10/14/2009, "Maurice Strong’s Outlook on COP15 Climate Change Negotiations," Maximsnews.com
(Maurice Strong): "Some of the measure which could contribute to this process would be the fees on the use of the global commons – the ocean, the atmosphere and outer space that are not under national jurisdiction, a Tobin-type tax on financial transactions, taxes on fossil fuels and other sources of emissions and by shifting subsidies from those substances and practices which contribute to climate change to those which contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions."...
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Mr. Strong seems unaware of scientific evidence that CO2 does not cause higher temperatures:
4/27/12, "Correlation between rising carbon dioxide levels and temperature over the past decade," ReasonableDoubtonClimateChange
"Yikes! It looks like there isn’t much of one. Temp is going straight down and CO2 continuing straight up!"...
"Data sources:
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:2002
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2002/plot/rss/from:2002...
About the site WoodForTrees, source of the above data: "A life-long green."
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Maurice Strong lives in Communist China, advises the government of Communist China (which he says he does pro bono), and is Chairman of a Communist Chinese carbon trading company:
10/22/2008, "The U.N.'s Man of Mystery," Wall St. Journal, Claudia Rosett
"Does Mr. (Maurice) Strong see any conflict in the fact that his signature U.N. product, the Kyoto treaty, grants big, profitable concessions to developing nations such as China -- and now here he is, involved in China's carbon trading and working as an adviser to the Chinese government? He replies that China when it signed on to Kyoto was not "the cause of the problem." He also says that his work for the Chinese government and universities is "all pro bono." Asked whether he's involved in any private ventures these days, he says he was involved with the Chinese Chery Automobile Company, but as an adviser, not an investor, and he is now out of that. He says he's chairman of a company that's helping China earn emissions credits, the China Carbon Corporation. He's on the board of a U.S.-based engineering and construction firm CH2M Hill."...
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1997, "Maurice Strong: The New guy in Your Future!" by Henry Lamb
Maurice Strong: "It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states."
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At Cancun 'climate summit,' Communist China threatened to spew extra poisonous gas into the atmosphere if anyone messed with the hundreds of millions in profits it's making via UN CDM deals. (3rd parag. fr. end of article)
12/13/10, "‘Perverse’ CO2 Payments Send Flood of Money to China," by Mark Schapiro, Yale Environment 360
"To offset their own carbon emissions, European companies have been wildly overpaying China to incinerate a powerful greenhouse gas known as hfc 23. And in a bizarre twist, those payments have spurred the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant that is being smuggled into the U.S. and used illegally. European legislators in Brussels have discovered that the strategy they devised to combat climate change is helping subsidize the economy of their, and America’s, major global competitor — China.
European companies have been overpaying Chinese companies more than 70 times the cost to eliminate a potent greenhouse gas — triflouromethane, or hfc 23, a byproduct of manufacturing a refrigerant that has been banned in developed countries and is being phased out in developing ones.
In order to offset their own greenhouse gases, companies and utilities in Europe that are subject to the emission limits of the Kyoto Protocol have been paying vastly inflated prices to Chinese companies to destroy hfc 23, and in the process have been providing the Chinese government with hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to compete against Europe’s own “green” industries....
European companies and countries have channeled more than a billion dollars into Chinese projects aimed at eliminating hfc’s. In response to the huge windfall of profits under the scheme, the Chinese government has imposed a
- 65-percent tax on all corporate profits from emissions reductions schemes.
- $650 million.
Though the funds are generated via the Clean Development Mechanism,
- the government has no obligation to report how they are being used."...
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"Nobody in that world is critical of the process because they are all making their living off it.”...“China is the most sophisticated player"...
10/12/10, "A carbon trading system draws environmental skeptics," NY Times, Patricia Brett
"Carbon credit trading has long been decried by some climate change experts as an ineffective way to combat global warming, compared with imposing regulatory limits on polluting greenhouse gas emissions. But after more than a decade of negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol established a carbon emission credit system, in 2006, overseen by the United Nations.
Known as the Clean Development Mechanism, or C.D.M., it allows companies in industrialized countries to sponsor a greenhouse gas emissions-reducing project in a developing country.
The sponsor picks up carbon credits while the host country obtains cash from the sale of carbon rights and access to pollution-free, innovative technology.
C.D.M. projects represent billions of dollars. The World Bank started preparing for the program 10 years ago by setting up a prototype fund worth $160 million and today it runs a whole family of funds worth $2.5 billion, the bank said in a report this year.
Yet five years after its introduction, and despite several changes, the mechanism remains open to abuse, according to many involved in climate change issues.
“The problem is that the whole mechanism is conceptually fundamentally flawed,” said Patrick McCully, executive director of International Rivers, an environmental organization in Berkeley, California, and a consultant for the U.N. Environment Program.
A condition for access to the C.D.M. program is the notion that a qualifying project would not be able to attract investment without the added support provided by carbon credits — a criterion known as additionality in U.N.-speak.
This can be difficult to prove, particularly in a new project, where the intangible savings in greenhouse gases depend on defining a theoretical baseline. Determining whether carbon credits are critical for financing means “being asked to read the developer’s mind,” Mr. McCully said.
All claims must be documented and supported and must be screened by independent auditors who validate the projects. The final decision to accept or reject a proposal lies with the U.N.’s C.D.M. Executive Board. Once credits are awarded, they can be traded. One metric ton of carbon dioxide is worth one credit.
Since it began operating in 2006, the board has validated 2,918 projects, 40 percent of them in China, according to the U.N. Environment Program’s database at the Risoe Center, in Denmark, which tracks every project in the C.D.M. pipeline. The center’s data show that 1,668 projects are in hydroelectric power and 1,060 of those are in China.“China is the most sophisticated player, and they have figured out how to manipulate the baseline to generate as many credits as possible with the least amount of effort,” said Professor David G. Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego."...
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Nigel Purvis, a State Department official under the Clinton and Bush administrations, said...the (global warming issue is) a collection of “toxic” ingredients.
"“There are three issues –
- constraining industry,
- sending money abroad, and
- strengthening the UN –
Nigel Purvis, now the president of the Climate Advisers* consultancy in Washington."...
*"In 2008, Mr. Purvis served as a senior adviser on climate diplomacy to the Obama-Biden campaign." He is founder and president of Climate Advisers.
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3/22/12, "Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN," George Russell, Fox News
"The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates."...
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Just since 2010, $2.5 billion US taxpayer dollars have been given to foreign countries for "anti-global warming efforts" through one program, GCCI, Obama's 'Global Climate Change Initiative.'
3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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- US taxpayer funds given to the UN are always 'no strings, no questions asked:'
Do the "agencies have immunity "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off
- into Swiss banks? Is that accurate?
They will be totally immune, no matter what they do with the money?" "My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied." (item near end)...
"Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because
- the U.N. officials have immunity,"...
4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian
========================Lovelock says CO2 is up but temps remain the same. Lauded by Time Magazine in 2007, now retracts earlier predictions such as Florida sinking by 2040. Entire climate industry pivots on now disproved notion that CO2 causes rising temperatures.
4/23/12, "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change," UK Daily Mail, L. Warren
"Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned for his terrifying predictions of climate change's deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were 'alarmist'."...
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4/23/12, "Global warming guru admits he was wrong about climate change," John Hayward, Human Events,
"The end of an era."
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4/29/12, "World Green Tourism Award," MauriceStrong.net
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