CLIMATE ALARMISM IS HURTING THE WORLD'S POOR: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS BJORN LOMBORG BY 8 YEARS

BJORN LOMBORG TODAY:

Britain’s environmentalists proudly announce that households have reduced their electricity consumption by almost 10 per cent since 2005.They seldom mention that this is helped by a 50 per cent increase in electricity prices, in part to pay for Britain increasing its share of renewables from 1.8 per cent to 4.6 per cent. Such a price increase of course hits the poorest hardest. As with many green taxes, it does so because it taxes a basic necessity that makes up a larger proportion of a small budget. Not surprisingly, higher energy prices mean the poor are forced to reduce their electricity consumption far more than the richest, who haven’t reduced their electricity consumption at all. 

Over the past five years, heating a home in the UK has become 63 per cent more expensive, while real wages have declined. Unsurprisingly, a greater number of poor households must spend more than 10 per cent of their income on energy, becoming what is known as energy poor. This category now covers some 17 per cent of all British households. 

Worse, because the elderly are typically poorer, energy poverty affects about a quarter of all households whose inhabitants are over 60. 

Deprived pensioners are spending their days riding heated buses to keep warm, while a third are leaving part of their homes cold. 

... Wealthy homeowners in Bavaria might feel good about installing inefficient solar panels on their roofs, but their lavish subsidies are essentially financed by poor tenants in the Ruhr paying higher electricity costs. 

Climate policies take an even larger toll on people in the developing world. Almost three billion people rely on burning twigs and dung to cook and keep warm. This causes indoor air pollution, at the cost of 4.3 million lives a year, and creates the world’s biggest environmental problem. Access to cheap and plentiful electricity is one of the most effective ways out of poverty — curtailing indoor air pollution and allowing refrigeration to keep food from spoiling (and people from starving). Cheap electricity charges computers that connect the poor to the world. It powers agriculture and businesses that provide jobs and economic growth. 

... In 1971, China derived 40 per cent of its energy from renewables. 

Since then, it has powered its incredible growth almost exclusively on heavily polluting coal, lifting a historic 680 million people out of poverty. Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar. 

Yet most Westerners still want to focus on putting up more inefficient solar panels in the developing world. But this infatuation inflicts a real cost. A recent analysis from the Centre for Global Development shows that $10 billion invested in such renewables would help lift 20 million people in Africa out of poverty. It sounds impressive, until you learn that if this sum was spent on gas electrification it would lift 90 million people out of poverty. So in choosing to spend that $10 billion on renewables, we deliberately end up choosing to leave more than 70 million people in darkness and poverty. 

In the West, we take our supply of electricity for granted. After a century, we’ve forgotten that plentiful, affordable and dependable energy is the lifeblood of modern civilisation and prosperity. 

Discussions about saving the world seldom acknowledge the 1.3 billion people living without any electricity whatsoever. Their problems seem otherworldly to us — and we neglect the fact that the same sort of access to cheap electricity would substantially improve their lives. 

When it comes to helping the world’s poor, a topic like climate change seems to interest the West far more than such mundane matters as helping them power their houses.

TAB IN 2006:

 "man-made global-warming' - is merely a theoretical danger, one I am skeptical of because it is a FACT that the globe has had many MANY eras of warming and cooling, ALL before SUV's or man-made "greenhouse gases." 

And then there's this FACT: As CO2 levels increased from 1940-1970, global temperatures DECLINED; this is DISPOSITIVE PROOF; increases in atmospheric CO2 cannot cause global warming. In fact, many areas where we see OBVIOUS warming are places where the local conditions are the cause - like Kilimanjaro and the Arctic. 

People who are more worried about "man-made global warming:" are either DUPES or INSANE; most're victims of a deliberately provoked mass-hysteria perpetrated by politicians who literally and absolutely (and self-admittedly) want to enact laws which give government more control over the marketplace, if not the global economy, and who want to stultify the growth of trade and industrialization - the two economic engines which can actually best END worldwide poverty.

TAB IN OCTOBER 2009: 

WUWT: Thus, empirical data do not support the underlying premise that industrialization of today’s developed countries has caused net harm to developing countries. In fact, a major harm to developing countries seems to have resulted, in part from climate change policies instituted in industrialized countries. 

