Let me tell you the worst thing about the climate change scam. It’s not the lies, not bullying, not the perversion of the scientific method, not the establishment cover-ups, not the needless scaremongering, not the wasted money, not the nannying overregulation, not the destroyed wildlife and ruined countryside, not the stymied economic growth — bad though all these things are. No one what really sticks in the craw is that the people making money out of it are the scum of the earth. . . . . .

If you build a giant trough, the pigs will come. And they have. (No insult to real pigs, by the way. Bacon! Mmm) . . . .

Rajendra Pachauri, the bearded, yogic railway engineer with wandering hands who, largely because he fitted the right ethnic profile, managed to parlay his way into heading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, jetting round the world for a succession of climatological shindigs in exotic locations, as well as making a tidy bit on the side thanks to his TERI research institute.

Al Gore, the climate huckster who was worth less than $2 million when he failed to become US president, but has since made another $300 million with anti-carbon investment hype, benefiting from regulations that he helped create.

Jagadish Shukla, a George Mason University climate professor with a rare aptitude for snaffling millions of dollars in taxpayer funded grants but rather less of a skill — you suspect — when it comes to producing research of any damn use to anyone.

You get the idea. Climate change is a racket — a make work scheme created by and for “the Clerisy” (all those overeducated, undertalented middle-class wasters with crappy degrees in non-subjects like ecology, climatology, sociology, environmental sciences, environmental law, sustainability, and the rest) . . . . . .

And we’re not talking a cottage industry, here, remember. $1.5 trillion a year is a serious amount of money. It’s the same, approximately, as the value of the entire global online shopping industry. . . . . . .

How do we get our revenge?

Have a look at this website http://coolfuturesfundsmanagement.com/. . . .

Basically their plan is to set up a hedge fund whose raison d’être is to bet against the ‘climate consensus’: instead of global warming, they’re expecting the planet to cool; instead of renewables being our energy future, they’re betting on the subsidies drying up and the whole industry collapsing; instead of fossil fuels being left in the ground as “stranded assets”, they’re expecting them to go on satisfying the world’s energy needs for many generations to come. That’s why they’re called the Cool Futures Fund.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/28/2882423/

2015 was the hottest year on record. Climate change is real.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 3:29pm:



Not according to NOAA.

1997 global average temperature '62.45 degrees Fahrenheit'

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/199713

2015 ' the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90°C (1.62°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F)'

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201513

1.62F + 57.0F = 58.62F

I'll let you do the rest of the math.

cods wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 4:25pm:


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lee wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 4:38pm:

You trust implicitly in a 24 hour society that ships seafood to a different country to get it's shells taken off and then shipped back as externality is never priced.

Go Jevons Paradox and the faux-conservatives inability to understand the concept of diminishing returns.

Yay, I wish I voted Liberal and smirked my way into a cookie cutter McMansion and pretended I was an unrepeatable success  !

GordyL wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 4:53pm:



Good luck getting Perth-Sydney.

GordyL wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 5:05pm:



So back to fossil fuel then.

mariacostel wrote on Jan 29^th, 2016 at 7:00pm:



The concept is called economies of scale and we all know you avoid it like the plague