In December 2009, Christopher Booker and Richard North had published an article in "The Sunday Telegraph" in which they questioned whether Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was using his position for personal gain, with a follow-up "Telegraph" article in January 2010. On 21 August 2010, "The Daily Telegraph" issued an apology, and withdrew the December article from their website having reportedly paid legal fees running into six figures. Dr Pachauri described the statements against him as "another attempt by the climate sceptics to discredit the IPCC."