Pachauri (-gate)

9/26/13
see glacier-gate IPCC 4=BSforbes james taylor (heartland) 2013cites BS murdochomg: IPCC chairman Rajendra K. PachauriIPCC chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri is pictured next to an unidentified Arab official during a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)struggling to keep a discredited global warming crisis afloat, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chair Raj Pachauri this week denied the well-documented plateau in temperatures during the past 15-plus years. Pachauri’s denialism contradicted his own admission earlier this year that there has been a 17-year plateau in global temperatures.The IPCC is in full damage-control mode after it leaked advance copies of an upcoming Summary for Policymakers to what it assumed would be friendly journalists. The journalists, however, quickly realized the IPCC Summary for Policymakers contained several embarrassing walk-backs from alarmist statements in prior IPCC reports.Two of the most embarrassing aspects of the Summary for Policymakers are (1) IPCC’s admission that global warming has occurred much slower than IPCC previously forecast and (2) IPCC is unable to explain the ongoing plateau in global temperatures. IPCC computer models have predicted twice as much warming as has occurred in the real world, and virtually none of the IPCC computer models can replicate or account for the recent lack of global warming.Rather than acknowledge that perhaps IPCC overshot its predictions in past reports, Pachauri doubled down on denialism, claiming there has been no slowdown in the pace of global warming.“I don’t think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase),” Pachauri <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24204323" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">told BBC News Monday</a>Pachauri’s astonishing denialism not only undercuts IPCC credibility, it also contradicts his own words earlier this year in an interview with the Australian. “The UN’s climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises,” the Australian’s <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nothing-off-limits-in-climate-debate/story-e6frg6n6-1226583112134" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Graham Lloyd reported</a> in February after interviewing Pachauri.While Pachauri and the IPCC bureaucracy double down on denial, some IPCC scientists are acknowledging the scientific truth. IPCC Lead Author Hans von Storch, a climate scientist and professor at the Meteorological Institute at the University of Hamburg, acknowledged the ongoing temperature plateau in a June interview with der Spiegel.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 19px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break,” IPCC Lead Author Hans von Storch told der <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Spiegel in a <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-hans-von-storch-on-problems-with-climate-change-models-a-906721.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">June 2013 interview</a>. Storch said the IPCC will have tone down its climate models unless warming quickly and rapidly accelerates ”According to most climate models, we should have seen temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 10 years. That hasn’t happened. In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) — a value very close to zero,” Storch told der <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Spiegel. “This is a serious scientific problem that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have to confront when it presents its next Assessment Report late next year.”“At my institute, we analyzed how often such a 15-year stagnation in global warming occurred in the simulations. The answer was: in under 2 percent of all the times we ran the simulation. In other words, over 98 percent of forecasts show CO2 emissions as high as we have had in recent years leading to more of a temperature increase,” Storch explained.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 19px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">A cynic may point out that presenting objective scientific evidence was never the goal of the IPCC and global warming alarmists. Instead, it can be correctly noted, the goal is to scare people into implementing the energy restrictions and wealth redistribution prescribed as a cure for the mythical global warming crisis. As prominent global warming scientist/activist<a href="http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/21/stephen-schneider-and-the-%E2%80%9Cdouble-ethical-bind%E2%80%9D-of-climate-change-communication/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Steven Schneider</a><a href="http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/21/stephen-schneider-and-the-%E2%80%9Cdouble-ethical-bind%E2%80%9D-of-climate-change-communication/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> advised</a>:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; position: relative; z-index: 0; left: 25px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 19px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">For IPCC chair Raj Pachauri, there is no balance. There is merely denialist propaganda that he hopes will blind people to the fact that global warming has, at a bare minimum, slowed down dramatically during recent years.The problem for Pachauri and the IPCC is the IPCC’s own scientists, such as Hans von Storch, directly contradict Pachauri’s denialism. And it is not just scientists pointing out Pachaui’s denialism. Even the IPCC’s reliably sympathetic media allies are unwilling to run with Pachauri’s whopper about no recent slowdown in global warming. For example, here are a few recent headlines from some of the most alarmist-friendly media outlets in the world:“Researching global warming’s pause,” reads a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24184337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">BBC News headline</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 19px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“A cooler Pacific may be behind recent pause in global warming,” reads a <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216415005/a-cooler-pacific-may-be-behind-recent-pause-in-global-warming" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Public Radio</a><a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216415005/a-cooler-pacific-may-be-behind-recent-pause-in-global-warming" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> headline</a>.“Why has global warming paused?” asks a <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0828/Why-has-global-warming-paused-Pacific-Ocean-s-engine-room-running-cool.-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Christian Science Monitor headline</a>. “What to make of a climate-change plateau,” reads a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">New York Times headline</a>.“Global warming has ‘paused’ because of natural causes but will continue to rise, scientists claim,” reads a UK<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2374777/Global-warming-paused-natural-causes-continue-rise-warn-scientists.