Eric Worrall writes:
General Secretary of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has announced that countries have not lived up to their responsibility to give him and his teams of bureaucrats more money.
According to The Guardian;
“The world’s action has not so far matched its responsibilities, said UN secretary-general at Lima summit on climate change
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“Ban said there was still a chance of limiting global warming to an internationally agreed ceiling of 2C above pre-industrial times in the hope of limiting floods, droughts, desertification and rising sea levels.
“But the window of opportunity is fast narrowing,” he told the delegates of about 190 nations.
“This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation,” he said. Despite signs of progress he is “deeply concerned that our collective action does not match our common responsibilities.
“We must act now,” he said.
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Ban urged developed nations to “meet and exceed” a goal set in 2009 of mobilising at least $100bn a year, in public and private finance, by 2020 to help developing nations.
Ban Ki-moon didn’t explain, in the Guardian article, how giving him and his bureaucrats more money would help prevent global warming. Presumably the donors, once parted with their money, wouldn’t be able to afford as much gas for their cars, which might reduce their carbon footprint. However, given that UN eco-warriors seem to spend a lot of their time flying between climate conferences, their enlarged carbon footprints might more than compensate for the poverty constricted carbon footprints of the taxpayers who are paying their bills.
Awww! Diddums!!!
It’s well past time to scrap the UN.
Seconded!
Thirded
IV!
Fifth !!
Yes, by all means, I’ll have a fifth …
Make mine a quart
Ban Ki-moon needs to be banned..
Only in govt do programs that don’t work, not only not get scrapped but get enlarged.
Of course – all part of the culture of the left where they can’t admit to failure and if something isn’t working it needs more money and more controls. In the private sector where cash is king, how many times have we seen companies that have grown by acquisition decide that it has got too large and start selling things off the get back to ‘their core business’, ie the one they started with? Is that not an admission that the big corporate failed?
And are governments not the experts in the law of unintended consequences brought about by acting in haste and ignorance in order to be seen to be doing something because there are perceived to be votes in it. Then they add more legislation to try to tidy up the mess and make it worse rather than dump the original.
GET US OUT OF UN
GET UN OUT OF US
Mega-dittos
Well I can fix his problem pronto.
Mr Moon, just levy a tax on free clean green renewable energy producer’s profits. That should net you a nice nest egg; Well either that or egg all over the face.
“net profits” FIFY, minus taxpayer contributions
Make mine a mason jar of mid-run corn thank you.
Ban Ban!
“Ban Ki-moon didn’t explain, in the Guardian article, how giving him and his bureaucrats more money would help prevent global warming. ”
Simple. Ice redistribution. They will simply use the money to transport Antarctic ice to the Arctic. See how simple that is? All it takes is cash.
Come on everyone I really believe we should whole heartedly support the UN in its single objective to reduce the evil CO2 and save the planet.
I strongly support the UN idea of carbon sequestration, it’s a great idea and so simple – just burry the whole UN, we get rid of a huge amount of useless carbon and actually RECYCLE it!! God that will get the Greens 🙂 and we get an economic bonus of being able to actually direct our money where it will function and not be gobbled up by an oligarchy bent on world domination!
“They will simply use the money to transport Antarctic ice to the Arctic”
Wouldn’t it be better to build a gigantic ground source heat pump?
Someone on Bishop Hill linked to a brilliant article by Rex Murphy where he called mass greenery: “…a parasitic endeavor…” . I’m travelling now – once I get back to Terra Firma – and stop burning carbon and killing the planet in the manner of an IPCC delegate – I’ll post a link…
Jimmy
Here it is:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/06/rex-murphy-has-the-environmental-movement-ever-seen-a-collapse-it-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-brink-of/
Get your Thesaurus out ☺
Our beloved Rex is a national treasure.
CAS
But the comments descend immediately into puerile abuse.
Yep I did not know what “tumid” mean”t
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/06/rex-murphy-has-the-environmental-movement-ever-seen-a-collapse-it-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-brink-of/
Dang, I shoulda refreshed first.
