Monday, December 14, 2009
The United Nations - Climate chief Rajendra K. Pachauri
Even if there were undisputed facts concerning human caused global warming, how could we possibly believe people with these connections?
In some venues, one must recuse themselves, in order to preserve the integrity of the issue.
Ooops! I forget this is the United Nations...
In some venues, one must recuse themselves, in order to preserve the integrity of the issue.
Ooops! I forget this is the United Nations...
PRE-LINK TEXT Jerome R. Corsi POST-LINK TEXT:
"A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
The Tata Group headquartered in Mumbai anticipates receiving windfall profits of up to nearly $2 billion from closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant in Britain, with about half of the savings expected to result from cashing in on carbon credits granted the steelmaker by the European Union under the EU's emissions trading scheme, or ETS.
Corus has accumulated 7.5 million European Union surplus carbon allowances, or EUAs, given the company free by the EU, after corporate officials lobbied EU officials aggressively in Brussels. "