Clueless guy gets promoted
Our Federal Government is just the gift that keeps on giving -- from
The Hill:
Senior State Dept. climate official heads to DOE
A State Department official who helped lead international climate talks is moving to the Energy Department (DOE) to head that agency�s climate operations.
Jonathan Pershing will begin his new role as DOE deputy assistant secretary for climate change policy and technology on Tuesday, David Sandalow, DOE secretary for policy and international affairs, said in a Friday email to staff.
Pershing will oversee domestic climate and clean-energy initiatives for that office, Sandalow noted. He replaces Rick Duke, who left the agency in September.
At State Department, Pershing served as deputy special envoy for climate change under special envoy Todd Stern. He helped lead the U.S. envoy in United Nations global warming talks for the past four years.
So he is basically moving from a position of extreme impotence to a position where he may be able to do some real damage. At the United Nations, he could write a strongly worded memo but he had no teeth. And why does the State Department need a
deputy special envoy for climate change anyway?
At the Department of Energy, he is in a position to cut back our conventional fuel use even more, to spike our energy costs and to hand out our tax dollars as cheap loans to fly-by-night alt.energy companies who contribute regularly to the Democratic party.
A bit more:
Reuters added that Pershing said extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy and yearlong drought is �certainly changing the minds of Americans� who are skeptical about climate change.
The causes of Sandy and the drought have been thoroughly debunked many many times -- there is a big difference between climate and weather. At the hight of the heat wave, fully one third of the records being set in the USA were for cold temperatures.
Posted by DaveH at January 19, 2013 12:09 PM