Climate change envoy warns against cutting investment in green energy | JunkScience.com

John Ashton warns that failure to deal with climate change would amplify problems such as water and food insecurity

The government’s climate change envoy has warned that failure to take more action to invest in a low carbon economy is a threat to the future “prosperity and security” of the British people.

Critics of Sustainability Hysteria Slam UN’s Anti-liberty Rio+20 Agenda

“Does anyone really think that the UN would be a better allocator of resources?” Lord Monckton wondered, noting that government consumes about twice as many resources to accomplish the same task as the private sector. What is going on at Rio+20, he concluded, is an “attempted coup on a global scale by the governing class against the people.”...

At Rio+20, all that is left from a few years ago is the “carcass of the climate process” on display for all to see, Morano explained. The largely dead “climate scare” is now being downplayed and incorporated into new fear-mongering tactics to advance the same schemes — government control and perpetual poverty for developing nations.

But it is unlikely to succeed, Morano concluded, pointing to surveys showing Americans’ encouraging attitudes toward the hysteria. The proverbial “jig” might be up very soon.

“Failure here is good for the world’s poor people,” Morano added, challenging billionaires like Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson in attendance to reduce their own “carbon footprint” before lecturing the planet’s neediest populations about their alleged harmful impact on the environment. “Carbon energy is one of the greatest liberators of mankind.”

...Gudmundsson has studied the impact of environmentalist campaigns — particularly in the arctic — for more than two decades. “It brings in a lot of money for them,” he said about the propaganda schemes. But the results are generally horror and destruction for the affected communities. More than 100 people out of less than 1,000 in just one village he visited, for example, committed suicide following a deceptive propaganda campaign to stop their traditional seal hunting.

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We used to call it weather, storms, now we know to call it climate change.”

Those overseeing three Rio-spawned treaties -...

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC said: “Governments are on the right track in terms of designing international policy frameworks. Under the UNFCCC, they have set the goal of a maximum 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise, with a view to considering 1.5 degrees Celsius. They are building the support infrastructure for developing countries and are working towards a new universal climate change agreement, whilst increasing ambition now. There is no doubt that the scope and speed of action urgently needs to be stepped up, and that holds true for all three Conventions.”