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Bishop Hill Gongs for greens
Jun 12, 2010 Climate: other Congratulations are due to Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientist and the man who put forward Lord Oxburgh as the "best candidate" to chair the inquiry into UEA. Professor Beddington has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's birthday honours list.
Other climatological gongs are:
- Professor John Shepherd of Southampton (OBE)
- Peter Betts, Director of International Climate Change, DECC (OBE)
- Kirsty Schneeberger, Co-ordinator, UK Youth Climate Coalition (MBE)
(The UK Youth Climate Coalition is an organisation I came across recently. It was founded in 2008).
Reader Comments (33)
Can we award Al Gore an oscar also and Barack Obama a nobel peace prize - please!
Surely Phil Jones deserves at least a knighthood for long services to mann-made climate change.
Loyalty has its rewards, doesn't it just.
And Lord Monckton is now "Chrissy Babes" according to Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100042295/id-rather-have-monckton-in-a-foxhole-with-me-than-monbiot/
Why did I immediately think "Hitler Youth" when I saw "UK Youth Climate Coalition?"
@ Phillip Bratby
"Surely Phil Jones deserves at least a knighthood for long services to mann-made climate change."
Indeed!
But I'm sure that once he gets the top job, Prince Chuckles will make him a Hereditary Earl at least. He only has to wait.
Meanwhile, surely Buff Huhne must be in line for at least a Nobel Prize?
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/06/prat.html
Sir Alexander Muir Russell already has his, fortunately, so we can look forward to a ferociously fair finding in the report on the UAE Climategate.....no?
Two new awards are announced for services to the criminalisation of CO2, and destruction of economies - the Emerald Cabbage, and the Tin Watermelon. Available now on E Bay.
(Dr Bratby, fell about reading another publication earlier in the week, in which you engaged with one who calls himself Zedsdeadbed, who is a constant source of amusement and wonder, and with whom I enjoy regularly sparring. A troubled, and very unpopular soul).
Natsman: Was that the Daily Mail article? Somebody said Zedsdeadbed was a she, do you know? Also David from Cheltenham seems a bit of an intense alarmist. There's always one or two about. They get lots of negative ratings, so not many peole take them seriously.
But back to gongs. They have been much discredited since nulabour grossly abused the patronage system; but since the elevation of Lord TwoJags of Lower Deck, they have become worse than meaningless.
time to give them all a stamp in the fat assuaged stonker
nice cajal drawings btw
that is one to remember: Mann Made Global Warming :)
Is like the one of the pistachioes
Our friends the Pistachioes promote Mann Made Global Warming
But I'm sure that once he gets the top job, Prince Chuckles will make him a Hereditary Earl at least. He only has to wait.
Once again I hear the familiar refrain from Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
"I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament.
I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
I wonder what they would do with the current crop of imbeciles run our governments as inspiration? Perhaps The Pirates of Kyoto or HMS Icecube?
The sad fact is none of what we see today is new. You would think we would have learned something by now.
Do these plastic awards come with special note paper and email graphics to impress your friends?
'Was that the Daily Mail article? Somebody said Zedsdeadbed was a she, do you know? Also David from Cheltenham seems a bit of an intense alarmist.'
Yep thats them, wasted 10 mins of my life yesterday clicking -VE against all their posts, satisfying though ;)
There are one or two who regularly post on the Daily Mail site, and who constantly get "red" marks awarded against them, but you can't beat them back -they just keep coming, and their comments get more frantic by the hour. Then when they realise they're on to a loser, in a fit of pique they start having the posts they disagree with removed, whilst slagging off the Daily Mail itself. Quite comical, really. And I've no idea about the gender of the DeadHead character, but I think he/she is lonely and sad.
Incidentally, I've no doubt you realise that if you keep clearing your cache, you can just keep voting "red" or "green" for the comments in the Mail ad infinitum...
Global Green New Deal (UNEP Mar 2009)
3.6.6 International Coordination of a Global Green New Deal
This brings us to perhaps the most difficult issue in the new international framework – who will co-ordinate and police the new world order?
Do we need another supra-national agency? Should we rely on a network of international agreements? How will we get an agreement between all countries? Who will ensure compliance? These may seem intractable issues but we feel that progress is possible if the world’s largest economies take the lead. After all, it is a handful of major countries who account for most of the world’s GDP, population, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. For instance, countries represented in the G20 represent almost 90 percent of global GDP, two-thirds of world population and 80 percent of international trade. Such a forum could provide the platform for a global deal. The UN could then be used to take the framework to the wider community of nations, and to provide the complex coordination, support, monitoring and reporting that follows.
4. Next Steps
These recommendations for a GGND must be presented and discussed over the next few months at every major international forum where today’s leaders of the large economies meet, so that they may decide wisely and with full information on the course and the nature of tomorrow’s economies. They must be able to see the evidence, debate the issues, and hopefully forge agreements on the lines recommended here and elsewhere. Instances of such international forums include the G20 Summit in London and the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, both in April; the G8 Summit in Rome in June, and a series of events leading to the climate conference in Copenhagen in December. A UN interagency working group will be set up to provide the information needed to facilitate the adoption of a GGND by governments through the UN General Assembly. Meanwhile, the “Green Economy” initiative of UNEP will continue to work with UN agencies to develop further and communicate information and advice tailored to diverse stakeholders, including major country groupings, on “greening” their economies. Investment strategy and policy reforms will be part of such advice
http://tinyurl.com/2wa3mn8
I couldn't help noticing someone called Green in a position of great responsibility making an elementary mistake so that England didn't win a football game tonight.
