My previous post, elicited a response from Robin Guenier which sent me off on a trip down memory lane. This turned out to be a much longer trip than I had anticipated; so I’ve made it into a post, which follows … Well, I suppose the “good news” is that after 5 years, the movers…
There’s a movie I’ve been meaning to watch ever since I read Jonathan Tobin’s review in Commentary. It’s called U.N. Me, directed by Ami Horowitz. In his review, Tobin had noted (inter alia): The direct failure of the U.N. to do anything to stop the genocide in Rwanda though it had the forces on the…
This may seem like a back to the future moment, or simply a replay of last year’s performances from the movers and shakers at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – who all seem to be blissfully unaware that a year after voting began the people of the world continue to place “climate change” at the bottom of the priority heap.
So, while Stephan <even when I’m wrong, I’m right> Lewandowsky continues to defend his indefensible Recursive Fury against Frontiers’ retraction – aided and abetted by his dutiful little gophers (aka Dana Nuccitelli and John Cook) – thereby planting himself (and his over-inflated ego) firmly in the ranks of those whose signature anthem should be “Mediocrity…
Since 2004, Michel Jarraud has served as the Secretary-General (i.e. head honcho) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This UN organization is one of two “parents” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The other “parent”, as readers of this blog will no doubt recall, is the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), promulgator of…
Could it be that efforts are afoot to hide the decline of IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri’s influence – if not toss him into the dustbin?!
[11/22/2013 03:42 PM PST: Please note updates below -hro] Readers may recall that not too long ago (well, circa Aug. 25 to be precise! … my how time flies, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] is playing games), I had noted that at the Feb. 25/13 meeting of the IPCC’s Executive Committee (I…
Why should we trust the word of Thomas Stocker, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Working Group I, when he’s so far off the mark in counting countries?
A few years ago, I had commented on the fact that in 2010 the United Nations (in perhaps yet another of its many endeavours to deflect attention from its abysmal failure in meeting its original mandate) took the progressive (and “precautionary”, no doubt) step of appointing a “space ambassador to greet alien visitors”. Contemporaneous news…
As the credibility of United Nations continues its (now) traditional path of rapid decline, that it tries to paper-over with self-perpetuating hype and promotion (not the least of which are generated by the United Nations Environment Program [UNEP], inventor and promulgator of scary stores since 1972), there are some recent reports worth noting. About a…
The View From Here 