Tom Toles: 3 top UN figures say the 'climate' issue isn't about climate but society. Tom, why can't you and the WaPo accept this?

Media types are pals with 'scientists' and 'non-profits,' are sometimes married to each other, some even travel to exotic locales to mingle at the Tipsy Seagull and discuss how to work the the 'climate' gravy train. 3 top UN climate bosses freely admit the 'climate' issue has nothing to do with climate, rather is a 'societal transformation' in which billions are transferred to the UN--no strings, no oversight, complete immunity even for murder--as with all UN dealings.

4/5/12, "Global Warming Report Card – And The Washington Post Dunce Cap," Real Science, Steven Goddard

• "Global temperatures in 2012 are right at the satellite era mean.
• Sea ice area is right at the satellite era mean
• Satellites show that sea level hasn’t risen for several years
• Seven years without a major hurricane strike in the US – the longest period on record
• Seven years without a hurricane strike in Florida – the longest period on record
• No long term trend in severe tornadoes
• Drought at historic lows in Australia
• US drought area below the long term mean
• Polar bear populations flourishing
• No long term trend in snow cover

Every indicator of global warming is failing. And yet, Washington Post writers have worked themselves up into mindless hysterics.

the evidence is in. And everywhere. And ferocious. And what do the deniers say now? “Climate changes all the time, all by itself!”

4/5/12, "Huffing and puffing" – Tom Toles – The Washington Post

There is always severe weather somewhere in the world. Tom Toles would have been busy burning witches, had he lived 400 years ago."

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Who needs pesky elections and voters when these guys can get it all done behind the scenes:

Married to the mob: Washington Post's 'environmental' "reporter" Juliet Eilperin is married to Center for American Progess 'Senior Fellow" in climate science and policy, Andrew Light,

• whose work at CAP's Global Climate Network is
  

• patronized by wealthy UN climate boss, investment bank adviser, and steamy romance novelist, Rajendra Pachauri.
  

Even better, Eilperin hubby's resume says he's a renowned

• expert on 'ethics.'....

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Above, UN climate boss Pachauri in Jan. 2010 promoting his romance novel. Climategate email 4/19/2002 states that Saudi Arabia (oil interests) lobbied heavily for Pachauri, meaning oil was in at the beginning and allows itself to be the foil:

4/19/2002: "Intense behind-the- scenes lobbying by Saudi Arabia," for Pachauri to be named UN Climate Chief.

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At the 'Tipsy Seagull'

6/28/10, "Getting Help from the Press," Gloucester Times, Nancy Gaines

"For five days, esteemed scientists and elite journalists gathered on Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles, east of Aruba, to loll on the island's fine beaches, sip cocktails at the Tipsy Seagull and perhaps marvel at the flamingoes for which Bonaire is famous.

The official purpose of the October 2002 gathering of the Pew Charitable Trusts marine fellows was to

• train the scientists in the ways of the media, the better
  

• to market their message.

"Learn how to navigate the stormy waters of the media," read the description of one Bonaire workshop. "Packaging your message is a key to success — whether talking to the media,

• submitting a paper to Science or Nature (magazine), writing a grant proposal, or writing an op-ed for your local paper."

But it wasn't all business.

The workshops were followed by "barside discussions" as the sun-soaked setting blurred the line

• that usually separates reporters and those they cover.
  

So, too, did it blur the line between trainers and trainees....

'Frame their messages'

Lubchenco, a Pew fellow and mentor of many other Pew fellows, wasn't on Bonaire. But she appeared in a PBS-produced film shown at the event titled "Empty Oceans, Empty Nets," another cautionary tale of overfishing, funded in part by Pew.

Lubchenco for years has urged her fellow scientists to become activists in the debate over issues like global warming and overfishing and

• to help shape public policy through the media.

In 1997, as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Lubchenco called on fellow scientists to

• join her in a new "social contract."

Scientists must promote their ideas to politicians and the public in order to create a world that is "ecologically sound, economically feasible and socially just," she argued.

• A year after the speech, Lubchenco founded the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program to advance her activist vision.

The program trains chosen scientists in "talking points" to use with the media and other nonscientific audiences, according to its website. Through "role playing and small group interactive exercises,"

• the scientists learn how to develop "specific, appropriate messages to stakeholders."

Trainers hired to work with Aldo Leopold fellows have included

• reporters for the New York Times, the Washington Post and National Public Radio, as well as leaders of environmental groups and
  
• White House and
  
• congressional staff members.

Lubchenco also helped organize two groups with a similar mission, SeaWeb and the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea — COMPASS.

• Lead trainer for all three advocacy groups -Aldo Leopold, SeaWeb and COMPASS-is
• Nancy Baron, a zoologist and former science writer.

Baron has boasted to colleagues about her success in manipulating the media message — and the media. In a 2005 e-mail — a copy of which has been obtained by the Times — she cited an article in The New York Times, and wrote:

• "We worked with these scientists to help them frame their messages and talk about their study so it resonates with the wider public. Note their quotes in particular which are not just off the top of their heads ..."

In 2008, referring to a story on damage to the ocean ecosystem written by Andrew Revkin for the Science Times section of The New York Times, Baron wrote: "This Science Times piece came out of AAAS (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) and our infamous marine mixer."

• The infamous mixer was a cocktail party hosted by COMPASS for members of the Academy and the press.

The networking that links activists and journalists was fully on display in the Washington Post story that broke the news of President-elect Obama's decision to nominate Lubchenco as head of NOAA in December 2008.

The story was written by the Post's environmental writer, Juliet Eilperin, who has been both a panelist and participant in COMPASS events.

• Eilperin cited "several sources" for the scoop and quoted one in praise of Lubchenco: Andrew Rosenberg.

The story did not mention that Rosenberg is an adviser to both Pew and COMPASS and has ties to Lubchenco that date to when she was a professor and he a grad student at Oregon State University. He lists Lubchenco as a reference on his resume.

• Rosenberg is also a former high-ranking NOAA official who
  

• now runs an environmental consulting company that has obtained
  

• more than $12 million in NOAA contracts in the past decade.

Last fall, (2009) Lubchenco made him a White House consultant on ocean policy."...

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UN personnel are legally free to use our money to decorate their summer homes or even throw it out the window (citations below). In other words, the UN is better than anything the Mafia ever dreamed of.

4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian

(parag. 7), "That witness said the Afghanistan country director for the U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS), which served as the contractor on the project for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), spent about $200,000 in U.S. money to renovate his guesthouse. Witness names were withheld by USAID....

"UNDP withdrew $6.7 million from a U.S. line of credit without permission in 2007...UNDP has yet to explain what happened to that money, the report says....

Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity,...

Commissioner Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon controller, asked Gambatesa whether the agencies have immunity "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off into Swiss banks? Is that accurate? They will be totally immune, no matter what they do with the money?"

"My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied."...(this item nr. end of article)

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Hillary Clinton in Copenhagen in 2009 promising billions of US tax dollars for non-existent global warming.

12/18/09, "US Pledges aid, urges developing nations to cut emissions," Wash. Post

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7/6/11, "Even U.N. Admits That Going Green Will Cost $76 Trillion," Fox News, Dan Gainor, commentary

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