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Fox Nation claims "Kids Exploited for Climate Change" in WWF video

November 10, 2009 5:48 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From The Fox Nation, accessed on November 10:

Previously:

Limbaugh "surprised" at amount of children in World Wildlife Fund ad "given their views on abortion and humans causing climate destruction"

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    • Author by gpp (November 10, 2009 6:00 pm ET)
         
      There are five times more polar bears today than in the 1950s.

      The Polar Bears have been used as the posterchild of global warming.

      The scientific name for the Polar Bear is Ursusus Maritimus, or sea bear. A healthy polar bear can swim over 100 miles.

      Polar Bears have survived at least three meltings of the Arctic Sea ice.
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    • Author by SLRTX (November 10, 2009 7:50 pm ET)
         
      The conversion of our children to brain-eating liberal psycho-zombies is well underway. Good.

      Now we just need to finish "operation re-distribute the wealth" to extract those funds from the rich conservatives to pay for the next wave.

      Almost there.... almost. }:-}

      Wanna see something REALLY entertaining? Go to the Fox site via the link above & read the comments to see how the "average American" is responding to this.

      It's scary.
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      • Author by galileonardo (November 12, 2009 7:49 pm ET)
           
        Well, Karl Jr. you little scamp, it's not that the U.S. is blocking the Copenhagen effort. That's called "pro-pa-gan-da." Can you say propaganda?

        Let's put aside the fact that one of daddy's WWF former presidents, Prince Philip, has said things like, “If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”

        What's more important is examining the actual goals of Copenhagen to find the real and transparent agenda and then maybe, just maybe, you'll understand that the U.S. is our best hope for avoiding the UN's western civilization-punishing redistributionist nightmare, or as SLRTX mockingly, though fittingly, referred to it: Operation Re-Distribute the Wealth."

        I know you want to read Gore's new book again tonight, but your bedtime story is the negotiating text of the proposed Copenhagen Treaty. Your homework assignment is to find the pages that the following excerpts were taken from:

        [[Developed [and developing] countries] [Developed and developing country Parties] [All Parties] [shall] [should]:] (a) Compensate for damage to the LDCs economy and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity, as many will become environmental refugees; (b) Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.

        An assessed contribution from developed country Parties based on the principles of equity, common but differentiated responsibilities, respective capabilities, GDP, GDP per capita, the polluter pays principle historical responsibility of Annex I Parties, historical climate debt, including adaptation debt, amounting to [[0.5-1][0.8][2] per cent of gross national product] at least [0.5-1 per cent of GDP]].

        Agreed penalties or fines on non-compliance of developed country Parties with their commitments to reduce emissions and provide support in the form of financial resources, technology transfer and capacity-building.

        [Providing financial support shall be additional to developed countries' ODA targets.] [Mandatory contributions from developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in Annex II should form the core revenue stream for meeting the cost of adaptation in conjunction with additional sources including share of proceeds from flexible mechanisms.] [This finance should come from the payment of the adaptation debt by developed country Parties and be based principally on public-sector funding, while other alternative sources could be considered.] [[Sources of new and additional financial support for adaptation] [Financial resources of the "Convention Adaptation Fund"] [may] [shall] include:
        (a) [Assessed contributions [of at least 0.7% of the annual GDP of developed country Parties] [from developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in Annex II to the Convention] [taking into account historical contribution to concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere];]
        (b) [Auctioning of assigned amounts and/or emission allowances [from developed country Parties];]
        (c) [Levies on CO2 emissions [from Annex-I Parties [in a position to do so]];]
        (d) [Taxes on carbon-intensive products and services from Annex I Parties;]
        (e) [[Levies on] [Shares of proceeds from measures to limit or reduce emissions from] international [aviation] and maritime transport;]
        (f) Shares of proceeds on the clean development mechanism (CDM), [extension of shares of proceeds to] joint implementation and emissions trading;
        (g) [Levies on international transactions [among Annex I Parties];]
        (h) [Fines for non-compliance [of Annex I Parties and] with commitments of Annex I Parties and Parties with commitments inscribed in Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol (Annex B Parties);]
        (i) [[Additional ODA] [ODA additional to ODA targets] provided through bilateral, regional and other multilateral channels (in accordance with Article 11.5 of the Convention).]]

        Taxes on carbon-intensive products and services from Annex I Parties.

        [Access to adaptation funds by Parties shall be inversely proportional to their contribution to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.] [Access to funds to implement priority adaptation activities identified by Parties shall not be conditional on the completion of national adaptation plans.] Development of an adaptation strategy and programme should be enabled if one is not available at country level. Means should be provided, on a continuous basis, to enable, support and enhance national capacity to incorporate adaptation into planning and designing adaptation activities. Funding should go beyond integration of adaptation to sustainable development plans, and to include stand-alone adaptation.

        A [global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market [monetary] transactions to Annex I Parties.

        The provision of financial and technical support by developed country Parties for adaptation programmes in developing countries is a commitment under the Convention that must be urgently fulfilled. Commitments made by Annex I Parties to support implementation of the Adaptation Framework through financial and technology transfer shall be legally binding, with provisions for a [monitoring, reporting and verification] mechanism to ensure compliance.

        Here's the bonus question. Get this right and you get your choice of a Hannity or Beck effigy and a can of lighter fluid. Oh, and we'll allow you to ask SLRTX why he keeps implying this is a conspiracy when it is being done right out in the open.

        The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of which will include the following:
        (a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.
        (b) The Convention's financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, to address loss and damage from climate change impacts, including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components, (c) a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions.
        (c) The Convention's facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; (c) a short-term technology action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange.
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