IPCC - follow the money

The United Nations International Panel on Climate Change is the driving body behind the whole global warming scam. The President of this august body is an Indian Railway Engineer named Dr Rajendra Pachauri. Christopher Booker and Richard North have been doing a little digging and published their results in the UK Telegraph:
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri
The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write.

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.
What follows is an amazing trail of power and influence affecting not only India but the US as well -- he owns oil companies in Texas, a lobbying company in Washington, DC, his interests are very wide ranging and diverse. To think that he is in the direct position to leverage benefits to his businesses through climate change legislation is about as corrupt as it gets... Well, the reaction to this article was interesting to say the least. Richard also blogs and today's post was interesting:
Rather preoccupied
Bound by a vow of silence which might have something to do with this and this (see pic above, plus pages 55 and 107), a certain newspaper article and a blog called EU Referendum.

Plus I have had a newspaper piece to write ... which with luck you will see on Sunday � so I hastily bid you all a Happy New Year and hope I'm still around to enjoy blogging it. TERI-Europe part 2 will be posted later today.
Bishop Hill had this to say (it was here that I got the original links):
Leaning on North
It looks as though Pachauri may be getting nasty over North and Booker's revelations of his conflicting interests in the Telegraph. There is a very mysterious posting up at his blog now.

Spread the word.

Update:

North in the comments to his posting gives some clues to the contents of the lawyer's letter he has received:
An entertaining, four-page missive. The last paragraph reads: "Please do not mistake our client's resolve to take whatever action is necessary to protect their reputations. If we do not hear from you in the timeframe indicated, proceedings will be issued."

Ho hum! The letter is barking mad but it still needs hours of constructing a careful response, the net effect of which will be the same as two Anglo Saxon words.
This looks to me to be one of those quiet nudge-nudge, wink-wink moments that proceeds a veritable shit-storm of epic proportions. I hope that the malfeasance and corruption is going to get blown out of the water.

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