climate money: wastes, distortions and corrupted science

Bienvenido “Nonoy” Oplas Jr.

Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc.

Climate Money: Wastes, Distortions

and Scientific Dishonesty Behind It

Occasional lectures in the Philippines

Paper #2 presented at Dr. Alvin Ang’s

graduate class on Public Finance

Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

28 January 2015

I. Climate Money, Trillions of $$$

“$90 trillion

over 15 years”

or $6 trillion a

year. Wow.

“$150 B/year by

2025-2030, and

$250-500 B/year by

2050”

Scaring and terrifying people is one

trick to fool them to accept large

scale rackets.

Ex., Dec. 2007, this scary story was

reported by BBC, that there should

have been zero ice in Arctic 2 years

ago.

LANDSCAPE OF CLIMATE FINANCE 2014 (TOTAL $331 BILLION)

Asian Development Bank (ADB),

African Development Bank (AfDB),

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

World Bank (IBRD/WB)

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),

Climate Investment Funds (CIF),

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

UN Development Programme (UNDP), http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/october-2014-climate-finance-update/

Handlers of huge climate money

Source: http://www.climatefinancelandscape.org/#introduction

More climate money needed, trillions of $$$

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf

US

government

spending on

climate

issues

Ave. of $7.9

billion/year

from 1989-

2009.

II. Climate Dishonesty, Check the Facts

Source: Craig Idso, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods vs. the Current Warm

Period, icecap.us, 19 January 2015

RWP – Roman Warm Period; MCA – Medieval Climate Anomaly;

CWP - Current Warm Period:

Source: WUWT, Euan Mearns,, Vostok and the 8000 year time lag Dec. 27, 2014

Source: WUWT, 2014: Among the 3 percent Coldest Years in 10,000 year,

21 January 2015

Northern Hemisphere temperature for the period variously called the

Climatic Optimum, the Hypsithermal, and the Holocene Optimum.

source: Hockey Schtick, New paper suggests "removing the Holocene Epoch from

the geologic timescale", September 15, 2014.

Temps. last interglacial period ~120,000 years ago [and several other

interglacials] were higher than during the present interglacial period.

Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s

Happened Before”, July 19th 2013.

Source: Ira Glickstein, Putting Human-Caused Warming in Proper Perspective,

April 7, 2014.

Yearly PDO values; light gray is yearly values, dark line is 4-yr trailing averages

Latest satellite global temp data, as of Dec.2014 (from Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Dr. Roy Spencer)

1. 1998 0.42

2. 2010 0.40

3. 2014 0.27

4. 2005 0.26

5. 2013 0.24

6. 2002 0.22

7. 2009 0.21

8. 2007 0.20

9. 2003 0.19

10. 2006 0.19

11. 2012 0.17

12. 2011 0.13

13. 2004 0.11

14. 2001 0.11

15. 1991 0.02

16. 1987 0.01

17. 1995 0.01

18. 1988 0.01

19. 1980 -0.01

20. 2008 -0.01

21. 1990 -0.02

22. 1981 -0.05

23. 1997 -0.05

24. 1999 -0.06

25. 1983 -0.06

26. 2000 -0.06

27. 1996 -0.08

28. 1994 -0.11

29. 1979 -0.17

30. 1989 -0.21

31. 1986 -0.24

32. 1993 -0.25

33. 1982 -0.25

34. 1992 -0.29

36. 1985 -0.31

37. 1984 -0.35

2014 the “warmest year on record”?

source: WUWT, Super-Heated Air from

Climate Science on NOAA’s “Hottest” Year,

23 January 2015

From UAH satellite

troposphere temp data, 2014

was 3rd warmest over the past

37 years. But differ. with 2005,

etc. almost negligible.

Source: Christopher Moncton, WUWT, The Great Pause lengthens again,

03 January 2015

Least-squares linear-regression trend on RSS satellite monthly global mean

surface temperature anomaly dataset, no global warming since October 1996.

Source: Dr. Roy Spencer, http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-

climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/

IPCC Projections/Forecast vs Actual

Source: http://friendsofscience.org/

Disconnect or Non-causality between global temp and CO2 concentration

And CO2 is not

an evil or

pollutant gas. It is

a useful gas.

The gas that we

humans and

animals exhale,

the gas that our

plants & crops

use in

photosynthesis.

No CO2, no

current life is

possible.

1. Climate change (CC) is true. It happened in the past, happening now,

will happen in the future. Global warming (GW) is true, happened in the

past (RWP, MWP, last century warming) and will happen again in the

future. Global cooling also true, happened in the past, happening now.

2. CC is natural (nature-made, not “man-made”), it is cyclical (warming-

cooling-warming-cooling), and has precedents (not “unprecedented”). Like

wet-dry season cycle, winter-spring-summer-fall cycle, evaporation-

condensation hydrologic cycle,

3. Skeptics do not deny CC or GW because these are true. What they

deny is that CC and GW is “man-made” or anthropogenic. CC is caused by

nature (the Sun, galactic cosmic rays, water vapor, volcanoes, ocean

oscillation, carbon cycle, hydrologic cycle,…).

4. Long-term temperature-CO2 relationship, some studies say temperature

leads CO2, other studies say it’s the reverse. Common denominator, there

are precedents of warm-cool period, lasting for decades and centuries.

III. Concluding Notes

5. Demonization, heavy regulation and

taxation of CO2 as a pollutant gas is wrong.

There is little or zero climate basis for

demonizing fossil fuel and renewables

cronyism.

6. Wastes and distortions in pursuit of climate

money are huge, science is heavily corrupted.

The UN, Al Gore, foreign aid, Greenpeace,

WWF, Oxfam, etc. continue this large scale

global corruption.

7. The UN and governments

should get out politicizing

science, expanding climate

bureaucracies, and

intervening in energy

rationing and cronyism.