Philippines allegedly needs $1.6B a year in climate scam money

THE PHILIPPINES will need about $1.6 billion in investments yearly by 2020 in its fight to mitigate effects of climate change, an economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday.

Skeptic's Corner: Skeptics From Around the Globe

William M. Gray - Professor Emeritus Deparment of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

"I have closely followed the carbon dioxide warming arguments. From what I have learned of how the atmosphere ticks over 40 years of study, I have been unable to convince myself that a doubling of human-induced greenhouse gases can lead to anything but quite small and insignificant amounts of global warming." ... “We should begin to see cooling coming on, I’m willing to make a big financial bet on it. In 10 years, I expect the globe to be somewhat cooler than it is now, because this ocean effect will dominate over the human-induced CO2 effect and I believe the solar effect and the land-use effect. I think this is likely bigger.”

Republicans’ Hearing on Waxman-Markey to Examine Emissions Allocations

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Fred Upton, ranking member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, today asked committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, R-Mass., for the “specific and final language on emissions permit allocations.”
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“As you recall from the hearing on Friday, former Vice President Gore was given repeated opportunities to discuss the true cost of the Waxman-Markey bill; the only answer he could come up with was to suggest that, fourteen years ago, corporate polluters were like Bernice Madoff,” they added. “Clearly, the world’s leading spokesman for the cause of stopping global warming has no information about the true cost of your bill.”