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Jun142010
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Bishop Hill
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Jun 14, 2010 Bureaucrats Climate: other Greens SIR – The British embassy in Bangkok is advertising in the local press for a climate change officer, which involves working with colleagues in other British embassies in south-east Asia, and reporting to a team leader based in Singapore.
It is comforting to know that such vital positions have escaped the spending cuts.
Letter in the Telegraph
Reader Comments (9)
Successful applicant will occupy office vacated by Tulip Futures Monitor or at his/her option, long vacant office of Eugenics Master
Probably at a salary higher than the PM
Probably a nice job to get Phil Jones out of Britain.
The salary is about 1,200 pounds per month, which along with the requirement for a higher level of skill in the Thai language than in English, is not very subtle code for 'non-Thai nationals need not apply'.
There are no off-message activities expected of the position:
"Tasks include:
* Developing a strategy to support a low carbon, high growth economy in Thailand.
* Working with media, civil society, business and Government bodies to promote low carbon economic development in Thailand.
Fortunately, the Thais aren't fool enough to fall for this nonsense, which they regard as Western self-indulgence of the grand sort.
Off Topic, but does anyone else see this as rather worrying?
"the new body will "bridge the gulf" between scientific research and urgent political action needed to halt biodiversity loss. "
I am starting to find it hard to continually hold my jaw closed from day to day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10307761.stm
If you want a better paid equivalent there is an advert for a Climate Change Officer in Bangkok working for the UN, which pays about $100,000 per year - and you don't even have to speak Thai. Sadly applications closed three days ago.
"The British embassy in Bangkok is advertising in the local press for a climate change officer"
That would seem reasonable to have such a position in the embassy. If we are entering a phase of cooling, the embassy would probably want to know how the temperature reductions might impact food supplies and tourism in Thailand. Will there be other climate impacts such as changes in the amount of precipitation? What will be the impact of higher food prices when growing seasons shorten? When the Thames freezes over, will the government of the UK scout out warmer climates? Might Thailand be a good place in that case to possibly annex into the UK and move Parliament?
We may have misjudged their cleverness by half or so.
The same position for the Philippines is being advertised in Manila by the UK Embassy there. I got the flyer from the British Chamber of Commerce.
One way to describe this is ideological patronage- they are creating useless jobs based strictly on supporting ideology in order to direct money to fellow true believers.
And since the patterns building up around CAGW promotion are getting more and more corrupt, there is a good chance this post has already been filled; the procedures are being gone through on a pro-forma basis.