Posted on 01/17/2016 7:20:30 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
Farewell to the man who invented 'climate change’ To this day, global climate policy is still shaped by the agenda of Maurice Strong, a Canadian multimillionaire
During the Second World War, having emerged from humble origins in the Great Depression, Strong became convinced that the new United Nations should become a world government, dedicated to ensuring that the wealth enjoyed by the richer countries of the West should be spread out around the world’s underprivileged majority.
In 2005, Strong was caught having been illicitly paid $1 million from the UN’s Oil for Food programme, supposedly set up to allow Saddam Hussein to pay in oil to feed starving Iraqis. He retired to a flat in Beijing, where he had been close to China’s Communist leaders back to Mao. It was from there that he returned home to Canada to die,on November 27.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Gotta start channeling ol’ Thomas Berry right away!
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And, burning in Hell!
Its settled science, he’s dead.
In 2005, Strong was caught having been illicitly paid $1 million from the UN's Oil for Food programme, supposedly set up to allow Saddam Hussein to pay in oil to feed starving Iraqis. He retired to a flat in Beijing, where he had been close to China's Communist leaders back to Mao...
...the wonderful irony is that the reason why Paris will fail, like Copenhagen before it, is that those "developing countries", led by China and India -- now the world's first and third largest "CO2 emitters" have not the slightest intention of curbing their emissions. It is for the West to do that, for creating "the problem" Thus, just as he died, Strong's dream is more than ever falling apart -- thanks to those very countries his socialist vision was intended to help.
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