How are Rajendra Pachauri's qualifications relevant to his role as head of the IPCC?

Answer 1

They are not.

Pachauri qualified as a a railway engineer and started working for the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, India. In 1972 he was awarded an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and a joint Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Economics in 1974.

Further career path:

August 1974 - May 1975: Assistant Professor at NC State.

Summer 1976 and 1977: Visiting Faculty Member in the Department of Economics and Business at NC State. He was also a Visiting Professor of Resource Economics at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University.

June 1975 - June 1979: Member Senior Faculty, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad,

July 1979-March 1981: Director, Consulting and Applied Research Division.

April 1981 - Director at TERI (TATA Energy Resource Institute, a research institute set up to tackle the depletion of natural resources and energy scarcity)

1982 - Senior Visiting Fellow at the Resource Systems Institute

1990 - Visiting Research Fellow at the World Bank, Washington DC

Pachauri is a professional "quangoist", Under his directorship the IPCC has suffered considerable loss of integrity with regards to the quality of its reports and its penchant for producing alarmist reports such as:

Himalaya-Gate - Alarmist report by the IPCC that the Himalyan glacier will have melted by 2035. As it transpired the report was without any scientific basis.

Climate-Gate - e-mails obtained from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia suggested that facts inconvenient to the global warming case were being deliberately hidden/obscured.

Amazon-Gate - The IPCC claimed that up to 40% of the rain forests in the Amazon were at risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise.

The scientific-looking report on which this claim was based was a non-peer reviewed article for the WWF, by an Australian policy analyst and a freelance journalist for the Guardian newspaper (not even experts let alone scientists!).

Pachauri is a professional "quangoist" with no formal training or qualifications for the position he holds.