Elite green billionaire funders are mobilising their forces to promote the idea that climate ‘reparations’ must be paid by the countries that were first to industrialise. Ahead of today’s opening of the latest COP in the United Arab Emirates, the Guardian claimed new analysis had revealed that the U.K. was responsible for almost twice as much “global heating” as previously thought when its colonial history was taken into account. This “first of its kind” analysis by Carbon Brief claims to offer “thought-provoking fresh perspectives on climate justice”.
The reparations shake-down is a collectivist invention that flies in the face of the astonishing benefits that continue to flow to humanity from industrialisation. Harnessing fuel from natural hydrocarbons has gradually released millions, and then billions, of people from a lifetime of back-breaking manual labour. The improvements in the standards of living and overall quality of life would have been unimaginable to previous generations. On an unprecedented scale, humans freed from a life of toil have widened scientific and intellectual life leading to major advances in medicine, clean water, human comfort and longer life spans. As humans conditions started to ease, it often led to a dramatic flowering of intellectual enlightenment and wider democratic freedoms.
Many would argue that, far from coughing up reparations, the countries that led the way in this leap of human progress should be thanked for their pioneering work in improving the human lot on Earth. Seen in this light, the extremist Net Zero and ‘Just Stop Oil’ movements are a decadent return to primitivism, and little more than uneducated fantasies about nature and the human condition.
The science backing the idea of climate reparations is the usual modelled nonsense-on-stilts. As with most green and collectivist Net Zero projects, there is no widespread democratic support behind the idea of giving away billions of pounds for ‘climate justice’, even if such a concept could be defined. As always, in seeking to understand such campaigns, we first look at the money backing the unworkable idea. The Guardian is supported by billionaire cash, most notably $20 million provided by the Gates Foundation. Carbon Brief exists mainly due to the funding it receives from the European Climate Foundation, an umbrella green activist group that is backed by wealthy ‘philanthropists’ such as Bloomberg, Hewlett and Extinction Rebellion-funder Sir Christopher Hohn.
In the cosy cabal of climate catastrophism, the same names and links occur with circular regularity. Covering Climate Now (CC Now) is backed by the Guardian, funded by green foundation money and feeds ready-to-publish climate disaster material to over 500 media outlets. This year, Damian Carrington was awarded a CC Now ‘Journalist of the Year’ award for an “extraordinary” body of work. The “planet is on fire” said Kyle Pope, chair of the CC Now judging panel, and this year’s winners exemplified the best in public-spirited journalism. Quelle surprise, Damian Carrington is also the Environment Editor of the Guardian and wrote the latest climate reparations story.
The Guardian and Carbon Brief story relies heavily on a recent paper written by a number of academics working out of known green activist units in the University of East Anglia and the Potsdam Institute. It attempts to measure the impossible, namely the global ‘heating’ caused by past colonial activities from countries such as Britain, France and the Netherlands. It is riddled with ‘estimates’, then computations based on estimates, all run up on the ubiquitous climate models. It assumes that human-caused carbon dioxide drives the climate thermostat, causing 1.1°C of warming since the Little Ice Age eased a couple of hundred years ago. It attributes ‘heating’ to any industrialisation that occurred in colonial times, even if, as in the case of the nationwide railway system built in India, the benefit has long accrued to the former colony.
Writing in the Guardian, Dr. Simon Evans of Carbon Brief notes that former colonial countries are tied to a responsibility to “support the climate response in less developed countries”. This argument might have wider appeal if it could be shown that a changing climate had led to more extreme weather events. In fact there is no evidence of this, with little change reported in the incidence and severity of many natural disasters. In fact during the last 100 years, humans have used the wealth created by exploiting hydrocarbons to protect themselves against natural disasters and death rates have plunged by over 90%. Western advocates for reparations often cite the example of Tuvalu, a group of Pacific island said to be about to disappear beneath rising sea levels – a story somewhat spoilt by research that revealed recent land growth in these particular locations.
