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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Fighting over who can Politicize an Inevitable Failure 

posted by Joe @ 10:01

Even while bad data and mythical over-dramatizations of Global Warming are being debunked, EU committees dueling with EU committees are engaging in Machiavellian negotiations over who can take the point and the next globetrotter junket.

The meeting of foreign ministers, gathered in Monday in the guise of the EU's ‘General Affairs Council' (referred to in Brussels circles as the ‘Gac'), supported a Spanish EU presidency proposal that the Gac take on the role of a sort of ‘executive committee' of the EU's climate strategy, co-ordinating the climate change actions of each of the various other Council of Ministers formations.
The go on to list a list of lists, and so forth and such like, and ignore the various ministries appointed for the exact same purpose not only at the Supra-national level, but in the member states.
A work plan of actions to be executed by the different councils was agreed. The next council of environment ministers would perform three tasks: implement the Copenhagen Accord - the climate document crafted in Denmark but outside the UN process and the subject of much suspicion in the developing world; investigate ways to boost the negotiating process; and identify ways to achieve leverage against countries whose opinions differed to those of the EU.
My how roguish! How very cavalier! Going it alone? Thumbing your noses at humanirty?
Mr Moratinos told reporters after the Gac meeting: "What was missing [at Copenhagen] was a strategy of alliances to advance the goals of the EU."
Which is to say: they were unable to coopt (for once) other nation states into partaking in a strangulating, impoverishing process which they could place themselves in the center of to make themselves look generous.

But fear not, weary, hen-pecked world. Relief is on the way, and it comes in the form of European on European bickering over who can stand where in the press release photo.
In the wake of the Copenhagen debacle, European commentators, officials and politicians widely agreed that the bloc should speak with one voice on climate issues in the future. But whether this one voice is that of the European Commission or the European Council has yet to be settled.
And with that, we might find some peace and quiet from their ravings over the megalomaniacal vision they have of ‘global governance’, so long as they are the colonial governors of the plantation and others’ resources can be spent in their hero-making.


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