The UN has outlived its usefulness.
Russia is slowly devouring Ukraine, with sights on either Kazakhstan, the Baltics or Finland next. China is slowly occupying the South China Sea low islands despite Filipino or Vietnamese objections. Iran is going to enter the nuclear club within 2 years.
End the UN. Shut it down. Stop funding the stupid waste of the IPCC and its inane and unscientific ARs.
Agree. Regional agreements between countries with mutual interest could do more than the bloated UN with only an interest in more bloat from the donor nations.
Joe, don’t worry about Russia – it won’t have any money to pay its own government workers 24 months from now, let alone pay for land-grabbing. It’s a nation living on the precipice of degradation and misery. Russia is only dangerous when it has wealth, so never then. China WILL undergo a popular revolution, it’s just a matter of when. The cause will be something tiny and insignificant (mark my words). Iran will be dealt with by Israel. They will simply have to! If you want to worry about something, then consider some random Islamist, with a phial of something, in a crowded place. I’m afraid that too, is only a matter of time. Regards.
If you want to worry about something
…and you live in North America…
Here’s the url
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2014/12/sky-high-radiation-readings-across-the-u-s/
My money is on them extending the fraternal hand of friendship to Georgia, South Ossetia and Azerbaijan next. Meantime forging closer alliances with Iran and Iraq and also Turkey.
We live in very very interesting times indeed…
End the UN. Shut it down. Stop funding the stupid waste of the IPCC and its inane and unscientific ARs.
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I believe you misspelled the last word…it’s spelled arses.
Must be that spell checker.
Not one zac for the fat cat pack !!
Well it must be a nice change for Mr. Moon. Almost every issue he addresses, Ukraine, Syria, ebola, women’s rights, you name it sounds like this:
blah blah blah blah blah…must stop.
I make a game out of it, trying to shout “must stop” in unison with him at the end of his statement. All the while you can see this look in his eye where he’s thinking to himself “I can’t believe they pay me to say summarize every world crisis there is and just put “must stop” at the the end of it!”
So now he throws a curve and ends with “gimme money”. He’s now a two act puppet.
What did bankymoon do before he became head honcho at the UN? Did he drive a train? Did he organize a community?
I think he ran a take away.
Was that the school tuck shop ??
No Chris, it was the one at the back of the dog pound.
If you want to fix the UN for all time just nominate Obama as UN Secretary General after Ban is finished his term.
Obama seems to have had a lot of practice at doing not much other than riling up some of America’s best friends.
And he does have a record that will ensure the UN is completely broke and therefore incapable of causing much more harm by the time his tenure of the UN Secretary General’s position was done and dusted.
With Obama at the UN helm and slinging homilies around on how everybody else should run their business, I reckon by about midway through his term there might be a consensus to shift the entire UN operation to somewhere safer and easier on the ears for everybody,
Tristan De Cunha would be ideal and it does need a big boost to the 300 population that lives there in any case..
Perfect for UN operations
And the bonus;
The UN minions would die in their thousands from sheer boredom.
time he ran away
It’s not too late. I thought we were past the tipping point. 2015. It’s not too late,give me money,but we have to act NOW. 2016,we have to act NOW. 2017. We have to act NOW,before it’s too late. Give me more money. Etc.usv,usv,usv.
Ah, but 2017 is when Prince Charles’ ‘100 months’ are up. After that, it’s too late!
Didn’t The Plonker Prince gives us 4 mths to save the planet during the approach to Copenhagen?
He’s coming back as a virus. The WHO will have to deal with him…………..;^D
PBS pledge break or TV preacher?
Responsibilities according to…?
The people asking for the money.
Sounds like my ex wife.
Poor old Banky should acquire kindy level maths. Here’s the 2013 report from the EIA that gives the co2 emissions for OECD and non OECD up to 2040.
The OECD will just about flat-line until 2040 while the non OECD emissions will keep soaring, adding about another 14 billion tonnes per annum by that date. And the RS and NAS report tells us that we could stop all human emissions today and we wouldn’t see a change in co2 levels or temp for thousands of years.