At the heart of the climate reparations grift is the “loss and damage” fund agreed at last year’s COP meeting. Why was this agreed? Science writer Roger Pielke Jnr. notes that one reason rich countries were happy to sign the framework is because “arguments over loss and damage can go on for years, for decades, before any money changes hands”. He notes the role played by “contested science”, a matter not helped by the different interpretations of climate change held within different bodies of the United Nations. “So, the narrow definition of climate change, which has bureaucratic and political reasons, makes loss and damage compensation subject to contested science, and in the real world it places it out of reach”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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This is just socialism. Our ancestors when running out of fuel (wood) due to the glass trade deforestation of Europe had the ingenuity to realise they could dig and burn coal, as part of this they perfected the Newcomen steam engine thus creating the modern world and all the comforts we now enjoy. For this apparently we must be punished.
I love that these billionaires are spending the ordinary people’s money don’ t you? Perhaps they might consider that their wealth was created as a result of industrialisation and that they have caused and continue to cause more suffering in the world as a result of their wanting to play God. Then they should do the right thing and donate all of their wealth save around 150k a year, which is more than most people earn and join the ranks of the ordicary mortals that they so despise.
Their existence, not just their wealth, almost certainly arose from industrialisation.
I now see why the guillotine was invented.
Yes. It was invented because there was no other method of execution at one a minute, even the musket. A good operator could get this rate up to one every 30 seconds. The 400,000 in Dubai should be cleared before the end of COP28 with about 50 Guillotines. Good idea!
Then there is the Monty Python method for tennants: They are carried along the corridor past murals depicting mediterranean scenes toward the rotating knives. The lumps of mangled flesh fall into troughs…..
Now that would suit a Hotel! Just an idea you understand.
If property owning classes are destroyed and if enslavement becomes the norm then human innovation will grind to a halt. When that happens the Davos Deviants will be in for a shock.
“Reparations” = Wealth Redistribution masquerading as something to do with climate. It is and never has been about the climate. The climate is simply the very plausible excuse emanating from the UN and being adopted by all western politicians who these days all seem to be Liberal Progressives with Conservatism a thing that died out with the death of Thatcher, who incidentally Liberals quote as having understood the “climate crisis” because she was a trained scientist. ——-Yes she was a chemist, but the truth is, as she pointed out in her book “Statecraft” was that she realised that global warming was a very good vehicle for Supra-National Socialism, and boy wasn’t she spot on with that observation? ——–So here we are once again with another climate junket full of rent seeking parasites taking advantage of the gift that keeps on giving. —“Climate Change”. The biggest pseudo scientific fraud ever.
Personally I’d put vaccines and mRNA gene altering products (aka voodoo mediine) as being the biggest scientific fraud ever, but it’s a close call
The climate scam for me wins by a short head.
Maybe, but the Climate Change fraud affects every single person on earth. It removes affordable reliable energy, and well being and prosperity is directly tied to the cost and availability of energy. I don’t think poor people living on a dollar a day burning dung to keep warm are too worried about their “long covid” as they probably never heard of covid or had the vaccine. But denying them the use of fossil fuels, which the climate fraud does do, keeps them in a perpetual state of misery and stoneage existence.
“denying (them) the use of fossil fuels, which the climate fraud does do, keeps them in a perpetual state of misery and stoneage existence.”
Actually, that is the future planned for us all, not just the Third World.
And also the poorer the West is, the poorer the third world is. We saw that during Lockdowns.
And it is proven. Charities are sending out requests for money like never before because inflation has taken away all the spere money so no donations. How they change that situation as the requests cannot be afforded, is a puzzle still to be answered. This Billionaire fund might be the answer, although it only contins a few bob!
The climate scam will be the greatest fraud ever pulled on mankind if it is not stopped because the effects will run through ALL future generations. Yes there will be cross generational effects from the injections but these may well be overcome.
The climate scam involves the Theft of the Commons (ref Iain Davis) ie everything we own. Everything. It will alter completely life on this planet.
“The climate is simply the very plausible excuse emanating from the UN”
The climate nonsense was dreamt up by the Club of Rome in 1972.
By Maurice Strong and the other guy.
Correct.
The western world removed many countries from poverty because of its industrialisation and modernisation, maybe those countries should pay us for doing so!?
I was going to post similar Dinger. An eminent suggestion.
