Lots of environmental activists are convinced that man’s use of fossil fuels is heating the planet. But we certainly hope the activists are not relying on the U.N. to “fix” that. As it turns out, a big anti-global-warming program run by the U.N. is actually paying companies to increase production of the “greenhouse gases” blamed for global warming.
Here is how the scam works:
Through a U.N. treaty, less developed nations such as India and Communist China get paid to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In particular, those countries get lots of money to destroy rather than release a greenhouse gas called HFC-23.
At the same time, India and China are being paid to produce another chemical — HCFC-22 — because it is “environmentally friendly.” The trouble is, the “bad” HFC-23 is a byproduct of the “good” HCFC-22.
So the countries get paid once for manufacturing the “good” chemical, but then they get paid a second time for destroying its “bad” byproduct. With the U.N.’s blessing, it has become lucrative for the countries to keep making (then destroying) the very greenhouse gases that trouble environmentalists. It’s just a big scam!
The $2.7 billion program is “working against its own goal of producing reductions of greenhouse gas emissions …,” one angry environmentalist told The Associated Press.
Does this bureaucratic bungling not suggest that the U.N. is incapable of managing its own finances, much less “climate change”? Wherever you stand on global warming, don’t you think it would be wise for the United States to chart its own course rather than enter vague treaties with unaccountable international organizations?