant to stimulate policy makers into taking action to tackle climate change. this means that he pleads guilty to fraud. so why is he not being charged with fraud under article 420 of the criminal code in india?
No, that was Lal, head of the Asia group (or one of the heads), who made the admission to David Rose of the Daily Mail. He denied he’d confessed after publication. Rose unfortunately didn’t have him recorded.
Let’s hope he gets just exactly what a sexual predator deserves. Live long and suffer.
Maybe Patchuri and Bill Clinton should exchange notes.
They probably already have, hey maybe wait until someone digs up emails
Pachauri and Depends What The Definition of Bill Clinton Is have been friends for years, if Pachauri’s speech at a recent press conference is to be believed.
The climate change weather made me do it.
“If the UN IPCC’s less than transparent workplace culture…”
Is there any evidence any of this happened in an IPCC workplace?
From the quote above;
“… Earlier this year police filed 1,400 pages of evidence, including text messages and emails from Pachauri, and testimony from 23 witnesses, many of them Teri employees. …”
If Teri employees witnessed the alleged harassment, I suggest it reasonable to conclude many of the alleged incidents occurred in a workplace setting. In any case, there was an employer / employee relationship between Pachauri and his accuser.
Good question.
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2016/03/01/pachauri-criminal-charges-total-1400-pages/
“Good question….
And yet, to this day, the United Nations has taken no steps to investigate whether women associated with the IPCC were similarly victimized.”
So it seems the answer is, no. Although there also doesn’t seem to be any actual evidence about what the UN has done about it.
Eric,
” I suggest it reasonable to conclude many of the alleged incidents occurred in a workplace setting. In any case, there was an employer / employee relationship between Pachauri and his accuser.”
I’m sure they did. But you specifically spoke of the IPCC workplace culture. All that you have written about seems to have happened at TERI, in India, which is not an IPCC organisation.
Nick, all you are doing is exposing your moral blind spot.
I suppose you see no problem with an old Bill Clinton messing with your young daughter, unlike most fathers would.
No, I am not defending Pauchari. Just saying there is no evidence that IPCC workplace culture was involved. These events happened at TERI.
Nick you dumb phuck, it’s all about the sexual predator Pachauri not whether or not he did his dirty deeds while attached to TERI or the IPCC. Either way, he’s damaged goods and it only taints you with a foul smell in your blind fealty to “the cause”.
Mods are you OK with insults of this nature when all NS is doing is raising an interesting point?
“Nick you dumb phuck”
Nick,
It doesn’t matter which building he happens to be stood in. He will always be a pervert anywhere he is.
I’ve lost some respect for you as I always thought you conducted yourself with dignity here at WUWT. Now it seems like you’re trying to make excuses for Pachy the Pervert.
“Now it seems like you’re trying to make excuses…”
No, not excusing Pachauri. Just resisting the stretched attempt to spin it as a knock on IPCC workplace culture. The events happened at TERI.
The UN is rotten and please reply if you are willing to consider numerous examples, including moving weapons for rebels in Sudan.
or a detailed breakdown of how they let Rwanda happen because three UN nations supported the genocidal maniacs
or the fact the US is the primary funder of the UN, and Obama decided CAGW is real and gave his daughter Asthma 😀
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out you can take over an organization by providing it’s funding, just like Gates has with the WHO.
There’s evidence to suggest Pachauri’s activities extended on to IPCC/climate business trips.
Shub,
Details?
Shub, yep—at least on the plane, where a certain young researcher “heaped a massive insult upon” Pachauri by preferring to sit in economy class rather than by his side, in what seems to have been a typically-petty female retaliation for the perfectly well-meaning mistake of handing her a note detailing his dream the previous night, from which he’d awoken “at the critical moment” while “doing the preliminaries of making love” to her.
Nick do you believe Pachauri is being stitched yup by “deniers”?
We dont need pachauri to taint the UN, they just killed a load of people in Haiti
There was substantial crossover between IPCC and Teri. For example, they both had the same boss.
When we traced its [IPCC] claim that the Himalayan glaciers would have all but melted by 2035 to an obscure Indian scientist quoted by WWF (a claim so mad that even the IPCC had to withdraw it), we were even more amazed to find that Pachauri had hired the man responsible to be Teri’s chief glacier expert.
He may now finally have gone, But the damage he did to the IPCC’s credibility as a serious scientific body is irreparable. What a pity the politicians of the West, led by President Obama and our own here in Britain, still don’t seem to have noticed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11441697/Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri-the-clown-of-climate-change-has-gone.html
More here.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/18/pachauri-used-corporate-teri-email-account-to-conduct-official-ipcc-business/
Yes, if you define any conference taking place under the auspices of the IPCC as the workplace, but legal restrictions prevented the emails and associated files from being kept let alone made public.
“Here I am sitting and chairing an IPCC meeting and surreptitiously sending you messages. I hope that tells you of my feelings for you” https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/02/21/chairman-pachauris-messy-messages/
Ruth,
I hate to say it but there you go: the fact that he had to be “surreptitious” about his activities as a text-starved textual predator clearly mark out the IPCC setting from the Delhi Habitat Centre that houses TERI’s headquarters, where such amorous pastimes can be, and are, pursued openly.
Nick
What about the words of the great man himself?
But then again, Nick, maybe he’s the victim? And his cellphone, his email-accounts, and even hands and body, were ‘hacked’ by “unknown cyber criminals” and remained so for years) as part of a wider (fossil industry funded?) conspiracy to discredit him and his work on climate change.
