George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Australia provides 'beachside view' of last front of the 'Great Global Warming Scam'

Update, 4/17/12, "There are other countries trying to murder you." Nasheed said...(p. 2). Maldives guy who believes in flogging women says we're 'murderers.' Why not?

"The tide against the Great Global Warming Scam – the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history – is turning and...Australia is the best place in the world to go for a beachside view." Australia has offered its services to the UN, women-flogging savages of the Maldives, and others looking for climate cash, to testify at the International Court of Justice that the the US is an "existential threat" to humanity causing sinking islands, an idea popularized by Al Gore which has since been disproved by scientists.

4/12/12, "Australia here I come," UK Telegraph, James Delingpole

"God, I'm looking forward to my Australian tour. (It's to promote Killing The Earth To Save It (Connor Court). Jo Nova has posted up the tour dates, together with the kind of generous panegyric not even my closest friends would give me over here....

But most of all I'm looking forward to doing battle on the front line of the great climate wars. Just because the Aussies are robust and blunt and full of commonsense doesn't mean they're immune to global warming drivel and eco-alarmism. Au contraire, as they say in the sheep stations. Your Melbourne green and your Sydney enviro-loon is at least as committedly wrong and fanatical as any in Britain. ABC and CSIRO – the rough equivalents of the BBC and the Royal Society/Met Office/Hadley Centre axis of evil – are at least as parti-pris and lefty biased. So I don't expect I'm necessarily going to have flower petals strewn in my path everywhere I travel.

Those who are sceptical of AGW alarmism, though, are going to like me a lot. The first reason for this is that, in common with many Australians, I have a rare gift for tact and diplomacy. Not for one second in any of my speeches will I dream of being rude about Australia's much-loved $180,000 a year (for a three-day week) "Climate Commissioner" Tim Flannery, let alone about Australian's even better loved Prime Minister, the flame-haired, pert-rumped temptress Julia Gillard. And I'm sure my audiences will respect me for my polite restraint.

The second reason is that in Australia, climate change is probably a more pressing political issue than it is anywhere else in the world. Australia after all is a ruddy great island made of fossil fuels. It has an economy which is dependent on fossil fuels. Therefore, when Australia finds itself burdened with an administration which decides to put a swingeing tax on fossil fuels – Gillard's hated Carbon Tax in the name of saving the earth from "Climate Change" then clearly Climate Change becomes of pressing concern not just to enviro-loon activists but also to ordinary, sane people who worry about tedious stuff like paying their bills, keeping their jobs and ensuring that their kids have some kind of economic future. The Queensland election result was, I suspect, just the beginning. The tide against the Great Global Warming Scam – the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history – is turning and, right now,
  • Australia is the best place in the world to go for a beachside view.

And the third reason is that I've had all the hard work done for me by my old mate Professor Ian Plimer. Following in the footsteps of his new book How To Get Expelled From School is a bit like going into battle behind the elite, super well-equipped Panzer Lehr division: it's by far the feistiest and most no-nonsense book I've ever read on "Climate Change" and all the better for it. What I love about it – and why it's so perfect to give to kids to counter the drivel about sustainability, renewables and so on that they're taught by their geography teachers and science teachers – is that it doesn't even pretend for one second that the climate alarmists have even a scintilla of a hint of a morsel of a case. And of course, being a proper earth scientist rather than an airy fairy climate scientist, he has the knowledge and experience to back all his arguments up with hard facts rather than bogus projections from dodgy computer models.

Here's a taste:

"There is great pressure to generate ideological electricity from unsightly inefficient wind farms or solar stations that do not provide electricity when we want it. We gave up using wind generation 150 years ago. And why did we give it up? It was hopelessly inefficient and it is only being used today because of huge subsidies. Photovoltaics were invented in 1839. We have had more than 170 years to create large amounts of this process and have failed because solar power is hopelessly inefficient.""...

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4/14/12, "Carr to help fight emitters, Australia among them," Sydney Morning Herald, Morton, O'Malley

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6/3/10, "NZ research shows Pacific islands not shrinking," tvnz/co.nz

"Working with Arthur Webb at the Fiji-based South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, Kench used historical aerial photographs and high-resolution satellite images to study changes in the land area of the islands.

They found that the remaining 23 had either stayed the same or grown bigger, according to the research published in a scientific journal, Global and Planetary Change."...

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Sea level claims related to small islands were unsubstantiated until a 2010 study which found changes unremarkable.

11/17/10, "The complicated truth about sea level rise," CICERO, Center for Internat. Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo

"Even though considerable scientific effort has been put towards reconstructing the past and present sea level behaviour, research on atoll island change has been scarce. While there is a good system for gathering data on sea level trends on a global scale, there is no systematic monitoring programme to document reef island change. The researchers note that this "seems a gross oversight given the international concern over small island stability and pressing concerns of island communities to manage island landscapes"."

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Allianz Insurance giant says 'green' energy sources at high risk for catastrophic failures, breakdowns:

11/23/11, "'Green' energy could trigger 'catastrophic' blackouts," UK Telegraph, Matthew Holehouse

"'Unstable' renewable energy sources increase the risk of 'supra-regional' electricity blackouts with multi-billion pound consequences, insurance giant Allianz has warned....

