U.N.-fit for Existence XVI

True colors:

Millions of Swiss francs have been embezzled from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), according to an internal audit quoted by the Swiss press Monday.

Maria Veiga, the official who probed the scandal from 2003 to 2005, before being fired by the WMO in November, told Le Matin newspaper at least part of the missing 4.3 million Swiss francs (2.65 million euros) [US$3,467,000 in real money] went to buy countries' votes.

"Part of the 4.3 million francs embezzled was designed to finance the election campaigns for the post of secretary general," Veiga told the newspaper.

The Geneva-based WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations, and an authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere.

Le Temps newspaper said the internal report lists the delegates of more than 50 developing countries which had received between 1,000 and 3,000 Swiss francs each to influence their votes.

The WMO, by the way, is the organization that created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the fear-mongers behind the anthropogenic global warming scare tactics of the last several years.

But there's no money to be had in radical environmentalism; it's all for the Good of Humanity™. Al Gore told us so--while he was hawking his book about global warming. I'm sure he gave all the proceeds to the residents of Tuvalu.