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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts) Tue Feb 24, 2015, 11:08 AM Feb 2015

IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri resigns

IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri resigns

The chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, resigned on Tuesday, following allegations of sexual harassment from a female employee at his research institute in Delhi.

Pachauri, 74, is accused of sexually harassing a 29-year-old female researcher shortly after she joined The Energy and Resources Institute. Lawyers for the woman, who cannot be named, said the harassment by Pachauri included unwanted emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages.

He apparently suffers from the same problem that got us into this overpopulated mess in the first place - an inability to keep his little brain from driving the bus.

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