Stigma

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The Associated Press reports:

The leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change stepped down on Tuesday amid an investigation into a colleague's allegations of sexual harassment.

Rajendra K. Pachauri, 75, an Indian citizen, had chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002 and accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on its behalf.

...Pachauri is being investigated in India after a 29-year-old woman accused him of sexually harassing her while they worked together at the New Delhi lobbying and research organization he heads, The Energy Resources Institute.

A police report said the woman gave police dozens of text messages and emails that she alleged had been sent by Pachauri. A Delhi court on Monday ordered Pachauri to cooperate in the investigation.

Police said they would question a second woman who also accused Pachauri of sexual harassment but had not filed a police report.

...The accusations against Pachauri have caused outrage in India, where women face a stigma against discussing issues such as sexual harassment in the workplace.

Several recent high-profile cases suggest, however, that women are beginning to feel more comfortable going public with reports of sexual assaults — an important breakthrough in a country where men feel emboldened to commit crimes because they know women experience such a stigma.

Read more here.
Mark Steyn picks up on the story and relates it to his soon-to-be-heard court battle with another climate change "fraudster," Michael Mann. Steyn entitles his piece Nobel Pants Prize. Steyn links to another article which a second woman comes forth.
Steyn and some real climate scientists have a new book out entitled Climate Change: The Facts.