Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum sends word of this new revelation. North and Christopher Booker were the first to point out the money trail with Pachauri. Now the have followed the money on IPCC’s “Amazongate” all the way to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Here’s an excerpt from both.
Appearing in the Booker column is an account of how the “conservation” group WWF hopes to turn Amazonian trees into billions of dollars, all in the name of saving the planet. The background briefing on which Booker relied is posted below, detailing how the rainforests are to become a monstrous cash-making machine.
The Amazon – a “green gold-rush”
The WWF and other green campaign groups talking up the destruction of the Amazon rainforests are among those who stand to make billions of dollars from the scare. This “green gold-rush” involves taking control of huge tracts of rainforest supposedly to stop them being chopped down, and selling carbon credits gained from carbon dioxide emissions they claim will be “saved”.
Backed by a $30 million grant from the World Bank, the WWF has already partnered in a pilot scheme to manage 20 million acres in Brazil. If their plans get the go-ahead in Mexico at the end of the year, the forests will be worth over $60 billion in “carbon credits”, paid for by consumers in “rich” countries through their electricity bills and in increased prices for goods and services.
The prospect of a billion-dollar windfall explains the sharp reaction to the “Amazongate” scandal, in which the IPCC falsely claimed that up to 40 percent of the rainforest could be at risk from even a slight drop in rainfall.
Here, the IPCC was caught out again making unsubstantiated claims based on a WWF report. But unlike the “Glaciergate” affair where its claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was conceded to be an “error”, the IPCC stood firm on its Amazon claim, stating that the assertion was “correct”. What makes the difference is that there is no serious money locked into melting glaciers. Amazonian trees, however, are potentially worth billions.
In standing its ground, the IPCC was strongly supported by the WWF, and by Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist from the US Woods Hole Research Centre. Relying on an assiduously fostered reputation as a leading expert on the effects of climate change in the Amazon rainforests, Nepstad – who works closely with the WWF – posted on the Centre’s website a personal statement endorsing “the correctness of the IPCC’s statement”. Bizarrely, his own research failed in any way to substantiate the claim.
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So where do I enter the ground floor of the vitrtual carbon cartel?
In Papua New Guina, they charged the land holders 500 dollars to be qualified to recieve credits. The land holder is unlikely to see any penny of this hoax.
Nearly 100% of the carbon funny money will remain with the handlers.
Economic WMD – > Carbon Credit Bomb. The scam continues. By the way, I can give you a real good deal on Tulip futures.
This is just organised crime. World Worshippers-of-the-great-god-onan Fund.
Cap and tradegate is also coming here in the US just as soon as healthgate is passed and then amnestygate and greengate and ….. Hello socialism. Oh, and gungate.
I still have not seen any penatlies for Mann, Hansen, Jones, Gore, ETAL. They are going to get away with all of this nonsense.
As always.. follow the money
penalties—- darn teachers.
Wow.
Of course I was way ahead of everybody in saving the rainforests. A few decades ago I was working in Lagos, Nigeria on a factory job and was approached by their minister of finance. He explained that Nigeria was poor because people there had trouble moving funds to overseas banks, and that to help connect his citizens with foreign bank account holders he was going to send out daily mass mailings to “EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.” (Nigerians talk in all-caps, for some reason.) The letters would go out on converted supertankers, several hundreds thousand tons per day.
I explained that producing that much paper would strip all of Africa’s rainforests bare in just a few years, and suggested using a new invention called “e-mail.”
He was delighted, Nigerian’s were able to contact everyone in the entire world about transfering funds, and I saved trillions of acres of rainforest, for which I now receive about $200 billion in annual carbon credits, which I’m willing to share with anyone who wishes to invest with me by sending me their personal VISA, Mastercard, and bank account numbers.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
As I understand, a current large carbon sink is the “greening” of the oceans thru Phytoplankton. There must be a way to duplicate the Amazon scam with a mechanism for carbon offsets involving somehow getting credit for stewarding, and taking “ownership” for vast cubic miles of undisturbed ocean. Imagine the possibilities for getting rich from that.
Mr. Booker includes an off-putting photo to hearald an important topic.
The bought off media like CNN/BBC/ABC et al are deaf and blind to the gigantic fraud and cynical exploitation, the age old dance of money and power playing out before our eyes.
The truth is both wonderful and terrible to behold, its frightening to witness just how far and deep the corruption of our society goes and for so long covered up by a client media fed a diet of press releases and puff pieces.
We find ourselves in a sea of sharks it seems, an Alice in wonderland nightmare where bad is good and wrong becomes right and fantasy become reality.
The supposed good guys are the bad guys the the supposed villains are? In retropsect it was easy to see groups like the WWF go bad, turning to the dark side where power and money are the currency.
