Letter to the editor by Viv Forbes
Twenty-two years ago a bunch of green activists calling themselves “The Earth Summit” met in Rio and invented a way to tour the world at tax-payers’ expense – never-ending conferences on environmental alarms.
Like any good bureaucratic committee, they soon established sub-committees on sustainability, pollution, development, energy, forestry, water, biodiversity, endangered species, poverty, health, population and Agenda 21 (this item alone had 40 chapters each with its own sub-committee). Environmental conferences became the greatest multi-national growth industry in the world financed mainly by tax-payers via participating public servants, climate academics, employees of nationalised industries and tax-sheltered green “charities” such as Greenpeace and WWF.
They really hit the Mother Lode with their creation called “Global Warming”, and its proxies “Climate Change” and “Extreme Weather”.
These “noble causes” generated a hierarchy of steering committees, reference committees, political committees, science sub-groups, working committees, reviewers and peak bodies and could muster meetings with 20,000 attendees from 178 countries at hardship locations such as Rio, Berlin, Geneva, Kyoto, Buenos Aires, Bonn, The Hague, Marrakesh, New Delhi, Milan, Montreal, Nairobi, Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Qatar, Doha, Warsaw, Stockholm, Lima, Abu Dhabi and New York.
The 21st Climate Change birthday party will be held at the Conference of the Parties in Paris in December 2015, while the Small Islands Developing States will tour to Samoa, but any important decisions will be taken behind closed doors by the canny BRICS Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
The Climate Conference Circuit became a bigger boost to airlines, hotels and fine dining than the Olympic Games and G20. Australia alone sent the PM plus a team of 114 to the failed Copenhagen Conference. Rich and poor all over the world have endured 21 years of wasteful spending that could have built flood-proof infrastructure, drought-proof water supplies, erosion-proof beach fronts and pollution-free waterways. It has gone down the global warming gurgler without a single visible benefit for suffering tax-payers.
With most western governments running desperate financial deficits, it is time to cut the costs of this climate chatter. Australia should burn no more jet fuel sending people to any climate conference anywhere. If they want one, they should use bicycles, tele-conferencing or the postal service.
Viv Forbes,
http://carbon-sense.com
Rosewood Qld Australia
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Bravo Viv, spot on as usual!
Agreed! Time for these hypocrites to practice what they preach.
Reblogged this on Catholic Glasses and commented:
I read about the Genesis of this World-wide Global Warming and Rio Conference; and it has mushroomed into air, water, climate, world domination and geo-engineering weather weapons on people all over the world. It’s insanity on a Global Level.
Love it!
Oh my god is this spot on. I thoroughly salute you.
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In the US a “21st Climate Change birthday party” means that the 21 year olds are officially considered adults when it comes to the consumption of alcohol. Does this “Conference of the Parties in Paris in December 2015” mean that our climateers will finally become adults on that date. Or, am I being overly optimistic.
Yep; overly optimistic.
And now the Sec-Gen has invited them all, at Heads of Government level (imagine the entourages!), to meet in Wahington on 22 September for a chat. It is expressly said that no agreements are to be negotiated, this is simply a giant rally. And tens of thousands are being encouraged to burn fuel to get to Washington and shout approval. Virtually nobody at this talkfest will be paying their own way.
The entire COP thing is gut-wrenchingly stupid. With images of ‘crats and Bamboo Bicycles. Brrrrr-rrrr.
It’s based on a very narrow form of Malthusianism.
without a single visible benefit for suffering tax-payers.
Funny how the alleged “tax payer” aka Oil Companies don’t pay taxes they receive subsidies!
these subsidies are often military actions to obtain control of Oil reserves.
According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.[7][8]
Contractors Reap $138 Billion from Iraq War, Cheney’s …
leaksource.info/…/contractors-reap-138-billion-from-iraq-war-cheneys-h…
Apr 8, 2013 – The US has overwhelmingly borne the brunt of both the military and reconstruction … The controversial former subsidiary of Halliburton, which was once run by Dick … supplied jet and convoy fuel in a war zone to the US military. … be changing, with the war in Iraq over and the conflict in Afghanistan winding …
Viv your plea will probably fall on deaf ears. this is already published in Scientific American, no matter how factual or otherwise the claims may be:
25 Aug: Reuters: Alister Doyle: Small island states, facing rising seas, seek economic overhaul
(Editing by Andrew Heavens)
“Frightening” prospect of rising seas – U.N.
