Climate weirding at the UN:
Here’s the whole weird story. I suppose neither the UN nor the Guardian remembers the “green helmet guy” fiasco from 2006, or they wouldn’t be using the term.
Here’s a refresher:
First the questions that frame the story. And the proof, busted.
Let’s nominate Salam Daher (nickname “GHG”) for the job, he’s a perfect fit for climate and the UN. Why I’ll bet he and Pachy could become friends. I suggest the UN’s IPCC send him to the pole as a bear emissary, I’m sure he’ll be well received.
And with the photo faking, and all that, I’m sure Tom Karl and “GHG” could share Photoshop tips.
NCDC: Photoshopping the climate change report for better impact
h/t to DB Stealey
Note: Some folks in comments objected to the satirical image (widely circulated on the Internet for years) I originally had linked as being too strong. In retrospect, perhaps it was. My intent was only to draw attention to the absurdity of the present choice of “green helmets” as it related to the controversy over the “green helmet guy” and how that phrase “green helmet” is a bad iconic choice for the UN’s already laughably bad idea. Any other conclusions about my intent are erroneous. – Anthony
Green shirt, Brown Shirt
Green Helmet, Stahlhelm………
I’m speechless… just wow…
Will they use biodegradeable bullets?
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likeadmire the way your mind works — but I fear it even more!Only one misstep: it’s ice “floes”, not “flows”. It’s the key just to the right of the one you typed.
😉 ;p
Unfortunately not. It appears to be inconveniently rising. Something to do with the busybody corals it’s built on …
So they occupy Tuvalu and the Maldives to protect them from rising sea levels while sipping Margeritas?
I recommend a straitjacket for the coat firmly secured and of course a green helmet.
The BBC want to make us belief: Climate Change is causing War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14229237
We hadn’t seen this one on the list.
Three cheers for the Russians.
“Russia’s Deputy Ambassador, Alexander Pankin, referred in his remarks to the Security Council to the “hypothetical nature” of the threat and “lack of empirical evidence” linking carbon emissions to droughts, rising sea levels and other extreme weather patterns. “http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-20/nauru-s-plea-for-un-action-on-climate-threat-goes-unheeded-1-.html
Andrew Bolt has more on this today
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_julia_the_rest_of_the_world_does_not_want_to_follow/
I wonder if they are planning rendition flights to Hadley CRU and use “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”…
In that movie poster, I remember that man holding the dead little boy. After an Israeli bombing several years ago, the man pick up the boy and went around to several cameras faking sadness. There are several pictures of him in different locations wailing like he is in the picture above.What an appropriate person to use for the new green helmet brigade: Someone who fakes outrage and righteousness while he himself is a hypocrite; Someone who plays the victim while he himself is really the instigator. The war may be different but the battle for minds has the same tactics. Carried out differently, of course, but the tactic is the same.
The blue helmets showing up is always a sure sign that things are about to get worse. Knowing the UN they will somehow actually making dangerous climate change actually happen. My guess is they’ll cause an ice age like in Larry Niven, Jery Pournelle, and Michael Flynn’s story Fallen Angels.
Warren says:
July 21, 2011 at 1:56 am
Has Tuvalu finally succumbed then? It’s been 20 years now. And the Carterets? Although the Carterets are definitely going to go due to tectonic movement and sinking, plus the damage they caused when dynamite fishing.
Any other poster children atolls?
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There’s the Duke of York islands in Papua New Guinea, which according to Ross Gelbspan’s book Boiling Point are seeing a sea-level rise of a foot a year. They have supposedly started evacuating 10 years ago, but I cannot find any up to date information on the islands though.
“Green helmets=brown shirts”
“History repeats itself. First as tragedy, next as farce.- Karl Marx
The AGW movement is just now beginning to produce something of value, comedy.
Disregarding the Blue UN Decease troopers but wouldn’t the logistics of the Green UN Decease trooper raise the sea levels by all the emissions they would cause.
And why not go for the African Union that appear to have done more good ‘an the whole of UN has ever manage to do in its entire history.
Takuu Atoll too.
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3585&method=full
“On Takuu, 400 people with a unique culture are in a similar plight. The inhabitants of the low-lying atoll, who have a memorised repertoire of 1,000 songs, have seen their gardens flooded and their sand dunes swept away. It could be a few months, at most five years, before the waves swallow their houses.”
That was published 10 years ago, and the island is still there and (barely) habitable.
Yet more nonsense from the UN trying to frighten people into believing the UN should receive more funding.
When are people going to recognize the UN as the commercial entity that it is, with the playlist and tactics of Disney?
Why would conflicts caused by shrinking coastlines require specialized military? Wouldn’t the ones they already have be exactly as good for the task?
Anthony Scalzi says:
July 21, 2011 at 6:53 am
Warren says:
July 21, 2011 at 1:56 am
Has Tuvalu finally succumbed then? It’s been 20 years now. And the Carterets? Although the Carterets are definitely going to go due to tectonic movement and sinking, plus the damage they caused when dynamite fishing.
Any other poster children atolls?
