Everybody's assuming corruption because of connections, but there's no evidence of any actual corruption in that article. Just a lot of innuendo.

When you want to tap someone to run an international agency, you look for the best & brightest. You don't go looking for someone who doesn't know anybody & has no experience in the field. Oh I guess we could always just grab some drunk out of the gutter, because that's the only way to find somebody who has no connection with anybody & can't be tied to some imaginary conspiracy theory.

Dr Pachauri wasn't Casey Jones who went back to school & got a degree in economics. He's not a railroad engineer. He's an industrial engineer. His first real job out of college just happened to be with a manufacturer of deisel locomotives. He wasn't driving the train.

This guy is one of the celebrated minds in the engineering world. Why is anybody surprized that he was making money before he was hired by the UN? Why is anybody surprized that he's not divesting himself of all worldly posessions or his various titles & positions that give him his paycheck to do what might just be a temporary gig? What? Do we need a vow of poverty from anybody in a position of public trust now?

He wasn't hired to make the case on global warming. He was hired to look at solutions to bring down carbon emissions around the world. He's got the goods. He has the technical & economic background to where nobody can sell him a bill of goods. It's about time we got people into running these kinds of programs that aren't just political hacks or ideologues.

This tabloid mentality of trying to smear anybody possible has gotten totally out of hand. If anybody comes up with some evidence of actual corruption, I'll listen, but that article is a crock.