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Into the Dustbin: Rajendra Pachauri, the Climate Report & the Nobel Peace Prize Paperback – September 9, 2013

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Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a non-stop train wreck. The IPCC is supposed to be an objective scientific body, but Pachauri writes forewords for Greenpeace publications and has accepted a 'green crusader’ award. He is an aggressive policy advocate even though his organization is supposed to be policy neutral. In 1996, an Indian High Court concluded that he’d "suppressed material facts" and "sworn to false affidavits." He has long claimed to hold two PhDs, but in fact only earned one.

This book is a collection of essays about Pachauri originally published as blog posts between February 2010 and August 2013. Essay number one, The IPCC and the Peace Prize, appears here for the first time. It documents how Pachauri improperly advised IPCC personnel that they were Nobel laureates after that organization was awarded half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (Al Gore received the other half).

Scientists aren’t supposed to embellish. They’re supposed to be clear-eyed about what is true and what is false. The idea that hundreds of scientists have been padding their resumés, that they’ve been walking around in broad daylight improperly claiming to be Nobel laureates, isn’t something any normal person would expect.

But that is exactly what happened. It took the IPCC five years to correct the record. During that time, media outlets, science academies, and senior government officials went along for the ride. The moral of this story is that, when faced with a choice between the unadorned truth and exaggeration, IPCC personnel made the wrong call. Their judgment can’t be trusted.

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Donna is the author of the IPCC exposé, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken For the World's Top Climate Expert. The only book-length, journalistic examination of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it has been translated into German and Norwegian.

Her work has appeared in newspapers such as the National Post, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star - and in magazines such as Reader's Digest and Toronto Life. She has written investigative feature articles, been a weekly columnist, and served on the editorial board of the National Post.

Donna is a former vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and holds an undergraduate degree in women's studies.

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Donna Laframboise is an investigative journalist. As a former vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, she is committed to free speech and to what librarians call intellectual freedom - the right of citizens to receive information from multiple points-of-view.

The Princess at the Window, 20th anniversary edition, includes a new Foreword that examines the hostile reaction to a 2016 documentary film about men's rights. Calling award-winning director Cassie Jaye "a shining example of how feminists ought to behave," Donna says the story of The Red Pill movie reveals how close minded, punitive, and tyrannical the women's movement has become.

Donna is the author of two books about the world's most important climate body - a UN organization known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In that context, she has been described by Germany's Der Spiegel as the IPCC's 'sharpest critic,' has testified before a committee of the British House of Commons, and has addressed audiences in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, and the UK.

Her IPCC exposé, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert, has been translated into German and Norwegian, and is available in Australia from Connor Court.

Donna blogs at BigPicNews.com. She is the author a 2016 report commissioned by the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation. It explains that half of all published scientific literature may be wrong, including the climate research on which governments have been basing trillion-dollar decisions.

Donna holds an undergraduate degree in Women's Studies from the University of Toronto. She has been a weekly columnist for the Toronto Star and the National Post, and has served on the editorial board of the latter. Her recent work has appeared in venues as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and VancouverDesi.

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Haakon Faanes
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013
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A brilliant book based on her blog entries, which though ends up in several repetitions. Her first book "The Delinquent teenager.." is a must for every person who wants the other side of the official story. Donna is the only one who investigates the party line whether what is said is true or not. Both books easy to read, in a verbal form, and With no technical Language.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent exposure of IPCC and Pachauri and the politicisation of the science
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013
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this collection of Donna's blog articles expose the true story of the IPCC and its political purpose. It is eye-opening in what it reveals about the corruption at the heart of the matter, and the lengths that activists will go to further their cause, with science coming in a very poor last.
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Richard Tol
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book; looking forward to part III of the IPCC Saga
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013
Donna Laframboise continues her investigations into the IPCC, now focusing on its chairperson, Rajendra Pachauri. Like in her previous book, Laframboise asks hard questions and uncovers things that some would have liked to remain hidden. Into The Dustbin stands out because too many others who cover climate change and climate policy behave more like groupies and zealots than journalists.