Solar panels and wind turbines are a "volatile" source of power with fluctuations in the electricity supply risking "grid instabilities" and triggering wide-scale blackouts....

Outages could also be triggered by cyber attacks, terrorist action, natural disasters or solar storms - eruptions of charged particles from the surface of the sun which can distort magnetic fields and destroy electricity transmission lines."...

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Governance always matters but especially in tiny places with lots of people. Maldives says Sharia law is noble and civilised and cannot be questioned.

12/10/11, Maldives "Protesters calling for religious tolerance attacked with stones, threatened with death," Minivan News

Ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP Mohamed ‘Colonel’ Nasheed said the Maldives “will never ever open doors for religions other than Islam in the Maldives. We’ll not give the opportunity to speak against the fundamentals and principles of Islam in the parliament.”...

“That the punishments and rulings of Islamic Sharia are not inhumane is very clear to us,” Nasheed said.We have the opportunity to show the whole world how noble and civilised Sharia is. That is because we are the only Islamic nation with a democratically-elected government....

Nasheed said... “Opposition parties will always attack us by using religion as a weapon. [But] I believe that this country is the only Islamic nation where Islamic Sharia has been practiced uninterrupted for 700 years.”...

In late May 2010... 37 year-old Mohamed Nazim stood up and declared himself “Maldivian and not a Muslim”....

He was escorted from the venue by police and officials from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs

After two days of religious counselling in police custody, Nazim appeared before television cameras at an Islamic Ministry press conference and gave Shahada – the Muslim testimony of belief – and apologised for causing “agony for the Maldivian people” and requested that the community accept him back into society.

In July 2010, 25 year-old air traffic controller Ismail Mohamed Didi was found hanged from the control tower of Male’ International Airport in an apparent suicide, after seeking asylum in the UK for fear of persecution over his stated lack of religious belief."...

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commenters to article above

about those seeking religious tolerance being stoned and threatened with death:

"Police watched in silence."

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"yaamyn on Sun, 11th Dec 2011 12:56 AM

  • "Absolutely shameful.

    But I absolutely expect the government to turn a blind eye to this violence.

    If you’re a thug, a terrorist or a politician in the Maldives, you can always get away with anything in the name of religion.

    According to eye-witnesses, the hired bearded hoodlums that attacked this silent gathering threatened and abused the people

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    11/25/11, Maldives protesters say UN Commissioner should be arrested for suggesting they stop flogging women for Islamic sharia law

    11/26/11, "What's there to discuss about flogging? There is nothing to debate about in a matter clearly stated in the religion of Islam. No one can argue with God," he (Maldives Minister Naseem) said."...(Maldives is currently trying to "shame" money out of the US at the Durban 'climate' conference).



    Above, Maldives protest UN Human Rights Commissioner suggesting they should not flog women, 11/25/11, Haveeru



    Above Maldives protest UN Human Rights Commissioner Pillay suggesting they should not flog women, one sign says, "Flog Pillay", 11/25/11, Haveeru

    11/25/11, "Maldivians protest against UN rights chief's comments on flogging," Haveeru

    "Protestors gathered outside the United Nations Building here in Male today, condemning UN human rights chief's comments against flogging and the constitutional provision that requires every Maldivian to be a Muslim.

    The protestors who carried signboards with angry slogans first surrounded the UN Building on Buruzu Magu today afternoon and called authorities to arrest Navi Pillay who concluded her four-day visit to the island nation yesterday.

    Protestors broke up for Sunset Prayer but again gathered at the Tsunami Monument area in the evening, demanding an apology from the UN and parliamentarians for Pillay's comments."...

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    • Facts about Maldives:
    The Maldives' president's wife works for the UN (item near end of page under heading, 'Post-Script'), the center of global warming and carbon trading profits.

    The disappearing coral reefs aren't due to global warming. Instead:
    • Maldivians use the coral reefs as their
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    Maldives problems are due in part to its own unfortunate mismanagement as well as the fact that many such islands were never meant for long term, high density human habitation as detailed below.

    Maldives "Population"

    "More than 200 of the 1,190 islands in the Maldives are inhabited, of which only 5 islands have a population of more than 3,000. The majority have a population of 500 or less. Nonetheless, the country has a very high population density of 916 people per square kilometer. Twenty-six percent of Maldivians live on the overcrowded capital island of Malé, with an average of 10 persons per household compared with a national average of 6.5. The implications of the country's high population growth and density are severe. The traditional construction material, coral, is near its point of full depletion. More importantly, the fresh water held beneath the soil surface is in rapid decline. This means that the Maldives faces the prospect of importing a large percentage of its water needs to support the growing population, unless there are fast developments in desalination services on the islands....

    Tourism

    "No Maldivians have their permanent residence on resort islands. The purpose of this is to maintain the population's apparent cultural unity as based upon the Islamic faith....

