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
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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.
You have to remember...this guy only travels by first class accommodations. And he likely takes his faithful servant along with him.
(I bookmarked it)
Or a cast member in a Geico commercial.
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.”
He looks like a character from “Atlas Shrugged.” Balph Eubank, or some such.
Too complex - for me.
I am sticking with Yogi Berra!
That guy I can fully understand!
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.
he needs to be arrested and convicted of fraud perpetrated on the people of the world.
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.
“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.
Quick! Somebody tell this nutjob about GoToMeeting.com.
He looks like a long-time NORML member., no offense to long-time ‘normal’ NORML folk. ;-)
Wow. A college professor who makes sense!
I guess they do exist.
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
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.
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