From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department.
[update, yeah the headline is inaccurate, it is simply reflecting the original story headline from BIGGOVERNMENT.com ~ ctm]
Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort
From BIGGOVERNMENT.com
This week, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South Africa’s tourism minister, was nominated to head the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC). Van Schalkwyk is a former apartheid operative who bartered his way into the black majority government by helping it smear its democratic opposition. He is a statist bureaucrat who is one of the most unpopular political figures in the new South Africa. He is just right for the job.
There is no one better to put in charge of the entire political enterprise of climate change as it is collapsing amidst failed negotiations and accusations of fraud. Van Schalkwyk will be sure to hasten the end. He did the same when he took over the rump of South Africa’s National Party, the party of apartheid, and led it to crushing defeat. He gave up and joined the African National Congress (ANC) government in return for his ministry.
That was bad news for South Africans, as Van Schalkwyk encouraged other politicians to defect from the country’s leading opposition parties to join the corrupt and hegemonic ANC. (An angry public began referring to those who crossed the floor for political favors as “crosstitutes.”) But it is good news for critics of the UN climate change bureaucracy, who now have a target who personifies everything there is to dislike about the system.
The worldwide “consensus” on climate change is unraveling amidst mounting evidence that the UN and senior scientists manipulated the data to suit their predictions of rapid warming and their prescriptions for drastic intervention in the global economy. It is, of course, true that carbon dioxide is a “greenhouse gas” that helps warm the earth; it is true that we have pumped more of it into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution.
It is also true that there is evidence of increasing average global surface temperatures over the same time period, and reason to believe that trend could continue over the next century. But it is also true that there are other factors affecting global climate, including some that reduce temperatures. And it is also true that our most sophisticated computer models cannot predict how warmer temperatures will affect our climate in the future.
That wasn’t good enough for those eager to create a sense of alarm. They projected worst-case scenarios and tried to convince the world that the potential costs of future warming far outweighed the costs of shutting down whole industries. They never explained whether climate change could actually be reversed; they did not need to, as long as they could scare people enough to avoid having to answer tough questions.
Read the rest of the article here.
HT/ a friend at Bloomberg ~ ctm
My choice would have been “Fat Tony”, but hey, he looks similar enough.
…nobody asked me, but they should just allow a Chicago politician to handle this task! After all, we gave the world Barack Obama….
He is perfect! We should be quiet, sit back, wait, and listen.
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On a related seperate subject, the more I hear and see of the UN the less I appreciate them. Must have something to do with over exposure. But, thanks to the UN and what they’ve taught me, I now know why we had Crusades, Inquisitions, a Revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII, VNW, AGW, etc., people aren’t –and never have been– very smart. Think I’m wrong? Think there’s hope for us and our future in the younger generation? Watch what they watch on ‘reality tv’ for 5 minutes. Don’t you wish we only had to pay for the TV channels we actually watch, instead of subsidizing 231 channels full of garbage that we never watch.
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Leave the poor guy alone. Let serve. (Maybe there’s hope for us after all.)
Reading the comments posted on this article is quite humorous. Folks who clearly don’t live in SA are trying to paint this man as a crazy “global governance” monster.
It’s no conspiracy, government just wants to get rid of him.
He is a joke here in SA, no one ever has or ever will take him seriously.
Government is just trying to look like it is making an effort with this climate change nonsense.
If vS becomes head of the CC efforts, the “action” will all happen in “African time” as we call it here… “Maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe never. Who cares, have a drink!”
Interesting too how the foreign media has been ripping president Zuma and the world cup preparation here… We’re not worried, see you all in 90 days 😉
OT, but from the same link, BIGGOVERNMENT.com it appears the latest climate bile, (or bill, if you prefer) sponsored by Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman will be using the carrot-and-stick approach to try to get-er-done: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EBERA01&show_article=1 featuring (sticks): 1) Carbon caps for power producers becoming more stringent with time, 2) Possible tax on motor fuel 3) Industry exempted for now, but phasing in caps in a few years and (carrots) 1) Expanding oil and gas drilling offshore, and 2) Fed. assistance for nuclear power plants, as well as CCS projects.
