Feb
IPCC Chief Pachauri: Do as I say, not as I do!
I’m not here to spout ad hominem. So first off let’s acknowledge that some apologists will argue that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chief Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has done more than anyone to go that extra mile to save us all from the global warming threat–and below we have the proof. The UK’s Daily Telegraph has disclosed that the embattled head of the United Nations’ climate change panel clocked up more than half a million miles of air travel in a year.
The high-flying former Delhi train engineer still scoots here there and everywhere telling anyone who will listen that they must eat less meat, pay increased aviation taxes and be refused iced water in restaurants. But in spreading his message, Pachauri creates an enormous carbon footprint of his own. The Telegraph tells us:
Between January 2007 and July 2008, he took more than 120 long-haul flights and 43 short-haul trips, taking in countries such as New Zealand, America and Fiji.
Dr. Pachauri’s trips would have produced 121.1 tons of carbon dioxide, according to calculations by ClimateCare, a carbon offset provider.
It is estimated that the average Briton produces around 8.6 tons of carbon dioxide a year, while the average Indian produces just over one ton.
Pontificate Pachauri pleads he is an exception from the rest of humanity by proudly boasting,
“I have to go all over the world and I have to convince people that this is a serious problem that we have to address.”
Sadly, the jet-setting jokester hasn’t heard of the power of the Internet whereby a handful of unpaid climate skeptic bloggers, with no frequent flyer benefits, are doing a far better job of communicating their message that the multi-governmental taxpayer-funded IPCC is conning the world into blowing billions on a non-problem.
In May 2008, the humble, modest living Pachauri felt compelled to fly more than 6,500 miles from Tokyo to New Haven in Connecticut to collect an honorary degree from Yale University. I wonder if Yale still feels so “privileged” to have honored him so handsomely?
Dr. Pachauri would be in line to add tens of millions to his personal fortune if the global carbon trading market ever takes off as much as he does. Pachauri has innumerable links to worldwide business interests and is director-general of Delhi based “The Energy and Resources Institute” (Teri). Dr. Pachauri has so far refused to resign despite Greenpeace, a major driving force at the IPCC, asking him to step down.
Clearly Delhi’s Doctor of Deceit possesses a very thick skin despite currently being investigated in Britain for charity fraud. Speaking on “Today” a UK show on Radio 4 last week, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and soft porn novelist still insisted he’d done nothing wrong. Come off it, Rajendra, next you’ll be telling us you’ve being persecuted like your chum, Phil ‘Death Threats’ Jones.
Pach is just following the lead of the world’s number one green wiener algore. His house in Nashville is a massive 15,000 square foot carbon spewing neo-classical volcano. Embarassed by local reporting on this he had a geothermal well drilled below the compound. Around here that means virtually hitting the core for big money. Which reminds me… we had a TV news story about some jackwad who had a huge solar array installed on his house to cut his carbon footprint. That’s nice. Not my money right? Wrong. The only way this pays for itself over a few decades is by selling power back to our public utility at artificially high rates mandated by law. To make things worse he refused to tell the reporter how much it all cost him. Nice.
Forgive me for putting this here, but it’s so funny and I don’t know if you’ve picked it up.
It seems that ‘The Hockey Stick’ is the new Global Pandemic.
New Zealand has one of its own, but don’t be afraid, scientists are looking into it.
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/02/niwa-loses-opts-for-fresh-start/
“They thought the answers that NIWA had given us were good. We did, too, at first, before we checked them. When we complained and repeated our request for the adjustments, their supporters screamed loudly. They couldn’t understand why we didn’t believe NIWA. We were being unfair on them, they said. We already had the adjustments, we were just creating a nuisance. We weren’t proper scientists, they said, and we should stop interfering with NIWA’s proper duties. They added gratuitous insults and aimed personal invective at members of the Coalition. Everyone was upset.”
These are classic symptoms, and can be recognised in all those afflicted with this condition. Sufferers become abusive, forgetful – leading to lost records and strange delusions, they become numerically dysfunctional (often looking at small numbers and seeing big ones), mentioning FoI request is liable to send them into a rage and visual disturbances are not unknown, leading patients to view things upside down.
Please report any other people you find with these symptoms. Some people find their behaviour hilarious, but please, realise that this is a serious affliction requiring all our sympathy.
We can only hope there’s a cure.
You couldn’t make it up – or should I re-phrase that to ‘everybody’s making it up’.
(For those who can’t be bothered to read the whole story, a group of sceptical NZ scientists looked at the official climate figures published by their national climate body. It produced a graph showing no warming. However a second graph was shown which included some form of adjustment, and that evidenced global warming, but when the sceptics asked for the (method of) adjustments to be communicated, the fun started.)
Unusually for a country with so many unique species it seems that the scientific establishment show no signs of any separate evolutionary adaption.
You find one hockey stick – then lo and behold you get two. Global Warming is becoming a new comedy genre.
The “adjusted” graph looks like the one on the front page of CRU: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
For such a small place NZ seems to have produced a number of bad actors in this farce. Of course we produced the worst of the worst. We love our Kiwi compadres and have faith that there are enough good folks to turn the tide. I get all hopeful when I read posts from every corner of world here. Real international cooperation for all the right reasons.
Is that a picture of Pachauri accepting the Porn Book of the Year award? Are those the people in the background who will star in the movie version titled Climate Lust?
Fly him to the moon…