{"id":107371,"date":"2009-12-20T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4713"},"modified":"2009-12-20T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:15:19","slug":"questions-over-business-deals-of-un-climate-change-guru-dr-rajendra-pachauri-by-christopher-booker-and-richard-north-uk-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/107371","title":{"rendered":"Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri by Christopher Booker and Richard North, UK Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=9\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Christopher Booker&quot;\">Christopher Booker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as \u201cthe world?s top climate scientist&#8221;), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. <\/p>\n<p>What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC\u2019s policy recommendations. <\/p>\n<p>These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in \u2018carbon trading\u2019 and \u2018sustainable technologies\u2019, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4713\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DAKnIeeSZj6XJtimN-hIlhPrgJE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DAKnIeeSZj6XJtimN-hIlhPrgJE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DAKnIeeSZj6XJtimN-hIlhPrgJE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DAKnIeeSZj6XJtimN-hIlhPrgJE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/tQ3Z-bZ3PT0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Christopher Booker No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}