Same as it ever was

Q: How do we know our fearless leaders are eminently qualified?
A: Because they tells us they are, of course.

In the rarefied air where those CRU emails detailing fraud, deceit and corruption of the scientific process, do not exist and are never to be spoken of, a leader emerges:

Connie Hedegaard, named as the next European Union climate commissioner, will oversee a possible EU decision to force energy and manufacturing companies in the world's biggest greenhouse-gas market to deepen emission cuts.

The current Danish climate and energy minister must also resolve an EU legal dispute with East Europe that has raised the regulatory risks in the European emissions-trading program, the cornerstone of Europe's policy to fight global warming. The bloc sets carbon-dioxide quotas on power plants and factories and forces those that exceed their limits to buy spare permits from businesses that emit less.

Scientist? climatoligist? astro-physicist? Hardly:

Connie Hedegaard holds an MA in Literature and History. She has been active in government on and off since 1984, when she was elected as the hitherto youngest member of the Folketing, the Danish national parliament, where she sat for six years. In 1990, she left politics to pursue a career in journalism. Over the next 14 years, she worked as a journalist at the newspaper Berlingske Tidende, took the post of Director of DR Radio News, and was the anchor for Deadline, a Danish TV news program.

Diving back into politics in 2004, she became Minister of the Environment.

Politician, journalist, hack, the perfect background for our esteemed betters. Let the hagiography begin!