Send Money, Or The Climate Gets It!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Robin Guenier
Britain’s wealthy elite are being asked to dip deep into their pockets to protect the environment and the climate.
A group of scientists has written to the top 100 wealthiest charitable bodies and families to request funding.
They say efforts to tackle what they call the ecological crisis are "desperately under-funded".
The authors believe that less than 3% of philanthropic funding goes towards climate-related issues.
The letter has a slightly desperate tone. It says: “We are taking the step to write to you as the most affluent individuals and families.
“The rates of deforestation, of carbon emissions, of species extinction, of land degradation are a threat to us all.
“We implore you to urgently consider significant investment to prevent further ecological catastrophe – whether through your personal investments or your philanthropy.“
The scientists think this is the first letter of its kind.
It warns: “The changes to our natural world are critical to the lives of the communities you support.”
Who has written the letter?
The 11 signatories are distinguished academics including the physicists Myles Allen from Oxford and Joanna Haigh from Imperial College; the psychologist Lorraine Whitmarsh from Cardiff University and Sir David King, former government chief scientist.
The letter was co-ordinated by Angela Terry, from the not-for-profit Climate Alliance. She told us: “We need the investment to rapidly adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change that are already being felt”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48357351
This absurd letter shows just how corrupt climate science has become.
The climate industry already rakes in billions every year, but is so addicted it wants even more.
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What a cheek!
They are selling indulgences. just like the old days.
“Not for profit” -: our remunerations ensure this.
Joanna Haigh = Grantham = Bob Ward = ‘also rakes in millions’.
Yes, I’m sure Jeremy Grantham would have a few hundred million spare, if Joanna asked him nicely!
A Cardiff Uni psychologist has obviously studied ice cores, tree rings and Milankovic Wobbles… they have as much sense as that Scandinavian child with mental problems…
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“We need the investment to rapidly adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change that are already being felt”.
Adapting to climate and extreme weather is one thing. Mitigating the impacts is another. But mitigation by moving billions of tonnes of CO2 around in the hope of changing the direction of the climate is impossible… and failure to understand that is irresponsible science and journalism.
‘A fool and his money are soon parted’ – let’s wait and see how true this old saying is!
No shortage of climate suckers these days.
Professor Myles Allen is one of those signing the letter. He is one person who should know very well that the carbon capture approach to mitigation is unworkable. He wrote about it a few years ago…
https://theconversation.com/paris-emissions-cuts-arent-enough-well-have-to-put-carbon-back-in-the-ground-52175
The basic difficulty is simple…oxidized carbon weighs too much! Hundreds of billions of tonnes of it are needed while the CCS technology is stuck at injecting a few million per year.
“distinguished academics” – more like snake oil salesmen.
Hewlett Packard is an amazing company its electronics test equipment was the best. However the children who inherited the vast fortunes that this company made are financing the green loonies. There are two trusts, the David and Lucille Packard foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett foundation. They donate millions of dollars to the climate change activists.
So why do they always need more??
Perhaps greed and self interest?
Well it surely can’t be for scientific research – stop sniggering at the back there that they have no idea what scientific research is – because the science is settled. Is it to fund uneconomic and unreliable energy generation because there is a limit to which governments can steal cash from the people to spend on their pipedreams before the people begin to notice and vote for somebody else, assuming there is a choice unlike the UK?
Yes indeed Jerry, I am one who used their great test gear in a previous incarnation, and yes their progeny are imbeciles. inbreeding perhaps?
Then look at the Henry Ford trust funds and more scary the Rockefeller trust who made billions from oil, and nowadays outfits like BP who are financing and buying into the global warming scam.
The latter grieves me particularly as I spent twenty years in their employ in the North Sea oil boom days, before the revenue was squandered on social security.
Paul, why is your name on the BBC letterhead? Have you switched camps?
That’s the “sign in” space.
Your name could be there too. I guess.
Someone with lots of money can contact a real agency of government that does do environmental projects. Example, contact the fish people and the highway people. Then fund a new culvert under a road that is now too small and narrow for fish and wildlife passage.
Here is an example (a small one):
http://www.alaskawatershedcoalition.org/2013/02/haines-comstock-culvert-replacement/
This sort of project, and there are many others, can be done by giving locally.
Your 11 signatories and their ilk are good at wasting money and not accomplishing anything.