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"> Daily Mail headline</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 133.875px 19px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 25px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">To be sure, these reliably activist media outlets are not abandoning their catastrophic global warming agenda, but even they are forced to acknowledge what objective scientific evidence shows and what IPCC chair Raj Pachauri denies; global temperatures have plateaued for more than a decade and there has been, at a bare minimum, a pronounced recent slowdown in global warming.Raj Pachauri and the IPCC are falling into the same trap that discredited Al Gore. Exaggerating the pace and impacts of global warming may provide some short-term propaganda value, but these tall tales will ultimately backfire. People are not stupid. Al Gore may have brought belief in a global warming crisis to new heights following his Hollywood movie production An Inconvenient Truth, but it took an informed public mere months to discover Al Gore and his global warming whoppers were nothing more than the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5IgatESU9A" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">latest incarnation of Joe Isuzu</a>. Raj Pachauri and the IPCC are foolishly drag racing down the same deceptive path. One cannot watch this propaganda train wreck unfold without expectations that Pachauri will soon offer a mini-pony with every copy of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2cKjoXt6Sg&feature=youtu.be" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">IPCC’s newest report</a>.IPCC chair Raj Pachauri may want us to deny objective scientific facts, but the IPCC’s own scientists, the general public and even Pachauri’s reliable media allies know better.<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/09/26/as-its-global-warming-narrative-unravels-the-ipcc-is-in-damage-control-mode/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/09/26/as-its-global-warming-narrative-unravels-the-ipcc-is-in-damage-control-mode/</a><div>
</div>=hmmn talk: This article and its editors are subject to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions" title="Wikipedia:General sanctions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wikipedia general sanctions</a>. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate_change#Climate_change:discretionary_sanctions" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">the description of the sanctions</a>.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.PachauriRajendra Kumar Pachauri (born 20 August 1940) was the chair of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> (IPCC). He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in 2015, during which time the organisation was awarded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nobel Peace Prize</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-AP_2007-12-10_msn-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Rajendra_2007-12-10_nobel-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> He resigned from IPCC following allegations of sexual abuse of a junior collegue at his New Delhi based organization. He has also been the director general of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Energy_and_Resources_Institute" title="The Energy and Resources Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TERI</a>, a research and policy organisation in India, and chancellor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERI_University" title="TERI University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TERI University</a>; besides being the chairman of the governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF), as well as the chairman of the board of Columbia University's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Research_Institute_for_Climate_and_Society" title="International Research Institute for Climate and Society" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">International Research Institute for Climate and Society</a>. Pachauri has been outspoken about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate change</a>. He served as Senior Adviser to Yale Climate and Energy Institute (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=YCEI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="YCEI (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">YCEI</a>) July 2012-June 2014, prior to which he was the Founding Director of YCEI (July 2009 – June 2012).<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Background" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Background</a></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Career</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Work_with_the_IPCC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Work with the IPCC</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize_for_IPCC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Commitment_to_other_organisations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.3 Commitment to other organisations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Lighting_a_Billion_Lives_Initiative" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Lighting a Billion Lives Initiative</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Controversies</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Awards_and_recognitions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Awards and recognitions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Other_interests" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Other interests</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Background" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Background[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajendra_K.Pachauri&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Pachauri was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainital" title="Nainital" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nainital</a>, India. He was educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Martiniere_Lucknow" title="La Martiniere Lucknow" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">La Martiniere College</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow" title="Lucknow" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lucknow</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2009-06-25_iloveindia-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> and at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railways_Institute_of_Mechanical_and_Electrical_Engineering" title="Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,Bihar" title="Jamalpur, Bihar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jamalpur, Bihar</a>. He belongs to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Class_Railway_Apprentice" title="Special Class Railway Apprentice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Special Class Railway Apprentices</a>, 1958 Batch, an elite scheme which heralded the beginning of mechanical engineering education in India.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> He began his career with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railways" title="Indian Railways" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Indian Railways</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_Locomotive_Works" title="Diesel Locomotive Works" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Diesel Locomotive Works</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi" title="Varanasi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Varanasi</a>. He joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_State_University" title="North Carolina State University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North Carolina State University</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh,North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Raleigh</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA" title="USA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">USA</a>, where he obtained an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">MS</a> in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Engineering" title="Industrial Engineering" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Industrial Engineering</a> in 1972, and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhD" title="PhD" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">PhD</a> with co-majors in Industrial Engineering and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Economics</a> in 1974.