Unsustainable UN planning in Kuala Lumpur
The media isn’t very interested in what the UN is planning for us but we need to be. We are going to find out and can’t wait to report back to you.
The media isn’t very interested in what the UN is planning for us but we need to be. We are going to find out and can’t wait to report back to you.
Major changes in UN structure take a long time but they have to start somewhere. At last week's UN climate summit the Ukraine floated a truly radical proposal. It amounts to making parties other than countries official members of the climate club. The parties in question include corporations and political entities like US states and cities, perhaps even NGOs like Greenpeace. The goal is the get as many heavyweights onto the official green team as possible.
As usual with the green press, it is more a matter of weaving together a series of half truths, omissions and advocacy, than of outright lies.
The Greens are giving great thanks for how cooperative the Trump team of negotiators was at the Bonn climate conference. In reality there was no Trump negotiating team.
COP 23, the UN climate conference in Bonn, Germany, ended with a coal-powered whimper. Poor countries sought cash, China sought opaque emissions reporting and Polish coal miners host the next one.
The Climate Home news service puts it this way: "Climate talks in Bonn have been held hostage for more than a week over the issue, as poor countries called for a space to hold the rich to account on their promises."
CFACT jumped in a complimentary electric car at the UN climate conference to move between the official negotiating zone and the NGO zone. Our driver told us he hates the electric car,because its limited range makes it next to useless for a professional taxi driver.
In UN-speak it is called simply "loss and damage." This is the unfounded idea that people adversely affected by bad weather are "climate victims" and as such they should be compensated by the developed countries that supposedly caused the weather to be bad.
Global warming campaigners are spoiled. When they get together for a UN conference they don't expect to be challenged. The last thing they expected was CFACT!
Most of the climate-compliant press is dedicated to hiding the climate finance issue, because Americans would object if they knew about it.
The UN circus is well underway. You don't have to engage here long before you come to the conclusion that from the well-dressed bureaucrats, to the crony capitalists, to the hard-core leftist youth, there is no one promoting the UN global warming cause we dare trust to plan our future.
Are UN bureaucrats competent to centrally plan our future? Where would that power come from?
Young leftists disrupted White House energy adviser George David Banks' event at the U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, Monday. Banks planned to discuss what role fossil fuels and nuclear power could contribute to cutting emissions.
CFACT was engaged at every level, participating in panels on energy policy, discussing issues with scientists and Trump administration officials, and even took to the University of Houston to engage with the student body.
The Trump Administrations daring decision to promote fossil fuels (including clean coal) at the Bonn climate summit may be paying off in unexpected ways.