Claim: Paris Terrorist Atrocity was a Big Oil Plot

WUWT ^ | 11/17/15 | Eric Worrall

[smartyaz]

The Ecologist speculates that the aim of the ISIS terrorists, who have claimed responsibility for the recent Paris terrorist atrocity, might have been aimed at protecting ISIS’ oil business from an anticipated new climate agreement.

According to The Ecologist;

Is it a coincidence that the terrorist outrage in Paris was committed weeks before COP21, the biggest climate conference since 2009? Perhaps, writes Oliver Tickell. But failure to reach a strong climate agreement now looks more probable. And that’s an outcome that would suit ISIS – which makes $500m a year from oil sales – together with other oil producers.

But we must also ask: Why Paris? And why now?

Yes, France has been especially active in its air strikes against ISIS in Syria. And yes, there there is a huge reservoir of discontent among the socially excluded youth of the banlieue, the concrete jungle of impoverished outer suburbs that surround Paris and other big cities – where ISIS can perhaps find willing recruits to its ranks.

But is that all? In just a few weeks time, the COP21 climate conference will take place, in Paris, the biggest such event since COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago. The event offers the world a desperately needed opportunity to reduce its carbon emissions and limit global warming to 2C.

And that’s surely something the attackers, or at least their (presumably) ISIS commanders, must know all about.

[smartyaz]

This line of reasoning is deeply flawed. ISIS are not a legitimate supplier of oil, they are oil smugglers. If a future climate agreement were to place a prohibition on oil, or slap on a massive global carbon tax, the black market price of oil would skyrocket – groups like ISIS would make a fortune, helping oil consumers avoid carbon taxes which legitimate providers would have to pay. It seems much more likely that ISIS didn’t know or didn’t care about the COP 21 climate conference, or who knows – perhaps the recent atrocity was just a prelude, a distraction from a much bigger planned attack on world leaders, when they gather in Paris.

[bert]

and, they apparently sell crude by the truck load rather than the train load or pipeline stream

The climate conference is a joke attended by those paid to go and nothing else really to do but pretend to be relevant

[KGeorge]

sigh. The Ecologist. LOOK! A squirrel!

[A_perfect_lady]

That’s okay. If the liberals think ISIS is Big Oil, maybe they will finally be on our side.

[smartyaz]

[Chode]

100%!!!

[wetgundog]

This is fantasy.

F MMGW

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

The look on GWs face says awww BULLSHIT to me.I.ve seen that look before from my father many,many years ago.

[fella]

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Feather your nest with it.

[jocon307]

“This line of reasoning is deeply flawed.”

Understatement of the day.

[Buckeye McFrog]

...because BIG OIL is the driving force behind everything BAD in the universe...

[KGeorge]

wow But I almost have to laugh. He’s going to restore ‘science & the scientific method’ to a bunch of 7th century barbarians? Boy, I’d like to see him get the expected response out of this. lol And then, they stuff his fat head right down his neck (though, knowing muzzies, it would be going in the other end).
This guy’s too stupid to live.

[BO Stinkss]

Moon Bat Alert!