• WHAT THE THIRD WORLD NEEDS IS INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FREE MARKETS AND FREE TRADE - NOT HANDOUTS OR CARBON SWAPS.
• THE PEOPLE WHO RETARD THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE THIRD WORLD ARE THE LEADING CAUSE OF THIRD WORLD POVERTY AND MALNUTRITION AND SHORTER LIVE SPANS.
• WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? ARE THEY BIG CORPORATIONS? GREEDY CAPITALISTS? UNSCRUPULOUS CONSERVATIVES?
• NO, THEY'RE LIBERALS. LIBERALS WHO ADVOCATE THINGS LIKE PROTECTIONISM, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE GREEN ECONOMY.
• IN OTHER WORDS:
• TO MAKE THIRD WORLD POVERTY HISTORY WE NEED TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

TAB IN NOVEMBER 2009:

• Africa doesn't need us to build wind mill farms or solar arrays.
• Africa needs coal burning power plants and factories and sweat shops.
• What prevents this? Who prevents this?
• The Left - the Reds and the Greens.
• If you want to eliminate Third World Poverty you cannot do it with transfers of wealth or "impact-less/sustainable" development.
• Africans need to do there what the Chinese did in China.
• WHAT STOPS THEM?
• The Left - the Greens and the Reds.
• To make poverty history we need to make Leftism history - we need to demolish the Reds and the Greens.

TAB IN JUNE 2010:

PROOF: The leading cause of human suffering in the Third World is the Left

PROOF HERE.

THE THIRD WORLD NEEDS INDUSTRIALIZATION, FREE MARKETS AND FREE TRADE - NOT HANDOUTS OR CARBON SWAPS.

PEOPLE WHO PROMOTE HANDOUTS, A "SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY" AND CARBON SWAPS AND WHO OPPOSE GOOD OL' INDUSTRIALIZATION ARE ACTUALLY THE LEADING CAUSE OF THIRD WORLD POVERTY, MALNUTRITION AND SHORTER LIVE SPANS.

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

ARE THEY BIG CORPORATIONS?

GREEDY CAPITALISTS?

UNSCRUPULOUS CONSERVATIVES?

NO, THEY'RE LIBERALS.

LIBERALS WHO ADVOCATE THINGS LIKE PROTECTIONISM, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE GREEN ECONOMY.

IN OTHER WORDS:

TO MAKE THIRD WORLD POVERTY HISTORY WE NEED TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

TAB IN FEBRUARY 2011:

According to the latest edition of Food Price Watch, the World Bank's food price index was up by 15% between October 2010 and January 2011, is 29% above its level a year earlier, and only 3% below its 2008 peak. 

Wheat prices have seen the most pronounced increases, doubling between June last year and January 2011, while maize prices were up 73%.

• THIS IS MOSTLY THE RESULT OF THE LEFT'S "GREEN ECONOMY" PROGRAMS: THEY RAISE THE PRICE OF ENERGY AND FERTILIZER AND TRANSPORTATION.
• IF WE WANT TO REDUCE POVERTY, THEN WE HAVE TO PUT THE KIBOSH ON ALL THE LEFT-WING POLICIES.

TAB IN JULY 2011:

The potential is huge, on the order of hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable reserves,” said Michael C. Lynch, president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, a consulting firm, who is preparing a report on global shale oil.  

Similar fields in North Dakota and Texas are already beginning to gush oil. The techniques used to extract it include hydraulic fracturing, in which high-pressure fluids are used to break up shale rock to release the oil, and horizontal drilling, which allows drillers to tap thin layers of oil-filled shale that are sandwiched between layers of other rock. 

• PEAK OIL IS PART OF THE "GREEN ECONOMY" SCAM.
• DON'T BE DUPED BY CO2PHOBIA AND THE CALL FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLES AND THEIR DEMAND FOR CARBON TAXES. 
• CO2 IS HARMLESS AT WORST, AND PROBABLY BENEFICIAL.
• SO-CALLED FOSSIL FUELS - INCLUDING COAL - WHICH CAN BE BURNED CLEANLY AND ONLY EMIT SOME CO2 ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY AND GOOD FOR PLANT LIFE AND AGRICULTURE. 
• LEFT-WING GOVERNMENT SCHEMES TO LIMIT THEIR USE HURTS THE POOR AND THE THIRD WORLD THE MOST. 
• THAT'S WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY WE NEED TO MAKE THE LEFT HISTORY.

