UN Climate guru Pachauri sex novel acknowledges mafia and politician roles in climate

• Pachauri's book 'Return to Almora' was launched with much fanfare early in 2010.

1/30/10, "Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate scientist," UK Telegraph, by Robert Mendick and Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

"In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details

• sexual encounter after sexual encounter.

The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the

• denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India,

• where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians

has "endangered the fragile ecosystem".

• But talk of "denuding" is a clue of what is to come.

By page 16, Sanjay is ready for his first liaison with May in a hotel room in Nainital. "She then led him into the bedroom," writes Dr Pachauri.

"She removed her gown, slipped off her nightie and slid under the quilt on his bed... Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate....

"Afterwards she held him close. ‘Sandy, I’ve learned something for the first time today. You are absolutely superb after meditation.

• Why don’t we make love every time immediately after you have meditated?’."...

Other passages in the novel involve

• group sex and more risqué sexual practices.

The novel was launched amid much fanfare with Bollywood stars and wealthy industrialists in attendance, a reflection of Dr Pachauri’s esteemed status in the country.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, on behalf of the

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In the acknowledgement of his novel, Dr Pachauri admits to writing the book while flying around the world between meetings as IPCC chairman or else in his capacity as

• head of a research institute in Delhi."...

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