Dr Pachauri's chairman of the UN IPCC, is director-general of the Tata Energy Research Institute, funded by Tata, which he has run since 1981.
Posted on 12/13/2009 8:52:31 AM PST by opentalk
What is the connection between Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian railway engineer who has been much in evidence at the Copenhagen climate conference, as chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and an Indian-owned steel company's decision to mothball its giant Teesside steel works next month, ripping the heart out of the town of Redcar by putting 1,700 people out of work?
Nothing of this complex story is likely to be heard in the dreary concrete shed outside Copenhagen where, as temperatures drop towards freezing, 17,000 prime ministers, officials and climate activists are earnestly discussing how the planet is warming up towards extinction. But it certainly sheds a little light on a colossal worldwide racket these delegates are helping to promote, because the end of the story is that we shall all be paying to export thousands of British jobs to new steel plants in India, for no gain in the reduction of worldwide CO2 emissions.
Thirty years ago Britain's state-owned steel industry, over-manned and highly subsidised, was the most inefficient in Europe. By 1988, after Mrs Thatcher's privatisation and having lost two thirds of its workforce, it was as efficient as any in the world. In 1999, for reasons never fully explained, much of it was sold off to the Dutch firm Corus, which in 2007 was bought by the Indian giant, Tata Steel.
...Thus, at the end of the day, Redcar will lose its biggest employer and one of the largest manufacturing plants left in Britain. Tata, having gained up to £1.2 billion from "carbon credits", will get its new steel plants – while the net amount of CO2 emitted worldwide will not have been reduced a jot.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Dr Pachauri's chairman of the UN IPCC, is director-general of the Tata Energy Research Institute, funded by Tata, which he has run since 1981.
Doesn’t matter how many loose ends you tie up! The cultists will never care. But thanks from me! I had a feelin’ that guy was dirty!
The comments at the source are a good read, they sound much like us. I liked this one especially ....
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Well done, it beggars believe
Scunthorpe reduced - Redcar closed and before Corby, Consett Newport, Shildon and on the list goes
Do you realise that to build a railway we now have to import the track from France
Steel Pipes from Germany
Plate from France
We cannot even build a Tank or a ship without importing the steel
Blaire & Brown (the whole govement) are traitors to our country; they have done more damage than Bonaparte & Hitler together
What for our children....... Nothing left
What very bad politicians we have had (since the 1950’s) – best we employ some French & Germans – they at least look after their business maybe if paid they will look after ours
This is madness of the nth order.
The Glabal Warming Hoax was designed to transfer massive amounts of wealth from First World nations to Third and Fourth World nations. The global warming hysteria always talked about supposed catastrophe 75-100 years out. But the wealth transfer was always intended to start Now. It has begun.
With a loss of about 5,000 jobs (or more when suppliers, etc., are taken into account) the loss to the UK economy is probably in the order of £500 million a year, plus the tax losses and dole payments will further burden the public purse.
This is economic madness of the highest order, made even crazier by the fact that there will be no overall drop in CO2 emissions as a result of the Corus closure.
No consideration for the impact on people's lives and families.
BTW, a further update from the same site:
It gets worse ...
The Indian government has approved more than 1,400 projects as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) that could attract around £3.7 billion (Rs 28,000 crore) into the country by 2012 through sale of Certified Emission Reduction (CER) certificates, according to Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh.
From the Indian Business Standard. How much of that goes into Tata's sticky pockets?
Mr. Ratan Tata was reported to be at Obamas state dinner, and has connections with George Soros.
This is worth a thread of its own, but I don't have time now. I dump the whole blog text here. For links go to the Eureferendum site.
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As reported by Reuters - with a slight correction: The head of the Asian Development Bank (ADP), Haruhiko Kuroda, warned governments that a failure to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen could lead to a collapse of the carbon market, which would hit efforts to deal with climate change make carbon traders very rich.
It helps of course to know that Mr Kuroda is best known in greenie circles for setting up the ADB Advisory Group on Climate Change – chaired by millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri, part-time chairman of the IPCC.
An interesting member of that Group is Dr Klaus Toepfer, Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Studies Climate, Earth System and Sustainability Sciences and former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). And it was UNEP, of course, which set up the IPCC - which now has as its part-time chairman millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.
One other member is professor Hironori Hamanaka, Chair, Board of Directors, Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The IGES claims to be "a research institute that conducts pragmatic and innovative strategic policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region." It will come as no surprise, therefore, to learn that the organisation works very closely with TERI, whose Director-General is millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.
Yet another is Ms Huguette Labelle, also a Board Member of the UN Global Compact organisation, the very same UN to which millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri belongs. Hilariously, Ms Labelle is Chair of Transparency International, the global civil society organisation "leading the fight against corruption." TI's mission "is to create change towards a world free of corruption."
The Board also includes professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University. This is the same Earth Institute which set up the Climate-Risk Center, inviting millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri to become its first Board Chairman.
One other interesting character is Dr. Emil Salim, an adviser to Indonesia's President on environment and sustainable development issues. But he is also a member of APFED - the Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development. One of its major activities is sponsoring the "Partnership Initiatives for Knowledge Network and Capacity Building" – in conjunction with TERI as a major partner, the Director General of which is millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.
And last but not least is Professor Dadi Zhou, Director General (Emeritus) of the Energy Research Institute, which of course is otherwise known as TERI, the Director General of which is millionaire businessman Rajendra K. Pachauri.
No longer, it seems, does Rome hold a pre-eminent position. In this brave new world of climate change and sustainable development, all roads lead to Rajendra K. Pachauri.
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