The book suffers from two drawbacks. Laframboise' material consists of publicly available documents. She does not use freedom of information legislation to find out about internal discussions. She does not interview people. As a result, Into The Dustbin is a series of misdemeanors and glimpses of worse. Deeper digging would have revealed more.

For all her focus on Pachauri, Laframboise overlooks that he is only a figurehead. Decisions are made by other people in the IPCC.

None of this should distract from the contribution of the current book, which tells the story of a man unsuitable for his important job.
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Giorgio Corazza
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book !!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014
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This is an excellent book that shows the IPCC for exactly what it is, i.e. another corrupt UN agency that is using taxpayer money from the western countries that sponsor it, to further its own political agenda by using global warming as a pretext.
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tonythomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Donna skewers the IPCC and its 'Nobel Laureates'
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013
Review: Into the Dustbin: Rajendra Pachauri, the Climate Report and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Donna Laframboise. Ivy Avenue Press, Port Dover, Canada. 123pp.

Journalist/blogger Donna Laframboise's first climate book was The Delinquent Teenager, exposing in late 2011 the multiple flaws in the structure, personnel and processes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC).
She has now followed through with Into the Dustbin, a compendium of about 80 of her essays over the past few years, chipping away at the IPCC's and its people's credibility.
The book has two themes: the stained integrity of IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri and the rush by IPCC scholars to drape themselves in wholly fictitious personal glory as "Nobel Prize" science winners. In fact, the IPCC and not its members won half of a "Nobel Peace Prize" in 2007 merely for raising awareness of climate change and its purported remedies.
While much of the material originated as her blog posts, the essays are now tidied and parceled up in a reader-friendly way.

She shows how Dr Pachauri has made an art form of mis-describing the IPCC as an objective, science-based, policy-neutral institution. Laframboise ruthlessly catalogues examples of the IPCC's activist bent and ethical and professional, shortcomings.
Pachauri, who pays lip service to scientific debate, described the IPCC's skeptical critics (Financial Times, February 3, 2010):
"They are the same people who deny the link between smoking and cancer. They are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder - and I hope that they put it on their faces every day."
He also recommended in late 2011 that skeptics be sent with a one-way ticket on Richard Branson's space ship, "though I'm not sure space deserves them".
This is the same Pachauri who abused an eminent Indian glaciologist, Vijay Raina, for practising "voodoo" and "magical" science, and for indefensibly questioning the IPCC's credibility. In fact, Raina had drawn attention to the IPCC's 2007 howlers about Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035. Later the IPCC had to publish nine separate erratas to that single page of 497 words on glacier melt.

