Fully duped by the alarmists
The executive director of the UN Environment Programme shows he is about as f-witted as they come. As for the actual idiotic comment of the day, you can take your pick from this lot (all gleefully reported by the ever-impartial ABC):
Achim Steiner also said extreme weather in 2010, such as floods in Pakistan or Russia’s heatwave, were a “stark warning” of the need to act to slow global warming, as outlined by the UN panel.
He said he would be surprised if the review, spurred by mistakes in a 2007 report such as an exaggeration of the thaw of Himalayan glaciers, called for any radical overhaul of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [No, of course not. Business as usual.]
The InterAcademy Council, comprising science academies around the world, is due to hand its review and recommendations for the future of the IPCC to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York.
Mr Steiner, head of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Program (UNEP), said the report follows others in 2010 that have backed the core findings by the IPCC that it is at least 90 per cent certain that mankind is driving global warming. [shurely “climate change”?]
“Hopefully the release will be a moment where the public can reflect and say that all these reviews have not pointed to any fundamental flaw in the work,” Mr Steiner said.
Nah, course not mate. There’s the carpet over there – just sweep it all underneath.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
Obviously the warmers don’t look back too far.
In 1900 the Galveston (TX) hurricane took 8,000 lives. In recent days our Aussie MSM reports have informed us that Katrina (with 1,500 lives lost) is the worst environmental disaster in US history. But then I guess, why should the truth interfere with a good story?
He looks a lot like George Moonbat in that photo don’t you think? He talks the same rubbish so I wonder if he’s related?