‘Conflict of Interest’: Prince Charles lobbied on climate policy after shares purchase
Prince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting, BBC Panorama has found. The Paradise Papers show the Duchy of Cornwall in 2007 secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change. The prince was a friend […]
Trump’s Shows True Leadership –Going it alone! Syria plans to join Paris climate agreement, isolating U.S.
Syria move leaves U.S. only country opposed to 2015 agreement * Trump says he intends to promote coal and oil industries instead * Pact aims to curb rising temperatures from greenhouse gases emissions (Adds quotes, details) By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle BONN, Germany, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Syria said on Tuesday that it intends to […]
Paul McCartney: Trump’s Refusal to Recognize Climate Change Is ‘Madness’
By Ryan Reed Paul McCartney criticized President Trump‘s lax attitude toward climate change in a new interview with the BBC. “You’ve got someone like Trump who says that it [climate change] is just a hoax,” he said. “A lot of people like myself think that’s just madness.” Trump – who famously tweeted in 2012 that global warming was a concept […]
The UN’s Latest Climate Summit Will Rack Up A MASSIVE CO2 Footprint
By MICHAEL BASTASCH The thousands who flocked to Germany for the United Nations climate summit will end up, rather ironically, emitting thousands of tons of the very greenhouse gases attendees want to regulate. The U.N. admits the “lion’s share of greenhouse gas emissions” associated with their latest climate summit, and up to 25,000 people are expected […]
UN climate summit = Bonn COP massiveness
by David Wojick, Ph.D., How many climate alarmists does it take to write the rules of world domination? In the case of the upcoming Bonn meeting the answer is well over 20,000. I am not making this up. This meeting is the annual Conference of the Parties (the COP!) of the UN Framework Convention on […]
Enviros freak as Trump officials push coal at UN climate talks
By Chris White, 0 Comments Officials attending a UN climate change conference are livid that officials with the Trump administration are using the talk to hype up how fossil fuels can help reduce global warming. An adviser to President Donald Trump is expected to take part in a pro-coal presentation during the so-called COP23 conference in Bonn, […]
UN climate talks have a ‘toxic background’ of sexual harassment, says lawyer
by Michael Bastasch, 0 Comments United Nations climate talks have a “toxic” history of sexual harassment, according to a veteran environmental lawyer. Lawyer Farhana Yamin wrote an essay on her experience with sexual harassment at UN climate summits, arguing “the trivialization of women continues.” UN delegates kicked off a major climate summit in Bonn, Germany on […]
‘Trump effect’ terrifies UN delegates at Bonn climate summit
http://www.cfact.org/2017/11/06/trump-effect-in-bonn-climate-talks/ November 6, 2017 by David Wojick, Ph.D., An online news outlet that tracks UN climate conferences has a dynamite story titled “‘Don’t wake the bear’: fragile climate talks begin in Bonn.” The bear in this case is President Trump. The article is about something called the “Trump effect” which is scaring the heck out of the Bonn […]
In age of Trump, USA pulls back presence at UN climate summit
http://www.cfact.org/2017/11/07/u-s-disbands-climate-propaganda-effort-for-un-cop-23/ by Craig Rucker What’s missing at this year’s big UN climate conference? The American pavilion. When President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the UN’s Paris Climate Accord, he also cut back on the American presence in the UN process. Sure, the official State Department representatives are here, but the sideshow is tellingly absent. In past […]