Here's something to ponder:
UN: Poor Need $86 Billion in Climate Aid
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS — Helping the world's poor adapt to more floods, droughts and other changes from a warming planet will cost the richest nations at least $86 billion a year by 2015, an expert panel warned Tuesday.
"They must have help from the rich world," said Claes Johnasson, a co-author of the report commissioned by the U.N. Development Program. "Climate is forcing people into human development traps."
Half the cost, $44 billion, would go for "climate-proofing" developing nations' infrastructure while $40 billion would help the poor adapt how the live to cope with climate-related risks, says the panel's report. The other $2 billion would go to strengthening responses to natural disasters.
The report recommends the biggest share be paid by the United States and other rich nations, based on aid targets and financing calculations by the World Bank and Group of Eight major industrialized nations.
The Bush administration said in a statement that one of its top priorities is "to alleviate poverty and spur economic growth in the developing world by modernizing energy services."
The Human Development Report each year compares nations by life expectancy, literacy and other data. This year, it focuses on climate change, coming just a week before the world's nations convene in Indonesia to negotiate a new climate treaty.
Snip.......
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Nov...Change,00.html
_____
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . . . !!!
Oh, wait! They’re serious!
So, if you are sitting there thinking that all of Al Gore's ranting is not going to cost you money! WAKE UP!
Also - climate-proofing? If that's not a huge scam.......