Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Bloomberg has fulfilled an earlier promise by commiting to paying $4.5 million dollars to the United Nations, money which federal taxpayers would have paid had President Trump kept the USA in the Paris Agreement.
Bloomberg gives $4.5 million to help U.S. keep Paris climate accord commitment
APR 22, 2018 10:58 AM EDT FACE THE NATION
BY EMILY TILLETT / CBS NEWS
Former New York City Mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg says he has a responsibility to help the environment as the Trump administration has backed down from its role in the Paris climate agreement. He said on “Face the Nation” he will write a check for $4.5 million this year to fund that mission.
“America made a commitment and as an American if the government’s not going to do it we all have responsibility. I’m able to do it. So, yes, I’m going to send them a check for the monies that America had promised to the organization as though they got it from the federal government,” said Bloomberg.
“It’s dangerous to keep doing what we’re doing,” he said.” If everybody would do the right thing, yes, it would be better. But if some people or some countries do the right thing we all benefit from that.”
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Bloomberg’s empty political gesture seems unlikely to win over many of the people who voted for President Trump. From what I have seen most Trump supporters are utterly fed up with pointlessly lavish handouts of US taxpayer’s money to foreigners, money which should be used to address pressing problems back home.
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Wow $4.5 million, that’s pocket change for Bloomburg. He could write that cheque every week and it would have no measurable effect on his obscene wealth. What a cheapskate.
Well that’ll keep the UN hopefuls supplied with canapés and fine wines for a week or two. Now, if only Bloomberg could stump up the hundreds of billions of Dollars per year in cash that the crazies were angling to squeeze out of the industrialized economies with this little scheme (and that ignores the squillions of Dollars of collateral economic damage that their decarbonizing agenda would cause if fully implemented)
The even funnier bit was the BBC account of the story. They were still fantasizing about Trump changing his mind, as if it was likely that he will reverse his policy on international agreements that obviously harm the US economy. They were some of the first things that he tackled on entering office. All he really suggested was that he could reconsider if it was re-written to not penalize America, which would of course completely gut an already worthless agreement.
Why are we talking about a one-time waste of $2.5 million for idiotic UN climate conferences?
Almost all of the developed countries are deeply in debt. Our economies are growly slower and we have not reduced public expenditures.
Rather than face real problems which must be address (debt, health care costs, trade deficit with China, infastructure, and so on), we invented fake problems, with fake solutions, which are impossible to fund.
The cult of CAGW requires/promised $100 billion/year ramping up to a $1 trillion/year to send to corrupt third world countries.
The actual cost for every country on the planet to ‘de-carbonize’ (with solar and wind power, without nuclear power) is beyond astronomical.
http://fortune.com/2014/09/23/climate-summit-kicks-off-with-promises-of-200-billion-for-clean-energy/
2014
I promise this, I promise that, which we cannot afford which is a complete waste blah, blah, blah.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-renewable-energy-fantasy-1436104555
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/
P.S. There has been a second jump up and down breakthrough. This one ends the climate wars.
ya, it’s just a fake way to transfer money…..and cause money to be “printed” aka conjured up, effectively a larger pot to skim from, whilst the inflationary effects keeps all the hamsters on the hamster wheels. males and females both, whilst the young ‘uns get into the hands of the liberal education “system” for better indoctrination.
If giving more money to bureaucrats led to climate control, we would all live in the Garden of Eden by now.
$4.5 million ! The amount expected from the USA is $100 billion per year. He’s $99,995,500,000.00 short this year. Maybe next year …
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I guess one can have an EE degree and still be an idiot but it would be unusual, unless he bought his degree. My supposition is that being four feet tall has gjven him some serious ego issues and he is a control freak looking for ways to restrict the world around him and prove that he is, indeed, a deity. Think about a guy that wants to keep others from having a giant coke because he knows what’s best for them. Vanity was the first sin and the beat goes on.
“… utterly fed up with pointlessly lavish handouts of US taxpayer’s money to foreigners, money which should be used to address pressing problems back home.”
More accurately money which I know what to do with better than the government does. So I’d like to keep it!.
If he really ramps, hopefully he will become the first socialist to run out of his own money.
Surely 4.5 million is a drop in the bucket designed by UN. Oh Michael, you look so feel-good and virtuous, but why don’t you just give them a few billion? Your purchase price for love is equivalent to a donation from my resources of a few bucks.
Com’on you progressive elites, you can do it. Most of you got your cash from riding the progressive wave benefiting from skewed policy. Yeah but you know the gravy has dried up. The Clinton Foundation is living on wasting assets and other Champagne soshulist are wasting theirs on trying to rehabilitate the New World dodo bird.
Always a lively discussion here, and a good review on important stuff like “we were never in the Paris agreement because it was, in effect, if effective, a treaty, that was adopted by Obama, although required to be passed by congress.
I am sure “they” would play the “because Paris is non-binding” we can skirt around the fact that it is a “treaty”.
To be clear, treaties are not “required to be passed by congress” but rather voted on by the Senate where 2/3 of Senators present must concur.
Also good to rethink, this $4.5M is chump change, a leftist attempt to somehow keep USA in the agreement, grasping at straws. In reality, the Paris agreement rolled out would cost the citizens of the world around $20T
20,000,000 Million
Whilst the “quiet sun” has more cooling affect than anything man could do.
As the saying goes “A fool and his money are soon parted”
James Bull
Anyone labelled as a Philanthropist in Wikipedia should immediately be suspected as a Globalist
I did NOT get a vote in the decision to make that commitment. None of my state’s elected officials got a vote in the decision to make that commitment. So, here I am — at least one American who did NOT make, and who was NOT given an opportunity to consider making, such a commitment.
CONCLUSION: Bull sh**
Paris is only a spawn of Satan. The UN Climate Framework itself must be destroyed.
It’s all derivative of oligarchic collectivism, New World Order thinking after the Soviet fell. The President has determined to pander and posture as a moderate with the Greenshirt fringe, it doesn’t end well historically. Leaving the green structure in incubation mode a terrible fate for future generations.
Leaving Paris and babbling about “renegotiation” was a terrible indicator of where it is going in the worlds future.
You mean “The UN We-Know-Very-Certainly-Humans-Are-To-Blame-For-Catastrophic-Changes-To-The Climate Framework”
They just use the abbreviate form.
“abbreviateD”
The bar is open boys!
As others have also pointed out, it’s as clear a violation of the Logan Act as you’ll ever find. The Paris Treaty was negotiated, and rejected, by the federal government of the United States, not Michael Bloomberg, and it impacts all citizens of the United States, not just Michael Bloomberg. Not that anyone has ever been convicted on a Logan Act violation, but there’s no better time than the present. Do it! And pass the popcorn.
I don’t think so. The Paris Accord was duly negotiated by the Executive Branch but never sent to the Senate for ratification. It was not rejected by the federal government. Trump just renegotiated it unilaterally.
Here is the Logan act:
” Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.”
I would suggest that a private donation to an international organization rather than a foreign government would not be a violation. Beside, the wording is so broad it would take a total imbecile of a defense attorney not to get an accused off.
I think it is interesting that if Bloomberg has indeed paid $4.5 million to the UN on behalf of the US this is more than probably three quarters of the countries that have signed up to the Paris agreement. Whilst the US is officially pulling out just about all the other countries pay lip service to it.
He said he’d write a check this year…he hasn’t paid yet.
He also funds staged shootings.
Dear Mike, only you and your ilk [snip] would assume to speak for the citizens of the USA.