    Agriculture

    Traditional agricultural production in the Maldives is limited by poor soil, a low level of arable land, and a geographically split landmass which disallows large-scale commercial farming."...

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    Al Gore's best selling "Earth in the Balance" encouraged small countries with poor economies to believe selfish Americans were the cause of their problems and must pay. US taxpayers have without their knowledge already been forced to pay many billions to endless global warming related endeavors.

    6/11/10, "Editorial: Pacific Islands not sinking from global warming," New study debunks Al Gore's hysterical fairy tale. Washington Times

    "Of all the apocalyptic imagery summoned by global warming's proponents, the most compelling has been the threat of coastal devastation from rising sea levels. In his best-selling work "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore argued that the selfishness of Western industrialization would obliterate small, impoverished countries....Mr. Gore solemnly predicted that millions of poor inhabitants would be forced to flee their homelands in a desperate bid for survival - unless we adopt his political agenda. It just isn't so.

    In a forthcoming issue of the journal Global and Planetary Change, researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji documented changes in 27 vulnerable, low-lying reef islands in the Central Pacific.

    • Using aerial photographs taken as early as 1944, the areas were carefully mapped and compared with modern satellite images.

    It turns out that the islands did, in fact, change over time, but they are hardly sinking. Overall, 20 grew or remained stable.... In other words, nature struck a near-perfect balance,

    • wholly unaffected by the purported evils of America's internal-combustion engines.

    This research was not conducted by scientists who disputed climate change, but even they noted the suspicious absence of verification for a key alarmist claim.

    • "The lack of monitoring seems a gross oversight given the international concern over small island stability and pressing concerns of island communities to manage island landscapes," the report stated."...

    (Ed. note: The last statement above about 'monitoring' does not appear in the New Zealand article but does appear in the CICERO article both posted above. The New Zealand article is right after the SMH article. The CICERO article is right after the NZ article).

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    8/23/11, "The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria," Forbes, Larry Bell

    "According to the GAO, annual federal climate spending has increased from $4.6 billion in 2003 to $8.8 billion in 2010, amounting to $106.7 billion over that period....

    In the US, "compliance with such (EPA) regulations costs the U.S. economy more than $1.75 trillion per year." And $55.4 billion more in policing and administration. EPA's prohibition on light bulbs will cost $10.9 billion a year....

    OMB pointed out that their previously noted agency budget compilations didn’t include revenues lost for the special deductions and tax credits intended to encourage greenhouse gas emission reductions. They attributed to those subsidies

    • a cost of $7.2 billion in federal revenue losses during 2010 alone,
    • ($16.1 billion since 1993),

    bringing the total since 2003 to $122.8 billion. Then there’s still another $26.1 billion earmarked for climate change programs and related activities

    • within the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or “Stimulus Bill”).
    Climate change spending won’t slow any time soon…not so long as current Obama policies prevail. A proposed $1,328 million FY 2012 budget for its Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI) aimed at helping developing countries address man-made global warming problems that we’ve allegedly caused
    • represents a 557% increase since FY 2008 (then $202 million).
    Implemented through programs sponsored by
    • the Department of State,
    • Treasury, and
    • the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),

    it is funded by the administration’s executive budget. As stated, “The President’s FY2012 budget request follows on the December 2010 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, which formulated a package of ‘nationally appropriate’ measures toward the goal of avoiding dangerous climate change.” This is part of “…a commitment to near-term and long-term climate financing for the least developed countries amounting to

    • near $30 billion for the period 2010-2012, and
    • $100 billion annually by 2020.”

    Then there’s the matter of those escalating climate-premised EPA regulation costs that are killing businesses and jobs under cover of the Clean Air Act. These rampant overreaches are being justified by the agency’s Endangerment Finding proclaiming CO2 to be a pollutant. [See Supreme Court 5-4 decision in 2007]. The finding ignored a contrary conclusion in

    • EPA’s own “Internal Study on Climate” that:
    • “Given the downward trend in temperatures since 1998 (which some think will continue until at least 2030), there is no particular reason to rush into decisions based upon a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.”
    The Small Business Administration estimates that compliance with such regulations costs the U.S. economy more than $1.75 trillion per year — about 12%-14% of GDP, and half of the $3.456 trillion Washington is currently spending."...

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    1/3/12, "U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel," CNS News, E. Harrington

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    The coral lost around sinking islands is due to simple theft via corrupt or lax island governments. It is not due to global warming or evil Americans says UN study.

    5/9/11, "Sea gobbles up two of 21 Gulf of Mannar islands," expressbuzz.com, India

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    4/16/12, "Lecturing About Third World 'Murder' by Climate Change," NewsBusters,

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    4/13/12, "Mohamed Nasheed talks about ‘The Island President,’ keeping fragile democracy afloat," Washington Post, Ann Hornady

    "Whatever happens, even if we all die, we should not be angry with the people who murdered us. We can’t run climate change campaigns fueled by anger. I can’t tell the people [of the Maldives] that there are other countries trying to murder you."...(p. 2)

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    Ed. note: Where does Nasheed get the money to fly all over the world and meet with governments even though he is no longer president of the Maldives?


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