Brit newspaper discloses IPCC climate chief ties to lobby group

Commentary by Kay B. Day

The US Report was one of the first media outlets in the world to question Dr. R.K. Pachauri’s chummy relationship with Big Oil as neolibs like to call the industry. In a December 1 column we criticized U.S. newspapers for going no further than a descriptive for Dr. R.K. Pachauri who heads up the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change.

We wrote, “If newspapers retained any mettle whatsoever, by now at least one would have disclosed the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is chummy with the dastardly entity alleged liberals call Big Oil. Dr. R.K. Pachauri’s bio says: ‘In January 1999, Dr. R. K. Pachauri was appointed as Director, Board of Directors of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (a Fortune 500 company) for a period of 3 years.’

U.S. newspapers have failed miserably in covering climate change/aka global warming/aka The Little Ice Age. But a British paper finally took a hard look at Pachauri and the information suggests I’ve been right all along about pure profit driving the climate change industry, common sense conservation values be damned.

The Telegraph (London) noted Pachauri heads up an organization named TERI-NA—facilities are conveniently located on Pennsylvania Avenue. TERI-NA is a lobby group. The Telegraph said, “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.”

Promoters of financier Al Gore, former U.S. vice-president and failed presidential candidate, often describe Pachauri as a scientist. Finally, a newspaper translates Pachauri’s bio from English to English—“a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.”

The article is online; a cursory read will shed light on why Gore, Pachauri and other globalization fanatics are so big on carbon trading. What better way to transfer U.S. wealth into crony pockets?

Meanwhile, U.S. newspapers, reliant on wire services like the Associated Press for covering global issues, have bought into the AP alarmist stance without raising questions about mistakes in Gore’s defining movie or about Gore’s own financial benefits.

If you want to know one big reason much of the third world hates the country that helps to feed them, look no further than people like Gore and Pachauri. They’ve convinced the rest of the world the U.S. has caused hurricanes, tsunamis and droughts even as the U.S. taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars feed much of the poor in the world. If Mother Nature could cackle she’d be laughing her ass off at the stupidity of voters who handed control of this great republic over to a bunch of unprincipled looters selling us a bill of goods based on questionable, politicized scientific claims.

Climate change has been around since the Earth was formed. Nothing about carbon trading will address the burden of societies where herds are allowed to overgraze or cultures who believe the only good thing about a tree is being able to cut it for food and reforestation be damned.

Nothing about carbon trading will stop the Mayon volcano from doing what it did long before the U.S. industrialized and consequently developed the ability to grow enough food to send to those starving countries whose citizens subject themselves to inept and often corrupt leadership.

Nothing about carbon trading will make our streams purer. Nothing about carbon trading will offset the power of the Sun.

Carbon trading is good for one thing. Lining the pockets of Gore, Pachauri and others we see as just plain looters.

If your representative, regardless of political party, voted for the bill known as HR 2454, do yourself a favor. Show that rep you aren’t stupid and turn him or her out of office next time you get a chance.

We have listed members of the House who voted for HR 2454, a bill that will impact prices of everything for every single American, without even reading the bill.

That alone should be grounds for a taxpayer class action lawsuit.

Meanwhile, ask your senator how the U.S. government has descended to such depths of idiocy that the Supreme Court declared the air we breathe a substance controllable by the Environmental Protection Agency. Any justice who fell for politicized science should be removed from the bench. 

And meanwhile, write a letter to the editor of your newspaper and ask why the paper is relying on a wire service so incredibly in the tank for climate change propaganda they’ve forgotten what news is all about.
Hat tip to The Telegraph for doing a real news story on climate change and the UN IPCC wealth grab.

And hat tip to Gore and the looters for coming up with another economic bubble that will enrich them only to one day burst and saddle the American taxpayer with another bailout.

Climate change propaganda for profit is good for one more thing. It enables the Democrat Party to continue increasing US debt, living up to the party's mantra 'Tax and Spend.'