“Only when you marry up climate change—cleaning up the air—with energy independence do you get” to 60 votes in the Senate, he said.
“If you’re a Republican, and you believe we should ‘drill, baby, drill,’ now’s your chance,” Graham said. ”
God, I hope the Republicans are smart enough not to fall for this.
CRS, Dr.P.H. (14:43:19) :
“You WILL believe in global warming!” (*sound of arms being twisted until they break*). Lovely, just lovely…where did they find this clown, central casting??
Yes. If you’re making horror films – you must cast a worthy villain.
But the UN is serious about fixing their global warming troubles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055999.ece
They will conduct an thorough investigation of their errors – not of their integrity.
Vuk etc (05:48:54) :
James F. Evans (14:25:25) :
“This man is no Nelson Mandela.”
Or Archbishop Tutu.
Or Princess Diana.
Or Mickey Mouse.
You tell me why is it so that these global warmers share such a variety of beliefs ranging from “The day after pill” advocacy, through “minorities rights” defense (pedophils included), Malthusianism (disapperance of nasty third world browns and blacks), DDT banning for diminishing black and brown populations, AH1N1 vaccination, to control “tea baggers” insurgence and provoking teratogenesis, “civil society” participation in governments (voters usually don’t like them so they choose them in formal elections), gay marriage, income redistribution, etc,etc.and why all these beliefs are propagandized by the United Nations?
errata>….they DON’T choose them in formal elections.
He will surely begin by spying WUWT bloggers….beware!
Stop whinging you lot. You know that the UN is a corrupt organisation. So many of our so called political leaders are just as corrupt. Organisations like the UN and the European Union cater for the lifestyle of their senior executives. So what are you going to do about it? In the West, you can join a political party and make your voice heard. This is the only way. The internet is at your disposal to recruit like minded people. To get rid of these shysters is going to be a bottom up movement. The sad truth is that if it doesn’t effect most people directly, so then most people won’t care. Why? Because they have other problems to deal with – salary, mortgage, the kids and next years holiday. But one day, it will effect them, not least through their tax. At that point you might find you have willing recruits for your cause. But I am not hopeful. We are sleepwalking into the 4th Reich.
Grumpy Old man (10:05:37) :We are sleepwalking into the 4th Reich
Worst: A second Stalin era, the commisars are already in place.
Much is the work of alien marxists ala District Nine..;)
Snake Oil Baron (14:14:01) :
Don’t let the kids get you P O ed.
I am sure somebody must have thought of this already, but will the new incumbent introduce a renewed computer analysis based on Algore-rithms?
Whatever happened to “Nuclear Night : Scientist’s Warning” author Yuri Ysrael- the Soviet climate science apparachik who headlined the KGB endorsement of Carl Sagan & Paul Ehrlich’s predictions of the world freezing to death in a “Nuclear Winter” ?
Wasn’t that him glad handing Fred Singer at the Heartland Conference?
I am deeply shocked by his move from the Lubyanka to K-Street.
This guy is a joke. His nickname is “kortbroek” which means “short pants” in Afrikaans and is a reference to his pursuit of a political career from a very early with whichever group of fascists would have him. He is perfect for this job as he is a serial bullsh!t artist.
Charles Higley (19:24:24) :
“…. See the work of Miskolczi and Zagoni in the atmospheric heat flux, CO2 and water vapor. Its an eye-opener and a very recent development in the last 5 years.”
For the layman this seems to be a reasonable and easily read summary. Do you agree?
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/The_Saturated_Greenhouse_Effect.htm
Geoff Shorten (21:15:56) :
“…Finally, when the chief minder growled: “My boss says you will do as he wants,” he was met with the reply: “My boss is not your boss.”
GEE sounds just like Senator Ed Kennedy but Kennedy had paid for a cattle car seat. When not given a first class seat he retaliated by having the entire flight crew fired.
The stewardess called into a MA radio station talk show that I was listenning to. Other callers to confirmed with their experiences of Kennedy’s temper tantrums….
AND these are the type of people who want to run the entire world without any checks or restraints?????