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Rajendra Pachauri: head of UN climate change panel clocks up half a million miles of air travel
The Telegraph ^ | 2/6/2010 | Martin Evans

Posted on 02/06/2010 1:55:50 AM PST by bruinbirdman

Embattled head of the United Nations’ climate change panel clocked up more than half a million miles of air travel in a year and a half as he travelled the world warning of the global warming threat.

On his international missions, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called for radical action to stave off environmental disaster.

He urged people to eat less meat, pay aviation taxes and even ban giving iced water in restaurants. But in order to get his message across, the former railway engineer, who lives in Delhi, created an enormous carbon footprint of his own.

Dr Pachauri has been the chairman of the panel since 2002. Documents available on its website showed that in one 19-month period, he clocked up more than half a million miles in the air as he travelled the world on official business.

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.

The international climate change debate has been dominated in recent months by disclosures of leaked emails suggesting unfavourable data was being suppressed.

It also emerged that predictions that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 were out by 300 years. Dr Pachauri refused to apologise over the blunder, claiming he could not be responsible for every word of a 3,000-page report.

Most of Dr Pachauri’s trips involved high level meetings with world leaders, environmental experts and influential business

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbonfootprint; climatchange; climatechange; climategate; envirofascism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; ipcc; pachauri; rajendrapachauri; un
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1 posted on 02/06/2010 1:55:50 AM PST by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman

That Pachauri looks like a hobo who I see under a bridge on my way to work. People listened to that clown. What a scam artist.


2 posted on 02/06/2010 2:11:12 AM PST by coaltrain
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More than 1400 skaters took part in the race over 200km on the frozen lake at a height of 960m above sea level in the Austrian Alps near Techendorf. -- PHOTO: AFP
3 posted on 02/06/2010 2:13:34 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Round 2 (insert Bikini Babe here) - DING!)
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To: coaltrain

You have to remember...this guy only travels by first class accommodations. And he likely takes his faithful servant along with him.


4 posted on 02/06/2010 2:19:16 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: bruinbirdman
I recommend reading this:

(I bookmarked it)

Did He Really Say What He Said

5 posted on 02/06/2010 2:36:22 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Round 2 (insert Bikini Babe here) - DING!)
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To: coaltrain
That Pachauri looks like a hobo who I see under a bridge on my way to work

Or a cast member in a Geico commercial.

6 posted on 02/06/2010 2:59:41 AM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Berlin_Freeper
From the article:

Reflecting on the President’s first State of the Union Speech, perhaps the best thing president Obama could say would be to quote the great American philosopher Yogi Berra, “I didn’t really say all the things I sad.”

Or how about an update on the great McCloskey classic -- it seems even more appropriate for 0:

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you I hope you don't realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

7 posted on 02/06/2010 3:03:11 AM PST by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: coaltrain

He looks like a character from “Atlas Shrugged.” Balph Eubank, or some such.


8 posted on 02/06/2010 3:26:27 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Quiller

Too complex - for me.

I am sticking with Yogi Berra!

That guy I can fully understand!


9 posted on 02/06/2010 3:29:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Round 2 (insert Bikini Babe here) - DING!)
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To: bruinbirdman

I wonder what the net “carbon footprint” for the AGW movement would be. They have obviously produced substantial emissions for their meetings and luxury conferences (all of which, of course, require private jets rather than commercial flights that are going to be in the air anyways). Do they have any actual progress that offsets that alleged cost? If CO2 actually posed a danger, I would worry. As is, I find the whole movement a sad but somehow reassuring demonstration of the limits of propaganda.


10 posted on 02/06/2010 3:51:21 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: coaltrain

he needs to be arrested and convicted of fraud perpetrated on the people of the world.


11 posted on 02/06/2010 4:08:04 AM PST by gibtx2 (keep up the good work I am out of work but post 20 a month to this out of WF Check)
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To: bruinbirdman; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; Desdemona; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; mmanager; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

12 posted on 02/06/2010 4:19:19 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Do as I say, not as I do. It should be painfully obvious what is going on here. This guy is a one man subsidy to the airline industry. Those $30,000 a pop international first class tickets are pure profit.


13 posted on 02/06/2010 4:27:20 AM PST by hedgie
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“I wonder what the net “carbon footprint” for the AGW movement would be”

It doesn’t make any difference how big a “carbon footprint” it would be. It is much like the obamathugathon administration—Do as I say—not as I do because I am SOOOOO special.


14 posted on 02/06/2010 4:56:16 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: bruinbirdman

Quick! Somebody tell this nutjob about GoToMeeting.com.


15 posted on 02/06/2010 5:01:22 AM PST by Free State Four
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To: pepsionice
It is like the perfumed princesses and princes we have here. Everyone must make cuts and do their part to save the plant{GAG} but they travel in first class in gas guzzling jets and limos on our nickle.
These people make me sick. They are a stench in the nostrils of honest people.
16 posted on 02/06/2010 5:09:19 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: bruinbirdman

He looks like a long-time NORML member., no offense to long-time ‘normal’ NORML folk. ;-)


17 posted on 02/06/2010 5:51:21 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wow. A college professor who makes sense!

I guess they do exist.


18 posted on 02/06/2010 7:39:40 AM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bruinbirdman

This guy was totally exposed on The John & Ken Show on KFI Radio 640 yesterday.

You can find the link to the podcast here:

http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/johnandkenshow/index.html


19 posted on 02/06/2010 8:32:42 AM PST by Beaten Valve
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This shady character is an anti-scientist who sold his soul for money, position and power. He would be begging on the streets of some nondescript, broken-down Indian city if he hadn’t gotten his current gig. What a freakin’ humanity-criminal. How many people have had their lives disrupted or ruined because of his corruption? Take his butt to the Hague and skewer him.


20 posted on 02/06/2010 8:46:00 AM PST by hal ogen
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