The official numbers of partygoers to the 17th Conference of Parties in Durban, South Africa, shape up like this:
Figure 1. Theoretical distribution of the 14,570 partygoers at the Durban 17th Conference of Partygoers. Numbers indicate total delegates from that group.
Slightly more government delegates than NGO representatives. However, as in all things climate, it’s a bit more complex than that.
Anthony points out in a recent post that the proposal on taxation submitted by Bolivia was in fact written by Oxfam. But it’s not just some random Oxfam connection. The Bolivian country delegation itself contains an Oxfam member. And they’re not the only country to do that. The Bangladesh country delegation has three Oxfam members. Belgium has two Oxfam members.
Belgium? I can understand Bolivia needing some help, but Belgium?
Are there really so few government and university climate experts in Belgium that you guys have to include two Oxfam members in your official government delegation? For shame, Belgium. Let those buggers pay their own way, why should the Belgian taxpayer have to stay home and pay for the Oxfam champagne and taxis and hotel rooms?
In total, Oxfam has no less than nine people in various official government delegations. World Resources Institute have two people in official country delegations, as does the Rainforest Alliance. Nature Conservancy and 350.org each have one. And then there are a host of small, local country NGO’s represented in various official government delegations.
Their numbers all pale next to the perennial Oscar winner, the group who almost always wins the Best Actor Award for their long-running mocumentary film series “Activists Pretending to be Scientists”, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They have no less than fourteen WWF members masquerading as government delegates.
NGOs are not the only offenders in this regard. UNDP people seem to like to party. In addition to the official UNDP delegation, there are eight UNDP employees among the official country delegations.
The oddities don’t end there. Lebanon’s country delegation of 12 people includes the Head of Carbon Sales and Trading of the Standard Bank Plc.
India has four public school students in their delegation, along with the German AID representative.
The Ghana delegation includes someone described as a technician working for the Japan Broadcasting Corp.
Indonesia has someone from the Zoological Society of London.
Papua New Guinea has a representative from the Carbon War Room Corporation.
Italy has four members of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change, and one bodyguard.
Ireland has a representative from the “Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice”.
Grenada has two people from Climate Analytics GmbH, which seems to be a company whose business is to provide advice to countries on how to scam the carbon markets.
The overall winner has to be Guinea-Bissau. Their country delegation has 19 people. Only five of them seem to work for the Guinea-Bissau government. The delegation appears to be headed by a man who styles himself as:
Association member, Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association
Dang, that’s a hard one to overtop. The Guinea-Bissau delegation also contains a man from the Global Environment Fund, a host of people with no given affiliation, the International Project Director, Awareness and Advocacy who works for the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Studies, and mirabile dictu, someone whose affiliation is given simply as “Tianjin Police”.
I have put all of these oddities, along with many people with no given affiliation, in the category “Unknown”. My quick and unscientific analysis gave me the following counts of the actual as opposed to the nominal affiliations of the partygoers.
Figure 2. As in Figure 1, but with the NGO representatives and unknown people removed from the country delegations and placed in their own categories.
Six thousand official NGO representatives, including those masquerading as government representatives. Five thousand government delegates. Fifteen hundred media. A thousand mystery contestants, camp followers, and bodyguards. The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town, and the NGO folks outnumber everyone else.
Please, Congress, please, can we defund these climate parties? We’ve spent millions of dollars and burned millions of litres of jet fuel to haul these parasites to their annual party on some lovely tourist beach somewhere, Rio one year, Cancun the next, Bali the next.
The only thing we’ve gotten from them in return is fraud, waste, and mismanagement. Now, these unelected agenda-driven folks are agitating to tax a host of transactions worldwide. Congresspersons, could we ring the bell on this dangerous trend? International taxes enacted by the UN in any form are a very bad idea. Get rid of this band of thieves before they bankrupt us all.
w.
PS—The official data on the partygoers is available as Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. My thanks to Ecotretas for the info.
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“We’ve spent millions of dollars and burned millions of litres of jet fuel to haul these parasites to their annual party on some lovely tourist beach somewhere”…..The fascist carbon feeding frenzy…..
JKrob says:
“Excuse my ignorance but ‘NGO’ stands for…? Oxfam is…who?”
You could do a search for Oxfam. It’s easy. Try “Oxfam, UN”. And for ‘NGO’, here’s a handy acronym finder. NGOs are the same as QUANGOs.
So why are NGO’s so involved in this process when they are nothing more than paid for lobby groups?
Feeding frenzy at the UN climate trough. Our billions of tax dollars and euros at work. I would vote for Lucifer himself if he would cut off every last cent from the UN and boot their kleptocrats out of our country.
The NGO’s have a high old time trying out their eco-experiments on ignorant, venal, third world countries. They push all of this nonsense by funding despotic regimes so as to be allowed to try out technological socialism. When it, invariably, fails they drift off back to the home country where their fat bank accounts reside and live the good life on the back of powerless people condemned to misery by the activities of their uncaring “governments” and ignorant social scientists.
Even in South Africa the media is at full volume, and full speed, preaching the apocalyptic results of first world greed and indifference while largely ignoring the corrupt reality that has created the real hopelessness of poverty. They even say that women will be impacted worse than men by run away global warming that is already “obvious” all around. Like the emperors new clothes there is nothing obvious anywhere other than a pack of third world rulers baying for money from the hated “west” in reparation for the economic and social devastation they have wrought.
This is a sick, sick world where the very west that has brought great prosperity and manifest freedoms is excoriated for it’s very success by those who simply demand something for nothing. There is no more of a “nothing” than this insanity of global warming that the third worlders demand compensation from.