This is the first generation where poor people are only starving if it is the political will that they do. Everywhere you look poor people are fat, a concept that our forebears would have found inconceivable…
The reason for that is because they stopped teaching cooking (Domestic science) whilst I was at school in about 1970 ish. So no one has any idea now of how to or even turn on a stove, so they buy rubbish from the nearest kebab or whatever shop, probably McDuff or Kentucky fried gunge. Everyone is fat, well I and my wife are not but then we can cook, to a high standard. Guests keep coming back, so much of a problem!
That’s not really possible because most of this so-called countries can only exist due to constant ‘foreign aid’ payments made to their so-called governments.
Possibly, but my experience is that all these Forign Aid payments end up with politicians who have a fantastic standard of living on the proceeds (East Africa).
If they want reparations we should return them to the state they were in before we turned up and let them get on with it.
100%
“When I read the expression, “ramping up”, I slip the safety catch on my Browning,”
With apologies to Hanns Johst’s character Schlageter.
I choose an MP5, but the same sentiment!
I’ve got a few more ideas for this power-hungry bunch of money-driven climate psychopaths:
-Reparations payable for being too inventive (causing all that toxic industrialisation in the first place)
-Reparations payable for too many Nobel prizes and similar awards (especially the science/technology ones)
-Reparations payable for being too creative (opera, symphony and artistic endeavour counts, perhaps)
Reparations payable for being too efficient (streamlining production techniques, vehicle engines, microchips, fuel consumption, etc)
Reparations payable for being a tourist destination (all that toxic travel)
Reparations payable for planting too many trees/the wrong trees (oh yes, it’s a thing*)
Reparations payable for living at the ‘wrong’ latitude (requiring heat or A/C)
Reparations payable for thinking too much about ways to improve the lot of humanity
Reparations payable for being a ‘useless eater’ – although I think they’ve got that one covered already.
Any more?
(*See, for eg: https://www.gwct.org.uk/wildlife/research/upland-biodiversity/planting-trees-carbon-removal-from-the-atmosphere/ )
Speaking of the “Useless Eater” cabal….Henry Kissinger is dead. One of the original New World Order crowd.
If the 70,000 attendees of the CO2 emitting event to tell us all not to emit CO2 stayed home and ate Ze Bugs and installed heat pumps, smart meters, wore two extra jumpers and stuffed foam into their attics I would still not agree with them, but at least I would admit they had some principles and were prepared to practice what they preach. But Bill Gates will simply fly by private jet back to his massive mansion and the King back to one of his palaces. ——–No principles, but then what eco socialist scam does have any of those?
Yes but they can offset their carbon!
Oh, how is that done? More green stuff produces more methane from bacteria as it decays (and every green thing does that at some point). Where does the carbon content compost to? CH4 thats where! Heavy duty greenhouse gas!
Gosh, so it’s all about money …. and transferring it from poor taxpayers in the UK/the West to corrupt Governments in the 2nd and 3rd world ….. and in the process enriching politicians who have jumped on the climate change bandwagon.
Who’d a thunk it?
Actually locusts and bluebottles washed down with a pint of steam can be quite appetising. But only if you are the worst kind of self flagellating brainwashed dreamer.
The Globalists are the bluebottles feeding off the corpse of the West!
The University of East Anglia again.
More like the Chancellor of the University of North Tyneside
I suggest the following ‘reparation’: We send all these climate experts to this countries and ensure that they never come back. With the cream of science thus at their exclusive disposal, they’ll progress so rapidly that all foreign aid payments can be halted soon.
Special bonus plan for Tuvalu: For each climate scientist you manage to let sink below the waves by raising your sea level, you’ll get two new ones.
Brilliant idea! But why only two? If one had enough one could build a barage out of them to prevent any possible flooding. Coral would probably grow on such a lot of nutrient, and the island safe forever!
The Best Thing about COP28 is that you can LIST all the Media & Climate Gangsters aiding & abetting to Totalitarianism all in one place & you know exactly who they are.
I think we should send a nuke as a present. It might not be that stable though…
Make ‘climate reparations’ voluntary.
If you want to pay it then go ahead but do not force others to pay it.
“ Dear green billionaires, you donate from your bank account if you wish, otherwise I invoke the Musk response with utmost vigour”
Ps as a tax paying victim of money extorted to these countries I demand repayment of every penny in foreign aid to the same with interest.
It will be good when all the patent payments come in from the Industrial Revolution. All that technology and used everywhere in the World.
/ sarc.