Gosh. Who knew that a massive tax could solve all imagined climate problems?
David L. Hagen writes:
The UN is demanding control over $1.6 trillion per year to control climate. See Section 47 in draft # FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/CRP.39 9 December 2011 #GE.11-71576 at: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/awglca14/eng/crp39.pdf
47. The provision of the amount of funds to be made available annually to developing country Parties, which shall be equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security, and warfare. Fifty per cent of that amount shall be for adaptation, 20 per cent for mitigation, 15 per cent for technology development and transfer and 15 per cent for forest-related actions in developing country Parties;
See Reuters: Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday. Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s military expenditure database. http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/milex/research/armaments/milex/milex_database . . .
Until then, the immediate urgent task is to provide alternative fuels while caring for the poor.Conventional climate mitigation comes in dead last in benefit/cost.”
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We need to pull out of the U.N. before some liberal, gullible, know-it-all, inexperienced, nanny-state U.S. President decides we should actually do something the U.N. wants us to do, like spreading the wealth by forking over what he/she thinks is our “fair share” for world governance.
Oops.
47. The provision of the amount of funds to be made available annually to developing country Parties, which shall be equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security, and warfare.
Note that that is the amount spent by developed countries on defence, not the $1.6 trillion spent worldwide. Either way that’s a lot to spend on parties even for the UN.
For all you WUWTers who have been envying the denizens of Canada for the stance of our great leader, Stephen Harper, in refusing to sign on to the Durban nonsense, take consolation. The green energy policies of “Premier Dad” of Ontario, the sanctimonious Dalton McGuinty who has never heard of a progressive cause that he will turn down, are going to bankrupt the province and impoverish Ontarians. We’re right up there with California and the UK in terms of ridiculous, expensive and destructive renewable energy policies.
As Lawrence Solomon writes in today’s Financial Post:
“According to a peer-reviewed study earlier this year by University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox and retired banker Parker Gallant, two Energy Probe directors, by 2018 the average ratepayer’s annual electricity bill will exceed $4,000, making Ontario one of the highest-cost electricity jurisdictions in the developed world.”
Solomon, a long-time opponent of nuclear power, at least concedes that ‘renewables’ are a far worse monster in terms of money down the drain for rate-payers. See:
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/12/09/lawrence-solomon-the-green-goliath-takes-on-nuclear/
At least Harper, who is a keen ‘policy wonk’ and numbers man, won’t further drag us down by signing Canada on to this UN extortion scheme.
“17. Reduce global greenhouse gas emissions more than 100 per cent by 2040 by Annex
I Parties”
Huh?
Assuming the story is true, can you imagine the amount of money that would be annually ‘liberated’ from this fund, and then ending up in Swiss banks deposited there by the Third World’s despotic and ‘progressive’ leaders?
Probably enough to save the Euro – and that is a very, very, very large sum of money.
They’re not “imperrilled by warming’… They’re pissed they weren’t able to employ their pirate status and hold up the West.
This could all have an interesting backlash–I’ve been supportive of relief efforts to 3rd-world countries, not because of any “climate change” impact the West has caused, but because they deserve to drink clean water, have better medical treatment, and live in relative safety. Since the governments of these countries are participating COP pirates, I’m far less likely to support other programs that might benefit them.
Anthony Watts says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:54 am
………..
Hi Anthony
Grant Foster states ‘To characterize the solar influence on temperature we use the total solar irradiance (TSI) data from Fr¨ohlich (2006) …. and using monthly sunspot numbers
as a proxy for solar activity rather than TSI …..’
No one has accurately quantified solar contribution. This CET component when there is the highest insolation: http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSN-T.htm shows that for 300 years the solar is the only major contribution.
I challenged him on RC to explain what the temperature would look like if the solar was removed. He failed to respond directly, came back masquerading as Tamino accused me of falsifying the data, which I emailed to dr. Eric Steig, so that line of attack failed, then he resulted to vulgar insults, which were subsequently removed by mod. Jim.
So I maintain his graph is rubbish, let him come and defend it.
Someone keep Obama away from the checkbook.
Joe Crawford says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:28 am
“It’s a rather sad statement about by the human race in general, but, “money, greed , power and control” are the driving factors in most things. The objective is to corral those and steer them into something useful for the general public without doing too much damage from the always present unintended consequences.”
Without additional clauses that specify individual liberties as inviolable rights of the individual against his government and the sovereignty of nation states you fall right into communism or its precursor the EU.
