Billionaire Tom Steyer creates fund for Climate Victims
Eric Worrall writes:
Californian Billionaire Tom Steyer has just created a fund for victims of climate related extreme weather. The new initiative is intended to be 50% funded by Tom Steyer, and 50% funded by fellow travelers.
Steyer has apparently raised the money by selling his stake in Kinder Morgan, a large Texan Oil Company. http://www.kindermorgan.com
Steyer has also been devoting significant funds to helping Democrats campaign against Republican candidates in the upcoming senate elections.
Appart from wondering whether my “climate related” tick scare might qualify for a grant http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/17/one-benefit-of-the-australian-heat-wave/ , Steyer’s new fund raises an interesting question in my mind, about American Politics;
Is it OK for large amounts of oil money to be expended influencing American politics, as long as the oil money is spent on helping Democrat candidates?
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I wonder if I could get some money for being a victim of daily climate abuse by Miriam O’Brien, aka “Sou/Hotwhopper”. Steyer surely has some fund for victims of crazy Internet climate stalkers 😉 – Anthony
We’ve had a terribly cold and wet winter and spring, our apple trees have barely produced blossoms. That means no homemade apple crumble and custard (AC&C) later this year. Strictly speaking, we could have the custard, but without the AC bit, it’d be rubbish.
I think it’s high time for an AC&C reparations fund, financed by Greenies, rather than us financing all their insane ideas. A bit of role reversal.
Pointman
I froze my butt off last winter. Can I get a new one? Or at least get the old one reattached?
dennisearlbaker says:
June 7, 2014 at 10:10 pm
The New Nuclear Technology I propose is as follows:
Human Excrement + Nuclear Waste = Hydrogen
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I’ll be looking for you on Shark Tank.
What is great is that this means he has been conned. Because this fund is going to be managed, at great expense. And nouveau riche like this schmuck are very insecure, so they travel in packs.
So we are going to see this guy’s pals, who also confuse their net worth with their IQ, flushing money into this scam as well. Their money is going to be redistributed, in a way that will possibly even teach them, and not just entertain us. Somewhere a con-artist, or probably a group of con-artists, are living out the closing scene from “The Sting”.
I am a victim of man-made climate change policy! Current projections show it is “highly likely” I will lose a substantial portion of my income to man-made climate change policy by 2030. Those same projections show it is “highly unlikely” that man-made climate change policy will have a measurable effect on variation in global climate.
What about these victims of extreme weather from 1935 and 1936?
Where are the worsening trends in extreme weather and/or climate?
Ya wanna see bad weather and climate?
Below are some of the effects of the Little Ice Age on humanity from the literature. In short we had crop failures, hunger, mass migration, epidemics, great storms in the North Atlantic, Europe wide witch hunts, endemic Malaria in England & part of the Arctic Circle, higher wildfire frequency in circumboreal forests, strong droughts in central Africa (1400–1750), social unrest in China, dead Central American coral reef, century-scale droughts in East Africa, large increases in flood magnitude (upper Mississippi tributaries), environmental and economic deterioration in Norway, decline in average height of Northern European men, climate became drier on the Yucatan Peninsula, sudden and catastrophic end of the Norse Western Settlement in Greenland, River Thames freeze-overs, agro-ecological, socioeconomic, and demographic catastrophes, leading to the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
I’d like to see them all put their own money into this scam instead of my money. I’d like to see them spend so much they went broke.
Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee
It’s funny how so much oil funding and links finds its way into environmental groups and Warmists too. Even Dana of the Guardian is not averse to a little oil money. Dana Nuccitelli – Guardian environmental contributor & works for Tetra Tech oil and gas services company.
I live in Minnesota, where’s my check?
I don’t exactly know how to approach this. Allow me to start with an old Seinfeld episode wherein George, after an encounter with particularly cold water, is confronted with the humiliation of…”shrinkage.” In front of his girlfriend. (I added that last sentence in case one needs further explanation.) Now, we all know that the bitterly cold winter was caused by a polar vortex from CAGW. We know this from John Holdren. Anyway, shrinkage is, indeed, the ultimate male humiliation (trust me, I don’t know this from experience). And, since the cold temperature causative of this malady (pretty spiffy wordsmithing, eh?) comes from global warming (or, at least that’s the excuse Holdren uses) then I would say many men can claim to be victims of climate change. Perhaps the compensation can be based on each millimeter of degradation. And this way, all the little d..ks can be compensated by one big one.
