Disgraced UN climate guru admits his US climate boutique spent $263,170 to hondle policy makers. He personally urged US to declare CO2 a danger

• A 12/22/09 press release from Pachauri's company admits key allegations from Telegraph UK report, references below:

"TERI has a tax exempt status in every country where its affiliates are located such as Section 501(c) status in the US, a similar status with the Charity Commission in the UK and recognition under Section 35 (i)(ii) of the Income Tax Act in India....

• TERI-NA which has been mentioned specifically is a modest operation. It received financial support of

• US$ 263,170 in 2009

by the "galaxy of official and corporate sponsors" as alleged in the article)

• for an event organized

• in Washington DC on October 1, 2009, which was attended by around 300 participants

• including very senior policymakers from both the US and India....

As for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Dr Pachauri's quotation regarding this agency's role

• he has only emphasized what the Supreme Court of the United States has given

• the EPA authority to do."...

12/22/09, press release from TERI Institute, titled "False Allegations against Dr. RK Pachauri by The Telegraph, UK" ***

• (Note the title does not say "False Statements," rendering this a "non-denial denial") ed.****

1. from Telegraph UK: "Dr Pachauri never shrinks from giving the world frank advice on all matters relating to the menace of global warming. The latest edition of TERI News quotes him as telling the

• US Environmental Protection Agency that it must go ahead with regulating US carbon emissions

• without waiting for Congress to pass its cap and trade bill."...

2. from Telegraph UK: "Even odder is the role of TERI’s Washington-based North American offshoot, a non-profit organisation, of which Dr Pachauri is president.

• Conveniently sited on Pennsylvania Avenue, midway between the White House and the Capitol, this body unashamedly sets out its stall as a lobbying organisation, to “sensitise decision-makers in North America to developing countries’ concerns about energy and the environment”.

TERI-NA is funded by a galaxy of official and corporate sponsors, including

• four branches of the UN bureaucracy;
  

• four US government agencies;
  

• oil giants such as Amoco; two of the leading US defence contractors; Monsanto, the world’s largest GM producer;
  

• the WWF (the environmentalist campaigning group which derives much of its own funding from the EU)

and two world leaders in the international ‘carbon market’, between them managing more than $1 trillion (£620 billion) worth of assets."...

• from Telegraph UK article, 12/20/09 by Christopher Booker, "Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr. Rajendra Pachauri"