Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/25/2012 9:25:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
What a very odd situation we find ourselves in, due to the extraordinary transformation in recent years of the so-called debate over global warming. Last week, The Sunday Telegraph reported that, as part of Britain’s overseas aid budget, the Department for International Development is well on the way to spending £1.5 billion on a mass of climate-related projects across the world. These range from helping Indian farmers to irrigate their fields with foot-powered pumps rather than diesel-fuelled ones, to preventing the authority of Kenyan “rainmakers” from being undermined by the onset of “extreme weather events”.
This is bizarre enough – and it might be added that, according to the World Resources Institute, Britain is now spending far more on this kind of nonsense, under the UN’s $28 billion Fast Start Climate Change programme, than any country in the world apart from Japan. But even this is only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of billions Britain is hoping to spend, as a consequence of our Government’s unique obsession with global warming, on everything from climate-related research in our universities to building the 32,000 useless windmills that Chris Huhne was babbling about, before he ignominiously left office. We cannot recall often enough that our Climate Change Act commits us to spending more than £700 billion between now and 2050 – far more than any other country in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
From the UK,...people are starting to add up the bill.
H/T to Watts Up With That?
More from the UK.
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When the history of the decline and fall of the world’s most damaging scare comes to be written, l’affaire Gleick will only be a brief footnote. But it does suggest how desperate those who wish to keep the scare alive have become.
More importantly, however, it should focus our attention once again on the fact that we are still being presented with by far the biggest bill in history, to counter a threat that never actually existed.
You sure are finding a plethora of stuff on this fraud!!! Bravo!!! Encore!!!
I appreciate the ping. The Tribune article was better. Maybe it’s the strange Brit terms like “skullduggery” and “warmists’ endless credulity” that got me confused.
I get wound pretty tight by Al Gore and his friends campaign to steal from our pockets and our kids pockets and our grandkids pockets ....etc
Thank goodness for fellow FReepers like you!!!
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