One thing about Australian virtue signallers about climate action is they are very happy to spout off and vote left-wing ideology but when it comes to their wealth – well! that is something different.
Proof – the woman who rolled Tony Abbot (ex Aussie PM), drives a diesel SUV and has no solar panels on her roof. They are emotional hypocrites the lot of them.
They are imploring for ‘investments’.
The people they are appealing to will never invest in anything that does not carry a substantial government guaranteed profit.
Thank you for including me in your mailing list – essential reading now we no longer have Christopher Booker to look forward to on a Sunday.
I was horrified to find our new council in Dorset had their meeting hijacked and ended up voting to declare a climate emergency like the lambs they clearly are. Fortunately due to old fashioned reporting of council meetings by the Blackmore Vale Magazine we have been able to read about it. I am about to write to the leader of the council to protest at their folly. Why could they not just note the interest and move on which they usually do when it is the little man raising some query or another?
I hope you receive the attachment OK.
kind regards
Barbara Elsmore, Sherborne, Dorset
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 5:55 PM NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT wrote:
> Paul Homewood posted: “By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier Britainâs > wealthy elite are being asked to dip deep into their pockets to protect the > environment and the climate. A group of scientists has written to the top > 100 wealthiest charitable bodies and ” >
I have found a link to the Dorset Council meeting now
https://news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/2019/05/16/dorset-council-ushers-in-new-era-by-declaring-climate-emergency/comment-page-1/#comments
Barbara Elsmore
On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 5:55 pm, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT wrote:
> Paul Homewood posted: “By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier Britain’s > wealthy elite are being asked to dip deep into their pockets to protect the > environment and the climate. A group of scientists has written to the top > 100 wealthiest charitable bodies and ” >
This is,presumably, the same Council who have given permission for a solar farm which will destroy an outstandingly beautiful vale.
All those signatories should pay 10% of their every month’s salary or pension in this fund (or more?). They can ask all the climate scientists, who are promoting this alarm to do so. It must be an obligation to them. Why they are not setting an example by themselves for such a noble cause!! All the climate activists should immediately start pressurising them to do so. It is a climate emergency and they should start acting immediately.
Anything with Sir David King’s signature can instantly be considered to be utterly devoid of any scientific integrity and disregarded accordingly The term ‘carpet bagger’ describes him perfectly.
“distinguished academics including the physicists Myles Allen from Oxford and Joanna Haigh from Imperial College”
Allen was a Lead Author on the UN 1.5 degrees to disaster report last year, the one that is supposedly the basis for Extinction Rebellion, Saint Greta, school strikes, climate emergency declarations, etc, etc. I asked my (Conservative) MP why the HoC passed such a declaration and why he voted for it. I have had no reply as yet.
https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/mallen.html
Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader, Climate Research Programme, Fellow, Linacre College
Allen has been pushing “climate litigation” for some time. In 2003 he told the BBC that
“The vast numbers affected by the effects of climate change, such as flooding, drought and forest fires, mean that potentially people, organisations and even countries could be seeking compensation for the damage caused.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910017.stm
He was involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2012 when they started their strategy to bring prosecutions against fossil fuel companies in the manner of the tobacco class action. A co-strategist was Naomi Oreskes, ( “Merchants of Doubt”)
They produced a “Climate Accountability” report, http://www.climateaccountability.org/pdf/Climate%20Accountability%20Rpt%20Oct12.pdf
Allen said all 7 billion inhabitants of the planet are victims of climate change. “Why should taxpayers pay for adaptation to climate change?”
In 2017, Allen was proclaiming in the Guardian:
Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how much
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/07/big-oil-must-pay-for-climate-change-here-is-how-to-calculate-how-much
He was a witness in the abortive case against Exxon-Mobil in March 2018;
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/03/21/stick-to-science-judge-turns-courtroom-into-a-classroom-in-climate-change-case.html
Always following the money.
Deforestation? And just WHO, exactly, is responsible for the majority of tree chopping down?
If the leadership is under wrong hands, where it leads to- it is a practical example of nowadays climate science.
Better the wealthy and high earners pay for it all rather than the basic rate taxpayer, businesses and industry (including steel manufacturing) that pass on their costs to customers.
I’m not signed up to any religion, especially this particular one, so I’ll let the Collection Plate pass by. I am signed up to revealed truth so that has a prior claim on me and rather conflicts with this new religion.