Mr. Chairman, Your Carriage Awaits

Pachauri has been chairman of the IPCC since 2002. That’s nine long years.

Given all of the above, why has he not done the honourable thing and fallen on his sword? Why has he not acknowledged that his continued presence is harming the cause he claims to believe in so passionately? What is more important – restoring the IPCC’s reputation or the vanity of a 70-year-old man who’d prefer to remain in the limelight until 2014?

When an organization is functioning properly these sorts of situations are not permitted to fester.