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-ncsu-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> His doctoral thesis was titled, A dynamic model for forecasting of electrical energy demand in a specific region located in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">South Carolina</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-OCLC-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> He lives in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_Links,New_Delhi" title="Golf Links, New Delhi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Golf Links, New Delhi</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-mha_nic_2001-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> He is a strict vegetarian, largely because of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism" title="Environmental vegetarianism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">the environmental and climate change implications</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Pachauri_2014-04-18_Chomping_Climate_Change-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Career" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Career[</h2>He served as Assistant Professor (August 1974 – May 1975) and Visiting Faculty Member (Summer 1976 and 1977) in the Department of Economics and Business at NC State. He was a Visiting Professor of Resource Economics at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University. On his return to India, he joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Staff_College_of_India" title="Administrative Staff College of India" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Administrative Staff College of India</a>, Hyderabad, as Member Senior Faculty (June 1975 – June 1979) and went on to become Director, Consulting and Applied Research Division (July 1979 – March 1981). He joined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Energy_and_Resources_Institute" title="The Energy and Resources Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Energy and Resources Institute</a>(TERI) as Director in 1982.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-climatescience-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> and presently heads the organisation. He was also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Resource Systems Institute (1982), and Visiting Research Fellow at the World Bank, Washington DC (1990). On 20 April 2002, Pachauri was elected Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations panel established by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization" title="World Meteorological Organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World Meteorological Organization</a>(WMO) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme" title="United Nations Environment Programme" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United Nations Environment Programme</a>(UNEP) to assess information relevant for understanding climate change.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2002-04-20_ipcc-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>Pachauri was on the Board of Governors, Shriram Scientific and Industrial Research Foundation (September 1987); the Executive Committee of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_International_Centre" title="India International Centre" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">India International Centre</a>, New Delhi (1985 onwards); the Governing Council of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Habitat_Centre" title="India Habitat Centre" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">India Habitat Centre</a>, New Delhi (October 1987 onwards); and the Court of Governors, Administrative Staff College of India (1979–81) and advises such companies as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Capital_Advisors" title="Pegasus Capital Advisors" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pegasus Capital Advisors</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Climate_Exchange" title="Chicago Climate Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago Climate Exchange</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota" title="Toyota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Toyota</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank" title="Deutsche Bank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Deutsche Bank</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thermal_Power_Corporation" title="National Thermal Power Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NTPC</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2010-02-01_BusinessWeek-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> He has served as member of many societies and commissions. He has been the Member of Board of the International Solar Energy Society (1991–1997), World Resources Institute Council (1992), while Chairman of the World Energy Council (1993–1995), President and then Chairman of the International Association for Energy Economics (1988–1990), and the President of the Asian Energy Institute (Since 1992).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> He was a part-time advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (1994—1999) in the fields of Energy and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-climatescience1-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> In July 2001, Dr R K Pachauri was appointed Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-climatescience1-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Work_with_the_IPCC" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Work with the IPCC<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[</h3>On 20 April 2002, Pachauri was elected Chairman of the United Nations established Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2002-04-20_ipcc-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>Pachauri has been vocal on the issue of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate change</a> and said, "What is happening, and what is likely to happen, convinces me that the world must be really ambitious and very determined at moving toward a 350 target."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Hood_2009-08-25_AFP-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> 350 refers to the level in parts per million of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere" title="Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">carbon dioxide in the atmosphere</a> that some climate scientists such as NASA's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen" title="James Hansen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Hansen</a> agree to be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#The_nine_boundaries" title="Planetary boundaries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">safe upper limit</a> to avoid a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point(climatology)" title="Tipping point (climatology)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">climate tipping point</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Whitesides_2009-12-28_Wired-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize_for_IPCC" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>2007 Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC</h3>...On 11 December 2007, Pachauri (representing the recipient IPCC) and co-recipient Al Gore delivered their acceptance speeches at an awards ceremony in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo,Norway" title="Oslo, Norway" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Oslo, Norway</a>, on a day when delegates to a United Nations climate conference were meeting in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali,Indonesia" title="Bali, Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bali, Indonesia</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Jordan_2007-12-11_washingtonpost-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[19]</a>Pachauri referenced the Hindu philosophy of "'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasudhaiva_Kutumbakam" title="Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam</a>', which means 'the whole universe is one family,'" must dominate global efforts to protect the global commons."