US hypocrisy over climate change is nauseating. Our government bleats sanctimoniously about stopping global warming then kills calls for funding poor nations in the IPPC report. Poor nations are the biggest victims of climate change yet the least responsible. The World Bank estimates helping poor nations deal with global warming will require $100 billion a year. The IPPC report mention this in all versions except the final version.
The need for $100 billion in crisis funds to aid poor nations was removed from the 48-page Summary, the only document that will be read outside the scientific community.
The U.S. led the push to remove the statement.
Thus, we have gasbags like Secretary of State John Kerry babbling about how we must stop climate change while he and his ultra-wealthy ilk work secretly to make sure it never happens. As Secretary of State it is inconceivable Kerry wasn’t responsible for removing the IPPC statement.
Your three take-aways from this material should be:
1. There will never be international cooperation, because the rich will never pay a dime to offset anyone’s cost to deal with this crisis.
2. Any nation can embark on a Zero Carbon energy economy the minute it wants to.
3. The rich will have to be moved aside to solve the climate crisis. And by that I mean forcefully.