Well if he’s paying for climate victims, he should have put his money in hundred year bonds because liquidity isn’t an issue.
SO what happens when the next big hurricane (finally) comes ashore at a populated area?
Steve may have to redefine “climate change” or “extreme weather,” or go get a lot more billions.
Like I have always said, making money is a matter of luck and often who you know.
Steve is living and (presumably) breathing proof positive that intelligence and money
are not strongly linked.
Steve somewhat violates the spirit of “one man, one vote, I would say.
Of course, He gets to decide who is actually a victim or not, which makes him all-powerful in that regard. I’m betting he’s really just looking for a tax write-off…for a good cause, of course. I’ll bet he doesn’t mete out a single penny. And if he DOES, he’ll get trampled in the stampede. Remember, wasn’t there at least a billion climate refugees predicted for sometime far enough in the future for us to forget the prognosticator?
I’m currently (!) suffering through my third day in the California desert without electricity, after moving into new digs, at least one more day and night to go, all because the privileged panty waists at Southern California Edison don’t work on weekends, and won’t be able to initiate my electrical service until sometime before 5 pm on Monday.
So I think some of this climate change money should go, not to me, but rather to these prima donna technocrats and bureaucrats at Southern California Edison so they may continue their luxurious week-ends undisturbed by the needs of their customers, especially elderly customers with health problems.
Priviate initiative to make real what doesn’t exist.
I really wonder how nuts like Tom Steyer made their money in the first place.
Wisdom must have been absent in the process
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I’m currently (!) suffering through my third day in the California desert without electricity, after moving into new digs, at least one more day and night to go, all because the privileged panty waists at Southern California Edison who don’t work on weekends, and won’t be able to initiate my electrical service until sometime before 5 pm on Monday.
Nice work, if you can get it.
So I think some of this climate change money should go, not to me, but rather to these prima donna technocrats and bureaucrats at Southern California Edison so they may continue their luxurious week-ends undisturbed by the needs of their customers, especially elderly customers with health problems.
This Steyer initiative smacks of a tax dodge, not a climate whosis whatsis support action.
Beat me to it, AndiC. ;-p
ATheoK – I think you hit the nail right on the head.
Isn’t against the law for an individual to enormous numbers of votes for a party? Steyer doesn’t realize that once all these progressives’ campaigns succeed, a guy like him could never make another fortune like his in the US – soon to be the land of stopportunity.
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They used to tell me I was building a dream
Carbon exchanges for all…
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a windmill, I made it run
Two steps backward in time
Once I built a windmill, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower powered by the sun
While heating costs ran amuck
Once I built a tower, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a buck?
Once in green guises, gee, we looked swell
Answering that great World alarm
Damning third world nations to a cold, dark hell,
Buddy, can you give me your right arm?
Say, don’t you remember? They called me ‘Al’
It was ‘Al’ all the time
Why don’t you remember? I’m your pal
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?
Bing Crosby – “Brother Can You Spare A Dime”:
Global warming caused my bad hair day.
Where’s my check?
Relatives yelled at me for decades at every mention of global warming. Only arctic front advances gave a temporary relief. I will never be the same.
Some still stand by their abuse and will testify. How much am I worth?
Gary Pearse says:
Steyer doesn’t realize that once all these progressives’ campaigns succeed, a guy like him could never make another fortune like his in the US…
Maybe that’s what he likes about it.
There was a study/poll done that asked: Would you want to make $300,000 a year, when everyone else is making $300,000 a year? Or to make $150,000 a year, when everyone else is making $50,000?
Most people said they would choose the latter.
It was the same when Caesar was marching through the Alps, and they came upon a tiny, dirt poor village. One of Caesar’s lieutenants jokingly asked Caesar if he would want to be the headman there.
Ceasar replied, “Better first man here, than second man in Rome.”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” Paradise Lost
Perhaps Milton got it from the Romans. (;
For those of you who haven’t studied much in the way of political history, Traveler = Marxist. On thing always bothers me however, how can somebody who really believes Marxist ideas become rich?