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There’s the Duke of York islands in Papua New Guinea, which according to Ross Gelbspan’s book Boiling Point are seeing a sea-level rise of a foot a year. They have supposedly started evacuating 10 years ago, but I cannot find any up to date information on the islands though.
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http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3585&method=full
Apparently it’s still a tourist destination in spite of being at or below sea level as of January 26, 2010.
http://pngtourismnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/duke-of-york-island-adventure.html
And flights to Port Moresby are still offered as of today.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Flights-g1746904-Duke_of_York_Islands-Cheap_Discount_Airfares.html
Climate Fail fodder?
Anthony Scalzi says:
July 21, 2011 at 6:53 am
Warren says:
July 21, 2011 at 1:56 am
Has Tuvalu finally succumbed then? It’s been 20 years now. And the Carterets? Although the Carterets are definitely going to go due to tectonic movement and sinking, plus the damage they caused when dynamite fishing.
Any other poster children atolls?
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There’s the Duke of York islands in Papua New Guinea, which according to Ross Gelbspan’s book Boiling Point are seeing a sea-level rise of a foot a year. They have supposedly started evacuating 10 years ago, but I cannot find any up to date information on the islands though.
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And furthermore: http://rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/gps/png/DofY.html
Does the UN have a standing committee to think up stupid things for it to do? This seems like the natural course for organizations that have out lived their usefulness, or never were useful in the first place. The UN is an example of the latter, they have never been able to do anything useful to stop real conflicts, so they have made up disasters to solve. First they created the IPCC, then they decided they needed an alien ambassador, now this.
NASA is an example of the former type of organization, after Apollo there wasn’t much for them too do, until along came Jim Hansen and created global warming. Jim Hansen and that arm of NASA feed very well into the UN and the IPCC, one organization with nothing to do complementing another organization that can’t do anything right.
Mark S says:
July 21, 2011 at 1:40 am
“This is a new low, even for you, Anthony. The deaths at Qana were dreadfully real. They had been killed accidentally in an Israeli air strike. The fact one aid worker (so-called ‘Green Helmet guy’) repeatedly held children up for the media is irrelevant. Again, you ignore a vast body of evidence and point instead to armchair bloggers.”
============================================================== I think it is you, Mark who is missing the vastly bigger point. This post is about the UN coming up with a crazy plan to solve a non-existent problem. Even if you accept global warming, there has not been any wars fought over it at all, so at the very least the UN should wait until there are. But you miss that point entirely and instead focus on a side comment Anthony is making about phony issues. Even at that you go overboard, you call it “a new low ,even for you,” yet even you admit that it was accidental, so how is it a new low to point out the use of this guy for propaganda purposes.
Mark S said on July 21, 2011 at 1:40 am:
The truth is a new low? Surely Mr. Watts can go further than that.
Still the question does arise as to how many of the deaths at Qana were “dreadfully real.” Here is a compendium piece featuring two January 2009 pieces from Canada Free Press noting the recycling of the photos for Hamas propaganda. The second one also notes, which I find ironic, one of the Green Helmet Guy photos was recycled in a San Francisco Sentinel article “Hamas declares it will kill Israeli children anywhere” with the caption “Israeli child previously killed by Islamic terror”. The compendium also features an “Addendum by Editor” discussing assorted circulating “dead baby” pics as well as showing how previous footage was recycled into “evidence” of an Israeli “atrocity” (my word).
In that Addendum is the link to this detailed analysis which I highly recommend reading. It is quite compelling and raises many questions as to what really happened at Qana, and even goes as far as to evoke a question you may find unthinkable: Was Qana even “real”? Not only were corpses carefully presented for the cameras, there are compelling reasons to consider if the entire Qana event was “staged” for PR purposes.
Seriously, before you continue whining that mentioning the long-existing doubts and conclusions about Green Helmet Guy is “a new low,” you need to consider the callous manipulation of corpses for PR purposes, including the shocking depths mentioned in that last linked piece, as well as the ongoing practice of terrorist groups and certain dictators to place military operations and equipment in civilian areas to guarantee civilian deaths if attacked, even carefully “cleaning” the area before the press is allowed to arrive to showcase “this atrocity against unarmed innocent civilians”, to have the context to realize how “low” low can really get.
Let’s do some math here:
Assume it takes 20 feet (6,096 mm) of sea level rise to cause a problem with a given island. The current rate is 3.2mm per year, but let’s assume it is twice that, just for fun, 6.4mm per year.
6096mm rise / 6.4mm per year = 952.5 years !!!
Now I know that government bodies move VERY slowly in making decisions, but I don’t think they move that slow! So, what is the point of setting up such a group to make any decision in the next 50 years regarding sea level rise? The rise in 50 years is too small to mater.
This is no joke, and the staged Qana photos are a distraction, not relevant in any way to the topic. There are trillions of dollars at stake here, and the UN (and other organizations) realized long ago the eventual need for an armed force to impose its will on uncooperative countries. The fact is, the establishment of this Green Force was alluded to in the early Copenhagen Draft Agreement, though in such elliptical terms as to require reading “between the lines.” Ultima ratio regum hasn’t changed. If this goose-stepping green army is created, it will be used, have no doubt.