So how many thousands of trillions of dollars do they have to waste for a guaranteed zero return on their idiocy?
http://www.eia.gov/pressroom/presentations/sieminski_07252013.pdf
kindy level = kiddy level?
“Kindy” is an English abbreviation for “kindergarten”. Kindy level is pre-school level.
I am sorry as far as these types are concerned (as in snake oil sales men and rip off artists) I have no more words left, other than the ones AW won’t let me print.
As I mentioned above, Rex Murphy calls them “parasites”. we could call them “Copenhagenites, Limaites…”…
Are you sure he said that…..this year? Isn’t that the speech from last year?
No, it’s from a speech next year. ☺☺
Welcome to 1984.
It is a great example of recycling, forwards and backwards.
Dear UN,
Tough Bickkies.
Regards
Correction: Tough Bikkies.
Never heard that expression here in Hooterville, wait ’til the barbershop crowd hears that one! I’ll even use my Steve Irwin voice. Thanks Pete, love looking at OZ on Google Earth, wish I could visit before I’m too old.
Instead of asking governments to provide funding, the UN should host a worldwide telethon similar to what Jerry Lewis started for the MDA. Al Gore could host it, and Hollywood could provide the free entertainment. It would be as easy as asking fools to part with their money, and it would be entirely democratic. It would allow us to see how much people really do care about climate change by asking them to vote with their own money.
If for some strange reason, that doesn’t raise enough funds, then I guess a tax could be installed on the imaginary 97% who believe in catastrophic global warming. Those people should be anxious to help, right? Just leave me out of it.
“… a tax could be installed on the imaginary 97% who believe in catastrophic global warming”
I think the 2 questions were “Has the Earth warmed?” and “Are humans partly responsible?”
Those do get a high percentage saying yes.
The “catastrophic” part, not so much. And that % seems to be getting smaller and more shrill. Those few are not imaginary but can be considered delusional. Please limit the tax to them.
Jeez not another lovies “selfrighteousathon” give Ban the money and leave out the middle hypocrites!
Moon wants the money to pay developing countries to not burn oil.
For his next trick, Moon will cure world hunger by paying them to not eat food.
I cant wait for Ban to be replaced by Australia’s ex PM, Kevin Rudd. That’ll really show them what a real f-up looks like!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/kevin-rudd-deflects-questions-on-united-nations-secretarygeneral-role-while-in-london-to-speak-to-international-institute-for-strategic-studies-20131217-2zjbc.html
I wonder what happened to the coalition to get them to fork over the $$ to the UN? Obama’s NSA remind Abbott of the dirty emails he sent to Gillard?
Abbott had no intention of sending anyone to Peru, then Foreign Minister Bishop demanded the right to go and confronted her cabinet colleagues. Nobody was game to speak against her, so Abbott agreed to let her go with a minder, a sceptic of renown.
Obviously a fall back position was put together on the long flight to Lima.
Aw, Barking At The Moon yaps yet again.
Best ignored.
Based on the physics and empirical evidence to date, CO2-induced warming by 2100 looks like it will be closer to 0.5C~1C under business as usual CO2 emission levels, which is less than UN’s 2C target, based on destroying developed-nation’s economies, starving impoverished countries of cheap fossil fuels, and wasting $10’s of trillions on CO2 sequestration schemes to avoid a “crisis” that only exists in unskilled climate model projections….
I say we don’t send one DIME to the UN, continue burning fossil fuels under business as usual levels, and switch to Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) or possibly to Lockheed’s new Compact Fusion Reactors (CFRs) when these new energy technologies are ready for prime time and the market decides it’s best to do so.
In other news, amid concerns that the $100 Billion would all be properly used, Moon vowed that every penny would be accounted for. “We’ve got a crack investigative team,” said Moon when asked about the issue. “They are very experienced in tracking international aid expenditures. Several of them worked on the Oil for Food program for example…”
They are very experienced in tracking international aid expenditures. Several of them worked on the Oil for Food program for example…”
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What could possibly go wrong……
All these politicians, advisors, and heads of departments stepping down would certainly have a place to go, if they managed to secure the $100bn/year in “public and private finances,” in their own countries, for the World Empire (“UN”).
