Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A rare win for financial health; A few days ago WUWT reported on the desperate green objections to the offer of the “climate-inactive” and fiscal conservative Mathias Cormann for the top OECD job. Now her nightmares have come true; Cormann was elected head of the OECD.
Climate experts dismayed at the election of Mathias Cormann as OECD head
Fiona Harvey environmental correspondent
Sa 13 Mar 2021 04.30 AEDT
Critics say the election of the former Australian Treasury Secretary with “cruel records” sends a dangerous signal
Climate experts expressed their dismay at the election of Mathias Cormann, a former finance minister of an Australian government who is demonstrably strongly against climate protection, as secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international institution that advises rich countries on politics and poor ones Countries how to get richer.
Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International, said: “We have little confidence in Cormann’s ability to ensure that the OECD leads the way in addressing the climate crisis when he has a cruel record in the area. If the OECD is to fulfill its mandate, it must face the climate emergency, arguably the greatest problem of social justice of our time. “
Nick Mabey, chief executive of the E3G think tank, said: “The OECD countries have just sent a dangerous signal by appointing someone with a track record in climate dismantling to head their main advisory board. This appointment will ease pressure on leaders of other international institutions to implement radical reforms to deal with the climate crisis. “
Developing countries were particularly concerned. Saleem Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, said: “The appointment of a climate skeptic from Australia to head the OECD is very disappointing and will reduce the credibility of the OECD as an institution in the eyes of developing countries.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/12/climate-experts-in-dismay-at-choice-of-mathias-cormann-as-oecd-chief
Mathias Cormann is likely to be remembered as one of the best secretaries-general of the OECD, but his long experience of quiet budget discipline as Australia’s longest-serving finance minister suggests that the Greens, looking for easy guidance from the OECD, will experience some major disappointments .
Interestingly, The Guardian did not quote Michael Mann’s reaction to Cormann’s appointment, although he had devoted an entire article to Mann in the run-up to the OECD decision.
I suspect Mann’s influence on the global climate movement is declining – and he knows it. In my opinion, Mann’s growing baggage of embarrassing predictions is increasingly weighing on his credibility as an international factor influencing the climate.
My prediction – in less than a decade, men will be retired and largely forgotten, just as NASA’s former GISS director James Hansen was quietly pushed off the world stage a few years ago, in my opinion because of Hansen’s baggage with failed Prediction became a problem. Like a snake shedding its skin, the climate movement always seems ready to shed old leaders in an attempt to restore credibility by distancing the climate movement from its failed predictions.
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