>>Because it is difficult to know exactly how dramatic the effects of climate change will be, it is hard to know just how much it will affect various industries. <<
And that is the entirety of the article. No need to read further.
Weather does affect industries and careers, but they adjust accordingly.
For those who need an iron clad argument why AGW/climate/change/whatever fake name they are using this week isn’t a real science is that weather proves it to be false.
Weather is the unnamed enemy of climate science.
So says BBC.
The American Free Constitutional Republic, not subject to the stupidity of the “weather doctrine”, has something else to say.
US Environmentalists May Have Secretly Taken Russian Cash
The Daily Caller ^ | July 10, 2017 | MICHAEL BASTASCH
Posted on 7/10/2017, 1:23:07 PM by TBP
House lawmakers want the Trump administration to investigate reports that a wealthy foundation used an offshore shell company to give millions of dollars to environmental activists opposed to U.S. energy development.
“If you connect the dots, it is clear that Russia is funding U.S. environmental groups in an effort to suppress our domestic oil and gas industry, specifically hydraulic fracking,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith said Friday.
Smith and Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to investigate whether or not environmentalists were funneling money to U.S. environmental groups through a Bermuda-based shell company.
Republicans are pitching it as part of a larger investigation into the extent of Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Russia, after all, has an incentive to keep U.S. oil and natural gas “in the ground” — a slogan used by many environmental activists.
Activists call the allegations were “absurd and false smears.” Though none of the groups seem keen on heading off a potential investigation by giving back the millions they got from the non-profit under investigation.
So, here’s everything you need to know about the alleged connection between Russia and environmentalists.
Where It All Began
Conservatives and some energy experts have speculated for years Russian oligarchs may have funneled money to environmentalists to oppose energy development, especially hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Fracking unleashed a U.S. energy boom and contributed to the collapse in oil prices in 2014. Eastern European officials claimed the Kremlin had backed environmental protects against oil and gas operations to keep those countries dependent on Russian imports.
The former head of NATO and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also said Russia had backed environmental activists in Europe, so is it that far-fetched they would also try and influence U.S. energy policy?
A 2015 report by The Washington Free seemed to confirm those fears based on findings from the Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA), which is run by the PR firm Berman and Company.
The Free Beacon reported the Sea Change Foundation got $23 million in 2010 and 2011 from a Bermuda-based shell company based out of a law firm with ties to Russian oligarchs. The law firm, Wakefield Quinn, also manages two Simons-run hedge funds.
What Is The Sea Change Foundation?
Investor Nat Simons and his wife Laura Baxter-Simons founded the Sea Change Foundation in 2006, in part, to “address the serious threats posed by global climate change.” Sea Change held about $168 million in net assets in 2015, according to tax filings.
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Simons, who commutes to work everyday in a 54-foot yacht, runs a hedge fund with investments in green energy technology, so any policies to boost renewables could benefit his bottom line.
Inside Philanthropy noted that Sea Change’s “skeletal staff quietly shovels tens of millions of dollars out the door annually to combat climate change” and “that’s pretty much all it does.”
Their website is just one vague page with a short paragraph of information. The website also mentions the non-profit does not take unsolicited grant proposals.
The Bermuda Connection
Sea Change took millions from a shell company set up by Wakefield Quin in 2011 “exclusively for philanthropic purposes,” according to documents. The shell company, Klein Ltd., gave Sea Change $23 million in 2010 and 2011. Klein Ltd is out of Wakefield Quin’s office.
The same year prominent U.S. environmental groups took millions from Sea Change many were ramping up campaigns to oppose fracking operations popping up all over the country.
“The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change’s $100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011,” The Free Beacon reported, adding that as “many as 20 companies and investment funds with ties to the Russian government are Wakefield Quin clients.”
Wakefield Quin also has ties to two Simons-run hedge funds, which are run out of the law firm and operated by attorney Roderick Forrest. Those hedge funds held $80 million the same years Klein Ltd. gave $23 million to Sea Change.
Russia Connections?
Several Wakefield Quin employees have ties to Russian firms with Kremlin links, according to the EPA report.
One firm, Spectrum Partners Ltd, is a holding company run out of Wakefield Quin that has a fund “with 53% of its assets invested in the Russian oil and gas industry.” Wakefielf Quin has ties to a firm co-directed by Hans Rudloff, the chairman of the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Wakefield Quin also has tied to the “holding company of Russian investment banking firm Troika Dialog,” which “is one of the largest shareholders in an oil company owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev,” according to EPA. The Bermuda-based firm also has ties to the Firebird New Russia Fund, which invests in Russian energy, and at least two other companies being investigated for money laundering.
What Happens Now?
It’s not clear. The Treasury Department did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment, and neither did Sea Change executive director Steve Colwell.
If Mnuchin did decide to investigate, however, it would add a new wrinkle to the ever-widening congressional probe into Russian meddling in U.S. politics and elections.
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I agree, it’s going to get slightly warmer, or probably slightly colder. What you don’t want is a Yellowstone event where the planet turns into a frozen ball. I haven’t planned a retirement that includes all ice.
“But experts say”
Bwahahahaha
What a miserable hyperbolic lot the left is.
Because earth never experienced earthquakes prior to the internal combustion engine.....
You keep posting that photo yet you never identify who that is. Is that the guy behind making the National Geographic Channel nearly unwatchable with their regular recitation of the “global warming/climate change/pending calamity” worry bead rosary in every program? /s
Neanderthals managed to survive in Europe during the last Ice Age and North African peoples adapted to the enormous change of their climate from semi-tropical to desert. None of those changes were caused by human activity. Our climate may well change again due to natural forces but we'll adapt as has been done over the ages. None of the talk about carbon credits or other liberal propaganda will do the least thing to change the climate. It's all a socialist scare tactic to try to force political change.
It starts out promising to tell us how business will be transformed, and once we start reading they say they don’t know. What a bunch of bullcrap.
Amanda Ruggeri pushes #FakeNews and #FakeScience. What a faker!
I would love to see some data to back up that 'matter of fact' statement...my observation is that large hurricanes have sharply decreased.
Fakity fake fake fake.
Doomed as doomed can be.
british yutes never get to see snow anymore...........
Please STFU whore.
The climate finally changed here in California from winter to Summer.
That’s right, we really only have two seasons, in most years because we skipped two of the ones we didn’t like...
The Effects of Climate Change:
Miami Beach
Before After
New York City
Before After
How can grownups allow themselves to be deluded to this extent? This global warming hysteria is as valid as worrying about the boogeyman.
Like Little Orphant Annie says, "An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!"
Your pix of Goebbels has it exactly right: The BBC is the heir to Hitler’s Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment.
Seig heil!
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If liberals actually believed what they preach they would have long ago stop issuing building permits in NYC.
The United Nations building can be emptied, and member delegates can conference via Internet video chats. This will end severe atmospheric pollution by their jet-setting to and from NYC, not to mention the hot air they exude in their fiery speeches.
Hollywood stars can be banned from jet-setting around the world spreading nonsense because we know they earn a living pretending to be characters while they're fed lines to speak to make them appear intelligent when they haven't a clue how the world actually works.
Leftist protesters can be rounded up and interred in prisons every time they congregate to protest, because they like burning cars, buildings and other objects which greatly pollutes the air.
Ban liberals from driving cars. Well, because vehicles pollute, and we don't want them to be put in the position of being hypocrites complaining about the rest of us polluting while they do the same. Stop them from using any electrical devices because most energy comes from fossil fuel sources.
There are other steps that can be taken, the above is a start that would truly be effective.