Pachauri should stand firm: Farooq Abdullah
February 6th, 2010 - 3:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Saturday compared the embattled UN climate change panel chief R.K. Pachauri to Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad and Mahatma Gandhi and said people would one day realise the importance of his work.
“Pachauri has been under tremendous attack over the goof-up in the IPCC report, but the Indian government is supporting him. Let me tell you one thing, people did not spare even Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad and Mahatma Gandhi when they were spreading the message of goodwill and harmony, but later they realised the importance of their work,” Abdullah said at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS).
“So one day people criticising Pachauri will also realise the importance of his work and he should stand firm and fight against all of them,” he added.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Friday joined by the prime ministers of Greece, Norway, Finland, Slovenia and Bhutan in backing Pachauri and defending the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impact of global warming on glaciers and sea levels.
On Friday, while inaugurating the three-day DSDS conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: “Let me here assert that India has full confidence in the IPCC process and its leadership and will support it in every way that it can.”
The IPCC has been facing flak since revelations last month that its Fourth Assessment Report mistakenly predicted that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 as a result of global warming.
- India needs more research on climate change: Shyam Saran - Feb 08, 2010
- UNFCC, government back Pachauri (Lead) - Feb 04, 2010
- PM backs IPCC, disappointed with Copenhagen (Lead) - Feb 05, 2010
- World leaders rally in support of Pachauri - Feb 05, 2010
- World leaders join Manmohan Singh in backing Pachauri (Lead) - Feb 05, 2010
- Government backing Pachauri to the hilt, says Jairam Ramesh - Feb 04, 2010
- Scientists slam IPCC blunder, chief goes mum (Roundup) - Jan 21, 2010
- Pachauri accepts Himalayan mistake, but won't resign (Third Lead) - Jan 23, 2010
- Pachauri accepts mistake, rejects resignation (Second Lead) - Jan 23, 2010
- EU offers to update IPCC report - Feb 06, 2010
- Pachauri won't quit over glacier blunder (Lead) - Jan 23, 2010
- IPCC admits Himalayan glacier goof-up - Jan 20, 2010
- Possibility of more errors in IPCC report minimal: Pachauri - Jan 22, 2010
- Science writer Fred Pearce asks Dr. Pachauri to step down as IPCC Chairman - Oct 03, 2010
- India to have own panel on climate change: Jairam Ramesh - Feb 04, 2010
Tags: assessment report, climate change panel, delhi sustainable development, development summit, flak, goof, himalayan glaciers, indian government, ipcc report, jesus christ, mahatma gandhi, manmohan, manmohan singh, panel chief, prime minister manmohan, prime minister manmohan singh, prime ministers, prophet mohammad, sea levels, spreading the message