Glaciergate's Dr Pachauri has more explaining to do.

[snagglepuss]

Granted the article is from the Daily Mail UK however it raises somes serious questions.


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"Despite heading the UN body on climate change, Dr Pachauri has no background in environmental science. He began his career as a railway engineer, graduated in engineering and gained his doctorate in industrial engineering.

In an attack on Dr Pachauri in a Delhi magazine article on Friday, headlined The Great Climate Change Fraud, Indian commentator Ninad D. Sheth said: ‘Mr Pachauri has no training in climate science yet he heads the pontification panel which spreads the new gospel of a hotter world. How come?’

Yesterday, in a statement from Mr Chhibber, Dr Pachauri insisted that he would not resign over the Glaciergate controversy – and, ironically, urged people to use public transport to help reduce global warming.Dr Pachauri said people should take ‘practical lifestyle steps’ including ‘use of energy-efficient transport, including public transport – and in general become conscious of our carbon footprints as individuals’."


This seems particularly hypocritical since the Daily Mail reports that he uses a 1.8-litre Toyota Corolla to drive one mile from home to office despite the fact his institute encourages people to use buses and bought the battery-powered cars with the express aim of reducing pollution on short trips by staff around town. One of those cars was set aside for Dr Pachauri.



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"Another concern for Dr Pachauri could be the questions being asked about his portfolio of business interests in bodies that have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations –including banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds involved in carbon trading. His institute is said to have received £310,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion’s share of a £2.5million EU grant after citing what have now been found to be the bogus Glaciergate claims in grant applications."


This given the fact that he lives in a 12 million dollar house, in one of India most exclusive gated communites, makes me wonder whether this guy isn't a complete sham. Could it be that he was paid to produce a false report? :shrug:



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247376/Controversial-climate-change-boss-uses-car-AND-driver-travel-mile-office---says-YOU-use-public-transport.html#ixzz0eA0VsmCg