"Harry Hopeless" <riv…@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2010/12/exposing-climat.html
> Saturday, December 11, 2010
> "Exposing" ClimateDepot
> ExxonMobil has given millions of dollars for years to organizations
> like CFACT to confuse the public mind on global warming and climate
> change.
Only to be totally outdone by the warmie whackos!
Big Carbon Is Propping Up The Great Global Warming Hoax
December 5 2010
WikiLeaks reveals that covert funding is what’s actually propping up the
warmists, with the US bribing poor nations to get on the global warming
bandwagon:
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to
its approach to "tackling" global warming; how financial and other aid is
used by countries to gain political backing; …. and how the US mounted a
secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the
controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from
the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
The accord promised $30bn in aid for the poorest nations hit by global
warming they had not caused.
Within two weeks of Copenhagen, the Maldives foreign minister, Ahmed
Shaheed, wrote to the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, expressing
eagerness to back it.
By 23 February 2010, the Maldives’ ambassador-designate to the US, Abdul
Ghafoor Mohamed, told the US deputy climate change envoy, Jonathan Pershing,
his country wanted "tangible assistance", saying other nations would then
realise "the advantages to be gained by compliance" with the accord.
A diplomatic dance ensued.
"Ghafoor referred to several projects costing approximately $50m. Pershing
encouraged him to provide concrete examples and costs in order to increase
the likelihood of bilateral assistance.".
Pershing met the EU climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, in
Brussels, where she told him, according to a cable, "the Aosis [Alliance of
Small Island States] countries ‘could be our best allies’ given their need
for financing"….
On 2 February 2009, a cable from Addis Ababa reports a meeting between the
US undersecretary of state Maria Otero and the Ethiopian prime minister,
Meles Zenawi, who leads the African Union’s climate change negotiations.
The confidential cable records a blunt US threat to Zenawi: sign the accord
or discussion ends now.
Zenawi responds that Ethiopia will support the accord, but has a concern of
his own: that a personal assurance from Barack Obama on delivering the
promised aid finance is not being honoured.
According to a cable, the Dutch climate negotiator Sanne Kaasjager "has
drafted messages for embassies in capitals receiving Dutch development
assistance to solicit support for the accord.
This is an unprecedented move for the Dutch government, which traditionally
recoils at any suggestion to use aid money as political leverage.".
Perhaps the most audacious appeal for funds revealed in the cables is from
Saudi Arabia, the world’s second biggest oil producer and one of the 25
richest countries in the world. A secret cable sent on 12 February records a
meeting between US embassy officials and lead climate change negotiator
Mohammad al-Sabban. "The kingdom will need time to diversify its economy
away from petroleum, Sabban said, noting a US commitment to help Saudi
Arabia with its economic diversification efforts would ‘take the pressure
off climate change negotiations’."
The Left will be outraged, of course, by this flagrant buying of opinion.
The minute that Hamilton or a Tim Flannery protests at the corruption of the
global warming debate by Big Government, I’ll bring you the news.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipu…
Warmest Regards
B0nz0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
"If climate has not "tipped" in over 4 billion years it’s not going to tip
now due to mankind. The planet has a natural thermostat"
Richard S. Lindzen, Atmospheric Physicist, Professor of Meteorology MIT,
Former IPCC Lead Author
"It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you
have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your
side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is
wrong. Period."
Professor Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
"A core problem is that science has given way to ideology. The scientific
method has been dispensed with, or abused, to serve the myth of man-made
global warming."
"The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips
"Computer models are built in an almost backwards fashion: The goal is to
show evidence of AGW, and the "scientists" go to work to produce such a
result. When even these models fail to show what advocates want, the data
and interpretations are "fudged" to bring about the desired result"
"The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips
"Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the
environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try
at condemning fossil fuels!"
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/threat-ocean-acidification-great…
Before attacking hypothetical problems, let us first solve the real problems
that threaten humanity. One single water pump at an equivalent cost of a
couple of solar panels can indeed spare hundreds of Sahel women the daily
journey to the spring and spare many infections and lives.
Martin De Vlieghere, philosopher
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that
it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of
mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Bertrand Russell