The analogies are everywhere.
The international Boy Scout movement founded by General Sir Robert S.S. Baden-Powell reaches its centennial this year. We somehow doubt the world will celebrate this cringe-making Youth Climate Coalition (YCC) in AD 2110. Who sponsors these loudmouths, chanting in unison while parading in shirts of a rich fecal brown?
As far as I can discover, the only possible reason for Kirsty Schneeberger's award was this, quoted from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Youth_Climate_Coalition
Three days before the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kirsty Schneeberger, one of the 2009 Coordinators for the UKYCC, chaired a question and answer debate between a panel of government ministers and 80 young people. The panel included former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband and Former Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Baroness Glenys Kinnock
But the burning question is: Will Cameron get the next Nobel?
It appears that Kirsty was identified as a future world leader at her private Catholic school in Sunningdale when in Year 12 (Lower 6th in old money). Now, at 25, she is an MBE and raises funds from unsuspecting members of the public to help her in her work of telling governments what to do. Well on track to be a member of a future unelected World "Save The Planet from the ManBearPig" government by the time she is 40.
Pharos
But the burning question is: Will Cameron get the next Nobel?
Well, it depends on how many polar bears he saves. That, of course, it the most important criterion, isn't it? I guess that also means Sarah Palen, who hunts moose and the occasional bear, will not be considered.
We should put a "Polar Bear Saved" watch on Cameron, once he gets back from complaining to Obama about Obama complaining about BP. Life is soooo complicated for PMs nowadays.
Once upon a time, all you had to do was polish up the door handle nice and bright.
Richard Drake
I couldn't help noticing someone called Green in a position of great responsibility making an elementary mistake so that England didn't win a football game tonight.
As I heard the story, the American forward ran at the poor lad shouting "OBAMA IS GONNA KICK YER ARSE!" and the poor lad turned around looking to see if Obama was really there. Not cricket, at all.
It was otherwise unforgivable that the English team didn't trounce the Yanks. Most Americans have no idea what fotball is all about, confusing it with football, and calling fotball soccer. How did they ever get a team on the pitch?
Fotball, Don P? Sounds like a mix of football and frotball - is that a reference to the OTT goal celebrations?
John Blake - UK Youth Climate Coalition seems to be basically a front for the WWF. It was founded by two green activists, Emma Biermann and Casper ter Kuile, who met in June 08 on a WWF PR stunt / jolly called Voyage for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/3a935eo
The group claims the support of a considerable number of environmentally-related NGOs
http://ukycc.org/coalition/
but a look round its website suggests it is concerned with 'climate justice' as well as saving the whale etc.
It is a private UK company limited by guarantee
http://tinyurl.com/2uxwz2g
though I notice the two founders ceased to be directors in February and were replaced by two other people. It claims its funding is mostly donations from individuals but as the company hasn't had to file accounts yet it's hard to tell where the money really comes from, though as a cynic I wouldn't be surprised if both UN and EU money was being channelled their way.
They seem to be trying to spread the standard UN / IPCC message in a manner which is a mix of the uncritical crowd enthusiasm of evangelical religion and Twitter / Facebook culture, and have no interest in scepticism, regarding unbelievers as either misguided or evil, and usually old. Their objectives appear to be making climate panic cool and pressuring the UK's government to meet standard Green demands.
Personally, I think most of them will grow out of it without doing too much damage.
Don Pablo - FIFA rank the USA as 14th in the world and this is the sixth consecutive World Cup for which they have qualified. We ought to have beaten them, certainly, but they are not to be casually dismissed.
David S
In most of the world, it is "fotball". And in the US, if you want to see the World Cup, you watch FIFA Copa Mundail narrated in Spanish.
Don Pablo
It is spelled foopball, as any fule kno.
"It is a funy thing tho your side always gets beaten whichever skool you are at. That is like life i supose." (Nigel Molesworth)
http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/topp/games/games4.htm
In the private sector, it is sometimes said that people are promoted until they reach their lowest level of incompetance and there they stay. Any further moves are sideways.
It seems to me that this problem has been overcome by the establishment, simply by ignoring competance levels and continuing to promote them to the pinnacles of their respective fields.
Brilliant solution!
Knighthood? Beddington & Oxburgh should have been crowned(Warner brothers Bugs Bunny style)!
If awards for excellence and accomplishment to scientists are disturbing, there may still be time to achieve in other areas. The Pittsburgh newspaper bestows a long standing honor called the 'Trite Trophy.'
Submit samples of your writing and learn if any of them rise to their standard.
Your Grace,
You have an honourable mention here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/14/mcintyre-and-mckitrick-to-receive-award/#more-20548