{"id":295621,"date":"2010-02-09T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30998"},"modified":"2010-02-09T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T05:01:35","slug":"the-un%e2%80%99s-climate-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295621","title":{"rendered":"The UN\u2019s Climate Of Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Andrew Bolt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claudia Rossett, who helped to expose UN corruption in the oil-for-food scandal, now turns her attention to the UN warmists. One in particular:<\/p>\n

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With UN climate guru Rajendra Pachauri under fire for alleged conflicts of interest and the purveying of flawed \u201cscience,\u201d another United Nations eco-official is stepping forward to defend UN climate findings. <\/em><\/p>\n

His name is Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Program, or UNEP, based in Nairobi. If you are curious about potential conflicts of interest among the UN climate crowd, Steiner, along with Pachauri, is someone to watch. <\/em><\/p>\n

Like Pachauri, Steiner is still talking about \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d supporting the findings of Al Gore\u2019s co-Nobelist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change \u2014 despite the growing body of evidence that the IPCC\u2019s findings were more a product of UN politics than of science. In recent remarks featured as a top item on the UN\u2019s official news site, Steiner has just praised the IPCC and re-issued the UN\u2019s usual apocalyptic warnings: \u201cAny delay\u2026 risks of a magnitude\u2026urgent international response\u201d \u2014 etc. <\/em><\/p>\n

Who is Achim Steiner? A German, born in Brazil, he is a longtime environmentalist, former head from 2001-2006 of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN…. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span>Anyway, in December, 2005, Achim Steiner served as a judge on a panel in Dubai that awarded a $500,000 environmental prize to then-Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan<\/a>. With a big smile, at a banquet in Dubai, Annan \u2014 then the UN\u2019s top official \u2014 accepted this six-figure purse for his personal use. About three months later, Annan named Steiner, one of the judges who picked Annan for the prize, to head UNEP<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Green is the colour of the cash.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

IPCC Warmist Draws On His Favorite Peer Reviewer: Himself<\/h3>\n

Marc Sheppard <\/a>says it\u2019s bad enough that the IPCC bought the theory of warmist Professor David Karoly that man-made warming was causing the higher temperatures and evaporation in the Murray Darling basin in Australia.<\/p>\n

After all, new research suggests almost the very opposite <\/a>– that the higher temperatures come from a natural fall in cloud cover, and a lack of rain and a subsequent lack of evaporative cooling. Drought causes higher temperatures, and not vice versa.<\/p>\n

But Sheppard notes that Karoly\u2019s theory was heavily relied upon in a chapter the IPCC\u2019s alarmist 2007 report that was supposed to be reviewed by … Karoly himself:<\/p>\n

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But amazingly, the story doesn\u2019t end with how wrong the chapter was. Professor Franks also pointed out that … David Karoly, whose work was also heavily cited in WG1 Chapter 9, was its Review Editor. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fabulous peer reviewing, guys. The man in charge of the reviewing supervises reviews of his own theory.<\/p>\n

Is this the kind of thing that Climategate ringleader Phil Jones meant when he once boasted he\u2019d \u201dredefine what the peer-review literature is<\/a>\u201d?<\/p>\n

Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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