Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – News has emerged that a high level delegation from Pennsylvania quietly visited Australia this month, offering hard pressed Aussie businesses relocation packages…
Category: Climate cash
Bitcoin Climate Dilemma: Mining Bitcoin Consumes an Entire Country Worth of Electricity
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Will latte sipping Silicon Valley Trendies give up their high carbon Cryptocurrencies to save the planet from global warming? THE HARD MATH BEHIND BITCOIN’S GLOBAL…
France24: US Climate Scientists Emigrating to France
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French government broadcaster France24 claims President Macron’s offer of fifty grants is luring climate scientists away from the US to work in France. US researchers…
Clean Energy Researchers Recommend More Research Money
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Clean energy researchers have recommended more money, a more reliable supply of money, and less oversight over their work to help save the planet. Clean…
Claim: China CAN Lead on Climate, if they Cut Back on Coal Investment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens are starting to comment that China’s climate “leadership” seems to involve enormous investments in coal. But history suggests there is a solution to China’s…
Climate Talk Crisis: Where’s the Money?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t GWPF – UCS Strategy Director Alden Meyer has accused developed countries of “hiding behind the United States”, refusing to provide firm commitments to use taxpayers funds…
Claim: USA Should Stay in the Paris Agreement, Because Syria Has Signed
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate advocates are holding up alleged war criminal Bashar Al Assad’s announcement he will sign up to the Paris Agreement as the latest reason President…
Rick Perry Defends Proposed Coal and Nuclear Subsidies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has defended proposed subsidies for coal and nuclear power, claiming they are required to “rebalance” the market after the abuses…
Tesla Shares Dive as Republicans Move to Abolish $4 Billion Green Tax Breaks
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tesla share prices have crashed in the wake of news that President Trump’s Republican administration is introducing a bill to abolish Federal tax credits for…
Fiji to Issue 100% Clean Energy Climate Change Bond
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Fiji hopes to raise $US 50 million by selling sovereign climate bonds, to fund its transition to 100% renewable energy. Fiji has announced it will…
Over 100,000 People in Green Energy South Australia Now Receive Food Donations
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Power prices in the Australian Renewable Energy Paradise of South Australia have driven 102,000 South Australians to beg for help from food charities, according to…
S&P Backs Renewables: “The Tide has Turned”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Standard & Poor, the credit rating agency which in 2015 paid $1.4 billion to regulators to settle legal action related to its role in the…
India: Third World Needs Green Freebies to Survive
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Indian External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, the only way to save future generations in poor countries is to give them lots of money…
Yale announces collaboration with WBCSD to improve corporate reporting
From Eurekalert (Don’t we all want our corporate investments to be “inclusive“) ~ctm Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Recognizing the critical role that private capital flows will play…
Major Bank to Governments: Go on, Give us your Carbon Tax Money…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Banks have become remarkably coy about demanding carbon tax cash, in return for support for climate “investment”, but at least one major bank wanted to…
Guardian: Climate Scientists are Not Just In it for the Money
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has posted an article defending climate scientists against accusations they’re just grant money grubbing liars. The idea that climate scientists are in it…
Claim: Big Oil Must Pay for Harvey and Irma
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims that the contribution of big oil companies to hurricane intensity can be calculated with sufficient precision to determine how much fossil…
NYT: Lets Help Hurricane Harvey Survivors By Taxing Them
Guest essay by Eric Worrall As Hurricane Harvey survivors struggle with the aftermath, the cleanup, with power outages and portable generators, reporters far away in comfortable offices in New York…
Invest with Greens or Sinners?
By Mary Brown, I was sipping a soy latte after doing yoga on my recent eco-vacation and I started pondering a question: With the world turning “green”, wouldn’t it make…
Anti-Trump (and attempted prosecution of sceptics) AG Raked In Campaign Donations From An Oil Tycoon With Ties To Putin
US Chris White Energy Reporter From The Daily Caller His fundraising efforts highlighted various legal challenges against the president have earned Schneiderman $1.7 million in contributions during the first…
Pakistan: Give Us Climate Cash or We'll Keep Burning Coal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Pakistan has noticed their share of the $100 billion per annum climate cash they were promised has not started appearing in their bank accounts. Pakistan…
$50 Million Dollar Massachusetts Renewable Energy Fraud
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Samuel C Cogar – A couple from Acton, Massachusetts have been charged with defrauding the United States Government of more than fifty million dollars…
Governor Brown Extends California CO2 Cap and Trade Law
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Governor Brown has signed legislation extending California’s Cap and Trade law to 2030. California Challenges President Trump With Cap-and-Trade Law: ‘We Do Not Have to…
Turkey Demands Cash to Ratify Paris Agreement
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t climatereason – Turkey’s authoritarian President Erdogan, who has a track record of demanding cash for Turkey in exchange for cooperation with Western policy objectives,…
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