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Bishop Hill
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Apr 3, 2012 Climate: other Fakegate Leo Hickman has found out via FOI what the Foreign Office has spent on climate-related projects.
It's pretty astonishing stuff.
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7. Project title:UK-Russia Climate Change Science collaboration Project Purpose: The aim of this project is to bring climate security up the Russian Government’s agenda by
improving:- understanding of climate change impacts (physical and economic) on Russia;- the link between sound climate security science and policy-making.8. Tactical Fund:Activities in support of the above projects (bringing additional speakers to the events, publications,additional seminars to support the sustainability of the projects).
Total Project spend 2010/11 = £553,795
Remind me again, where were some of CRU's favorite ancient trees located? This could go a long way to get the "right" data for the next AR5.
By the way: did the UK FO beat the Heartland institute this year in its climate policy change money flows?
I'm sure our Canadian friends will be pleased to learn that the FCO's remit includes installing regulatory frameworks in Canada.
bill:
I don't know the answer. But the moment you mention the French I think the Swiss and James Fazy. Why has nobody heard of that? Why despite Fazy's background with Buonarroti and other revolutionary icons in the line to Marx did this go so differently, rejecting theocracy, dictatorship and terror and leading to something close to the Anglo-American traditions of liberty, something that has truly lasted?
I wonder where out Pine Island glacier friend is right now.
Rick B
"Facilitating large-scale demonstration of Carbon Capture and Storage in Canada"
Funny they can do that while offering a prize to anyone who can show how it's done here. Or is Canada just being softened up as somewhere to keep it? I'm not sure even Canada is cold enough to store it all as a solid (-78C)...
- Why is Leo both for and against open data principles ?
Why use FOIA to get hidden data into the public domain and then hide the same data from easy public analysis by hiding it in a Scribd file ? (or has he negotiated a deal that some Scribd signup cash will go to his favourite activist groups ?)
- It seems you can use select/copy/paste page by page to get the data into a text file or spreadsheet.
"Have you ever considered that you are developing a bit of a fixation about this matter - whatever it is?"
Oh, that's just rich. Thanks for the morning irony LOLs.
"You haven't said if you disagree with this use of UK taxpayer money."
I don't disagree with it. I feel it's better and more appropriate use of public funds than bailing out bankers and socialising their losses.
Outed! It's all those greedy bankers. Not sure if you spotted this, JB, or whether it got through your very gauzy fact filter, but the banks that were bailed out were retail banks operating out of Edinburgh and Newcastle, and it wasn't the bankers that got bailed out, it was the institutions themselves in order to prevent them from causing meltdown throughout UK business. Nobody liked it, but it had to be done. If the FSA had not been asleep at the wheel it might have been prevented, which is another reason why government knew it had to act.
However their losses are a relatively small proportion of the public finance deficit over the last 5 years (both governments) and crap like this, and on a larger scale the PFI, is the dominant factor. However it is quite clear from your posts that you are in favour of waste, providing the right guys are wasting the money. Credit to Leo Hickman that in spite of generally sharing your viewpoint on climate, unlike you he can recognise profligacy when he sees it.
J Bowers:
May I suggest that you first come clean that you do in fact agree with this use of taxpayer money, before launching into the other areas.
I think 'bailing out bankers' is a fair term, given the profits since, leading to massive bonuses. We need a return to honest money. Professor Antal Fekete should be a hero of both the left and right for showing how it could be done, using both gold and the Real Bills Doctrine that worked so well 1815-1914. But that may be for another time :)
The document might be downloadable here:
www.scribd.com/mobile
I can't do it myself, from where I am at the moment, but if you search for the document on the scribd mobile page, it could well be downloadable as a pdf.
J Nowers, please do not disappoint us. Surely Climate Central have told you the recognised Party-line answers by now.
Canada should immediately remove charitable status from the Suzuki Foundation as it is in the pay of a foreign power, to perform political work on behalf of that foreign power.
The random scattergun pattern of green funding gives the game away.
Governments fund activists, activist organisations fund governments, we fund overseas activists, overseas activists fund us, energy companies fund activists to protest against them while advising them, governments fund universities for climate research, universities donate to activist organisations who in turn fund university researchers right back.
In the crazy scramble for a seat on the green gravy train the specific net flows & directions of funding are completely meaningless - all that matters is that the individuals concerned get a ticket to ride at your eventual expense.
I fear we've only seen the tip of the iceberg (no 'climate-related' pun intended)....