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The UN Funds and Programmes should be streamlined and merged in order to avoid overlappings, increase the efficiency and enhance the role of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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There should be a one-time review and replacement of personnel, including through early retirement, to ensure that the Secretariat is staffed with the right people to undertake the tasks at hand.
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The mobilization of these resources may require development oriented special allocations of SDRs, some forms of international taxation such as a carbon tax or a tax on the production or sale of armaments, or a small profit tax surcharge on the income of large corporations
We strongly believe that the United Nations must become the principal custodian of our global human security…A major restructuring of the world’s income distribution, production and consumption patterns may therefore be a necessary precondition.
“Global taxation may become necessary in any case to achieve the goals of global human security. Some of the promising new sources include tradeable permits for global pollution, a global tax on non-renewable energy, demilitarization funds and a small transaction tax,”
Conservatives are often accused of scaremongering when they claim left-wing environmentalists are actually socialists hiding behind green disguises. But with Carol Browner, incoming President Barack Obama's freshly appointed Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - the so-called White House "Climate Czar" - there is no question about the socialism.
Browner is a member of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society (CSWS), which is a formal organ of the Socialist International. Oddly enough, the group's web site was recently scrubbed to remove Browner's picture and biography, but her name is still listed next to the photo-biographies of her 14 colleagues on the commission.
The Socialist International is no group of woolly-headed idealists. It is an influential assembly of officials from across the international community whose official Statement of Principles describes an agenda of gaining and exercising government power based on socialist concepts.
Originally posted by andy1033
If man made global warming does not exist, they cannot force people to pay for climate change as thats natural.
Originally posted by andy1033
If man made global warming does not exist, they cannot force people to pay for climate change as thats natural.
Originally posted by tim1989
Global warming isn't caused by carbon emissions, it's because the world is going threw a natural climate change. It has been for millions of years. Global warming isn't caused by us, it's been scientifically proven to be a load of bulls#.
TPTB have already killed the electric car once, they will do it again. We will forever be stuck driving around in our fossil fuel burning cars while paying over price fuel together with emission tax. I though it was hard enough to pay for my car registration, insurance and services. This will kill me. I won't be able to afford driving to work, I'll loose my job and I'll be more in debt.
These mother f# are the ones who are suppressing the clean alternate fuel we desperately need. It's all making so much scene now. Their agenda is clear as day, right in front of us. I want to gutter stomp everyone of them.
FFFFFUUUUUUUU!
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by andy1033
The IPCC may have PhDs, but the political directors write the executive summaries, not the scientists.
The IPCC is a political body, not a scientific one! Nobody seems to remeber that. Or, that many times the "summary" does not reflect the views of the scientists. John Christy, climate scientist and author of IPCC reports, will tell you this.
Dear colleagues,
After some prolonged deliberation, I have decided to withdraw from participating in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.
Over the years, as I have learned more about the data and procedures of the IPCC I have found increasing opposition by them to providing explanations, until I have been forced to the conclusion that for significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed are unsound. Resistance to all efforts to try and discuss or rectify these problems has convinced me that normal scientific procedures are not only rejected by the IPCC, but that this practice is endemic, and was part of the organisation from the very beginning. I therefore consider that the IPCC is fundamentally corrupt. The only "reform" I could envisage, would be its abolition.
A noted expert in sea level change has accused UN's IPCC panel of falsifying and destroying data (PDF) to support the panel's official conclusion of a rising sea level trend. The accusations include surreptitious substitution of datasets, selective use of data, presenting computer model simulations as physical data, and even the destruction of physical markers which fail to demonstrate sea level rise.
The expert, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, also raps the IPCC for their selection of 22 authors of their most recent report on sea level rise (SLR), none of which were sea level specialists. According to Mörner, the authors were chosen to "arrive at a predetermined conclusion" of global warming-induced disaster.
Vestas is to shut down its Isle of Wight factory in the face of collapsing demand from a wind-farming industry hobbled by the recession and red tape
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Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor's Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)