Rajendra Pachauri’s Resignation Letter
Donna Laframboise February 24, 2015
Rajendra Pachauri resigned as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today. It was a long time coming. As a journalist who has followed his career for the past five years, writing enough to fill a full-length book, my assessment of 74-year-old Pachauri is a harsh one: He has been a non-stop train wreck.
Pachauri’s letter talks about his “greatest joy” and his “sublime satisfaction.” And about religion:
"For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma."
Yes, the IPCC – which we’re told to take seriously because it is a scientific body producing scientific reports – has, in fact, been led by an environmentalist on a mission. By someone for whom protecting the planet is a religious calling.
Even here, at the end, Pachauri fails to grasp that science and religion don’t belong in the same sentence; that those on a political mission are unlikely to be upholders of rigorous scientific practice.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/02/ ... on-letter/
For a train wreck, he did a pretty good job!
Extraordinary!
Seventeen ways IPCC is crap: http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/08/ ... look-like/
What Would a Bad Job Look Like?
Donna Laframboise August 5, 2013
A US official recently called Rajendra Pachauri’s leadership of the world’s most important climate body ‘extraordinary.’ But ‘inadequate’ and ‘inexcusable’ are more appropriate.
This is not how a scientific body operates. This is the mark of a political organization, established to serve political ends.
If Rajendra Pachauri has done a good job as IPCC chairman, what would a bad job look like?
