Analysis: UN ‘Green Climate’ Program Is a Slush Fund for Dictators

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Wherever you stand on the subject of global warming, pay close attention to one under-reported aspect of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Paris Agreement. I am referring to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which is a financial mechanism intended “to assist developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices to counter climate change.”

According to the current estimates, developed countries will be obliged to contribute up to $450 billion a year by 2020 to the GCF, which will then “redistribute” the money to developing countries allegedly suffering from the effects of global warming.

Lo and behold, Zimbabwe’s government-run daily “newspaper” The Herald reported that “Southern Africa is already counting the costs of climate change-linked catastrophes… In Zimbabwe, which has seen a succession of droughts since 2012, a fifth of the population is facing hunger… Feeding them will cost $1.5 billion or 11 percent of … the Gross Domestic Product.”

No doubt Robert Mugabe, the 91-year-old dictator who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, is salivating at the prospect of some global warming cash. Beginning in 2000, Mugabe started to expropriate privately-held agricultural land. The result of what is euphemistically called “land reform” was a monumental fall in productivity and the second highest bout of hyperinflation in recorded history.

Some three million of Zimbabwe’s smartest people, including tens of thousands of doctors and lawyers, have left the country. Most of those who have remained behind are subsistence farmers with very little wealth. There is, in other words, very little loot left for the government to steal.

Thankfully for the Zimbabwean dictator, there are plenty of gullible Westerners willing to believe that the frighteningly vile, comically incompetent government isn’t at the root of Zimbabwe’s food shortages, but that global warming is to blame.

Of course, this is pure nonsense. Botswana and Zimbabwe share a border and their climate and natural resources are exceptionally similar. Yet, since 2004, food production has increased by 29 percent in Botswana, while declining by 9 percent in Zimbabwe. It is not drought but government policies that make nations starve!

As befits a dictatorship, Zimbabwe is one of the most corrupt places on earth. The notion that GCF funds will be will used for environmental “adaptation and mitigation” is a dangerous fantasy.

Like much foreign aid before it, most of the “green aid” money will likely end up in the pockets of some of the cruelest …

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres steps down – Lamented U.S. democracy as ‘very detrimental’ – Sought ‘centralized transformation’ – Lauded one-party ruled China for ‘doing it right’ on climate

Via: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/19/un-climate-change-chief-steps-down-after-historic-paris-deal

The UN’s climate chief said on Friday she will step down in July, at the end of a six-year term, and praised governments for reaching a 195-nation deal in Paris in December to shift the world economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energies.

Christiana Figueres, a 59-year-old Costa Rican, said she would not accept any extension of her term as head of the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat after what she called the historic Paris Agreement.

“We now move into a phase of urgent implementation,” she wrote in a letter to governments, which agreed a goal in Paris to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2100 by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy such as wind or solar power.

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Fight against CO2 a ‘full-blown mystical delusion’ say French mathematicians

Fight against CO2 a ‘full-blown mystical delusion’ say French mathematicians

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“Our flustered activity will do nothing to alter CO2 concentrations, any more than it could cause the satellites of Jupiter to become bigger or smaller.” – Société de Calcul Mathématique, SA __________________________________________________________________ Yesterday I posted excerpts from a white paper issued by the Paris-based Société de Calcul Mathématique, SA. Here are a few more excerpts from that paper: Born of absurdity, the jolly crusade soon lost all coherence, replacing its initial slogan of ‘reducing CO2‘ with the banner of ‘eradicating everything that is bad for the planet‘. This is where everyone started chipping in and naming their victims, so that in a very short time every human activity became some denigrator‘s target. Without any checks, validations or verifications, the happy torturers made the most of their new power. Such commitment, such an abundance of means for so many years, such blinkered vision, such determination could not but have an effect, not on the planet but on the crusaders themselves – a little like an army setting off to wage war which has to cross a desert, going in deeper and deeper every day, so that every day it becomes a little harder to turn back. France is now verging on the ideology of an underdeveloped nation, seeking to husband its scarce resources, share them, recycle them – anything rather than manufacture new products, because ‘it‘s bad for the planet‘. The good people tremble: we‘re living in a foul atmosphere; something must be done. Thank goodness we have the Ministry of Ecology! The good people are delighted that so much care is being taken and that science is being put to such good use. Nobody, at any time, has bothered to ask what ‘the air has to be clean‘ really means. Nobody has asked the following simple, silly questions: – What is the normal, usual composition of the atmosphere? The usual atmosphere is not ‘clean‘; it is a mixture of all sorts of dusts and gases. Have we properly studied the atmosphere‘s composition and its variability? The atmosphere is not the same everywhere or all of the time. – Do we actually need the atmosphere to be cleaner? By their very nature, human beings are able to adapt to any environment. France has no public health problems linked to the composition of the atmosphere: it has one of the longest …