TAB IN SEPTEMBER 2011:

• N FACT, CO2PHOBIA HAS HURT THE THIRD WORLD AND INCREASED POVERTY BY SLOWING GLOBAL INDUSTRIALIZATION.
• THE QUICKEST AND SUREST WAY TO END THE GLOBAL RECESSION IS TO REPEAL ALL CO2PHOBIA LAWS AND FULLY EXPLOIT OUR NATURAL ENERGY RESOURCES.
• THIS WILL BRING DOWN THE COST OF ENERGY AND LOWER FOOD PRICES AND THE PRICES OF GOODS GLOBALLY.
• THE LONGER WE WAIT, THE DEEPER WILL BE THEE RECESSION.
• BOTTOM-LINE:
• IF WE REALLY WANT TO END POVERTY, THEN WE HAVE TO END CO2PHOBIA.

TAB IN MAY 2012:

SATURDAY, MAY 05, 2012ONLY THREE THINGS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PERSISTENT GLOBAL POVERTY
THE THREE THINGS ARE:

• SOCIALISM
• ISLAMISM
• CLIMATE ALARMISM

1. SOCIALISM PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM FREELY PRODUCING AND CONSUMING WHAT THEY WANT, PUNISHES THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE WHILE REWARDING SLOTH, AND PREDETERMINES OUTCOMES BY MAKING EVERYONE POORER. 

NO NATION HAS GOTTEN MORE PROSPEROUS BY REDISTRIBUTING ITS GDP OR CENTRALLY CONTROLLING GDP; THEY HAVE ALL GOTTEN POORER. EVERY SOCIALIST NATION THAT HAS TRANSITIONED TO FREER MARKETS HAS GOTTEN MORE PROSPEROUS. 

2. ISLAMISM IS A TOTALITARIAN PROGRAM WHICH SEEKS TO CENTRALLY CONTROL ALL BEHAVIOR AND LIMIT ALL INTELLECTUAL ENDEAVOR TO THOSE ACCEPTABLE TO SHARIA. AS A RESULT, NO ISLAMIC NATION HAS EVER INNOVATED ANYTHING; EVERY INNOVATION CREDITED BY DHIMMIS TO ISLAMIC CULTURE WERE IN FACT INNOVATIONS CREATED BY NON-MUSLIMS UNDER THEIR TYRANNICAL CONTROL. 

AS PEOPLE BECOME LESS FREE TO PRODUCE AND CONSUME WHAT THEY WANT, THEY PRODUCE AND CONSUME LESS, AND BECOME POORER AND LESS ABLE TO PRODUCE OR CONSUME ANYTHING. AFTER ALL, PROSPERITY IS A BY PRODUCT OF LIBERTY.

WITHOUT OIL - AND PERHAPS TOURISM, NO ISLAMIC NATION WOULD HAVE ANY GDP WORTH MENTIONING. 

NEARLY 3/4 OF A BILLION MUSLIMS LIVE UNDER GOVERNMENTS AND IN CULTURES WHICH ARE OVERTLY CONTROLLED BY ISLAM - AND AN EQUAL AMOUNT IS UNDER THREAT OF GLOBAL JIHAD.
UNTIL THEY NO LONGER LIVE UNDER OR ARE THREATENED BY THIS ANTI-LIBERTARIAN IDEOLOGY THEY WILL REMAIN IN ECONOMIC DISTRESS. 

3. CLIMATE ALARMISM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INFLATING THE COST OF ALL ENERGY AND RETARDING THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRIALIZATION TO THE THIRD WORLD. 

EXPENSIVE ENERGY INFLATES THE COST OF EVERYTHING ELSE, AND THAT HURTS POOR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE AND IMPOVERISHED THIRD WORLD PEOPLE THE MOST. 

CLIMATE ALARMISM - OR CO2PHOBIA - IS BASED ON THE FALSE IDEA THAT MAN-MADE CO2 IS CAUSING ALARMING GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE. 

THREE INDISPUTABLE FACTS PROVE THAT AGW AKA "MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE" IS A FALSE IDEA:
(A) THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THE CLIMATE CHANGE THAT HAS OCCURRED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT IS OUTSIDE THE PROVEN CLIMATE CHANGE THAT OCCURRED DURING THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL ERA OF OUR  HISTORICAL AGE OR THE PREHISTORICAL/GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
(B) CO2 HAS STEADILY INCREASED THE LAST 12 YEARS BUT GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVEN'T AND NEITHER HAS THE FREQUENCY OR INTENSITY OF STORMS OF ANY TYPE - TORNADOES, HURRICANES, TYPHOONS, OR BLIZZARDS.
(C) ALL DRAMATIC APPEARING CHANGES - FROM KILIMANJARO, TO THE HIMALAYAS, GREENLAND, THE ARCTIC AND THE ANTARCTIC - CAN BE MORE EASILY EXPLAINED BY APPEALING TO LOCAL INPUTS AND NOT GLOBAL ONES. 