Imagine the outcry if oil and coal lobbyists would descend by the thousands on Durban to influence the negotiations, NGO style.
Compared to Mozambique (72) and Namibia (73), NZ has been completely under-represented with only 23 gumint delegates on this junket
And it seems money is no object when it comes to ensuring the comfort of these hypocrites as long as it’s at taxpayer expense of course….just look at Copenhagen
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6736517/Copenhagen-climate-summit-1200-limos-140-private-planes-and-caviar-wedges.html
Ouch! My eyes!
Some of us color-challenged (term used to be ‘color blind’ to certain close color combinations) just hate color pie charts like that (can’t match up the chart ‘key’ to the pie slices; too many slices look alike to us!)
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Were there enough hookers available?
Did they have to import some… again?
Are any hookers part of a country delagation?
And… howz come they never hold these parties in Muslim countries where liquor is illegal? Oh wait…
See, there is such a thing as a stupid question ;o)
I note with great interest that these NGO representatives are proposing new taxes on shipping and air travel. I hope the readers are aware that this will increase the cost of food and the conveyance of goods and reduce disposable incomes as the cost of living rises. That will lead to wage increase demands, inflation and …
We get steamed up enough about the EU imposing regulations – why are we so supine when it comes to the even less democratic UN and NGOs dictating tax, handout and wealth distribution?
“Please, Congress, please, can we defund these climate parties? Weve spent millions of dollars and burned millions of litres of jet fuel to haul these parasites to their annual party on some lovely tourist beach somewhere, Rio one year, Cancun the next, Bali the next.”
Where ARE our beloved WUWT trolls to condemn these wasteful, carbon-belching partygoers? Oh yeah…
By the way, Willis, I propose that in exchange for ANY funding for these activities, WE get to pick the site for the next COP meeting. Here are some good choices:
* Gary, Indiana (summer meeting site)
* Buffalo, NY (winter meeting site)
Seems like Fenton Communications is the overall organizer and target-setter, not our elected governments. Interesting. In who’s interest exactly?
Taxes by the UN on the world is their first foothold on one world government.
What if a country does not collect these stupid transaction taxes? Then there has to be a mechanism of punishment and collection. That gives the UN power over all countries in a small way, but one that they would find all kinds of reasons to expand, both real and imaginary reasons. Like any government, it would then lust for ever-expanding powers.
You should have made the pie chart with everyone on the left side.
Excellent post, Willis. Very telling. This reminds me of the brouhaha over COP15 with all the NGO people getting locked out. Huge numbers of them:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-12/17/content_9192853.htm
Great article. Some comments:
-> “Theoretical distribution”: maybe a better caption for chart #1 is “purported distribution”.
-> “Climate Justice”? What in the world is climate justice? Unfortunately, some folks have distorted the term “justice” to mean “weatlh redistribution”. Sad.
-> Finally, I agree with another poster that the colours are too similar. Perhaps some sort of cross-hatching etc would help differentiate the pie slices.
There are many CO2-producing events each year. 2012 will see hundreds of thousands of people descend (literally!) on London for the olympics. Each weekend there are countless sporting events where tens of thousands of people converge on each sports facility.
I’ve said it before: if governments were truly concerned about CO2 emissions then these unproductive events would be banned.
And while we’re at it, we should also ban any form of human-powered movement besides walking. Running and cycling produce more grams of CO2 per km than walking, and for what? If speed is undesirable on the road then it’s similarly unneeded on the footpath :).
All these parasites would play exactly the same game if the IPCC consensus would propagate catastrophic cooling. Debunking CAGW will not get rid of this class of people.
Peter Ward says:
December 7, 2011 at 6:53 am
“And while we’re at it, we should also ban any form of human-powered movement besides walking. Running and cycling produce more grams of CO2 per km than walking, ”
No, cycling is more efficient than walking. Comparison of efficiencies:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/humanpower1.html
1 beggar is called a “vagrant”
An organized group of beggars is called an “NGO”
Government departments infiltrated by NGO’s are “tax funded philanthropists”
But what do you have when the NGO gets infiltrated by capitalist pigs?
Answer: Organized beggars who don’t need to beg because they can tax you instead.
Perhaps, given the need for revenue by the federal government, it’s time to remove the tax-exempt status for all but actual charities who do actual charity work for the needy.
One reason why it’s almost impossible to take dangerous “climate Change” seriously is because if these folks actually believed that controlling carbon was really important, they would be doing this conference by conference call.
Christ said the poor will always be with us. It seems to that the leaches will always be with us too.
I have a problem with using the term “NGO” as a catch-all because there are some very useful non-govermnetal organizations operating in developing countries where governments just are not up to the job of dealing with the country’s problems.
I fully agree that the WWFs, Gr$$npeaces etc. are a serious threat to the democratic rights of most of the world’s population, but I hate to have to use the term NGO to refer to these blights on our society. MNGOs fits much better since they are multi-national in precisely the same way that multi-national companies are – a lovely irony since the MNCs were one of their first targets.
As I mentioned, there is a role for NGOs who can get things done on the ground often a lot quicker than governments (OXFAM were originally Oxford Famine Releif and began as a charity collecting and delivering emergency aid), but they should have absolutely no role in multinational policy development. It is a travesty that these big international meetings allow their presence given that they do not actually represent any particular group of “stakeholders”. Their own membership (and funding sources) are so small and narrowly defined which gives them no mandate to speak on behalf of the people they claim to represent. This should be pointed out as they are shown to the door.
The ideas from this conference will be the most vulnerable right after these starry eyed idealists get back. Getting drunk on ones own bathwater is risky at best. Now others are watching!