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-DemNow-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[20]</a> Returning to this theme throughout his speech, he quoted president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Maldives</a> in 1987 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom" title="Maumoon Abdul Gayoom" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Maumoon Abdul Gayoom</a>):<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"...a mean sea level rise of two meters would suffice to virtually submerge the entire country of 1,190 small islands, most of which barely rise two meters above sea level. That would be the death of a nation."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-DemNow-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></dd></dl>Pachauri repeatedly emphasised his concerns regarding the implications of climate change for the world's poorest nations, referring to studies that:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.6; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"...have raised the threat of dramatic population migration, conflict, and war over water and other resources, as well as a realignment of power among nations. Some also highlight the possibility of rising tensions between rich and poor nations, health problems caused particularly by water shortages and crop failures...</dd></dl><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Commitment_to_other_organisations" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Commitment to other organisations<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[</h3>Rajendra K. Pachauri is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac_Foundation_for_Sustainable_Development_and_Cultural_Dialogue" title="Jacques Chirac Foundation for Sustainable Development and Cultural Dialogue" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fondation Chirac</a>'s honour committee,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a> ever since the foundation was launched in 2008 by former French president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac" title="Jacques Chirac" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jacques Chirac</a> to promote world peace.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Lighting_a_Billion_Lives_Initiative" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Lighting a Billion Lives Initiative[</h2>Pachauri conceptualised and launched Lighting a Billion Lives Initiative in 2005 to bring electricity to energy starved rural areas of India through solar energy.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a> The initiative has taken solar energy to remote places like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundarbans" title="Sundarbans" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sundarbans</a>, West Bengal and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thar_Desert" title="Thar Desert" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thar Desert</a>, Rajasthan.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Controversies" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Controversies[</h2><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Booker" title="Christopher Booker" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Christopher Booker</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_North(blogger)" title="Richard North (blogger)" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Richard North</a> wrote an article for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" title="Daily Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Daily Telegraph</a> in January 2010 alleging potential conflicts of interest related to Pachauri's membership of the board of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_and_Natural_Gas_Corporation" title="Oil and Natural Gas Corporation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">ONGC</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Singh_2010-01-10_indiatoday-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a> and to research grants for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Energy_and_Resources_Institute" title="The Energy and Resources Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">TERI</a>, a non-profit institution of which Pachauri is director general.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Mendick_2010-01-16_telegraph-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a> They further alleged that financial anomalies existed at TERI Europe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Brooker_2010-01-17_telegraph-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> Pachauri denied all allegations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Pachauri_2010-01-04_guardian-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2009-12-24_thehindu-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a>In response to the allegations, the audit firm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG" title="KPMG" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KPMG</a> carried out a review at TERI's request.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-guardian.co.uk-28" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> The review stated: "No evidence was found that indicated personal financial benefits accruing to Dr Pachauri from his various advisory roles that would have led to a conflict of interest". The report explains its objectives and methodology and states that "Work done by us was as considered necessary at that point in time" and that it is based on the information provided by TERI, Pachauri and Pachauri's tax counsel. In a caveat the review explains that its scope was "significantly different from an audit and cannot be relied on to provide the same level of assurance as an audit".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-guardian.co.uk-28" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG" title="KPMG" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KPMG</a> examined payments made by private sector companies and found that payments amounting to $326,399 were made to TERI itself, not to Pachauri.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Pachauri_cleared_Guardian-29" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-FT_2010-03-28-30" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a> He had received only his annual salary from TERI, amounting to £45,000 a year, plus a maximum of about £2,174 from outside earnings. He received no payment for chairing the IPCC.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Monbiot-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a>On 21 August 2010, the Daily Telegraph issued an apology, saying that it had "not intended to suggest that Dr Pachauri was corrupt or abusing his position as head of the IPCC and we accept KPMG found Dr Pachauri had not made "millions of dollars" in recent years." It stated: "We apologise to Dr Pachauri for any embarrassment caused."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Deccan-T_apologises-32" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a> The newspaper was reported to have paid legal costs of over £100,000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Monbiot-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a> Pachauri welcomed the Telegraph's apology, saying that he was "glad that they have finally acknowledged the truth", and attributed the false allegations to "another attempt by the climate sceptics to discredit the IPCC. They now want to go after me and hope that it would serve their purpose."