Doug Powers:
Don’t worry, taxpayers, because I’m sure all this money is being spent responsibly (warning: dripping sarcasm).
From CNS News:
American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.”
That sum of $7.45 billion, which reached more than 120 countries through bilateral and multilateral channels, met President Obama’s “commitment to provide our fair share” of a collective pledge by developed nations to provide a total of nearly $30 billion in “fast start finance” (FSF), the report stated.
The pledge was made at a Dec. 2009 U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, and the FSF funding aims to support developing countries adapt to and cope with phenomena blamed on climate change, such as droughts and rising sea levels.
To put $7.45 billion into language we can better understand, that’s almost 14 Solyndras.
One example of the “climate change” Kerry warns about that the U.S. is paying to combat came to light on his recent trip to Vietnam (little known fact because Kerry is shy to mention it: he served there during the war). One cause of “man made climate change” has nothing to do with greenhouse gases, but rather China’s dams:
Kerry announced that the U.S. is providing an initial $17 million through USAID’s Vietnam Forest and Deltas Program to help communities “reverse environmental degradation” and adapt to climate change.
Kerry also found time to warn China about Mekong River dam projects that could damage regions downstream, noting it’s “vital that we avoid dramatic changes” in water flow and sediment levels.
