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FYI, Harrabin, BBC: Obama's 'climate action' last month included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for 'clean energy' to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, a country so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs. Between 2010 and 2012 Obama transferred at least $2.6 billion US taxpayer dollars to Latin America, Africa, and Asia for climate. BBC also fails to report science that the US leads the world in lowering CO2 emissions. US CO2 has dropped steadily for 20 years and is heading lower. Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog.
12/5/12, "Climate compensation row at Doha," BBC, Harrabin
"Frustration at slow
progress of the UN climate talks bubbled over when a spokesman for small
island states (AOSIS) rounded on rich nations.
US representative Jonathan Pershing had been discussing plans to compensate poor nations for losses due to damage from climate change
But AOSIS spokesman Ronald Jumeau condemned wealthy countries for their lack of urgency.
The UN talks are into their second week in the Qatari capital.
Mr Jumeau said that there would be no need for talk about compensation if the rich had cut their emissions in previous meetings.
"The Doha caravan seems to be lost in the sand," he told a joint news conference. "As far as ambition is concerned, we are lost....
"We're now right into the era of loss and damage. What's next after that? Destruction? Disappearance of some of our islands?
"We're already into the era of re-location. But after loss and damage there will be mass re-locations if we continue with this loss of ambition."
The issue of compensation for climate losses looks set to become a major focus for negotiations at the conference....
Developing countries are attempting to bolt down as many commitments as possible and they sense that there may be some movement on a new mechanism for loss and damage.
The idea is being backed in a petition to governments by 44 NGOs representing millions of people concerned about the impacts of climate change. It has been led by Care.
"The first and foremost response must be to immediately and dramatically cut emissions and help vulnerable countries and ecosystems adapt to new climate realities, " it says. "Governments must now also recognize that we are in a "third era" and redress the permanent loss and damage from climate impacts.
"Given historic inaction by developed countries we are heading for the biggest social injustice of our time.""...
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"Virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal is reason for “cautious optimism” about potential ways to deal with climate change….
In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total. The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
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6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.”…
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4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
"As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade."
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Sultan of Brunei citation:
11/19/12, "White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy – in Asia," CNS News, Lucas
"The White House announced the federal government will spend $6 billion over four years for a “sustainable energy future” plan with Asian countries that involves loaning tax dollars to other countries to increase their purchasing power for U.S. technology, services and equipment.
“Recognizing that energy and the environment are among the most pressing issues confronting our region, President Obama, in partnership with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, today proposed the U.S.-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future,” the White House announced Tuesday as Obama visits Asian Pacific countries."...
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Dec. 11, 2011, "Indonesia’s Climate of Graft Snarls Investment," Jakarta Globe, Shirley Wibisono
"A World Bank analysis found corruption could add up to 20 percent to the existing costs of projects in Indonesia.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won two elections on promises to tackle graft in one of the most corrupt countries in Asia, but critics say he has failed to make any genuine difference to the culture of graft and impunity.
A Gallup poll released in October found that 91 percent of Indonesians believe corruption in government is widespread, compared to 84 percent in 2006. ...“Here in Indonesia, it is a common practice for businessmen to bribe officials to get a project,” Adiningsih said....
“It’s common for corruption to happen at all stages in Indonesian infrastructure projects, whether it’s during the tender process or extortion along the way.”...
Investors consistently cite corruption as a major deterrent."...
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Sources say the oil and gas-rich Sultan of Brunei has 7000 cars. Here's his palace:
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- 10/10/12, "Relax with Sultan of Swing in fairytale Brunei," Herald Sun (Australia)
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9/17/10, "Corruption jeopardizes lucrative climate-change deals," Reuters, Jakarta Globe, by S. Creagh
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In 2011 Maldives Islands got millions of US taxpayer "stimulus" dollars for "climate research:"
8/22/11, "Stimulus Helped Equip Climate Research Facilities--In Maldives, India and Australia," CNS News, Penny Starr
"The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that it has used $60 million of the $1.2 billion given to the agency in economic stimulus funds for purchasing “advanced-technology research instruments”
- to study climate change.
