Some lies take longer to dismantle than
others. November 14 is observed as “Children’s
Day” in India after Chacha Nehru. Children are the biggest “emotional tools” that politicians,
marketers and NGOs use. I had a reason to write “Children as leverage”
in two parts. A long time Nehru-watcher wrote:
''Nehru certainly did some acting on public occasions
and before TV cameras... The acting was never worse than the pose of Chacha
Nehru with the children. This was at its worst on his birthday for a few years
when sycophants organised groups of children, with flowers and copious
photographing, to parade with him. It was out of character; his interest in
children was slender”. Acting does run in the Nehru-Gandhi clan. Anyway,
let’s watch this video (4.13 mins):
“Please
help the world. Please save the world” the kids cry out. That video was
played at the Global Warming Conference in Denmark
in December 2009. Scary enough? It not only rattles you but makes you feel
guilty of destroying the earth and leaving a bad earth to future children. You are a bad person! Really bad! When
NGOs, UN panels, politicians, govts, movie celebrities and media crooks orchestrate
mass fear-mongering there is no escape. And that is how everyone started
creating the scare of Global Warming and Climate Change. How much of it is true
and how much of it is fiction is something we don’t know. Scientists too have
differences about it. In the comments section in the previous part some have
referred to Michael Crichton’s “State of
fear”. It’s a fictional story about how eco-terrorists plan mass
destruction and murder to emphasize global warming.
Former VP of the USA and climate change
champion Al Gore also made a
documentary about it called “An inconvenient truth”. He showed how devastating the effects of melting
glaciers can be; like the Himalayan glaciers which were going to melt because
of our recklessness. The film won Oscar awards and was used widely in schools
in India to propagate the dangers of climate change to children. There are
notebooks with information on global warming with messages on the covers to
save the earth and schools held debates on how to save our world. Isn’t it all
nice?
Let me mention upfront that there is no dispute that we can treat
our environment better. We can pollute less; chop less trees and care for earth
and our ecology. But it certainly doesn’t merit the extreme fear-mongering that
some NGOs, politicians, religious leaders and media outlets are indulging in. India,
in particular, still has a large population that struggles for basic needs.
That should dictate the balance in our policies and not the idealistic desires
of a few hot-heads.
The Climate mania itself was exposed to
have many loop-holes and a lot of data being used that wasn’t sound. In 2009 it
came to be known as the Climategate scandal. Thousands of emails were hacked from a University in East
Anglia, England, which showed scientists used “tricks” to compile data to enhance the global warming theory. The
other revelation was there wasn’t a definite pattern in global warming and
there have been periods in history in the past when such warming has occurred
and also changed. Most of the scientists accused of falsifying data were given
a clean-chit by their govts so we need not criminalise them. Science is a
tedious process and theories and data are often hard to prove instantly. Many
of the scientists were associated with the IPCC
(International Panel on Climate Change) a UN panel. And the guy heading this
panel was none other than Dr Rajendra
Pachauri of India. He also runs an NGO called TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute) which is a Tata
product. TERI is now also partly a deemed university. He looks like a spiritual
guru, doesn’t he?
One of the most stunning and extreme
fear-mongering nonsense used by Pachauri’s IPCC in their 2007 report was that
the Himalayan glaciers were melting so
fast that they would disappear by 2035. This also came to be known as “Glaciergate”. The guy who made
the original claim that the glaciers would disappear was one Dr Syed Hasnain of JNU. Why is this
piece of crap so important? Because it was made the centre-piece of the
fear-mongering in Al Gore’s movie and also the IPCC report and many other
fear-mongers used this piece of information extensively. Let’s read a bit from
the link I have quoted above:
“To understand
why the future of Himalayan glaciers should arouse such peculiar passion, one
must recall why they have long been a central icon in global warming
campaigners' propaganda. Everything that polar bears have been to the West, the
ice of the Himalayas has been – and more – to the East. This is because, as Mr
Gore emphasised in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth, the vast
Himalayan ice sheet feeds seven of the world's major river systems, thus
helping to provide water to 40 per cent of the world's population. The IPCC's
shock prediction in its 2007 report that the likelihood of the glaciers
"disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high" thus
had huge impact in India and other Asian countries”.
