• The Statistical Pursuit of Happiness | OPEN Magazine

  tags: wiglinks, Amartya Sen, economics

  • GDP measures only money. And money, obviously, is not everything. Yet, such is the way of the world that financial statistics provide the most accurate indicator to happiness. For example, the most vibrant literary and artistic societies today are also affluent economies. Rich countries are healthier than the poor.

• The Hottest Hoax in the World | OPEN Magazine

  tags: wiglinks

  • The Hottest Hoax in the World

    It was presented as fact. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India’s very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out.

• Controversial climate change boss uses car AND driver to travel one mile to office… (but he says YOU should use public transport) | Mail Online

  tags: wiglinks, ipcc, pachauri

  • On Friday, for the one-mile journey from home to his Delhi office, Dr Pachauri could have walked, or cycled, or used the eco-friendly electric car provided for him, known in the UK as G-Wiz.

    

    Leaving his footprint: Dr Pachauri being driven in his 1.8-litre Toyota Corolla

    But instead, he had his personal chauffeur collect him from his £4.5million home – in a 1.8-litre Toyota Corolla.

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