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Zinta Zommers: The latest strategy to fight global warming and the criminals taking advantage

Even if climate change negotiators can agree on monitoring measures, REDD+ money may not reach the right people: poor forest communities. Criminals are angling for a share of the funding. Carbon Cowboys gain access to forestland, often through illegal contracts, to claim payments for not cutting trees.

It’s brutally hard to follow REDD+ money. There are at least 15 multilateral and bilateral funds that contribute to REDD+ projects, such as the Amazon Fund, the Congo Basin Fund and the Forest Carbon Partnership. Donor states often announce large transfers of money to these funds but then deliver much less, making it hard to know how much cash has actually gone missing once it hits the ground. REDD+ is anything but transparent.

Warmist WaPo Laugher: ‘Computer model projections from at least 27 groups at universities and other research institutes in nine countries have proved solid’ | JunkScience.com

Uh… name one.

Michael Oppenheimer, Kevin Trenberth and other warmists respond to Rep. Lamar Smith in the Washington Post.

Cooling Looms as Earth’s True Climate Calamity | Somewhat Reasonable

Cold causes more disruptions for people than warming, and mankind always has been more prosperous during warmer periods. However, with modern technology, we have the ability to plan accordingly and manage the slow change toward cooling that is likely upon us. But unless the governments of the world turn off the spigots that have fed tens of billions of dollars annually to support only research on man-caused warming, and begin to fund serious science intent on determining what the real global temperature trends are, it will be a decade or more before the truth is told.

The suggestion that the Earth may actually be cooling, not warming, is based not on science-fiction computer projections but, instead, on centuries of real data of how our planetary system actually works. It is time to turn away from supposing and direct our attention to reality.

Twitter / jeffnesbit: NYTimes kills another beloved ...

NYTimes kills another beloved blog: Scientists at Work. Have the editors given up on science and enviro coverage? http://nyti.ms/ZyXRfw