In his quality has the head of the IPCC, he seems to favor world climate policy that give India advantages over developed countries, this is at odd with the IPCC position that CO2 is the cause of all the problem on earth and that mitigation is the only solution to avoid catastrophe.

This shows that the climate change crisis is seen by many politician as a way gather advantages over other countries. This is why nothing is achieved world wide.

I personally don’t buy the hype and believe that adaption is more important than mitigation.

Pachauri was an outspoken critic of the United States, and called on global boycotts of American goods due to our status as the largest emitter. He was adamant before the Bush administration backed him that the industrialized world make binding commitments while India and China should be exempt. This was and is the opposite of US policy. It is something that the US would never agree to, which is precisely why the Bush administration fought to install him as chair. It was a de facto delaying strategy.

Pachauri was selected precisely because he could be counted on to pull this kind of crap and provide Bush with excuses to delay binding emissions targets. This was just one of many reasons why people protested his sharing in the Nobel prize instead of Watson.

Thanks for asking about this by the way. It had sort of disappeared from public consciousness.

BTW, thanks. I was unaware of the IPCC hat that Pachauri wore in the early releases of his comments.

CoRev, Editor
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