Wasted ‘Climate Change’ Cash Could Save Lives Instead

Buddhist advice: when struck by an arrow,
first remove it before seeking out your assailant.
Otherwise, you will die.

Even as our Parliamentarians are cheering and patting themselves on the back for passing into law a series of Acts that will

• severely shackle stock markets, 
• harshly hamper high hopes and 
• brutally bash budgets

two of the truly concerned, from Canada - the International Climate Science Coalition's Tom Harris and our own Bob Carter have written of  

Wasted ‘Climate Change’ Cash Could Save Lives Instead

When it comes to climate change, our leaders would do well to follow Buddhist advice: when struck by an arrow, first remove it before seeking out your assailant. Otherwise, you will die.

But most governments and charitable foundations today do exactly the opposite. They try so hard to appease climate activists — who seem more concerned about the possible plight of people yet to be born than those suffering today — that millions of people have been abandoned to misery and early death in the poorest parts of the world.

They write of how our governments are millions or billions to Green Climate Funds. Just last week PM Gillard committed Australia to $10 billion to the International Monetary Fund.  $10 billion that Australia will have to borrow first!

The Copenhagen Accord specified that contributions should be split 50-50 between helping people adapt to climate change and stopping (or “mitigating”) climate change. Australia is generally following this formula, but 90% of Canada’s first $400 million donation is dedicated entirely to mitigation.

This undue focus on mitigation of a hypothetical human-caused dangerous warming that has yet even to be measured comes at the expense of the urgent needs of the world’s most vulnerable peoples. For example, ClimateWorks Foundation — an American climate activist group that has donated millions to Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection — received over $500 million from charitable foundations when they launched in 2008. This was twice as much as foundations contributed to the World Health Organization, and over seven times as much as they donated to UNICEF in that year.

Over the last two decades ending in 2009, the U.S. government spent a total of $68 billion for climate science research and climate-related technology development. Worldwide, it is estimated that Western countries alone are pouring at least $10 billion annually (2009) into global warming related research and policy formulation.

Read the rest of this excellent article at PJ Media - here.