That Dr Hasnain who casually mentioned
about the glaciers melting turned out to be working at Pachauri’s TERI.
Interesting, eh? India’s leading glaciologist Dr Vijay Raina dismissed the claims of Hasnain as bogus and was
supported by then minister Jairam Ramesh. To this, the great Dr Pachauri had
the most nonchalant response. He called Raina’s work “Voodoo science”. Well, Pachauri is not exactly a specialist on
Himalayan glaciers or climate but such is the stupidity of men indulging in fear-mongering.
Both Al Gore and Pachauri (on behalf of IPCC) collected Nobel prizes 2 years prior for their excellent fear-mongering. The
Glaciergate was proved beyond any doubt and every scientist and those who
attended the Denmark conference knew this was a serious mistake. Why the
obsession with such bogus, unverified data? Well, let me reproduce a paragraph from the same linked
article that I quoted above:
“What has now
come to light, however, is that the scientist from whom this claim originated,
Dr Syed Hasnain, has for the past two years been working as a senior employee
of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which
Dr Pachauri is director-general. Furthermore, the claim – now disowned by Dr
Pachauri as chairman of the IPCC – has
helped TERI to win a substantial share of a $500,000 grant from one of
America's leading charities, along with a share in a three million euro
research study funded by the EU”.
Whoa! So you see, bogus, unverified data
got Pachauri’s TERI millions of dollars from all around. Money! And the one who made an honest investigation into the issue
(Dr Vijay Raina) was ridiculed as practicing “voodoo science” by this charlatan
Pachauri. Let’s watch a report from NDTV
after this charlatan was exposed and how this serious lapse by IPCC was brushed
aside quite casually by Pachauri without as much as an apology to India or to
Dr Raina or to anyone in the world (video 2.50 mins):
How cool! Now, you would think NDTV was
reporting seriously and wanted to grill Pachauri. Wrong! NDTV is a stooge for
all TERI-type organisations and charlatans like Pachauri. Immediately after
Pachauri was regarded as a scamster across the world due to Glaciergate and the
funds he received where did he run to? Oh yes, remember? Tainted? Run to NDTV! Prannoy
Roy did a suck-up interview of Pachauri and gave him “character certificates”.
It was the most servantile interview
you would ever see and it was among my firsts posts on this site. Prannoy was
certifying his character, his integrity and his greatness. What’s in it for
NDTV? We wouldn’t know until a few years later that NDTV was part of the TERI
campaign of Solar-lanterns for power-less villages. They collected money on behalf
of TERI and I don’t know if “brokerage”
was involved. The campaign was called “NDTV-Toyota Greenathon”. NDTV often runs such sponsored campaigns. I guess that’s
their main business and not news. They still run the “Save Tigers” campaign. Oh and in case you forgot, even Bill Gates funded NDTV around $800K to campaign
on maternity and health.
Do you really believe media houses are
ever going to report on the deeds of those who fund them? Especially, on guys
like Pachauri? Never mind! On the sidelines of all this fear-mongering about
Climate Change Al Gore & Co devised the brilliant Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). What was it about? Here: “The
CCX was set up in 2000 in anticipation of the United States joining Europe and
other countries around the world to create a market that would reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases. Under the system, factories, utilities and other
businesses would be given an emissions target. Those that emitted less fewer
regulated gases than their target could sell the "excess" to someone
who was above target. Each year, the target figures would be reset lower”.
That’s called sound “future planning” and being ahead of time. Of course, all
these guys wanted to save the Earth; that’s a given. After Climategate and
other scandals broke out the CCX naturally crumbled and shut down but some
people weren’t losers. SCORE:
Al Gore: $18 Mn - Earth: Zero.
I am all for a better future for our
children and everyone and for mother Earth. But it also doesn’t mean that a
large population live its present life in absolute misery. The media and some
of the NGOs have been making the current debate on their activities an issue of
freedom of expression and suppression of
dissent. That is deception at its best. When was the last time the MSM ever
scrutinised any NGO, their funding or activities? They would not because they
are beneficiaries themselves. Why would Bill Gates take any special interest in
NDTV unless there is direction from some political powers? Many such NGOs have
received extraordinary funding from all over the world probably under “directions” given by political forces
for “illegitimate political actions”.
We shall see in the next part.
…
To be continued.
