Posted on 06/02/2017 6:55:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he will personally make up the $15m in funding that the United Nations will lose after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord.
The US would have been required to contribute that amount towards efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change under the historic agreement between 195 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Americans are not walking away from the Paris climate agreement,” Mr Bloomberg said on Thursday, according to the Washington Examiner.
“Just the opposite - we are forging ahead. Mayors, governors, and business leaders from both political parties are signing on to a statement of support that we will submit to the UN and together, we will reach the emission reduction goals the United States made in Paris in 2015
The billionaire philanthropist added: “Americans will honour and fulfil the Paris agreement by leading from the bottom up — and there isn't anything Washington can do to stop us."
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I saw a graphic where Nobama already put in $ 1 billion on his way out the door.
I think it was in the WSJ.
Well, bless his stupid little heart. This guy has more money than brains.
That’s it? only $15mil ——— What a cheap creep!
Let’s see Hollywood go all solar then. What a hoax.
As long as it’s not my money and not the taxpayers’ money, he could give away all of his money and I wouldn’t care.
BTW, the Paris accord is a foreign policy initiative, which is the domain of the federal government, so, how is it that a mayor can intervene in making foreign policy? Doesn’t he have to go through the state department and other concerned departments before “making” or enforcing foreign policy?
$1 billion of our money,now they can spend their money.
He hasn’t been mayor of New York for some time now.
He can spend all of HIS money he wants. Idiot.
Good. Sooner or later, even these multi-millionaries run out of money. Johnny Depp did.
I like his plan. So lets see what Leo and Al give to the UN
Right, I fully support all these “very concerned” celebrities donating a high percentage of their net worth to “save the world”!
C’mon, YOU CAN DO IT!!!
when we go low, they get high
No wonder he made another “pirates” movie.
PBS could host it,Movie Stars,Dignitaries,has been Movie stars,not donating their money,but reeling in the suckers.
C'mon Holly Wood save the planet!
FINE
let him flush his $$ down the ‘climate warming” toilet!
its less $ he will have available to try to cancel out our constitutionally=protected liberties (including our 2nd Am rights)
gee, how did such an idiot become so rich?
Fifteen million?
It was ten billion, going up to a hundred billion in a few years, then four hundred and fifty billion in a few more years after that..... And they eventually wanted it to go up to fifty trillion.
“...Michael Bloomberg has said he will personally make up the $15m in funding that the United Nations will lose after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord.”
$15 million was only the down payment. The real money is in the details which will run $100 million, in real cash wealth transfers along with economic penalties. The out years will run into hundreds of billions.
Now let’s see Mikey start shaking down his Bilderberg buddies to the tune of $100 - 200 billion dollars.
You would think that a smart businessman would want a detailed acoounting report on where the money went and how it contributed to stopping the Global Climate Change that has them all shaking in their Air Jordans.
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