Feb 1, 2010

Climate change boss says do as I say not as I do

The London Daily Mail has a report titled:Controversial climate change boss uses car AND driver to travel one mile to office... (but he says YOU should use public transport).

He is the elitist scientist Dr Rajendra Pachauri (pictured) that we posted about here.

Pachauri is the climate change chief whose research body produced a report warning that the glaciers in the Himalayas might melt by 2035 and earned a Nobel Prize for his work – so you might expect Dr Rajendra Pachauri to be doing everything he can to reduce his own carbon footprint.

But as controversy continued to simmer last week over the bogus ‘Glaciergate’ claims in a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which he heads – Dr Pachauri showed no apparent inclination to cut global warming in his own back yard.

On Friday, for the one-mile journey from home to his office, Dr Pachauri could have walked, or cycled, or used the eco-friendly electric car provided for him.

Instead of using the electric car provided for him, he had his personal chauffeur pick him up from his £4.5million ($7.3million) home.

Hours later, the chauffeur picked up Dr Pachauri from the office of the environmental charity where he is director-general – The Energy and Resources Institute – blatantly ignoring the institute’s own literature, which gives visitors tips on how to reduce pollution by using buses.

The electric car provided for him sits in the carpark collecting dust.

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