Laframboise tirelessly demonstrates that Pachauri and his institution are intricately connected with the green warriors of Greenpeace, WWF, Worldwatch and a host of other activist groups. She remains incredulous that Pachauri should flaunt rather than downplay these connections. He has even written effusive forewards to two Greenpeace tracts.
I had not until now realised that Pachauri's own TERI institute had accepted sponsorship money from the India chapter of WWF this year. Laframboise says, "No reasonable person can look at these facts and conclude that the IPCC cares about appearing impartial. No reasonable person can credit its chairman with sound judgement."
His self-described agenda is to transform the world to a new value system aligned to the green agenda, and coupled with massive wealth transfer from the West to the Third World, including India. This agenda-setting could be fine for a political party or lobby group, but Pachauri's IPCC is meant to be objectively evaluating research on the difficult and complex issue of human-caused global warming. As Laframboise says, you wouldn't expect a judge in a murder trial to go lunching with Crown prosecutor or the accused's barrister.
Just when I thought I knew most of the bad stuff, she fishes out stuff even worse. For example, Pachauri sent a video message to MBA students at his research group TERI, "encouraging them to be the torch bearers of the green campaign."
Would you believe - sorry but it's true - Pachauri last year accepted a "Green Crusader" award from the Indian chapter of the International Advertising Association. As Laframboise laments, "Where, oh where, are the frakking grown-ups?"
As she says, it's not as though Pachauri is some minor celebrity with a penchant for gaffes. He runs the IPCC. The IPCC's findings, valid or not, are convulsing modern industrial society. IPCC reports are attempting to steer the world's economy - especially the West's - to a lower energy, lower-growth trajectory, reducing the living standards of billions in the course of allegedly `saving the planet'. Australia's Labor government, ousted in September this year, had bet the ranch on the IPCC's veracity.
Laframboise provides some insights into how the IPCC, riddled as it is with conflicts of interests and flawed processes, has sailed on almost immune from criticism from the mainstream opinion-leaders. She notes that Iceland, Greece and Ireland all embarked on a course of financial profligacy that was manifestly heading for ruination. No voices cried: "Halt! This is madness!" apart from a few isolates who were speedily marginalised in the media and in the counsels of the wise. In Iceland's case, the banking losses amounted to $330,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. On a larger scale, the Great Financial Crisis was also the product of mass irrationality.
For those who have fully absorbed her anatomising of the IPCC in the Delinquent Teenager book, Into the Dustbin will cover familiar ground. There's the elucidation of how the IPCC breaks its own rules at will; how activists have infiltrated into its author and lead-author ranks, and how its supposedly gold-standard science is sometimes the effusions of young students still to earn their Master's, let alone Ph.D., degree. We are again walked through the UN shenannigans requiring the reservation of cushy spots on IPCC scientific panels for third world scientists and female scientists. Her essays tease out the critiques of Pachauri and the IPCC not from its enemies but from its friends such as the InterAcademy Council and the IPCC's own inside team.
This new book is easy to dip into and enlivened by many nuggets and comments not found in Delinquent Teenager.
With the fifth IPCC report imminent, Into the Dustbin ought to function as a vaccination for all my fellow-journalists against delusions about IPCC integrity and Pachauri's credibility. I fear, though, that the credulity of my profession will continue undiminished.
Journalist Tony Thomas MA, BEc, blogs at tthomas061.wordpress.com
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Foxgoose
5.0 out of 5 stars The final devastating verdict on the IPCC climate circus and its eccentric leader.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013
For years, governments and activist NGOs have pushed "green" taxes and restrictions on us - justifying them by reference to the "consensus science" emanating from the UN instigated IPCC.

This book explores the true nature of the organisation and its long term chairman Rajendra Pachauri.

Far from being a provider of impartial and carefully considered analysis of current science - the IPCC is revealed as a highly partisan organisation with strong links to undemocratic activist groups, and a leader whose main interests seem to be self promotion and pursuit of an indulgent lifestyle.

The science promoted by the IPCC is supposed to be drawn solely from peer-reviewed scientific literature - but the book reveals that over a third of its sources are simply green activist PR material.

Pachauri has arrogantly refused to correct blatant errors in his organisation's reports and attempted to denigrate scientists who have drawn attention to them.

He has also allowed individuals who collaborate with him to falsely represent themselves as Nobel Prize winners - despite being told not to do so by the Nobel committee.

