U.N. thermostat to be set higher

Betsy Pisik
The Washington Times
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Everyone complains about climate change, and the United Nations is finally doing something about it – on Friday, the temperature inside U.N. headquarters in New York will rise by 5 degrees.

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations’ self-professed environmental secretary-general, ordered the “In-House Climate Change Initiative” to save energy, cut carbon emissions and try to mitigate climate change.

Officials said the monthlong experiment – dubbed “Cool U.N.” – also will allow engineers to test energy consumption and utility costs in the notoriously antiquated building.

It also will stretch the comfort and good will of about 4,500 staffers, who work in the glass-walled Secretariat, a veritable 39-story terrarium planted in full sun on the East River.

“It will be like Addis Ababa,” said one crestfallen staff member, referring to the tropical capital of Ethiopia. “The air conditioning didn’t work too well there, either.”

Anwarul Chowdhury, a former U.N. ambassador from Bangladesh, said Tuesday that the Cool U.N. initiative sounds like “tokenism.”

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9 Responses to “U.N. thermostat to be set higher”

1. Gary Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

   I can see that they’re doing their part… to heat things up, that is.

2. ThePatriot Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

   The UN is the Devil’s earth surface “home base”… 5 degrees in hell isn’t much of a change.

3. NoBozos Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

   Good move, 5 degrees closer to the temperature of the Lake of Fire is more appropriate for the demon-packed buildings at the UN. But this still does not make the BIG GLOBAL WARMING LIE true in any way.

4. Karmakaze Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 4:43 am

   You lot are a pack of idiots. Truly dense people – screw the large hadron collider, if enough of you get together, THEN we’ll see a black hole.

5. Frank Thoughts Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 8:35 am

   Frank Lloyd Wright: “A shipping crate to send a fiasco to hell.” Those words still ring true all these years later.

6. Doug Plumb Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 4:50 pm

   I say raise it by 50 degrees, given that this is source of evil, it must be hell so the temperature should be even higher.

   Throw Al Gore and David Suzuki in there first.

7. Doug Plumb Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm

   I bet they don’t actually raise the temperature – they just giggle about what a bunch or morons we are.