The World Bank should stay out of global warming politics
Republicans unite! Rush Limbaugh, sound the alarm; Sean Hannity, et al, please get off the Benghazi, Libya, scandal. America's way of life is being threatened by global warming zealots who want to mindlessly raise American power bills.
The latest manifesto comes in today's Post, in an op-ed by Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank. I'm trying not to be a nut on the issue of global warming. I'm trying to acquiesce to the thoughtful science and commentary. I'm trying to be a relatively tame Republican on this topic, but the left makes it hard when they only use the issue as a way to impose their anti-growth religion, transfer wealth out of the United States and punitively subject us to a lifestyle that they find acceptable.
The headline on the online version of the column is “Make climate change a priority.” A priority for who? Why is the president of the World Bank even talking about this? And since he brought it up, doesn’t he have an obligation to be more fact-based than most? After all, he is supposed to be using U.S. taxpayer guaranteed money to make real investments that get a real return. Instead he says this: “The world’s top priority must be to get finance flowing and get prices right on all aspects of energy costs to support low-carbon growth.” He then expounds on this idea of "getting prices right," saying that we must have pricing that "accurately reflects real environmental costs." How do you calculate the "environmental costs"? What does that even mean? Another great phrase he uses is "correct energy pricing," which he believes "can also provide incentives for investments in energy efficiency and cleaner energy technologies." Well, again, correct prices for who, according to who? All this baloney is code for "President Obama, and “I want to raise your power bills.” This op-ed wasn’t written by an investment professional, it was written by a leftist with an ax to grind.
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by the international criminal cartel
called the un
its only purpose as usual
to grab the wealth of the usa
punish the american people
for existing
the un will always be
a monument to the stupidity of
roosevelt and truman
and their associate communist
advisors and aides
in spite of all the accolades
heaped on them over the years
mass murderer joe stalin was
demonstrably far smarter than
either even pretended to be
John Gummer, who will be well known to Brits, is a policy making Council Member for it. Yet he has not declared this as an interest in the House of Lords.
Neither did he when DECC made him Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.
There something very dodgy going on here.
Take a look at the WFC manifesto, and tell me how it cannot be a conflict of interest, or indeed be very damaging to the UK's interest.
notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/john-gummer-and-the-world-future-council/