Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Shutting the UN bar at 5pm and cutting back their first class air travel budget has failed to close the projected budget shortfall.
U.N. Cries Poor [Again]: Issues Unprecedented $29 Billion Emergency Funding Appeal
The cash-strapped United Nations has issued an unprecedented global appeal for funds, claiming Wednesday it needs an immediate injection of $29 billion of global taxpayer money as “climate change” and global conflicts pressure existing budgets.
The world body’s Global Humanitarian Overview estimated some 168 million people worldwide will need emergency assistance in 2020, with demand a direct product of “more extreme weather events, notably drought and flooding, which trigger humanitarian emergencies,” U.N. emergency relief coordinator Mark Lowcock said.
His plea for cash comes just two months after a series of cutbacks began at the U.N.’s New York headquarters, starting with the heating being turned down, the diplomats’ bar shuttering early at 5pm and meetings canceled along with diminished first class global travel budgets.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/04/u-n-cries-poor-again-issues-unprecedented-29-billion-emergency-funding-appeal/
The solution is obvious; do your job, stop blowing the budget on political grandstanding.
If it weren’t for the powers of the security council I’d be for exiting the UN.
Sounds like a quid-pro-quo or extortion to me (provide funding or else get more extreme weather). Guess we should impeach the UN !!
The USA does not have any money to give to the UN for anything. Our federal government has huge annual deficits and a huge National debt. The USA federal government needs to pay off its huge National debt before it can consider funding anything outside of the country. The USA must also fix its annual trade deficit as well. The USA is really a debtor nation. Maybe countries like China can provide the requested funds.
If you want to do something really useful to combat “seasonal climate change”, send me $500 so I can get a decent snowblower. Using a $15 shovel has lost its joy.
better up that that budget to about $2500 “for a decent one”.
The UN is cesspool of socialist corruption and evil. Don’t give them anything.
UN stands for UNfit.
“His plea for cash comes just two months after a series of cutbacks began at the U.N.’s New York headquarters, starting with the heating being turned down, the diplomats’ bar shuttering early at 5pm and meetings canceled along with diminished first class global travel budgets.”
That’s basically why they turn up every event. With these cutback maybe most will simply not bother and stay at home and let the climate be for a change.
I recommend some comedy to cheer everyone up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Yfy0Aub1c
Leo Kearse – Comic
Close the U.N. bar at 5PM to save money? It must be an open or highly discounted bar if it looses money. My powerful brain has thought up a solution to the bar-losses problem. I will reveal it to the UN for only $1 Million. The rest of you doubtless know the solution already.
“…with demand a direct product of “more extreme weather events, notably drought and flooding, which trigger humanitarian emergencies,”
That CO2 molecule is truly amazing. It can cause drought and flooding, rain and no rain. Gee, I do wonder how it manages that and what caused both of those things before fossil fuel use took off?
Has the IPCC ever answered that question or, even asked it?
Real estate in NYC is very pricey.
Maybe the UN should sell the building and property? That would bring in some cash.
Then move out of the US to, I don’t know, Grrreta’s hometown?
Time has shown that there are many charities willing to respond to emergencies and actually help the people in need.
Put the money in their hands from hands that are willing to give.
(Those hands would have more to give if less was taken by Government to support things like the UN and “free stuff” to buy votes.)
Only “diminished” first class travel? Well there’s a pretty good indicator of how seriously they are trying to save money imho.
Methinks it rather appropriate that the heating is turned down. A few times more of the same in the coming years and we may see the delegates clamouring for more coal.
Interestingly enough they had enough money to spread Greta all over Canada.
Perhaps they will need to reduce the heating bill yet again. Perhaps more than once again. Perhaps there comes a point when they start demanding more coal or gas.
Meanwhile in the real world, the actual situation is below.
https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters#number-of-deaths-from-natural-disasters
The UN know this and so do the IPCC but it gets buried deep in their reports because the Green idiots have control, and because their disaster scenarios play to our basic human instincts.
Since Civilisation began we have always believed our actions affect the Weather, we are no different to our ancestors.
“Natural disasters kill on average 60,000 people per year, globally.
Globally, disasters were responsible for 0.1% of deaths over the past decade. This was highly variable, ranging from 0.01% to 0.4%.
Deaths from natural disasters have seen a large decline over the past century – from, in some years, millions of deaths per year to an average of 60,000 over the past decade.
Historically, droughts and floods were the most fatal disaster events. Deaths from these events are now very low – the most deadly events today tend to be earthquakes.
Disasters affect those in poverty most heavily: high death tolls tend to be centered in low-to-middle income countries without the infrastructure to protect and respond to events.”
Like used car dealers somehow they think $29990 sounds better that $30k with rounding.
What’s the UN travel budget in this demand?
Are they going to help us plow snow from our streets during our annual “Extreme global warming induced winter weather”? How about with our tow truck bills?
It’s the new UN-based hegemony.
The most deadly, most destructive supposed climate disaster being the California fires recently why do I suspect there won’t be any UN money forthcoming?
They have lied about global warming for 30 years, they lie about disasters, their scientists lie about research so why not lie about their lack of funds? The first commenter summed it up best FU UN.