Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Back in March WUWT reported how President Obama transferred $500 Million to the UN Green Fund. According to Mother Jones, he has just done it again.
Obama Just Took One Final Step to Fight Global Warming
And there’s nothing Donald Trump can do about it.
NATHALIE BAPTISTEJAN. 17, 2017 4:17 PM
President Barack Obama has made one final contribution to the fight against global warming on his way out the White House door. On Tuesday, Obama transferred $500 million to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, a key program set up to finance climate change adaptation and renewable energy projects in developing countries. That’s on top of another $500 million the Obama administration had already given to the fund.
… Trump won’t be able to reverse payments to the UN that have already been made.
Obama’s total contributions of $1 billion are still far short of his $3 billion pledge, but his actions are drawing praise from climate activists. “The Obama administration is refusing to let President-elect Trump’s posse of oil barons and climate deniers dictate how the world responds to the climate crisis,” said Tamar Lawrence-Samuel of Corporate Accountability International in a press release. “This victory is the climate justice movement’s opening salvo to the Trump presidency. And we’re not going away.”
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/01/obama-500m-green-climate-fund
I hope President Trump defunds the lot of them. The UN might be laughing about having received a billion dollars of US taxpayer’s money to which they were not entitled. Obama might be laughing about his joke on the American people. But President Trump has the power to stop this nightmare – let us hope he uses it.
Request a reversal in a few days and if they don’t return it, just dock it from next months payments to any of a dozen other UN accounts.
Little Barry still has his grubby paws in the biscuit barrel I see. What a magnificent statesman he is.
How many uninsured American citizens could have health insurance with that $500 million?
The US should leave the UN. We certainly don’t need it.
For the guy who stated he was going to cooperate for a smooth transition, he sure has thrown a lot of land mines in the path for Trump to deal with!
Thief.
I wonder if he’s being paid by the Green Blight.
They mean Anthropogenic Global Warming, or, more correctly, Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, right?
The corruption caused by conflating terms for political progress is second only to conflation of logical domains to inflate scientific plausibility.
Too bad…Obama didn’t donate that money towards Americans having a brighter healthier future
The UNFCC should have already been defunded under US law for having granted full member status to the Palestinian Authority. Willis has written about this previously here and here.
One of the signatories of the referenced letter urging defunding was Senator Jeff Sessions. At the time Secretary of State John Kerry paid no attention. 46 hours and counting …
Full list of signers:
The full letter is here.
First orchestrating the passage of the anti-Israel resolution and now giving away more U.S. money, it seems he is trying to buy a stairway to the U. N. Secretary Generalship.
What an ugly man he is!
Is it just me or does it seem like Obama has put in more work in the past two weeks then he did in the balance of his two terms? Spending our money on leftist causes, pardoning criminals, releasing Gitmo terrorists…damn this guy needs a break and we from him.
Trump could score a major coup by diverting the money to urban economic development.
Obama demonstrates just how easy it is to hand over other people’s money.
You can’t say he hasn’t done his bit for global wealth redistribution
And how much of that $1B will be ‘recirculated’ through NGOs and back into the ‘Barack Obama Foundation’, following the same racketeering methods used by the Clinton Crime Foundations?
10 Trillion borrowed dollars spent by that putz has-been. Another 500MM is but mere chump change.
Obama didn’t close Gitmo.
Obamacare is reverse, maybe Monday.
The EPA is toast…soon.
Planned Parenthood is broke…soon.
Coal is going to get a boost.
People will soon be back to work in the USA.
etc etc.
Let the erasing of the worst mistake America ever made begin.
Choomgang, Enjoy continuing to PLAY golf while the rest of the world gets back to doing useful work.
Why does the USA get the continuing privilege of housing the UN ??
This seems very unfair.
Surely it must be the turn of some other country…….
maybe Syria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela…?
I propose a 4 year term of housing the UN for each member country.
Countries could vie for the privilege.
The Trumpster can simply reduce the USA’s contribution to the UN (and/or other useless globalist
organizations) by $500M–or better yet by $750M.
Don’t just defund the UN Inform them that the monies were illegally transferred, That the US Senate did not ratify any treaty, and Congress did not appropriate any funds. The entire 1 billion must be returned. Since members of cop21 conspired with Mr Obama’s illegal act and the UN condoned it, the UN building in NY is closed.
Prior to delivery of noteto the UN GS:
Just go in the middle of the night and lock the place up no chance to remove doc. hard drives etc.
michael
When does he give a medal to himself? or a crown?
“This victory is the climate justice movement’s opening salvo to the Trump presidency. And we’re not going away.” “This victory”? Is a “climate justice movement” victory? Sending US taxpayer dollars to the UN is a victory to them? Goes to show you how the LPSC community thinks of OUR money! And where are they going to get their “salvos” from when the $$ is cut off? Soros? At the rate OB has been giving away OUR money, Soros will runout very quickly. And when the money dries-up – – well, dust to dust.
Halt all payments to the UN, and watch them twist in the wind. Take over the UN building and turn it into a Veterans hospital. Scrap 99% of all regulations passed by EPA in the last decades, and give the others a life of only five years, with review and consideration for repeal at the end of that time. That would be a small start.
Shameful and embarrassing.
With the globalist’s help he did pretty well execute his program of marginalization of the US, promotion of Islam.
Most of this Green Climate Fund seems to be getting spent on improving resilience to bad weather in developing countries, dressed up with all the usual guff about the bad weather getting worse, but that is pretty irrelevant if you can’t deal with the existing bad weather:
https://www.greenclimate.fund/home
But the fundamental contradiction remains, as the wealth of these developing countries increases the more they will want SUVs, air-con and flights to historical theme parks, such as the UK.
Every tax paying American has just paid $5.00 each to make Obama-the-Nobel-Laureate the king of the UN.
It is what he wanted all along.