[Global warming hoax promoter] to speak at EKU

RICHMOND — Graciela Chichilnisky, recognized by Time Magazine in 2009 as one of the “Heroes of the Environment,” will speak at Eastern Kentucky University Thursday, March 31.

Her presentation titled “Avoiding Extinction” will begin at 7:30 p.m...

A world-renowned economist and mathematician, Chichilnisky, is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. She created the concept of “Basic Needs,” voted by 153 nations at the 1993 United Nations Earth Summit and in 1996 she created the formal theory of sustainable development that is used worldwide.

Called an “A-List Star” by the Washington Post, Chichilnisky acted as a U.S. lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A special adviser to several U.N. organizations, heads of state and U.S. Congress, her work uses market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services.