A Himalayan glacier is suing the head of a leading climate-change watchdog group for fraud, removal of affection, and defamation of character. This according to the Nepal Daily Beggar. According to reports scrawled in the Daily Beggar, with ink made from the blood of endangered tigers, the glacier (referred to in court documents as “Rielle Hunter- Glacier”) is seeking unspecified damages from Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, CEO of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment.
Apparently, after a year’s long, very intimate relationship, Pachauri spread false rumors against Hunter-Glacier, claiming that she would disappear by the year 2035. It has since been learned that Pachauri knew this information was false, having been refuted by numerous, leading glaciologists. The doctor allegedly kept the information hidden during his recent speech to the International Climate Change summit in Copenhagen, a lie by omission that resulted in his receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money.
“At the beginning he was all sweetness and light. He told me he loved me; he told me I was the only one; he promised to take me somewhere warm,” explained a tearful Hunter-Glacier. “Then he tried to convince me that I was dying, that I would be gone in 25 years. He called me an ice queen, refused to fulfill my glacial needs, and spread horrible rumors about me. He is worse than John Edwards, and his hair is not nearly as pretty.”
Pachauri claims he consulted with Hunter-Glacier on a strictly professional level, although Professor Graham Cogley of Ontario Trent University has since refuted this statement. Cogley, one of the world’s leading glaciologists, confirms that he informed Pachauri that, even if warming trends continued at a constant rate (an unproven hypothesis at best) the Himalayan glaciers would not “disappear” for at least another 300 years.
“They seemed like a good couple, and I explained to him that they should have many years of love and passion together. However, Pachauri was just in it for the money. He used Reille Hunter-Glacier to further his own ends and to sate his own appetites. He lied, pure and simple. He never cared about either her, climate change, or the truth.”
Pachauri stubbornly denies any wrongdoing.
“That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit,” he says. “It wasn’t in the public sphere. I am NO John Edwards, and what little hair I have is shiny and lustrous.”
Rielle Hunter-Glacier shot back with her own claim.
“His icicle is a little tiny thing; I’ve seen cubes that were more well endowed.”