UN Global Warming chief Pachauri said 'real issue' is economic change, climate is just part of that

10/19/11, "Laframboise on the IPCC," Climate, Etc., by Judith Curry

"I’ve finished reading Donna Laframboise’s book “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC.”...

As a student of the IPCC since December 2009 (yes I was defending the IPCC until that point), I’ve looked at many of these issues myself. I’ve made some of the same points raised in this book. Here are some comments on passages from the text that struck me in some way, and provide a flavor of the parts of the book that I think are most significant:...

A whole chapter of [UN IPCC Chief Rajendra] Pachauri gems, here is one:

“I am not going to rest easy until I have articulated in every possible form the need

• to bring about major structural changes

• in economic growth and development.

That’s the real issue. Climate change is just a part of it.”"...

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Pachauri was selected IPCC chief by the government of Saudi Arabia as clearly described in April 2002 ClimateGate emails. This isn't secret but nobody talks about it. George Bush is mentioned as well but final credit is given to "intense lobbying" by the Saudis.

• The global warming narrative is that 'oil companies' are against them. If that's so, why did oil interests "lobby intensely" and successfully for this particular UN climate chief?

George Bush has been portrayed as an impediment to the climate movement which wasn't true but possibly helped him fool a few people he needed to fool. He was instrumental in pushing the killing ethanol industry and campaigned for the Wind Industry. Both George Bush 1 and 2 are first and foremost globalists. Bush the Father made greenhouse gases a central part of his campaign for the presidency. He championed acid raid (later disproved) and began emissions trading of units of the atmosphere. Around 1990 he established global warming reviews by the US government. His son left that intact. Media portraying them as anti-climate was part of the political class Beltway game at the expense of rube Americans.

Following copied from ClimateGate emails, 4/19/2002: (original link is inactive or moved so I'm linking to an earlier post of mine)

"Subject: SSI Alert: IPCC Chair Vote
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:00:59 -0400
From: "SSI Mailbox"
******************* EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ********************
ISSUE: Today - April 19, 2002, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) plenary voted for Dr. Rajendra
Pachauri as the sole chair of the IPCC. Dr. Pachauri, an
economist and engineer, will replace Dr. Robert Watson, an
atmospheric chemist, as chair of the IPCC.

This outcome was actively sought by the Bush Administration at the behest of the most conservative elements of the fossil fuel industry. This development threatens to undermine the scientific credibility and integrity of the IPCC and may weaken the job this extraordinary body has done to bring the world's attention to one of the most pressing environmental problems.

ACTION: Monitor your local paper and respond to news stories
with a letter-to-the-editor.
MAIN MESSAGE: Given the Bush Administration's consistent
opposition to climate change mitigation, it is especially
imperative at this time that the scientific community and
Dr. Pachauri work together to ensure that the IPCC remains a
strong and credible scientific process.
DEADLINE: As soon as possible after the storytwo after.
******************************************
*** THE ISSUE ***
According to a report by Associated Press today (appended
below), Dr. Rajendra Pachauri was elected as Chair of the
IPCC at a plenary meeting in Geneva. As you would be aware
from our earlier SSI alerts of the past several weeks, this
follows on from intense lobbying of the US government by the fossil fuel industry to remove Dr. Robert Watson as Chair.
Although reports from Geneva are still sketchy, our sources
on the ground tell us that there was
intense behind-the- scenes lobbying by Saudi Arabia, with assistance from Don Pearlman -- a well known oil and gas lobbyist with strong connections to industry-backed organizations opposed to climate change mitigation. Through their maneuvering, the
co-chair compromise approach -- comprised of former chair
Dr. Robert Watson and Dr. Pachauri -- was not considered.
As a result of this election, there is considerable concern
in the climate science and environmental communities --
reinforced by the intensive lobbying from fossil fuel interests on this decision -- that the Bush Administration's lack of support for former IPCC Chair Dr. Robert Watson signals a more general lack of support for the IPCC as a runs in your
credible international scientific assessment process that
provides governments with sound information on climate
science, impacts, and solutions.
By supporting Dr. Pachauri for primarily political purposes, the Bush Administration has seriously threatened the scientific credibility of the IPCC process. The conservative fossil fuel interests should be exposed for their role in influencing the US government's stance on this issue, and the IPCC process must remain a scientifically credible and non-politicized process.
The next IPCC Climate Change Assessment is due out in five
years, and it is the chair's role to oversee this complex
process. The scientific community's voice is important in
this issue to ensure that the IPCC process remains strong
under the leadership of Dr. Pachauri and that the Bush Administration does not erode the effectiveness of this important international body."...
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