Let’s take a break from Hillary, the good Doctor and his bot-hordes, and whatever Glenn Beck’s “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore” subject of the day is. What do you say we look in on those fun guys at the wannabe world government, the United Nations? Stop me if you’ve heard this one
..UNITED NATIONS — Floods, droughts and other climate disasters will rob millions of children of the decent meals and schools they need unless rich nations pony up $86 billion by 2015 to help the poor adapt to global warming, an expert panel warned Tuesday.
The U.S. government needs to cover $40 billion of that spending, which will “strengthen the capacity of vulnerable people” to cope with climate-related risks, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Development Program.
Let’s see, do we have all the elements? Threats of disaster? Check. Victims? Check. EEEVVVIIILLL rich villains? Check. Shakedown demand? Check. Whining? Wait, where’s the whining?
..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.
Whining… Check. (I’ll mention in passing that on $2 a day they aren’t bothered by having garages and storage units full of lead painted Chinese junk. I know, I’m heartless and just don’t “get it”.) And dire predictions, do we have dire predictions?
..Scientists have reported that temperatures rose an average 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit over 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 unfortunate consequences include women and young girls walking further to collect water in the Horn of Africa, people erecting bamboo flood shelters on stilts in the delta of the Ganges River, and others planting mangroves to protect themselves against storm surges in the delta of the Mekong River.
And giving our hard earned $40 Billion to the United Nations gets us what, exactly? Just asking… I mean, investing in United Nations projects is a little like buying a two legged stool from that guy at the county fair. It’s never what it seems, it doesn’t do what you think it’s supposed to, or even what he said it would do, and damn, he’ll be back again next year trying to sell you another one
..The nearly 400-page Human Development Report comes just a week before the world’s nations convene in Indonesia to negotiate a new climate treaty.
A new treaty. Say, that reminds me. Did you hear the one about the United States President setting up a series of “can’t miss this time” peace talks between Israel and the Arabs? What? You’ve already heard that one?
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