If this gets done, it will be the blackest treachery that any generation ever carried out against their own countries.
Why is it every time I need to save the world…all I have to do is give up more of my personal freedom and money?
Because it’s [your] personal freedom and money causing the problem in the first place, according to the dogooders.
“Ban said there was still a chance of limiting global warming to an internationally agreed ceiling of 2C above pre-industrial times in the hope of limiting floods, droughts, desertification and rising sea levels.”
Reminds me of watching Flash Gordon in the 50’s and Ming the Merciless causing weather disasters on Earth; Where is professor Zarkov when you need him?
Talking of Gordon our previous prime minister of that name was supposed to be fixing the climate; looks like a case of overmanning, these guys must have a good trade union!
parasites or pawns of those really running the scam….whatever…. the public needs to insist the UN divorces itself from the army of NGOs that follow the CAGW gravy train around the world:
9 Dec: MyrtleBeachOnline: Peru riled by Greenpeace stunt at Nazca lines
By FRANKLIN BRICENO
Associated Press writer Frank Bajak contributed to this report.
LIMA, Peru — Peru will seek criminal charges against Greenpeace activists who damaged the world-renowned Nazca lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during a publicity stunt, a senior government official said Tuesday.
“It’s a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred,” Deputy Culture Minister Luis Jaime Castillo said of Monday’s action by the environmental group at the famed drawings etched into Peru’s coastal desert, a U.N. World Heritage site.
He said the government was seeking to prevent those responsible from leaving the country while it asks prosecutors to file charges of “attacking archaeological monuments,” a crime punishable by up to six years in prison.
The activists entered a “strictly prohibited” area beside the famed figure of a hummingbird, the Culture Ministry said in a statement. They laid big yellow cloth letters reading: “Time for Change; The Future is Renewable.”…
Castillo said no one, not even presidents and Cabinet ministers, is allowed without authorization where the activists trod, and those who do have permission must wear special shoes…
Greenpeace spokeswoman Tina Loeffelbein said that the activists were “absolutely careful to protect the Nazca lines” and that the group is taking the case seriously and investigating.
She declined to answer further questions, such as whether Greenpeace intends to identify to authorities the people involved. The government has asked people to do so…
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2014/12/09/4659827/peru-indignant-at-greenpeace-stunt.html
10 Dec: UK Telegraph: Emily Gosden: Homes with electric heating face paying £360 a year in green levies
Green levies will account for more than a quarter of an energy bill by 2030 for those with electric heating, Committee on Climate Change forecasts
Households with electric heating face paying £360 a year in green levies by 2030 – more than a quarter of their total energy bill, the Government’s official climate change adviser has warned.
The 7 per cent of UK homes – almost 2 million households – who rely on electricity for their heating will be the hardest hit by the Government’s drive for green energy because subsidies for the technologies are levied solely on electricity bills, a report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) shows.
These households, typically isolated rural homes or urban flats, already paid an estimated £90 – about a tenth of their £925 annual energy bill – to subsidise wind farms, solar and nuclear power in 2013. The figure is double that paid by households who use gas for heating…
***The increase is likely to push many such households deeper into fuel poverty unless ministers take action to help them, the CCC warned…
It suggested these households should be given financial help to install new kinds of efficient renewable heating systems such as heat pumps to replace old electric storage heaters….
As well as subsidising green power projects, households face additional levies to fund energy efficiency schemes. These schemes are intended to reduce carbon emissions to help tackle climate change, as well as to help households save money by using less energy…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11284190/Homes-with-electric-heating-face-paying-360-a-year-in-green-levies.html
***so the CCC who are responsible for all these electricity price hikes warn they will lead to more fuel poverty, so even more money needs to be given to those affected, or those affected should use less energy?