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">George Monbiot</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">The Guardian</a> stated his view that despite Pachauri being cleared by KPMG of conflict of interest and financial wrongdoing, false claims had been repeated about him by Richard North, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Daily Mail</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Australian" title="The Australian" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Australian</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a>Following the retraction of a flawed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change#Projected_date_of_melting_of_Himalayan_glaciers" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">projection regarding glacier melt</a> in the IPCC AR4 working group II report, there were calls for him to step down as head of the IPCC, which he has rejected.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a>On 20th February 2015 Indian newspapers reported an alleged case of sexual harassment, where a 29-year-old research analyst with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERI%E2%80%93_The_Energy_and_Resources_Institute" title="TERI – The Energy and Resources Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TERI</a> raised a serious complaint against Pachauri. Delhi Police has registered a first information report (FIR) against him. They are investigating the matter and Delhi High Court has directed him to join the police probe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a> Pachauri resigned as head of the IPCC on 24th February 2015, denying the allegations. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a> TERI also subsequently announced that Pachauri had "proceeded on leave".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a>On 25th February ahead of his bail hearing Pachauri was hospitalised. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Awards_and_recognitions" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Awards and recognitions[</h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In January 2001, he received India's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Padma Bhushan</a> award by the Indian Government.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-mha_nic_2001-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-climatescience-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDTV_Indian_of_the_Year" title="NDTV Indian of the Year" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NDTV Global Indian of the Year</a> for the year 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature" title="Nature" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nature</a> News maker of the Year 2007. The magazine lauded Pachauri in an article as an organisation builder "Rajendra Pachauri's great strength is in building and organizing institutions in the fields he understands best – engineering and economics as they apply to issues of development".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">On 14 July 2008, Pachauri received the title <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIDO" title="UNIDO" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">UNIDO</a> Goodwill Ambassador.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In January 2008, he was awarded the second-highest civilian award in India, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Padma Vibhushan</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-mha_nic_2008-47" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In November 2009, Pachauri received the '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun" title="Order of the Rising Sun" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Order of the Rising Sun</a> – Gold and Silver Star' in recognition of his contribution to the enhancement of Japan's policy towards climate change. He was bestowed with the decoration by Emperor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito" title="Akihito" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Akihito</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Krishnamurthy_2009-11-03_newkerala-48" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In November 2009, Pachauri was rated fifth in the list of "Top 100 Global thinkers" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Foreign Policy</a> magazine, for "ending the debate over whether climate change matters."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-2009-11-30_foreignpolicy-49" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In February 2010, Pachauri was conferred with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Rose_of_Finland" title="Order of the White Rose of Finland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Order of the White Rose of Finland</a> from the President of Finland in recognition of his work in promoting international co-operation on climate change and sustainable development.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The French government has awarded him the 'Officer of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur" title="Légion d'honneur" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Legion of Honour</a>'.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEC_Paris" title="HEC Paris" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">HEC Paris</a> appointed Pachauri Professor Honoris Causa in October 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Ward_2009-06-10_MBACHANNEL-52" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Reims_Champagne-Ardenne" title="University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne</a> appointed Pachauri Professor Honoris Causa in September 2012.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In July 2013, he was conferred with the Pico della Mirandola Prize by the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Mirandola</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#Other_interests" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>Other interests[</h2>Other than his academic publications, Pachauri also writes poetry and fiction. He is the author of Return to Almora,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Pachauri_2010_RupaAndCo-54" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a> a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">romance novel</a> published in 2010. The novel is in the form of the reminiscences of a retired bureaucrat, once an engineering student, about his spiritual and sexual past.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Joseph_2010-01-23_TimesofIndia-55" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Mendick_2010-01-30_Telegraph-56" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a> He co-wrote Moods and Musings,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Pachauri_2003_WritersWorkshop-57" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a> a collection of poems, with his daughter Rashmi Pachauri-Rajan.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri#cite_note-Saha_2007-10-13_telegraphindia-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri#See_also" class="mw-headline-anchor" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; margin-left: -20px; width: 20px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: center; user-select: none; margin-right: 0px; background: none;">§</a>See also[</h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERI_University" title="TERI University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TERI University</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Energy_and_Resources_Institute" title="The Energy and Resources Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Energy and Resources Institute</a></li></ul><a href="http://www.onearth.org/blog/and-now-pachaurigate">http://www.onearth.org/blog/and-now-pachaurigate</a>

