Climate Change Cheating
Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen - Times Online
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it
Dr Pacharui has also been accused of using the error to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Carelessness happens at times: TERI fellow - Global Warming - Environment - Home - The Times of IndiaThe Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) fellow and climate negotiator Prodipto Ghosh hits back: "If you don't trust scientists, who else will you trust?
Pachauri has nothing to do with this. He is not the author of the report. When he spoke about the deadline of glaciers melting, Prof Hasnain was not even with Teri — he was with JNU. Pachauri has been appointed by governments, not a bunch of people. The issue about his resignation is only a knee-jerk reaction. He will not resign."
Section 415 in The Indian Penal Code
Cheating.-- Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind, reputation or property, is said to" cheat".
Explanation.- A dishonest concealment of facts is a deception within the meaning of this section.