Louise says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:41 am
I don’t think that we “all” do think that, but I do think that the word “demand” fairly accurately reflects the language used in the quoted text, namely, “The provision of the amount of funds to be made available annually to developing country Parties,..” [my emphasis, WHS”]
The word “invites” was used in par. 46 (and only there), but it seems to me that it does not take away from and is to be taken separate from the demand expressed in par. 47 that was quoted in the lead-in comment, above.
Par. 47 states a demand.
Remember, it’s no longer about Global Warming.
Er – Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Um – Climate Change?
Climate Uncertainty!
No, wait – it’s “Climate Justice”. That’s the current one, since all of the others have sorta failed.
That’s it. “Climate Justice” (which I first heard during the Cancun meeting last year, when there was record cold outside, and the delegates were pissed off because the “warming” wasn’t warm).
By this time next year, we’re going to be in “Global Cooling” again.
Curiousgeorge says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:34 am
“It’s time to send some ‘family’ guys over to the UN to make them an offer they can’t refuse.”
That might be necessary. Better our mafia than the UN mafia. However, it is the duty of our federal government to protect its citizens against hoodlums, like the UN, that are out to wreak devastation on our sovereign nation.
pat says:
December 10, 2011 at 10:14 am
Oh, come on now. There is no possible way his account can be overdrawn. He’s got a lot of checks left to fill out in his checkbook.
Why not make a deal?
When measurements in a couple of years will prove that CO2 and emissions do not increase present temps, then there was no just obligation to pay and we want our money back …which is fair and everyone will clearly agree to that.
Therefore, the fund receivers have to pay back all of it as a temporary loan with interest….
This is not too much to ask for…. who does not agree to this deal?
Yep, just give us money and we will make all the bad molecules go away. Or maybe not, but at least we will try! But only if you hand over the money. If you don’t, your house will be razed by a hurricane, then your land will be dessicated by desert, and finally it will be flooded by the sea …. unless you hand over the money.
“Someone keep Obama away from the checkbook.”
Funniest thing I heard was: “Please, nobody tell Obama what comes after ‘trillion'”
I think the plan is to give 1.6 trillion a year to the cleptocratic regimes of the “developing world” for which they can buy weapons, so that any war between developed world and the cleptocratic dictatorships takes an eternity to unfold and costs as much as WW II. (As part of the war preparations, the receivers will of course maintain that they spend all the money on planting trees.)
Has the added side benefit of depopulating the planet, and most important of all, investment possibilies.
I keep finding links to london going back to Enron, Arthur Anderson, AIG, MF Global. Many of these renewable companies that blew in out of nowhere seem to require London connections. The mystery of derivatives and their usage ranks up there with Dark Matter…. Until now.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/shadow-rehypothecation-infinte-leverage-and-why-breaking-tyrrany-ignorance-only-solution
Philip Foster says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:23 am
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I gather that a hoax document has been circulating at Durban… the BBC was taken in (no surprise there then) but admitted as much at lunchtime news today. I suggest we take care about all this.
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Apparently it is fake. According to the Guardian they got the type face and some “key details” wrong!
Frankly, I don’t care what frigging type face they use or whether their New World Government kicks in “in 2020” or “no later” than 2020.
This document is more important the Mein Kampf.
Dear Durban:
We don’t have the money. We’re broke. Goldman Sachs and China have all of our cash now. We’ve been cleaned out from bailing out bankers for their losses on mortgages that the “little people” still hold at a loss. Nobody bails us out. We’ve been cleaned out from baling out bankers for their losses on government bonds that the taxpayers of those countries still have to pay off. Nobody bails them out. We’ve been cleaned out by your CO2 regulations that forced our heavy industry to move to China, India, and Brazil so we no longer have steel mills and can’t build power plants.
We’re broke, Durban. We’re already unemployed and living on the dole. We’re already getting government assistance just to buy food. You want 1.6 trillion dollars to centrally manage the global economy and give all your cronies nice jobs for the rest of their lives? Sorry, Durban, we need that money. It’s all we have left.
Oh, and Durban, just who the hell do you think you are?
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Doesn’t RC also engage in these sorts of tactics? At least on point (1)?
C.O.P. stands for: collection of pissants.
Perhaps the UN could be relocated to a place their influence can be most effective. I suggest the Eastern portion of Antarctica.
Latest extortion attempt from Durban COP17: $1.6 Trillion F A I L E D
They won’t get it
Sack Black
http://thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com/2011/12/black-reveals-some-of-bad-news.html
Louise says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:41 am
Louise, as one of the invitees, I can’t help feeling a little like one of these these “honored guests”.
http://www.pokerpages.com/poker-news/news/surprised-dutch-online-poker-players-are-being-invited-to-pay-taxes–31403.htm
I note the lead EU rep is Dutch, so maybe it’s Dutch English we ought to be worried about.