THE CARBON-CONTROL SCHEMES DEVELOPED BY THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAVE NOT REDUCED MAN-MADE CO2 - NOT EVEN ONE-PART-PER-MILLION, BUT THEY HAVE IMPOVERISHED WORKING CLASS PEOPLE, SLOWED GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH AND RETARDED INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE THIRD WORLD WHILE ENRICHING MANY ALARMISTS AND THEIR CRONIES IN THE RULING CLASS. 

IMPOVERISHING PEOPLE AND DISTORTING MARKETS - WHILE BENEFITING ITS PROPONENTS - ARE THE ONLY THING THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAVE REALLY ACCOMPLISHED.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, THEN YOU SHOULD WORK TO MAKE SOCIALISM, ISLAMISM, AND CLIMATE ALARMISM HISTORY. 

UNTIL THESE THREE IDEOLOGIES ARE VANQUISHED POVERTY WILL PERSIST AND GROW.

TAB IN AUGUST 2012

The single most remediable economically repressive idea in the world today is CO2PHOBIA. 

Misogyny, islamism and leftism are as damaging, but they are more difficult to remediate. 

CO2phobia is the idea that too much man-made CO2 is toxic to the global ecology. 

This irrational fear has driven up the cost of ALL energy and expensive energy is a major factor in the current global recession - as it has been in all recent recessions...

Recessions closely follow bug run-ups and energy prices and these run-ups were usually caused by islamo-hegemony. 

Since the advent of KYOTO - as result of CO2phobia - the global economy has therefore been under attack of a double whammy.
That's why the global economy really  REALLY sucks. 

KYOTO AND 9/11, AND ITS AFTERMATH - (THE IRAQ WAR, THE IRANIAN NUKE PROGRAM, THE ARAB SPRING) - ARE WHAT'S DRIVEN ENERGY COSTS UP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH DOWN, DOWN, DOWN. 

And the irrational fear of CO2 is also preventing the Third World from becoming industrialized. Without industrialization the Third World will never have the economic engine they need to be able to create the prosperity they need to improve living standards and lifespans. 

... REPEAT: CO2phobia is the chief reason the world economy is in recession and the Third World is impoverished. 

If you want to make the recession and Third World poverty history, then you have to make CO2phobia history.

TAB IN MARCH 2013:

... THE CO2PHOBIC ALARMIST CAMP SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED. 

BECAUSE THEIR POLICIES HAVE RAISED THE COST OF ENERGY GLOBALLY... 

... AND REDUCED THE AMOUNT OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT GLOBALLY, 

THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMPLEX - 

COMPRISED OF LEFT-WING ACADEMICS, REGULATION-LOVING BUREAUCRATS AND LIBERAL POLITICIANS WHO FAVOR SOCIALISTIC POLICIES - 

IS THE SECOND GREATEST THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION - RIGHT AFTER GLOBAL JIHAD. 

THOUGH THEY PROBABLY THINK OF THEMSELVES AS DO-GOODERS 

AND THOUGH THEY PROBABLY SEE THEIR DELIBERATE LIES AS ULTIMATELY FORGIVABLE (BECAUSE THEY SERVE "THE COMMON GOOD"), 

THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMPLEX IS ACTUALLY A REGRESSIVE FORCE: 

THE POLICES OF THE CO2PHOBIC CLIMATE CHANGE COMPLEX HAVE PREVENTED THE THIRD WORLD FROM DEVELOPING INDUSTRIALLY AND THIS IS KEEPING POOR PEOPLE POOR. 

IF WE WANT TO END GLOBAL POVERTY, THEN WE HAVE TO DEMOLISH THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMPLEX.

YOU CAN SEE THIS HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF MAJOR CONCERN AT TAB.

IT IS WONDERFUL THAT AN ECONOMIST OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN IS NOW ARGUING THE SAME BASIC AND IMPORTANT POINT.

ENDING CLIMATE ALARMISM IS IN THE INTEREST OF ALL HUMANITY - ESPECIALLY THE POOREST AMONG US.