<h1 class="art_hed">And Now, Pachaurigate</h1>

<div class="art_byline">By George Black</div>

<div class="art_date">February 12, 2010</div>

<div class="art_body_text" style=" text-align: left;">In case you're tempted to think that the Democrats' loss of their Senate super-majority is the main reason for the sudden change in tone in the debate over climate change and legislation, hold on a second.

Public engagement in the issue and pressure for legislation has consistently tracked the evolving scientific consensus on the severity of climate change and its likely future impacts, and how this was conveyed in the media and the broader popular culture. By 2007 we thought we had the problem licked: the <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html">fourth periodic assessment report</a> of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had put the scientific debate to rest; the "on-the-one-hand on-the-other hand" format of media coverage was over and the <a href="http://www.onearth.org/">Exxon-funded climate "skeptics"</a> were put out to pasture; and of course there was the Al Gore movie, the Oscar, and the Nobel Prize that Gore shared with Rajendra Pachauri, head of the IPCC. Case closed.

Wrong. It's clear now that we fell into the ever-treacherous trap of complacency. The climate deniers are back full force, and the reason has very little to do with whether the Democrats have 59 or 60 votes in Congress.

Instead it has more to do with the collapse of serious media reporting on climate change. There are many reasons for this. Most obviously, staff resources at major newspapers have been slashed. But more than that, editors find the topic perplexing: it's so technical, it goes on forever, not that much seems to change, it's depressing, there's only one side to the story. What happened to the conflict? Where's the news?

The likes of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page stepped delightedly into the vacuum of real reporting. Well, we said, in another bout of complacency, we can always rely on 20-year climate veteran Andy Revkin at the New York Times. Not any longer, and in fact the rot had set in even before <a href="http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/revkin_taking_nyt_buyout.php">he took the Times buyout</a> in December and limited himself to his still-indispensable <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/">blog</a>.

The Climategate e-mail "scandal," which erupted on the eve of the Copenhagen climate talks, was the first symptom of the problem. For frustrated editors, here was something new and different, and it was given <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html">prominent and prolonged play</a> in the New York Times. In substantive terms, Climategate changed nothing, as my NRDC colleague Dan Lashof pointed out in an excellent <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dlashof/hacked_emails_dont_change_fact_1.html">blog</a>. But as they say in the biz, the story had legs, and it clearly clouded the debate in Copenhagen and gave fresh energy to the opponents of climate legislation in Washington.

Now comes a front-page story on February 9 by Revkin's successor, Elizabeth Rosenthal, headlined "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html">Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel</a>."

Others have gone into the failings of this article from the point of view of journalistic integrity, pointing out correctly that it does not include comment from one single climate scientist but instead offers a platform to... well, it would be polite to call them "climate skeptics." Lunatic fringe of climate deniers would be more accurate, such as Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who famously compared NGO demonstrators in Copenhagen to the <a href="http://www.undispatch.com/lord-monckton-calls-climate-activists-hitler-youth">Hitlerjugend</a>. So I'll do no more than direct you to Joseph Romm's comprehensive <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/n.y.-times-and-elisabeth-rosenthal-face-credibility-siege-over-unbalanced-c/">critique</a> of Rosenthal's piece on Grist, which among other things suggests that readers write to the Times' public editor, or ombudsman, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index.html">Clark Hoyt</a> , at public@nytimes.com, to request a serious analysis of the newspaper's recent coverage of climate issues.

Let me focus instead on the actual content of Rosenthal's story—the specific critique of the IPCC's scientific predictions and Pachauri's purported conflicts of interest. Both involve India, and both were topics that I wrote about in my <a href="http://www.onearth.org/article/india-enlightened">Summer 2009 cover story</a> for OnEarth.

The first concerns the rate of the disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers. The 2007 IPCC fourth assessment report included an <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10s10-6-2.html">estimate</a> that "if the present rate [of melting] continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high (IPCC-speak for 90 percent-plus likely) if the earth keeps warming at the current rate." That assessment was based on an <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221893.000-flooded-out.html">interview</a> that India's leading glaciologist, Syad Iqbal Hasnain, had given to Fred Pearce of the New Scientist magazine in 1999.

