UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon has squandered millions of dollars holding a media-event in New York City in the vain attempt to galvanize greater action of "climate change". His platform speakers were a long chain of A-listers--movie stars and politicians. But he had to have someone more credible. A scientist, perhaps. An actual climatologist would be good. And he had one lined up.
Ban, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, former US Vice President Al Gore and scientist Rajendra K Pachauri warned that time was short. By 2020, Ban said, the world must reduce greenhouse gases to prevent an escalating level of warming. Five years ago, leaders pledged to keep world temperatures from increasing by another 3.6 degrees Celsius.What kind of a scientist is Rajendra K. Pachauri? His Wikipedia page tells all. He is a pseudo-climate scientist.
Pachauri, who headed a Nobel Prize-winning panel of scientists that studied the issue, and Ban told world leaders the effects of global warming are already here, pointing to a UN building that flooded during the devastating Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Pachauri said it will get worse with droughts, storms and food and water shortages. He foresaw even more violent climate-driven conflicts. And, Pachauri said, "a steady rise in our death toll, especially among the world's poorest. How on Earth can we leave our children with a world like this?" [NZ Herald. Emphasis, ours.]
Pachauri was born in Nainital, India. He was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He belongs to the Special Class Railway Apprentices, 1958 Batch, an elite scheme which heralded the beginning of mechanical engineering education in India. He began his career with the Indian Railways at the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi. He joined the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, USA, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, and a PhD with co-majors in Industrial Engineering and Economics in 1974. His doctoral thesis was titled, A dynamic model for forecasting of electrical energy demand in a specific region located in North and South Carolina. He lives in Golf Links, New Delhi.Dr Pachauri is a railway engineer. His science degree is in Industrial Engineering, and Economics. He is an advocate, a provocateur, and ideologue. His scientific credentials amount to little more than knowing something railways and trains. He is absolutely not qualified scientifically to comment upon the climate. He is a Clayton's expert. Exactly the kind of scientist the Global Warming propagandists admire. Climatologist he is not. Physicist he is not. Geographer he is not. He is a useful tool. His propagandising at Ban Ki Moon's little gathering reveals everything about the credibility of the Global Warming Movement.
These chaps are beyond shame. They represent a modern incarnation of snake-oil salesmen.
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