UN Appoints Proud Wealth Redistributor to Lead “Green Jobs” Efforts…
Eco-socialism.
Via Daily Caller:
. . . On Capitol Hill, this is called a clean energy standard or CES (read: windmill mandate). The latest proponent of this Plan B is our old friend, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And, with the Senate actually pondering a CES push before summer, this comes just in time.
That is, it comes just in time for those of us arguing for more individual liberty, less state control over our lives and the economy. Short of Al Gore making a movie about green jobs that, too, got all of its money claims tossed by the UK’s high court as unsupportable, a helpful assist from the IPCC is all a skeptic could hope for.
The IPCC is often touted as 2,500 of the world’s leading climate scientists (whose “chief scientist” is in fact a railway engineer, and whose ranks include anthropology T/As, transport policy teachers and instructors in group-huggy things like “the human dimension of climate change”). It was in defense of the IPCC’s “smoking gun” from its 2001 Third Assessment Report, the thoroughly debunked “Hockey Stick,” that scientists affiliated with the IPCC enterprise engaged in all of their perversion of science and transparency laws later exposed by an apparent whistleblower in ClimateGate.
In short, they’re the best friend anyone opposing this cat-skinning ruse could ask for. But it gets better.
Today the IPCC released a “Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.” Actually, it only released its summary because, as is always the case with these IPCC products, the “Summary for Policymakers” is produced before the actual work it purportedly summarizes. Here’s our answer, now let’s set about propping it up!
Right up front are the paper’s four “coordinating lead authors.” Representative of the world of global warming schemes, these include two Germans, an African, and a Cuban, as no economic plan is complete without an expert from Cuba.
First among them, however, just happens to be IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. You may remember him for his recent gem — also from last November, come to think of it — of admitting that “one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” Instead, climate change policy is about how “we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth. . .” I couldn’t have said it better myself (though I have tried).
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 10:43 pm | 
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Defund the UN…get out of the UN when we take power, if we don’t I don’t think I can stand it much anymore.
We have to get more conservatives in both chambers and the Prez as well to get this done once and for all…and much more goes without saying.
ummm..
that’s a picture of Stephan Dion..
while he did promise the ‘green shift’.. how does he play into this story?
It’s only one building. I think we can take it with a couple dozen cub scouts.
Green jobs.. haha, those will entail breaking up the highways by hand and carrying the rubble away in baskets as befits the slaves the green elites intend to make us.
Stephan Dion earned high praise for his work chairing the U.N. Climate Change summit (COP 11/MOP 1) in Montreal in 2005.
Later, when Dion’s record as environment minister was under scrutiny in the closing days of the Liberal leadership campaign, former Sierra Club of Canada director and current leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May came to his defence, calling him a “very very good environment minister.”
The government did not make significant progress towards reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions during Dion’s brief tenure in office.
In April 2005, Dion unveiled his “Project Green” to combat climate change, but the program was immediately criticized by some environmental groups for being too timid and for lacking in meaningful regulations.
Johanne Gélinas, Canada’s environment commissioner, criticized the government’s stewardship of marine areas and national parks, as well as its efforts to ensure the safety of drinking water.
In February 2006, after the Liberals had been defeated and the Conservatives had taken over the reins of government, Dion said that Canada would very likely not be able to reach its Kyoto targets. Nevertheless, he argued that this was missing the point:
“Everyone is saying target, target. But … it is to be more than to reach a target. It’s to change the economy. It’s to have resource productivity, energy efficiency when we know that energy will be the next crisis for the economy of the world…. All my ministries will be green. Maybe I’ll make one department of industry and the environment – a department of sustainability. That’s not a commitment, but if you want to change the mind, you have to change structure….”
This from a man who received a degree in political science…
He studied political science at Université Laval in the department co-founded by his father; this was also where he met his future wife, Janine Krieber, a fellow-student in the same program.
He obtained BA and MA degrees in 1977 and 1979 respectively (his master’s thesis presented an analysis of the evolution of Parti Québécois electoral strategies)… hmm…Quebec’s electoral strategies…
Not exactly a scientist is he…?
He was also a believer in the secession of Quebec from Canada…
What a wonderfully stupid little man
“Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. Why? Because we have 11,000 gigatons of carbon in the coal reserves in the soil under our feet – and we must emit only 400 gigatons in the atmosphere if we want to keep the 2-degree target. 11 000 to 400 – there is no getting around the fact that most of the fossil reserves must remain in the soil.”
As you can see there is a s!@#load left. The Greenies are crying because we won’t run out of fossil fuel and that’s what they keep praying for, the end of the world as we know it.
Stephan Dion was the weak, flaccid, and failed leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, who got his ass handed to him in the 2008 Federal Election by Steven Harper, who is btw very good at handing opponents’ asses to them. When he was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 2006, I just had to shake my head. I perceived him as Just Another Frenchman. Still do.