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"Island nation" "climate" thugs have been made celebrities by BBC and others. The Maldives, for example, are normally mentioned as "sinking" due to evil Americans. The Maldives are naturally the lowest in the world and their natural resources have been gutted by their own corrupt governments. Their native coral has been used for construction. Many islands were never meant for masses of humans. No matter how much money you get from the US taxpayer, this won't change:
Facts about Maldives:
Maldives' president Nasheed's wife works for the UN (item near end of page under heading, 'Post-Script'). The unelected, unaccountable, UN keeps the CO2 terror machine going.
Maldives disappearing coral reefs aren't due to global warming. Instead:
- Maldivians use the coral reefs as their
The resort islands were only set up in the 1970's.
Recently, big hotel chains invested there.
No residents are allowed to have permanent residence on resort islands, so as not to dilute their
The islands are in the Indian Ocean.
"The Maldives' principal assets are its beauty, geographical isolation, and rich marine resources. When an
Italian entrepreneur set up some uninhabited islands as resorts
- for foreign visitors in the early 1970s,
- the tourism sector began to develop very rapidly.
The recent purchase of resorts by the multinational hotel groups, Hilton and Four Seasons, is a clear indication of the projected
growth of the Maldives' tourism sector. Yet the cultural effect of foreign influences has been controlled by the government policy of restricting tourist access to resort islands, unless they specifically apply for permission.
- Also, no Maldivians have their permanent residence on resort islands.
- The traditional construction material, coral, is near its point of full depletion.
Reference: 12/8/10, Shakedown artists of Maldives and Tuvalu just trying to cash in
Reference: "Mohamed Nasheed as President of Maldives," My Voice Pakistan Forum
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4/17/12, "There are other countries trying to murder you." (Maldives Pres. Nasheed said...p. 2)
Maldives Pres. who believes in flogging women says Americans are 'murderers.'
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.
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9/25/11, "Walking the walk: Maldives constructing 11 new airports, each with hotels and yacht marinas too?" TomNelson.blogspot.com
The Government is working to construct 11 new regional airports in 11 regions and work is under way to complete them as soon as possible....
The Minister further said the construction work of these airports have been handed to Airports Investment Management Company which is a company established for this project. There will be a 200 bed hotel, a yacht marina and a transit hotel in every airport in order to
- make the airport viable and facilitate tourism and travellers."
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.
- Using aerial photographs taken as early as 1944, the areas were carefully mapped and compared with modern satellite images.
- 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.
- it's time for the movement's high priest, Mr. Gore, to offer a refund to those from his flock who bought his work of fiction."
- Tuvalu had increased due to a typhoon in 1972..
Al Gore
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Per Maldives Islamists, no Israeli airlines are allowed to operate, all hotel spas must close, and the UN Human Rights Cmsr. must be condemned for criticizing Islam's sacred practice of flogging women:
12/31/11, "Government mulls allowing resorts to resume spa operations," Haveeru News Service
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The US has spent "$2.5 billion on GCCI since 2010 on overseas anti-global warming efforts in Latin America, Asia, and Africa."...
3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
"The Obama administration has requested $770 million in federal funds to combat the effects of global warming in developing countries, a new congressional report details, continuing its policy of using foreign aid to combat the effects of global warming in the developing world.
The figure, from a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), shows that despite another year of $1 trillion deficits, the Obama administration continues to pursue its policy of using foreign aid funds for anti-global warming measures – known as the Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI).
According to CRS, the government has spent a total of $2.5 billion on GCCI since 2010 on overseas anti-global warming efforts in Latin America, Asia, and Africa."...
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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
- amid calls for his execution.
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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commenter to above article:
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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.
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4/16/12, "Lecturing About Third World 'Murder' by Climate Change," NewsBusters
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Bangkok Climate Change Talks, 2009, ginning up hatred against Americans. Poor people will remain poor as long as the UN exists. Mr. Harrabin, what's stopping you from leading the fight to close down the UN?
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Roger Harrabin took cash from ClimateGate University:
11/20/11, "BBC Environment Analyst Received 15000 Pounds From ClimateGate University," NewsBusters, Noel Sheppard
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