climate money: wastes, distortions and corrupted science
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Bienvenido “Nonoy” Oplas Jr.
Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc.
Climate Money: Wastes, Distortions
and Scientific Dishonesty Behind It
Occasional lectures in the Philippines
Paper #2 presented at Dr. Alvin Ang’s
graduate class on Public Finance
Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City
28 January 2015
I. Climate Money, Trillions of $$$
“$90 trillion
over 15 years”
or $6 trillion a
year. Wow.
“$150 B/year by
2025-2030, and
$250-500 B/year by
2050”
Scaring and terrifying people is one
trick to fool them to accept large
scale rackets.
Ex., Dec. 2007, this scary story was
reported by BBC, that there should
have been zero ice in Arctic 2 years
ago.
LANDSCAPE OF CLIMATE FINANCE 2014 (TOTAL $331 BILLION)
Asian Development Bank (ADB),
African Development Bank (AfDB),
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
World Bank (IBRD/WB)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),
Climate Investment Funds (CIF),
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
UN Development Programme (UNDP), http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/october-2014-climate-finance-update/
Handlers of huge climate money
Source: http://www.climatefinancelandscape.org/#introduction
More climate money needed, trillions of $$$
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf
US
government
spending on
climate
issues
Ave. of $7.9
billion/year
from 1989-
2009.
II. Climate Dishonesty, Check the Facts
Source: Craig Idso, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods vs. the Current Warm
Period, icecap.us, 19 January 2015
RWP – Roman Warm Period; MCA – Medieval Climate Anomaly;
CWP - Current Warm Period:
Source: WUWT, Euan Mearns,, Vostok and the 8000 year time lag Dec. 27, 2014
Source: WUWT, 2014: Among the 3 percent Coldest Years in 10,000 year,
21 January 2015
Northern Hemisphere temperature for the period variously called the
Climatic Optimum, the Hypsithermal, and the Holocene Optimum.
source: Hockey Schtick, New paper suggests "removing the Holocene Epoch from
the geologic timescale", September 15, 2014.
Temps. last interglacial period ~120,000 years ago [and several other
interglacials] were higher than during the present interglacial period.
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s
Happened Before”, July 19th 2013.
Source: Ira Glickstein, Putting Human-Caused Warming in Proper Perspective,
April 7, 2014.
Yearly PDO values; light gray is yearly values, dark line is 4-yr trailing averages
Latest satellite global temp data, as of Dec.2014 (from Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Dr. Roy Spencer)
1. 1998 0.42
2. 2010 0.40
3. 2014 0.27
4. 2005 0.26
5. 2013 0.24
6. 2002 0.22
7. 2009 0.21
8. 2007 0.20
9. 2003 0.19
10. 2006 0.19
11. 2012 0.17
12. 2011 0.13
13. 2004 0.11
14. 2001 0.11
15. 1991 0.02
16. 1987 0.01
17. 1995 0.01
18. 1988 0.01
19. 1980 -0.01
20. 2008 -0.01
21. 1990 -0.02
22. 1981 -0.05
23. 1997 -0.05
24. 1999 -0.06
25. 1983 -0.06
26. 2000 -0.06
27. 1996 -0.08
28. 1994 -0.11
29. 1979 -0.17
30. 1989 -0.21
31. 1986 -0.24
32. 1993 -0.25
33. 1982 -0.25
34. 1992 -0.29
36. 1985 -0.31
37. 1984 -0.35
2014 the “warmest year on record”?
source: WUWT, Super-Heated Air from
Climate Science on NOAA’s “Hottest” Year,
23 January 2015
From UAH satellite
troposphere temp data, 2014
was 3rd warmest over the past
37 years. But differ. with 2005,
etc. almost negligible.
Source: Christopher Moncton, WUWT, The Great Pause lengthens again,
03 January 2015
Least-squares linear-regression trend on RSS satellite monthly global mean
surface temperature anomaly dataset, no global warming since October 1996.
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-
climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/
IPCC Projections/Forecast vs Actual
Source: http://friendsofscience.org/
Disconnect or Non-causality between global temp and CO2 concentration
And CO2 is not
an evil or
pollutant gas. It is
a useful gas.
The gas that we
humans and
animals exhale,
the gas that our
plants & crops
use in
photosynthesis.
No CO2, no
current life is
possible.
1. Climate change (CC) is true. It happened in the past, happening now,
will happen in the future. Global warming (GW) is true, happened in the
past (RWP, MWP, last century warming) and will happen again in the
future. Global cooling also true, happened in the past, happening now.
2. CC is natural (nature-made, not “man-made”), it is cyclical (warming-
cooling-warming-cooling), and has precedents (not “unprecedented”). Like
wet-dry season cycle, winter-spring-summer-fall cycle, evaporation-
condensation hydrologic cycle,
3. Skeptics do not deny CC or GW because these are true. What they
deny is that CC and GW is “man-made” or anthropogenic. CC is caused by
nature (the Sun, galactic cosmic rays, water vapor, volcanoes, ocean
oscillation, carbon cycle, hydrologic cycle,…).
4. Long-term temperature-CO2 relationship, some studies say temperature
leads CO2, other studies say it’s the reverse. Common denominator, there
are precedents of warm-cool period, lasting for decades and centuries.
III. Concluding Notes
5. Demonization, heavy regulation and
taxation of CO2 as a pollutant gas is wrong.
There is little or zero climate basis for
demonizing fossil fuel and renewables
cronyism.
6. Wastes and distortions in pursuit of climate
money are huge, science is heavily corrupted.
The UN, Al Gore, foreign aid, Greenpeace,
WWF, Oxfam, etc. continue this large scale
global corruption.
7. The UN and governments
should get out politicizing
science, expanding climate
bureaucracies, and
intervening in energy
rationing and cronyism.