SubscribeShocker: UN Wants $86B A Yr Climate Aid
From the Gaia cultists at Associated Press:
An Indian man carries a television set through flood waters in the village of Nellie, in the Morigoan district, September 2007. Environmentalists and aid agencies have warned that decades of development in Asia will be reversed by climate change, threatening the lives of millions of people.
UN: Poor need $86 billion in climate aid
By JOHN HEILPRIN
Helping the world’s poor adapt to more floods, droughts and other changes from a warming planet will cost the richest nations at least $86 billion a year by 2015, an expert panel warned Tuesday.
“They must have help from the rich world,” said Claes Johnasson, a co-author of the report commissioned by the U.N. Development Program. “Climate is forcing people into human development traps.”
Half the cost, $44 billion, would go for “climate-proofing” developing nations’ infrastructure while $40 billion would help the poor adapt how the live to cope with climate-related risks, says the panel’s report. The other $2 billion would go to strengthening responses to natural disasters.
The report recommends the biggest share be paid by the United States and other rich nations, based on aid targets and financing calculations by the World Bank and Group of Eight major industrialized nations…
It adds a dire economic perspective to previous U.N. scientific findings that carbon and other heat-trapping “greenhouse gas” emissions must stabilize by 2015 and then decline. Without the money, the panel found, a warmer world “could stall and then reverse human development” in the countries where 2.6 billion people live on $2 a day or less.
Scientists have reported that temperatures rose an average 1.3 degrees in the past 100 years, bringing the prospect of a century of extreme weather, rising seas, widening drought and disease and harm to fisheries, forests and farmland.
According to development officials, the consequences include women and young girls having to walk farther to collect water in the Horn of Africa, and people erecting bamboo flood shelters on stilts in the Ganges River delta.
“These impacts … go unnoticed in financial markets and in the measurement of world gross domestic product (GDP),” the report said. “But increased exposure to drought, to more intense storms, to floods and environmental stress is holding back the efforts of the world’s poor to build a better life for themselves and their children.” …
Because of global warming, he said, 600 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will go hungry from collapsing agriculture, an extra 400 million people will be exposed to malaria and other diseases, and an added 200 million will be flooded out of their homes.
The development panel says the greatest financial responsibility lies with the U.S. and other rich nations most responsible for the accumulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, mainly from man’s burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels.
“We’re suggesting 1.6 percent of (global) GDP - still very affordable,” Kjorven said. “The countries of the world that are the principal culprits, if you wish, for creating this problem in the first place need to act strongly to safeguard the future of those that have done nothing to cause this problem but are the most vulnerable.” …
Petsonk said developing nations’ carbon-trading markets have the potential to generate large flows of private capital that could help provide much of the development money the U.N. recommends to help the poor adapt to global warming.
Somehow the solutions to all of the problems of the world always come down to income redistribution.
And destroying capitalism.
14 Responses to “Shocker: UN Wants $86B A Yr Climate Aid”
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November 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Cave man?
November 27th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
What? The games continue. Provide the proof that we are causing global warming and WE will still decide if we wish to pay or not. The UN has done such a great job with all the rest of world issues, why should we expect their work to be any better on global warming? Its Katrina all over again. Yes, we should rebuild New Orleans–in Arizona.
The UN is as useless as tits on a boar, but like the boar, extremely dangerous to all sovereign nations.
Oil For Food, etc., etc., etc.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Ahhh, you changed the picture that was originally with the article, now I look like a dick for calling that poor man
a “cave man” … The picture was originally that UN caveman looking guy with the skunk strip in his hair.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
“We’re suggesting 1.6 percent of (global) GDP - still very affordable,” Kjorven said
“I’m suggesting the UN goes and f..ks itself-twice,” Joe said.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I wonder if this push for global warming funding is a result of the UN’s fear that they might lose some of their AIDS funding, since UNAIDS and WHO have now admitted to distorting their HIV infection figures.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
I frankly doubt it, Kilmeny. How many people have even heard about UNAIDS and WHO’s little falsehoods ?
The UN is asking for more money because that’s what they do. Come to think of it, that’s all they do.
They’re the Electrolux of the world (and they really do suck).
November 27th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
“I’m suggesting the UN goes and f..ks itself-twice,” Joe said.
I totally agree.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
“Ahhh, you changed the picture that was originally with the article”
SG decided to go with the thing from boggy creak instead. ;-)
November 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
“Ahhh, you changed the picture that was originally with the article, now I look like a dick for calling that poor man…”
Well, it turns out that photo didn’t really apply, since this dire report wasn’t actually from the IPCC — for once.
http://tinyurl.com/38k5s5
November 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Carbon trading, carbon taxation, floods, famine, earthquakes, , typhoons. It’s all America’s fault you know. That’s why we should foot the bill for most of it. Al Goracle has the moonbats of the world so bamboozled, eating the poisonous bullsh*t from his hand that we will all be owned and operated by the U. N. any day now. Why Bush would meet with this asshat in the W.H. is a mystery to me. Why would anyone have a cordial meeting with an indiot that has been calling him everything but an out and out murderer for the last 7 years. On second thought, maybe Goracle has done that too. Goracle seems to have more clout in the world these days than our President. That is really sad…..and frightening.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:52 am
It’s like Robin Hood works as chief at the UN or something. I am so sick of hearing the damm UN demand the US pay for all the world’s ills, but if the US wants to protect itself from terorrists and rouge dictatorships, they don’t like that idea at all. Let’s face it, most all countries in the world have some resources that are valuable to everyone else, if these poor, pitiful nations would just throw their dictators out and get democracy they would be on the path to solvency and out of the crap. I would rather the US put money into sending munitions directly at the mahmood imadingdong’s and chavez’s and castro’s of the world, so that their citizens could then begin to recover from these idiots running their countries into the ground.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Ronald Reagan has it right. The UN is the biggest waste of money and time in the history of the world. They do nothing and complain all the time. Except for things that actually NEED to be complained about. Let’s cut this bitch loose and have it go to Switzerland or the Hague and have the WORLD, besides us, fund this mother.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Now we are getting to the root cause of all the Global Warming Stuff. Money…
All this Global Warming tripe is nothing more than liberals and watermelon environmentalists to force Americans to pay money to them.
Even if they do get all this money, it will not be enough, these people will still be screaming “Global Warming”, and those in the forefront of this movement will still be driving large SUV’s, flying private planes and living in multi-million dollar homes. Reminds me of Communist Russia.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
This is just another UN money swindle, first of all the poor are not in any way ever going to see any of this money. It will end up in the pockets of corrupt UN officials and tin-pot dictators of the countries that are supposedly “hardest hit” from climate change.
It is New Orleans on a global scale.