Alarmist Kevin Rudd Interview with Laurie Oakes: The word "climate" comes up all of one time

The key thing though is to work with America on the big problems which confront us all. I’d much rather be working with America on how do we deal with the big challenges of security in Afghanistan, dealing, working with the Americans on the huge challenge to the global economy right now and at the G20. And on the big ones of climate change and the future of our region and China within it and I’d much rather be working practically on each of those.

Seattle: No more snow jobs about city services

Nickels won election in 2001 on a (recently recycled) promise to be the "pothole mayor." Instead, he has preferred to tackle global warming and bask in praise from Al Gore and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

IPCC high-flier Pachauri prefers other families of four to travel by scooter

"I observed families riding on two-wheelers, the father driving the scooter, his young kid standing in front of him, his wife seated behind him holding a little baby," Tata said while unveiling the prototype in 2008.

"It led me to wonder whether one could conceive of a safe, affordable, all-weather form of transport for such a family."

However critics say the Nano could clog India's already crowded streets and add to pollution.

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the United Nations' climate panel, said: "Every car that goes on the road is going to use road space. We're only adding to congestion."

Tata has dismissed fears the cheap car would bring more congestion and pollution, arguing the car would be better and far safer than most motorcycles on India's roads.

Where everybody knows your name?: Pachauri at Heathrow

NEW DELHI: A colleague of Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri in the IPCC remembers travelling with him through Heathrow airport, London. "The airport employees and the airline staff all recognised and wished him as he walked through the busy airport. It was crazy."

Not that the cabin crew or the airport authorities knew much about climate change and IPCC, but it's hard to forget a man who has probably spent more time in the air than he has in Delhi, his base, since he became IPCC chief. Pachauri himself often jokes that he "lives at 30,000 feet".