The former chairman of the United
Nation’s climate panel, Rajendra Pachauri, has been charged with stalking and
harassing a female researcher who worked at the New Delhi environmental think
tank he’s headed for over three decades. Pachauri has denied the allegations,
though he resigned last year from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and his “think tank,” The
Energy Research Institute (TERI), according to the Press Trust of India.
Oddly
enough, he was appointed last month to another high level post at TERI, and
shortly thereafter a second woman, who had worked there for only a year, came
forward with additional allegations. Police, and TERI’s own internal complaints
committee, launched separate investigations. The TERI committee examined
evidence presented by the researcher, and questioned nearly 50 other employees.
It concluded that the allegations leveled against Pachauri were valid. Police
have charged Pachauri, 75, with sexual harassment, stalking and criminal intimidation
of the 29-year-old woman.
Pachauri
chaired the climate panel- considered the world’s premier authority on climate
science- since 2002, and accepted the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize on its behalf. (An award shared with former U.S.
Vice-President Al Gore).
Ironically,
it appears Pachauri caused an
inhospitable climate in his work
environment. As he himself was getting hotter, his underlings (and possibly his
under-things) paid the price. By refusing to be accountable for his actions,
ignoring the preponderance of the evidence against him and outright denying the
allegations, this “man of science” has branded himself a “denier.”
(The
Nobel Peace Prize is still held in high regard by progressives, in part
because, over the course of 115 years, it has been awarded to Woodrow Wilson,
Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat and assorted
other terrorists, socialists, criminals, cranks and poke-noses).
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