The deal would also restore the Tata Group to its traditional place as India's biggest conglomerate by revenues, ousting the more abrasive Reliance Industries from the top spot a side-effect that Mr Tata and his colleagues are no doubt quietly relishing.
Scientists refer to this as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect and a corresponding "warm spot" in the CMB associated with an area of space dominated by a supercluster of galaxies was identified some years ago.
This makes the London mayoral election result one bright spot in a gloomy overall picture for the Conservatives, who are feeling the effect of voters' dissatisfaction over measures to tackle the country's large deficit.
True or not, the revelation has had the desired effect: It put the Azeri government of President Ilham Aliyev on the spot and forced it to disavow any such collaboration with Israel.
The UN models agree with established science that if human greenhouse gas emissions were causing global warming, there should be a hot spot of higher temperatures in the troposphere above the tropics, where collected concentrations would have the greatest effect, and the warming would show up first.