“What about the words of the great man himself?”
Well, that “workplace” was a Sheraton hotel in Georgia. And the surreptitious message was to a TERI employee in India.
The thing is, the spin in this article was:
“If the UN IPCC’s less than transparent workplace culture facilitated the coverup of outrageous sexual abuse and bullying by the boss over an extended period, what else are they concealing?”
and there is no evidence that IPCC workplaces were involved at all, or that the IPCC covered up anything.
Smells an awful like like more liberal/left/socialist/elites and union folk hypocrisy as they talk one way publicly, and not only that they usually try and paint a conservative as being ‘evil’ on the same issue.
Can you say the CBC and Ghomeshi.
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/kathryn-borel-just-destroyed-ghomeshis-and-the-cbcs-efforts-to-rescue-their-reputations
@ Gary, 8:37 pm may14, Thanks for that link and the report. This whole case stinks to high heaven! I hope this wll shut up the CBC ( although I doubt it, pravda is alive and well in Canada!)
Can you say ewww.
David Suzuki is just as creepy as Pachauri.
Asks for all young female bodyguards who “must dress appropriately”.
These people think they are ageing rock stars
Even if evidence is produced that shows the behavior extended to IPCC/UN climate activities, he is beyond suit/prosecution because of UN immunity (which =impunity). I suspect his UN/IPCC actionable behavior probably started first because of the immunity.
He’s not immune. He can only be immune from things that happen as a result of his UN duties, sexually harassing women is not part of UN duties as far as I can tell :p
Generally true except for senior UN officials who enjoy the equivalent of super diplomatic immunity–i.e., absolute immunity–look up the sexual harassment case against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers. US 2nd Cir Ct of Appeals in NY confirmed his immunity from sexual assault charges was absolute. Pure impunity.
That’s appalling yet somehow unsurprising by now.
We all remember when the IPCC was declared, by virtue of its location on international soil in Turtle Bay, NY, to have blanket immunity to the rules of science.
He is not immune, c’mon, if he cut off the head of a UN employee do you think he is immune.. no.
he has professional immunity, as in anything caused by the execution of his UN role, for example the Cholera deaths in Haiti, cannot be prosecuted.
But if you rape some girl working for the UN you are NOT immune
The 2nd Cir Fed Ct of Appeal says otherwise Mark, at least in the US–see in particular lines 16 and 17 of page 2 of opinion–“ABSOLUTE AND FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITY”. Even if he cut a girl’s head off, he would be immune until the SG lifted his immunity. If not lifted, he walks away.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/08-2799/08-2799-cv_opn-2011-03-27.html
Too bad they can use false accusations of hacking as well as inappropriate use of secrecy laws to keep information private or the real extent would be revealed. It is not just the IPCC. It would appear that demands for sexual favours in return for fair treatment in promotion prospects is commonplace in the whole climate science field and maybe in academia generally for all I know. It is not just young women who have this problem either.
the majority of bang average young actors in Hollywood know exactly what you are talking about 😀
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy. (a.k.a Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Scientist). As we were warmed. I mean – warned.
Definitely up on the wrong charges. But I guess destruction of the reputation of the IPCC is not frameable.
What is surprising about this story is that I have not seen any reference to all of this in the wider media. WUWT is the only place I have read about it. A case such as this against any other figure of Worldwide reputation would have received extensive publicity in the press, particularly with the BBC and the Guardian. It looks very much like a case of ‘look after our own in case it reacts badly against the wider cause of AGW, which we are struggling to convince an increasingly sceptical public to accept’.
Obama supported this sexual harasser. This documentary was simply before its time.
https://youtu.be/QowL2BiGK7o?t=35m20s
Corruption is nothing new for the UN, this kind of stuff is par for the course.
The Whistleblower:
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896872/?ref_=nv_sr_2
https://youtu.be/al3anBiHwmI
The Guardian article cannot be commented on. I wonder why.
You said, “If the UN IPCC’s less than transparent workplace culture facilitated the coverup of outrageous sexual abuse and bullying by the boss over an extended period, what else are they concealing?” If you find something, warn us not to be eating while we read about it.
He’s obviously a serial sexual abuser and pervert. It would strain credulity to think that his proclivities would be confined to one setting only.
You simply can’t make this stuff, especially considering the guy looks like some Frank Oz or George Lucas creation.
Revealed: the racy novel written by the world’s most powerful climate scientist
The chair of the UN’s panel on climate change Dr Rajendra Pachauri has taken a break from writing academic papers on global warming to pen a racy romantic novel.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/7111068/Revealed-the-racy-novel-written-by-the-worlds-most-powerful-climate-scientist.html
You mean the racy novel *allegedly* written by Dr Pachauri. His association with the book has never been to extend beyond the cashing of royalty cheques:
https://climatenuremberg.com/2015/06/19/an-elaborate-forgery-pachauri-denounces-almora-hoax/
“Never been proven,” I meant.
I just wanted to point out that perhaps by mistake, in this story you used the picture of the Neanderthal from an earlier story, instead of a photo of the ex-UN IPCC Climate Chief who I am sure must have highly-evolved grooming standards and plenty of money to pay someone to make him look good.
Well, the resemblance is uncanny so the confusion is understandable.
I am sure Naomi “a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate” Oreskes has a non-ideational and parsimonious explanation, like “it’s a setup”, or “there is a force field around me when I am in India so men cannot sexually harass me in India” or “his hands were hacked”.