Er klimapolitik religion..?

Kosmos skrev:

The Environment ministry sponsored paper says that human induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri headed IPCC had said.

- igen, igen: Ingen profet er agtet i sit hjemland! Nå, han kan jo i det mindste trøste sig med fredsprisen!

Skal det forstås som en begrundelse for en religiøs tilgang eller er fredsprisen blot et økonomisk plaster på såret?

Kosmos skrev:
- igen, igen: Ingen profet er agtet i sit hjemland!

"En profet er ikke miskendt undtagen i sin hjemby og i sit hus."
Matt 13.57

"En profet er ikke miskendt undtagen i sin hjemby og blandt sine slægtninge og i sit hus."
Mark 6.4


"Sandelig siger jeg jer: Ingen profet er anerkendt i sin hjemby."
Luk 4.24

Climate science should not be driven by the West. We should not always be dependent on outside reports.

....privatøkonomisk tror jeg ikke, 'prisen' gavner Pachauri (som vist iøvrigt rent pekuniært har sit på det tørre!(?))

It's not just that Pachauri hadn't been profiting from the help he has given to charities, businesses and institutions, his accounts show that he is scrupulous to the point of self-denial. After the Sunday Telegraph published its story, the organisation for which Pachauri works - a charity called The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - asked the auditors KPMG to review his financial relationships. Today, for the first time, the Guardian is publishing KPMG's report(1).

KPMG studied all Pachauri's financial records, accounts and tax returns, as well as TERI's accounts, for the period 1 April 2008 – 31 December 2009. It found that any money paid as a result of the work that Pachauri had done for other organisations went not to him but to TERI. None of the money was paid back to him by TERI: he received only his annual salary, which is £45,000.

His total additional income over the 20 months reviewed by KPMG amounted to the following:

* A payment of 20,000 rupees (£278) from two national power commissions in India, on which he serves as director;

* 35,880 rupees (£498) for articles he has written and lectures he has given;

* A maximum of 100,000 rupees - or £1,389 - in the form of royalties from his books and awards.

In other words, he made £45,000 as his salary at TERI, and a maximum of £2,174 in outside earnings. So much for Pachauri's "highly lucrative commercial jobs" amounting to "millions of dollars".

Amazingly, the accounts also show that Pachauri transferred a lifetime achievement award he was given by the Environment Partnership Summit - 200,000 rupees - to TERI. In other words, he did not even keep money to which he was plainly entitled, let alone any money to which he was not.

As for "how much we all pay him" as chairman of the IPCC, here is the full sum:

£0.

It wouldn't have been difficult for the Sunday Telegraph to have discovered this. It's well known that the IPCC does not pay its chairmen. His job at TERI is not a "sideline", as many of his opponents maintain. It is his livelihood.

This is a reflection of the lack of support given by governments to the IPCC. Its opponents like to create the impression that it's an all-powerful body on the verge of creating a communist/fascist world government. In reality it's a tiny, underfunded organisation which can't even pay its own chairman.