Islands say overlooked, fault inaction over climate
Small island summit in Samoa from Sept. 1-4
Small island states facing a “frightening” rise in sea levels will seek investments in everything fron solar energy to fisheries to boost their economies at a U.N. summit next week….
Many islands from the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean are suffering erosion and coastal flooding from storm surges as global warming raises sea levels by melting ice from the Himalayas to Greenland…
Sea levels have risen about 20 cms (8 inches) since 1900 and are projected to rise by another 26 to 82 cms by the late 21st century, threatening many low-lying atolls.
Some communities are even moving. The authorities of Choiseul, a provincial capital in the Solomon Islands with about 1,000 people, said this month that they had decided to relocate from their small island.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/25/environment-islands-idINL5N0QV1NP20140825
The answer to deforestation is plastics and concrete.
dennisearlbaker
August 25, 2014 at 7:42 pm
On a KWh basis wind and solar get far more subsidies. Oil could survive at its present level without subsidy. Wind and solar couldn’t.
Oil can survive without subsidies, wind and solar can’t
we cannot survive without fossil fuels…take away wind and solar
would anyone notice?
20,000 pigs at the trough producing nothing but porkies.
We the people are not going to take much more of this.
john piccirilli wrote:
“take away wind and solar would anyone notice?”
Maybe. When those ugly turbines are dismantled and hauled away to restore the beautiful environments in which there were erected.
Islands are just mountains under the ocean. They have their own gravitational fields which regulate the height of coastal waters. The average height of the ocean doesn’t matter.
.…….supplied jet and convoy fuel in a war zone to the US military. … be changing, with the war in Iraq over and the conflict in Afghanistan winding ……..
Yea and the climate change folks that go to all of these conferences want to spend that much per year on climate change mitigation that won’t do anything but line pockets around the world for their friends.
We the people are simply too broke to pay them any more money. Let them suffer as we are suffering.
dennisearlbaker August 25, 2014 at 7:42 pm
without a single visible benefit for suffering tax-payers.
Funny how the alleged “tax payer” aka Oil Companies don’t pay taxes they receive subsidies!
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The “subsidies” you refer to are (almost totally) accelerated amortization of capital expenditures. These are available to to all businesses, up to a certain limit. Google Section 179 IRS code to find out more.
These types of economic incentives were key parts of both TARP and Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package. In the long term they are revenue (tax collection) neutral. They simply shift the deduction for tax purposes forward, but do not reduce or change the amount of tax liability.
Viv is a good letter writer, his name appears frequently in Australia’s dailies.
I just hope that this one did not get edited down like mine do.
“Cui bono?” The financiers of the farce of global warming are the dynastic families of Europe by WWF, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations with the agendas of the UN and UNESCO and by politicians from the former East Germany and Russia by Greenpeace.
Brazil is the useful-idiot, which elected a communist government that serves these groups. These communists are destroying the most productive, inexpensive and fertile agriculture existing in the world. By being located a region of tropical-humid climate, farms suffers with international NGOs Lobby for the demarcation of these lands with “indigenous” forest reserves, which become prohibited for agriculture lands that has the size of many European countries combined.
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“Cui bono?” The financiers of the farce of global warming are the dynastic families of Europe by WWF, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations with the agendas of the UN and UNESCO and by politicians from the former East Germany and Russia by Greenpeace.
Brazil is the useful-idiot, which elected a communist government that serves these groups. These communists are destroying the most productive, inexpensive and fertile agriculture existing in the world. By being located a region of tropical-humid climate, farms suffers with international NGOs Lobby for the demarcation of these lands with “indigenous” forest reserves, which become prohibited for agriculture lands that has the size of many European countries combined.
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