Why aren’t I traipsing around our warming globe in a private jet? Because I never got into the climate change business! Apparently it’s pretty lucrative.
Climategate, as readers of these pages know, concerns some of the world’s leading climate scientists working in tandem to block freedom of information requests, blackball dissenting scientists, manipulate the peer-review process, and obscure, destroy or massage inconvenient temperature data—facts that were laid bare by last week’s disclosure of thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, or CRU.
But the deeper question is why the scientists behaved this way to begin with, especially since the science behind man-made global warming is said to be firmly settled. To answer the question, it helps to turn the alarmists’ follow-the-money methods right back at them.
Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he’d been awarded in the 1990s.
Why did the money pour in so quickly? Because the climate alarm kept ringing so loudly: The louder the alarm, the greater the sums. And who better to ring it than people like Mr. Jones, one of its likeliest beneficiaries?
Thus, the European Commission’s most recent appropriation for climate research comes to nearly $3 billion, and that’s not counting funds from the EU’s member governments. In the U.S., the House intends to spend $1.3 billion on NASA’s climate efforts, $400 million on NOAA’s, and another $300 million for the National Science Foundation. The states also have a piece of the action, with California—apparently not feeling bankrupt enough—devoting $600 million to their own climate initiative. In Australia, alarmists have their own Department of Climate Change at their funding disposal.
And all this is only a fraction of the $94 billion that HSBC Bank estimates has been spent globally this year on what it calls “green stimulus”—largely ethanol and other alternative energy schemes—of the kind from which Al Gore and his partners at Kleiner Perkins hope to profit handsomely.
Read the whole thing. The oceans may not boil but your blood will.
foxnews.com has an exclusive story about how the United Nations is/has/will be pushing environmental change as a values-based “religion.” It seems that about 20 leaders in environmental science gathered in Switzerland and came up with UNEP.
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It’s a filthy cabal of opportunists and ideology, hell bent on gaining control over your behavior and draining your wallet at the same time. Where is the tick, tick, tick, show on this one? Silly me.
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OBTW, Kleiner Perkins I believe, is the company that installs the “guilt boxes” in airport terminals so you can put your money into one via credit card and purchase “carbon credits”, a mythical feel good fantasy that you are doing something to help the environment. Just to highlight his unapologetic hypocrisy, Al Gore should have a few outside his energy sucking mansion, like Fed Ex boxes.
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ al gore $1200 to meet and greet !!!!!!!!!!!
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SORRY this is the story link http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/01/inside-the-beltway-41029681/
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They are a filthy cabal. They’re stealing billions from hard working people all over the world. They should be tried and jailed.
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