Never let a crisis go to waste~cr
Digital Editor Jack Houghton|20/04/2020
The UN-funded financial arm of the Paris Agreement has labelled the killer coronavirus an “opportunity” to raise funds for climate change action and “relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories”.
The extraordinary statements have been published in a document by the Green Climate Fund – an international organisation with a $10.3 billion budget (US).
Australia gifted it $200 million (AUD) in 2015 but Prime Minister Scott Morrison axed further contributions after questions were raised about funds being sent to China, the single largest CO2 emitter in the world.
“While COVID-19 is causing untold suffering, the international response to this unprecedented health crisis in modern times offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action. GCF will continue to make critical investments in climate-resilient water resource management, health care facilities, agriculture and livelihoods – all of which are essential to subduing and overcoming the pandemic,”
the organisation wrote in an official public update.
“Similarly, we will step up our efforts to catalyse green investment to relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories.
“The Green Climate Fund is confident that only a united approach – bringing together determined efforts and innovation – will provide lasting solutions to both the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.”
The Green Climate Fund went on to suggest that climate change was a threat comparable to COVID-19 which has killed 165,000 people, infected millions more and ravaged global economies.
“The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response required to stem it shows the importance of acting together to solve unparalleled threats to people and our planet,”
the GCF said.
“The far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 are a stark reminder of the catastrophic implications the world faces if we don’t.”
A Sky News special investigation last year revealed the GCF squandered $3.7 million flying staff around the world for climate change conferences.
The bureaucrats which run the GFC were paid $65 million in wages – a figure that has been steadily ballooning each year.
It can also now be revealed that the fund sent $157.5 million (AUD) to China in December despite the country planning on increasing emissions by several thousand mega tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
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“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” – James Madison
Gang Green setting the bar lower daily.
When you ask yourself;”How low will they go”? To promote their ideology.
After these decades the answer appears to be;”Lower than you can imagine”.
And they insist that they are the normal people,as they project their personal malfunction upon the world.
Our progressive comrades argue endlessly that people cannot be trusted to act in their own interests..
Their “proof” , their own endless history of failure,defeat and betrayal of their friends..
There is a level of stupid that runs through our history..banishment on pain of death..has worked .
Protecting the useless and clueless has not.
When you ask yourself;”How low will they go”? To promote their ideology.
After these decades the answer appears to be;”Lower than you can imagine”.
Han Solo : I don’t know, I can imagine quite a bit!
Here’s a depressing echofest with Gavin Schmidt and Katherine Hayhoe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjTsInyveE&
At 33 minutes in,note the forced concern and jokes about totalitarians taking over. A little later, their myopia about the poor, is on display.
“A report in the medical magazine Lancet comes to the conclusion that school closures to contain corona viruses have no or only a minimal effect”
“The oldest woman in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen died last week at the age of 109. She survived the „Spanish flu“ of 1918, was not corona-infected and „for her age she was doing very well“. The „corona isolation“, however, had „very much affected her“: „She faded without the daily visits of her family members.“
“In the city of Chelsea near Boston, about one third of 200 blood donors had antibodies against the Covid19 pathogen. Half of them reported having experienced a cold symptom in the last month. In a homeless shelter near Boston, just over a third of the people tested positive, but nobody showed any symptoms”
“Scotland reports that half of the (stocked up) intensive care beds have remained empty. According to officials, the admission of new patients is „levelling off“.”
“The emergency room in Bergamo’s municipal hospital was completely empty at the beginning of this week for the first time in 45 days. In the meantime, more people with other diseases than „Covid19 patients“ are being treated again”
“A nine-year-old French child with corona infection had contact with 172 people, but none of them were infected. This confirms earlier results that corona infection (unlike influenza) is not or hardly ever transmitted by children”
“In his latest contribution, the Swiss chief physician of infectiology, Pietro Vernazza, uses the results of the German Robert Koch Institute and ETH Zurich to show that the Covid19 epidemic was already under control before the „lockdown“ was even introduced:”
https://infekt.ch/2020/04/sind-wir-tatsaechlich-im-blindflug/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/15/sweden-coronavirus-rates-easing-despite-loose-rule/
Here’s an example of the mewling Malthusian swash the NYT is peddling for the Earth Day “festivities:”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/climate-change-earth-day.html/?2020-04-20T09%3A00%3A09%2000%3A00
It would seem from the comments (not to be missed!) that Ehrlich as Nostradamus is alive and well.
Geez, they all want “population control” but they never seem to want to cull themselves first . . . in spite of sounding like the most pessimistic buggers on Earth!
We need to send a message to China.
And we need some real options to stop this virus.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/coronavirus-mutated-at-least-30-different-strains-study-finds
The novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different genetic variations, according to a new study in China.
Michael Mann, Paul Ehrlich, Zeke Hausfeather and a less than stellar cast:
21 Apr: Document Cloud: More than 50 Scientists endorse Joe Biden for President on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6843596-Scientists-Endorse-Biden-Letter.html
Well, since Paul Ehrlich has been right about everything he has every predicted or said, it is reasonable to expect he is correct in his choice for president in 2020.
And, if Michael Mann says it is so it must be; never has a more honest Nobel Laureate come forward, in the Name of the Earth Day, to provide the masses with his personal recommendation for our future leadership.
I don’t know any of the other PhD’s on the list, but I gotta accept hat they have the same level of integrity, intelligence, & compassion for their fellow man as do Ehrlich & Mann … they were of course on the same e-mailing list.
I feel a little weird saying it, but I will now definitely vote for Joe Biden (if he will let me feel his hairy legs).
It’s pretty clear at this point, that Joe’s “choice” for VP will be the real person the Democrats want in the White House. I’d guess maybe Hillary? Michelle Obama?
Let’s be brief here -NO! I like the relatively few (and fading) freedoms and privacy we have. No to the green nightmare!