Posted by
Average Voter on Friday, November 23, 2007 6:31:33 PM
During the Opec meetings of last week, the idea of putting up
$3 billion dollars to a climate change fund was proposed. Who knows wether they will actually do it or not. But the U.N. would like to see it, as one official is mentioned below:
"OPEC can deliver a big part of the solution to climate change," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaking on the sidelines of the summit. "International action on climate change is a war against emissions, not a war against oil." That's funny, according to
stopglobalwarming.org and the IPCC it is most certainly a war on oil.
The world's scientists have done their job. Now it's time for world leaders, starting with President Bush, to do theirs. That is the urgent message at the core of the latest — and the most powerful — report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 2,500 scientists who collectively constitute the world's most authoritative voice on global warming.
Released in Spain over the weekend, the report leaves no doubt that man-made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels (and, to a lesser extent, deforestation) have been responsible for the steady rise in atmospheric temperatures.
Oil, of course, is a fossil fuel and burning it creates emissions. That is why they are wanting to use this money to research carbon sinks and other methods of trapping carbons. My hope would be that they would do the research themselves, funding local groups in their own countries and shut out the U.N. and it's agencies.
But my guess is that what is said here is not what is really going on. I got a feeling it's a United Nations "shakedown" of OPEC. They are in need of some cash and the oil "titans" should kick in some money to help...or else. Why else would they bring this up in a closed OPEC meeting? They don't have in vested interest in seeing carbon reduced. And what is a U.N. climate guru doing at the meeting anyway? Usually, those meetings are for OPEC members only and they are very tight lipped about what is said and done in them.
OPEC is paying them off, for whatever reason, and not another word will probably ever be said or heard about it.