Rosenthal herself had earlier <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/himalaya-statement-20january2010.pdf">reported</a> on criticisms of this assertion in the New York Times, in the immediate aftermath of the Copenhagen conference. Within 24 hours the IPCC acknowledged that citing that figure had been a lapse in its customary review standards.

The IPCC is absolutely right to maintain the highest standards in its internal scientific review procedures. But how significant was the error? Over the past decade, Hasnain has introduced some nuances into his predictions of glacier melt. When I interviewed him in New Delhi last March, he told me that, "If the current trends continue, within 30 to 40 years most of the glaciers will melt out." Some of the difficulty in being more precise, he said, has to do with the fact that so much of the affected region in India, Pakistan and Tibet is off-limits to researchers for national security reasons. But the change in his predictions is simply stated: most of the glaciers are very likely to be gone by 2040 to 2050, rather than all the glaciers are very likely to be gone by 2035. If I were one of the 1.5 billion people in Asia whose survival will be threatened by the disappearance of the Himalayan ice, I think I'd characterize the change between those two predictions as a decline from "absolutely catastrophic" to "truly horrendous."

Hasnain, interestingly, is affiliated with the Energy and Resources Institute (<a href="http://www.teriin.org">TERI</a>), of which Rajendra Pachauri is president. And that takes us to the second part of the accusation that the climate deniers have leveled against the head of the IPCC—that he has made improper use of the fees he has received from private sector consultancies with the likes of <a href="http://www.db.com">Deutsche Bank</a> and <a href="http://www.onearth.org/">Credit Suisse</a>. The egregious Monckton refers to these consultancies as "very substantial and direct and indirect financial vested interests in the matters covered in the climate panel's report." MIRROR?

Pachauri's consultancy fees, in fact, go straight to TERI projects such as <a href="http://www.labl.teriin.org">Lighting a Billion Lives</a>. LaBL, as it is known, was highlighted at last year's <a href="http://energysummit.yale.edu/assets/Bckgrd_US-India_EPS_2009.pdf">U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit</a> at Yale, in which NRDC took part. A large part of my OnEarth story dealt with LaBL, which distributes solar lanterns to villagers in India, and is planned for expansion to other parts of the developing world.

Over the years I've seen a lot of NGO development projects around the world, some good, some bad. So I hesitate to use words like "visionary." But this was one case where I genuinely found it appropriate. The idea behind LaBL is very simple: 400 million Indians lack electricity. For domestic lighting they have to rely on kerosene lanterns, which are a serious safety hazard and domestic air pollutant, making them a major cause of infant mortality. These lanterns also use a fossil fuel that is dirtier than any other, pound for pound, in terms of global warming emissions. So LaBL makes clean, safe solar lanterns available to villagers on an affordable fee-for-service basis that is designed not just for humanitarian purposes but to stimulate local economic activity and entrepreneurship at the village level. The program is backed by the likes of GE and Coca-Cola. Visiting remote villages in Rajasthan that were using the lanterns made it clear to me that they had transformed people's lives.

So there's the essence of the charges that the lunatic fringe have leveled against Pachauri and the IPCC: a minor adjustment in predictions of the still profoundly alarming rate of glacier melt in the Himalayas, and a decision to channel consultancy fees into a project that gives tangible aid to the poorest of the poor, rather than accepting them as personal income.

As I thought more about Rosenthal's story, it occurred to me that there was another intriguing dimension to the charges being leveled against Pachauri. TERI is India's most important and credible NGO on climate and energy issues, and future climate policy is a burning political issue in India. So Pachauri is quite exposed in domestic political terms. Together with the United States and China, India has become one of the most critical players in the international debate about a future climate treaty. In Copenhagen, it made some significant commitments to restraining the growth in its carbon emissions, while resisting any mandatory limits. But as Hasnain told me, India's <a href="http://pmindia.nic.in/climate_change.htm">National Action Plan on Climate Change</a> has some substantial shortcomings, notably its prevarication on the rate of, and reasons for, the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.

The domestic pressures on Pachauri and TERI would make an interesting story for a serious reporter, but instead we get Climategate and now Pachaurigate. In the current collapsing media environment, I guess these are what editors, even at the New York Times, now consider good stories.

So I go back to where I started: it's important to demand better from the newspaper of record—but even more important to remember that we can never be lulled into complacency about the magnitude of the task that is still before us.</div>