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US panel votes to bar climate funding.
h/t to Leif Svalgaard
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US panel votes to bar climate funding.
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I love it when you post some good news!
Finally, Congress is going to put a stop to wasting money on something that does not exist. The sun heats and cools the earth, not trace elements. Clean energy should be slashed from all Federal budgets.
Small step in the right direction. Let’s hope the Senate Donkeys don’t mess up a good thing!
How much better would we be if we had more CO2.
Do these scientists pay attention. Or do they want the next check.
I know I’ll be among the few to object to this, but I object to this. I think we should be helping poor countries leapfrog energy technologies the way we helped them leapfrog communications technologies.
It doesn’t necessarily mean spending our tax dollars to build wasteful windmills (although there would probably be some of that, sadly). But guaranteeing loans for natural gas plants or clean coal plants to bring electricity to people who have never had access? I’m very much in favor of it.
But then, I’m a librul Democrat…
dayum………..
There goes the Maldives new international airport………………………..
Excellent.
WE are the real vulnerable population; feeling the effects of giving away borrowed money. Lots more funding of this kind needs to be stopped as well.
Why not simply stop funding the IPCC in any form ? I would think this would be a prudent position for the US given the budget problems.
The US has carried the UN for long enough – let some of the climate change cheer squad countries carry the load for a while.
“If you are big tree, we are small axe.”
Oh, I thought it was a ban on grants to UEA and other foreign scientists.
How much foreign aid have we doled out? I know there were some substantial amounts promised at Copenhagen, but I’m not sure how much, if any, made it out.
Exactly what vulnerable populations are “feeling the effects of climate change”. Example, please.
Wow, They want to send offshore a portion of the 1.3 Billion dollars that will be heavily borrowed from China to “small island nations that will feel the brunt of climate change”. Look, I will be far more underwater than some of the so-called islands if we do not get congressional spending under control. In the words of the Florida Representative: “we have to prioritize US tax dollars.” What a novel thought. How about getting China to just send money directly to the islands and bypass the whole mess- as according to the Warmists, it’s going to be their coal burned that is causing the whole sea level rise anyway. /sarc
@Thomas Fuller,
I’m sorry natural gas plants and clean coal are not in the plans. It is economic colonialism pure and simple and I challenge you to find a single NGO or IPCC plan for the developing world to the contrary.
I think it would be nice to help poor countries leapfrog energy technologies and encourage natural gas plants or clean coal plants, but nice things for other countries should drop off our priority list in a heart beat when we don’t have the luxury funds for such indulgences.
heh,heh.
Now stop all the rest of the Junk Science money we send overseas to placate America haters.
In Japan, from fiscal year 2006, annual expenditure (aka squander) for tacklin global warming amounts to $16 billion by the government, $20 billion by local authorities, and probably more than $15 billion by industries. More than $300 billion has thus been spent so far (and will be spent into the future unless politicians/AGW researchers change their minds), with no noticeable effect on the national CO2 emissions, let alone on the global temperature. Foolish.
Congress finally shows some cajones. It’s about time…
Now if they could significantly defund the EPA… 🙂
Let me know when those “poor countries” complain about all that foreign aid we sent them, that we could only afford to send them because we were polluting the planet and disrupting the climate with our carbon emissions. Jeez, it’s like finding out at relative was able to keep sending you money for years because they worked as a paid drug cartel assassin.
In fact, it would be a proper protest, proving their sincere concern for the planet, if they would immediately send all that Blood Money right back to the US. Why, when you think of how badly America mutilated Mother Gaia to earn all that filthy lucre that was sent to them, you can easily see how the only proper moral course of action is to send all of that foreign aid promptly back to the US. What sort of country would voluntarily want to be corrupted by such dirty funds? They should immediately send it all back and demand we never again send them any more of such funds!
Yeah, that’ll show those Earth-molesting Americans who really has the moral high ground!
It is time to cut back on government aid such as discussed in the lead post.
Those of you who are concerned about possible cuts in foreign aid can still contribute to those poorer countries directly with your own capital. And you all can use your contacts in the blogs and with media to orgainize rock concerts and charity drives.
John
PS. Leif – Thanks for the H/T to WUWT
By distributing ‘gimmies’?
Thomas, I am of the mind that people must work for the things they want. And, it’s not that I don’t think “the people” themselves will not work, it is their overlords and dictators (yes, dictators in the year 2011) that see to it that ‘the people’ would not and do not benefit (by a variety of political and economis ‘strongarm’ mechanisms too lengthy to go into).
Something separates many other countries from our ours and our developmental history, things like: The Declaration of Independence; The Magna Carta; The Mayflower Compact; Virginia Declaration of Rights. These and their associated history/learning experiences set us on our current path and has defined our modus operandi. I think it may take another several generations before ‘people’ in “poor countries” (your term!) discover freedom and throw off their chains of enslavbement; this will take time and education (and NOT just formal classroom education/book learning!)
In the meamtime we do (the US) provide them/other peoples with assistance … but it will be not specifically geared to faux ‘green’ ends with these cuts in effect.
I think one of the better things that we can do is to support “missions”, as classically defined in the religeous sense (spreading the gospel, et al), but then that is me.
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While the space program is starved to death the shameless Libs keep piling on more and more waste.
“We can’t have a space program, you see, because arrogant Amerika doesn’t deserve one. Amerika only got rich by stealing from those poor nations, so we noble Libs are going to impoverish the U.S. by giving away borrowed money to the corrupt kleptocrats who keep those foreign countries poor.”
We’re doomed to Death by Liberal Rule. The next election will decide if the Doom is irreversible.
Hey, what about funding for vulnerable populations that are already feeling the effects of two generations of government mis-management? Aren’t we, here in the US, a vulnerable population?
This is a real shame. Let’s hope Obama can restore funding. Developing nations deserve help with climate change, and as the richest country in the world, we have a responsibility to help.
One panel vote does not a ban make. I understand it’s the principle of the thing, but 1.x billion is chump change in today’s world. That said I’d love to see the Democrats and Mr. Tax and Spend himself cut off at the knees. But it seems likely that he’ll bury us under another 1 or 2 Trillion in debt before he’s voted out. There are some other comments I’d make, but the net has eyes and ears. Luv ‘ya BO.
Excellent!