A sad & salutary tale - and a must read for anyone who has doubts about the way the "green" agenda has been rammed down our throats.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Donna Laframboise is a warrior and in time this period will be called - The Climate McCarthyism period.
Reviewed in Canada on October 4, 2016
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Donna does a great job - The UN is rotten to the core. and Rajendra Pachauri is out and maybe going to jail. This is one of the most important book of our time - this is our Climate McCarthyism and that is how we will look back on this time. You have to read the first book first... I have been an artist and a professor of the visual fine arts and Creative Studies for most of my adult life with a science back ground. There have been a few of us in art history. My science research is complex with field work but most of my art work deals with the science of nature. Climate Science is a very complex subject with many sides to the story. . I have been doing research on this subject for seven years and the more I know - the more I know I don’t know. I am just trying to find something that is common sense.
Another side to the story is the UNs IPCC that I did a study for in Calgary in 2009. They made up the questions to say just what they wanted us to say. Donna Laframboise a Canadian Journalist did two years of research on the UNs International Program of Climate Change ( IPCC ). People should look her up and see what she has to say about the IPCC. She was very neutral before she did her forensic research on the people in the IPCC. Then there is another side and that is what the SUN is doing. Some scientist believe the Sun is the big driver of the weather. It has gone into a Maunder Minimum (NASA) in cycle 24. Then there also is the Milankovitch theory of wobbles and tilts plus the orbits around the Sun that could change the climate and has many times. The science has just started on most of these things and CO2 is Small Potatoes in all this. We don't have enough science to be charging a tax on the CO2 that comes out of our month. The Sun and our Solar system is the driver of Climate. CO2 is life giving.> [..]Y C02 makes life possible
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5.0 out of 5 stars While others slept at their desks ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2013
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The shameful failure of environmental journalists in general is revealed, incidentally, by the series of blogposts compiled in this important book. What were they thinking when they took the IPCC in general and its nominal leader Pachauri in particular at face value? Was that just part of their mission to save the world by encouraging we the public to take them seriously, and sit, thanks to their reportings, at the feet of dedicated wise ones? Well, feet of clay don't weather well, nor do they have integrity. While those eco-journos slept (at best) or connived (at worst), Donna Laframboise was up and about doing some checking of her own. As a thinker, as a writer, as an investigative journalist. It doesn't seem to have been so hard, as it turns out - or at least she makes it look easy.

When Pachauri claims to have a Nobel prize and encourages his fellow workers in the IPCC to do same for themselves, she checked and discovered that he didn't and he shouldn't.

When he tells that his is not to prescribe, that his organisation, the IPCC is not there to push policy, she notes that he does prescribe, indeed preaches, and notes that his organisation is ultimately dominated by policy-makers and their agents who edit and approve the final 'Summaries for Policy Makers' that are probably the only widely read outcomes of the IPCC's efforts.

She notes he tells us to eat less meat, and that he once jetted halfway round the world to take part in a casual cricket match. His earlier nonsense about the IPCC's only using peer-reviewed literature in its deliberations led to the title of this book. Here are his words "IPCC studies only peer-review science. Let someone publish the data in a decent credible publication. I am sure IPCC would then accept it; otherwise we can just throw it into the dustbin." He got the last part right.

If you value courageous journalists who check for themselves and are willing to stand up against the tide of drivel and hyperbole that we have had to endure on climate, then buy this book. If you want to have your own record of deception in and around the IPCC, then buy this book. Put it beside her other one `The Delinquent Teenager'. Put your name and the date inside the covers and keep them to show your children and your grandchildren that you were not amongst those who failed to see what a shoddy thing the IPCC and its leaders was and were. They are not worthy of our trust, and future generations will see that clear as day. This book will help us all get there.
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Fred Goldberg
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth about IPCC and its chairman
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2014
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A very comprehensive analysis of the chairman of IPCC Rajendra Pachauri, his statements and what Donna found to be the truth. She has done a marvelous job disecting IPCC statements and to show what is really going on behind the scenes.
It is both easy and exciting reading, almost like reading a detective novel except that this is real. i recommend beaurocrats and politicians to read it. It will help them to know what is true or not concerning global warming and CO2 emissions.

I have analyzed climate reports and research for the last 10 years and can confirm that everything I have read is correct.
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EdBhoy
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent expose of the political machinations of the IPCC and their chairman
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2013
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Those of us who have been involved in the climate debate, for that's what it is, over the past few year's will be aware of the political shenanigan's and blatant activism of it's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri. His "voodoo science" comments concerning Himalayan glacier retreat were a disgraceful episode which could never have happened if the IPCC actually stuck to its own alleged policy of only relying on peer reviewed papers for its assessment reports.
Laframboise's book is a collection of her blog posts about the IPCC and it's chairman over the past few year's. If you want to catch up with the story this collection of blogs will fill you in.
I have to add that the format of collecting blog posts together to tell a story is not ideal. It results in a series of rather repetitive short chapters which can be irritating and made me regularly skip ahead, however I already had a reasonable knowledge of the story the book was trying to tell.
I am an academic myself and would recommend this book to any student, journalist or academic interested in the politics of climate science.
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