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Follow the money, IPCC/AGW edition ( top climate scientist in the world, exposed)
Hot Air ^ | 11:00 am on December 20, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 12/21/2009 12:12:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

For scientists to remain credible, they have to have a certain detachment from their work.  At the very least, they have to have no vested interests in any particular outcome, or they risk biasing their work to produce outcomes favorable to themselves.  On anthropogenic global warming, we already have advocates like Al Gore who stand to make billions of dollars by convincing governments to impose cap-and-trade systems that will rely on their businesses for the service — but advocates aren’t scientists.  However, the Telegraph reports today that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and who is considered the top climate scientist in the world, has a wide portfolio of business interests that rely on AGW hysteria:

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.

Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.

What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.

These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.

Today, in addition to his role as chairman of the IPCC, Dr Pachauri occupies more than a score of such posts, acting as director or adviser to many of the bodies which play a leading role in what has become known as the international ‘climate industry’.

It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri’s links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world’s leading ‘climate official’ can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC’s recommendations.

The Telegraph goes into excruciating detail in uncovering Pachauri’s monetary interests in maintaining AGW hysteria.  The extensive reach that Pachauri has created calls into question both his credentials and his motives.  Why did the UN pick a former railway engineer with no background in climate science to lead its effort on AGW?  Clearly, Pachauri was selected for his influence rather than his scientific expertise.

Climategate exposed the chicanery of AGW science at East Anglia CRU, including the attempts to hide contradictory data and smear critics.  This exposes a critical conflict of interest in the UN effort built on the CRU’s data.  In that sense, Pachauri might be the perfect pick to lead the effort.  It’s all about economics, not the climate or science at all.  It’s an excuse to impose a massive transfer of wealth from developed nations to Third World dictatorships, and people like Pachauri have positioned themselves to get rich on the transactions.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbontrade; climategate; globalwarmingscandal; glorioil; gore; gorebullwarming; ipcc; lordmonckton; pachauri; tataenergyinst; tatagroup; teri
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1 posted on 12/21/2009 12:12:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Prison is the only answer for these guys.


2 posted on 12/21/2009 12:19:09 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Pachauri is quite ‘A Busy Man’ http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/busy-man.html http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/vast-nexus-of-influence.html


3 posted on 12/21/2009 12:19:54 PM PST by anglian
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To: xcamel; SunkenCiv; steelyourfaith; Marty62; American Constitutionalist; Red Badger; Jenny217; ...
Related thread with many links:

Carbon permits fall sharply after Copenhagen accord

4 posted on 12/21/2009 12:20:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Read this PDF and you will see why this hysteria has the support of bankers and governments:

Manufacturing Money and Global Warming

5 posted on 12/21/2009 12:24:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Normandy; SteamShovel; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; Darnright; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

6 posted on 12/21/2009 12:27:02 PM PST by steelyourfaith (This space for rent.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

7 posted on 12/21/2009 12:27:33 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And the Leftist sheep have way too much emotion invested in this to let obvious corruption and fraud change their minds about the “need to do something about global warming”.

Atheists, humanists, and materialists all - they seek to find some sort of “cosmic significance” without involving God, because He has a little “problem” in that He is the perfect Judge of behavior, attitudes, and choices.


8 posted on 12/21/2009 12:30:15 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB

See the link at post #5....It is about money.


9 posted on 12/21/2009 12:35:58 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; anglian; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Prison is the only answer for these guys.

Many criminals never stop until they are incarcerated or eliminated. These are some very hardcore (crimes against humanity) criminals. The damage they've already done is incalculable.

Thanks for the great links/education/background information.

10 posted on 12/21/2009 12:36:49 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Dust off the guillotines!
11 posted on 12/21/2009 12:37:27 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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fyi


12 posted on 12/21/2009 12:38:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That’s what I was getting at - the elites are after the money and power,

and have convinced the leftist sheep (who have NOTHING in the way of money or power to gain from this) that they are fulfilling their need for cosmic significance.


13 posted on 12/21/2009 12:39:05 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: PGalt

The crimes they planned to do are unimaginable.


14 posted on 12/21/2009 12:40:20 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Climategate exposed the chicanery of AGW science at East Anglia CRU, including the attempts to hide contradictory data and smear critics. This exposes a critical conflict of interest in the UN effort built on the CRU’s data.

Perhaps it is time to explore the investment portfolios of some of these scientists as well.

15 posted on 12/21/2009 12:54:33 PM PST by Ditto (Directions for Clean Government: If they are in, vote them out. Rinse and repeat.)
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To: GloriaJane

Excellent.


16 posted on 12/21/2009 1:01:58 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: MrB

Dust for their fingerprints, they’re on everything...from energy dependence to CAFE standards on car manufacturers to etc., etc. Round up the usual socialists/suspects. You see their faces on the health care CONTROL industry. The multi-faceted-hydra-headed-serpents need to be pitchforked and torched.


17 posted on 12/21/2009 1:11:34 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Who was it who said economists make lousy investment decisions?

Well, granted that Irv Fisher, Joe Schumpeter, Bob Merton, Myron Sholes, Larry Summers and many other economists have been horrible investors.

But this Dr. Pachauri is obviously an investment genius of the first order!


18 posted on 12/21/2009 1:19:01 PM PST by Hawthorn
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And guess what ...

****************************Excerpt from the Telegraph article************************

Dr Pachauri also serves on the advisory board of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the largest and most lucrative carbon-trading exchange in the world, which was also assisted by TERI in setting up India’s own carbon exchange.

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And now we have a link with President Obama...who was involved with setting up the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Enron was such a forerunner of all of this.

19 posted on 12/21/2009 1:28:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Hawthorn

It was almost like his scheme...Gore probably was only going to get crumbs...he isn’t bright enough to set something like this up!


20 posted on 12/21/2009 1:30:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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