Why not? Global warming is not about actual science, it's about pushing an agenda through a political body. Anyone who works on ancient technology like railroads must have skills getting money from political organizations to fund something the market wouldn't touch. So yes, I guess this is a good choice from the point of view of a political organization.

I believe that anyone at all is qualified, because the sooner it is led over a cliff the sooner we can return to the business of living on earth rather than following some new scheme for taxing us all to death. Pachauri should yield to someone even less qualified.

How about John Kerry, who was apparently talking about CO2:

"Try and picture a very thin layer of gases – a quarter-inch, half an inch, somewhere in that vicinity – that’s how thick it is. It’s in our atmosphere. It’s way up there at the edge of the atmosphere. And for millions of years – literally millions of years – we know that layer has acted like a thermal blanket for the planet – trapping the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the Earth to the ideal, life-sustaining temperature. Average temperature of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going. Life itself on Earth exists because of the so-called greenhouse effect. But in modern times, as human beings have emitted gases into the air that come from all the things we do, that blanket has grown thicker and it traps more and more heat beneath it, raising the temperature of the planet. It’s called the greenhouse effect because it works exactly like a greenhouse in which you grow a lot of the fruit that you eat here." ( http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2... )

His CO2, presumably lighter than air, rises into a thin layer at the top of the atmosphere. My CO2 is heavier than air. With science like his we can probably solve all problems that ever face us, without ever getting dirty in stuff like chemical or mechanical engineering. Pachauri (as a railway engineer) presumably has at one time or another had dirty hands.

Kerry for Warming Tsar! Give that man a Global Darwin Award!

He is ideal for getting the trains to run on time.

I know this is a repeat question, but some malcontent keeps changing the category. So I would like all you folks in GW have a chance to answer. Also it gives me the chance to legitimately double up on BAs. Thank you whoever is doing this the true scientists will get to the top quicker with your cooperation.