The scale and depth of the fraud makes enron look like a penny ante deal.
Blue Planet in Green Shackles!, Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic:
“Thank you for giving me the chance to address this distinguished audience and for asking me to speak on one of the issues I consider absolutely crucial.
I am convinced that the ideology of environmentalism, particularly its extreme variant, the global warming alarmism, and its widespread acceptance by politicians, journalists and all kinds of leftist intellectuals is the main threat to freedom and prosperity we are facing today”.
http://www.klaus.cz
BillyV (12:56:12) :
As I understand, a current large carbon sink is the “greening” of the oceans thru Phytoplankton. There must be a way to duplicate the Amazon scam with a mechanism for carbon offsets involving somehow getting credit for stewarding, and taking “ownership” for vast cubic miles of undisturbed ocean. Imagine the possibilities for getting rich from that.
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It’s been attempted, with rather hilarious results!! Please see:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/24/iron-dumping-experiment-is-a-bust-it-feeds-crustaceans-doesnt-trap-carbon/
They tried to fertilize the ocean with iron to stimulate the phytoplankton, BUT the little phtyoplankton got gobbled up by copepods!! LOL!!
At least two companies who planned to make a fortune on this ocean-fertilization scheme (Phytos and Climos) are bankrupt thanks to the hungry copepods and other problems with the scheme.
Next scam, please?
Its worse than I thought
The World Bank, the UN, The UN IPCC, GeenPeace, WWF, the EU, the Obama Administration, the Roman Catholic Church, Pension Funds investing in AL Gore’s
Green Empire, the BBC, The NYT, CNN, the Banks, Virgin, Shell, etc. etc they are all into this!
They all underwrite the Consensus stating that Global Warming is real and we need to shut down our carbon fueled economy!
How big a jail do we need imprison the perpetators of this criminal conspiracy against humanity?
Paul of Alvhem beat me to it:
It really is a blatently obvious case of ”follow the money”.
Remember the old saying:
”Power (money) corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Also:
There are people stick up 7-11 stores to get (maybe) a couple 100 $ in cash.
What will eco-opportunists like WWF be willing to do for potentially getting a big piece of a $60 BILLION dollar pie ??…
Obvious answer:
ANYTHING they think they need to do to hit the jackpot.
RhudsonL (13:04:21) :
Mr. Booker includes an off-putting photo to hearald an important topic.
Huh? Where? His article only has one photo and that’s of a hilltop.
Now Richard North slipped in a “National Geographic special” in his article. Is that what you were referring to?
Off topic, but I strongly encourage everyone to call their congressmen to vote no on this healthcare “reform” bill. This is merely the first snowball and after the administration turns congress into malleable putty they’ll get the momentum to pass cap and trade.
I called and emailed my congressman (DeFazio) after I heard he’d changed his vote to a yes.
So, Woods Hole Research Center supported the WWF in this scheme. It is rather interesting to note that John Holdren, Obama’s Science Advisor, has had a long-time association with the WHRC:
http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/cv/jholdren.htm
Woods Hole Research Center: Woods Hole, Massachusetts:
•1992 – 1994: Visiting Scholar
•1994 – 2005: Distinguished Visiting Scientist
•1994 – 2005: Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
•2004 – 2005: Director-Designate
•June 2005 – Present: Director
Errata in my earlier post = the companies with the “fertilize the ocean with iron” scam were Planktos and Climos, not Phytos as I claimed.
Planktos is bankrupt, but Climos is still hanging on…..for now.
Here’s another great article on the “iron fertilization to grow phytoplankton and fix carbon” experiment gone awry:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090327-iron-seeding.html
@ur momisugly thegoodlocust (13:48:05) :
Not so far off topic. The whole basis of the CO2/global warming argument is that it’s hazardous to human health and well being. Refer to the abundance of proclamations to that effect by EPA, et al.
On British TV we have regular SKY/WWF commercials asking the viewers to donate £3 a month to sponsor/asopt an acre of Amazon rainforest. So that’s also a constant drip feed of extra cash coming in from gullible well meaning people.
http://www.wwf.org.uk/adoption/skyrainforestrescue/
The world is getting stranger by the day.
WWF = Gang Green
“So, Woods Hole Research Center supported the WWF in this scheme. It is rather interesting to note that John Holdren, Obama’s Science Advisor, has had a long-time association with the WHRC:”
That’s the next project … WHRC seems to be a nexus of influence, playing a key role in the whole scam.
@Curiousgeorge
“.. By the way, I can give you a real good deal on Tulip futures…”
Got any black ones?
hmccard,
Woods Hole Research Centre should not be confused with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They are not the same, or connected in any way.