How Much Should Poor Countries Be Paid To Fight Climate Change? ($140 billion annually)

New York Times ^ | June 8, 2009 | James Kanter

[reaganaut1]

I don't think the U.S. giving 3rd world countries tens of billions of dollars more per year is going to fly.

[reaganaut1]

ping

[onedoug]

Empty your pockets.

[marron]

Legalized corruption, money laundering, and neo-colonialism in one neat and shiny package.

[SkyDancer]

Nothing - they’re too poor to add anything to perpetrate a hoax ....

[wastedyears]

How about... nothing!

Novel idea, isn’t it?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Here is the solution.

Instead of giving them billions in which they will cheat anyway, we should drill here, drill now, pay less and offer our products to China and India.

Then we tell the Saudis and Iranians that they should either clean up their oil wells or close them down.

That’s how this gets fixed.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Countries in poorer parts of the world like China and India are demanding that wealthier regions like the European Union and North America fund their efforts at developing clean energy technologies

Well, since wealthier regions like the European Union and North America are the ones nagging China and India to develop "clean" energy technologies, no wonder. How about we tell the environmentalists to shut up, China and India go about their business, and we keep our money.

[EGPWS]

Wealthy nations...

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are going it alone and paying for the Algore Boondoggle?

[a fool in paradise]

How much for us to buy these countries outright?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Oh yeah. Did NK think this up or was it the UN ?

[Kent C]

How Much Should Poor Countries Be Paid To Fight Climate Change?

Poor countries like the U.S.??

Zero.

[paul51]

Countries in poorer parts of the world like China

Is that some kind of joke? China practically owns us.

[paul51]

I don't think the U.S. giving 3rd world countries tens of billions of dollars more per year is going to fly.

you'll never make it as a politician!

[TheDon]

When the current global warming cycle reverts back to global cooling, read mile high glaciers over much of north america, billions will starve to death, most particularly in poor countries.

Global warming is a great blessing to life on earth!

[colorado tanker]

This kind of money could be a game changer, bringing clean water, sanitary waste disposal, malaria and other disease eradication to the poorest countries - save millions of lives. And instead allegedly “advanced” nations will waste it on junk science. Unfrigginbelievable.

[Tarpon]

How about we build them each a coal fired power plant, a malaria production plant and call it square.

You know, teach a man to fish and all that.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[RC2]

When countries don’t do what we want them to, we put sanctions on them. I don’t see why we need to pay anyone outside of this country to do anything. We don’t even pay our own people to consider the climate............we penalize them. The same should go to other countries. This money will only go in someone elses pocket. Maybe that’s the plan. We need to cut the funds off.

[The Sons of Liberty]

How Much Should Poor Countries Be Paid To Fight Climate Change? ($140 billion annually)

NOTHING from us! In case those pinheads in Washington haven't noticed - we're broke; busted; tapped out; insolvent; etc.