Posted on 04/14/2015 8:27:02 AM PDT by rktman
With environmentalists calling for divestment from fossil fuels, the former United Nations climate chief has gone against the grain and defended using the “Green Climate Fund” to finance coal projects.
“There are massive challenges in terms of poverty eradication where coal is a logical choice from a cost effectiveness point of view, and you really have to be in a position to offer those countries an economically viable alternative before you begin to rule out coal,” Yvo de Boer, the former head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told the news site Responding to Climate Change (RCC).
“It’s strange for me as a climate person to say that, but it’s an honest answer,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Really ... if we could just get evil people (evil is not so confusingly defined, folks) ... out of the way, the world could operate so much nicer
(My hippy stripes are starting to re-appear ... time for meds ... they don't want ME in their ears)
Too late. Damage done.
If poor people don’t have coal, or something like it, they burn down their local forest.
A modern coal-fired generation plant with current scrubber technology emits insignificant pollutants other than CO2.
Plant food is a pollutant?
Too bad he was afraid to speak truth while he held the position.
Do I hear popcorn popping in the distance?
Wait, that’s lefty heads exploding. Bwaaaaa
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