Mugabe First To U.N. Trough In Global Warming Shakedown

Mugabe First To U.N. Trough In Global Warming Shakedown

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By Paul Homewood http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/mugabe-first-to-u-n-trough-in-global-warming-shakedown/ From Investor’s Business Daily: Corruption: Zimbabwe tyrant Robert Mugabe is asking the United Nations for $1.5 billion a year to feed his people, who he says are hungry due to global warming. The looting begins. About a year ago, we said that the global warming scare is not about stewardship of the environment. It is instead an effort to pull down capitalism and redistribute wealth from rich nations that earned it to poorer nations whose governments impoverish their own people. Mugabe fully understands the plan and is making his demands accordingly. The Zimbabwe Herald, the state-run newspaper, reports that a fifth of the country’s population is facing hunger and insists that if global warming isn’t causing the hunger now, then it will be soon. But hunger in Zimbabwe is nothing new, though it is man-caused. It’s the work of Mugabe, though, not Westerners driving SUVs, air conditioning their large homes and running a wealth-producing capitalist economy. Before the Marxist Mugabe ruined Zimbabwe, it was a net food exporter, considered the breadbasket of Africa. Wheat, corn and sugar cane were routinely shipped across the continent and beyond. Mugabe has been president since 1980, but his reign of terror began in 2000, when he started plundering private farmland in his “land reform” program. Consequently, the annual corn harvest withered from more than 1.5 million tons in 2000 to 600,000 tons in 2010. Wheat production also fell sharply, from 309,000 tons in 2000 to 27,000 tons in 2003 to roughly 18,000 tons in 2010. The 2015 harvests were hardly better for either crop. Meanwhile, next door in Botswana, a nation with a similar climate and natural resources, food production has increased by 29% since 2004 while declining 9% during the same time in Zimbabwe. Naturally, Zimbabwe’s economy has suffered as well. By 2009, inflation had reached 500 billion percent thanks to Mugabe’s Marxist policies, and the economy contracted 10% between 1998 and 2008. Mugabe’s regime also created a brain drain, as 3 million fled, including “tens of thousands of doctors and lawyers,” says Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute. But Mugabe knows that the United Nations will pay no attention to the facts. It will pretend that Zimbabwe’s hardships are due to global warming and likely give him what he’s asking for from the Green Climate Fund, created last …

Warmist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the real problem with climate ‘change deniers’ – Claims skeptics don’t understand how science works

Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the real problem with climate change deniers

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Skeptics, according to Tyson, don’t understand how science works. Click for the video at BusinessInsider. The only part of climate “science” that might be related to science are the temperature predictions made by models. Those have no fared so well . . .

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If you try hard enough everything can be about ‘climate change’

if you try hard enough everything can be about climate change

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“Scholars increasingly recognize the magnitude of human impacts on planet Earth, some are even ready to define a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene,” said anthropologist and fire expert Christopher I. Roos, an associate professor at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and a co-author on the research. “But it is an open question as to when that epoch began,” said Roos. “One argument suggests that indigenous population collapse in the Americas resulted in a reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of forest regrowth in the early colonial period. Until now the evidence has been fairly ambiguous. Our results indicate that high-resolution chronologies of human populations, forests and fires are needed to evaluate these claims.” “A contentious issue in American Indian history, scientists and historians for decades have debated how many Native Americans died and when it occurred. With awareness of global warming and interdisciplinary interest in the possible antiquity of the Anthropocene, resolution of that debate may now be relevant for contemporary human-caused environmental problems,” Roos said. SMU Research, 25 Jan 2016 thanks to ddh

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