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Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do.Norris appeared in a number of action films, such as Way of the Dragon, in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee, and was The Cannon Group's leading star in the 1980s.[3][4]He played the starring role in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001.Norris is a devout Christian and politically conservative. He has written several books on Christianity and donated to a number of Republican candidates and causes. In 2007 and 2008, he campaigned for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.[5]Norris also writes a column for the conservative website WorldNetDaily.[6]Since 2005 Norris has been widely associated with an internet meme which documents fictional and often absurd feats associated with him.Contents[hide]1Early life2Martial arts career3Acting career3.1Rise to fame3.2Walker, Texas Ranger4Product endorsements5Appearances6Chun Kuk Do7Personal life7.1Family7.2Christianity7.3Martial arts and personal fitness8Activism8.1Philanthropy8.2Political views9Honors10Internet meme11Filmography12References13Further reading14External linksEarly lifeNorris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma on March 10, 1940,[7]to Wilma (née Scarberry) and Ray Norris, who was a World War II Army soldier,[8]a mechanic, bus driver, and truck driver.[9]Norris has stated that he has Irish and Cherokee roots.[3][8][10]Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father's minister.[8]He has two younger brothers, Wieland (1943–1970; killed in Vietnam) and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). When Norris was sixteen, his parents divorced,[11]and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas, and then to Torrance, California, with his mother and brothers.[3]Norris has described his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre.[12]His father, Ray, worked intermittently as an automobile mechanic, and went on alcohol drinking binges that lasted for months at a time. Embarrassed by his father's behavior and the family's financial plight, Norris developed a debilitating introversion that lasted for his entire childhood.[13]He joined the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman (AP) in 1958 and was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was there that Norris acquired the nickname Chuck and began his training in Tang Soo Do (tangsudo), an interest that led to black belts in that art and the founding of the Chun Kuk Do ("Universal Way") form.[14]When he returned to the United States, he continued to serve as an AP at March Air Force Base in California.Norris was discharged in August 1962. He worked for the Northrop Corporation and opened a chain of Karate schools including a storefront school in his then-hometown of Torrance on Hawthorne Boulevard. Norris' official website lists celebrity clients at the schools; among them Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond.[15]Martial arts careerNorris in 1976Norris was defeated in his first two tournaments, dropping decisions to Joe Lewis and Allen Steen and three matches at the International Karate Championships to Tony Tulleners. By 1967 Norris had improved enough that he scored victories over the likes of Lewis, Skipper Mullins, Arnold Urquidez, Victor Moore, Ron Marchini, and Steve Sanders. Norris would be a two-time winner at S. Henry Cho's All American Championship.[16]In early 1968, Norris suffered the tenth and last loss of his career, losing an upset decision to Louis Delgado. On November 24, 1968, he avenged his defeat to Delgado and by doing so won the Professional Middleweight Karate champion title, which he held for six consecutive years.[11]In 1969, he won Karate's triple crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and the Fighter of the Year award by Black Belt magazine.Norris made history in 1990 when he was the first Westerner in the documented history of Taekwondo to be given the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grandmaster.[17]In 1999, Norris was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum's Hall of Fame. On July 1, 2000, Norris was presented the Golden Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Karate Union Hall of Fame.Acting careerNorris on the set of the film The Delta Force (1986)Rise to fameIn 1969, Norris made his acting debut in the Dean Martin film The Wrecking Crew. At a martial arts demonstration in Long Beach, Norris met the martial artist Bruce Lee. In 1972, he acted as Lee's nemesis in the movie Way of the Dragon (titled Return of the Dragon in its U.S. distribution), which is widely credited with launching him toward stardom. In Asia, Norris is still known primarily for this role. In 1974, McQueen encouraged him to begin acting classes at MGM.Norris' first starring role was 1977's Breaker! Breaker!, and subsequent films such as Good Guys Wear Black (1978), The Octagon (1980), An Eye for an Eye (1981), and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) proved his increasing box office bankability.In 1984, Norris starred in Missing in Action, the first of a series of Rambo-inspired POW rescue fantasies themed around the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue that were produced by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and released under their Cannon Films banner. Norris later dedicated these films to his younger brother Wieland. Wieland, a private in the 101st Airborne Division, had been killed in June 1970 in Vietnam while on patrol in the defense of Firebase Ripcord.[18]The film, however, was criticized heavily as being a preemptive cash-in on the Rambo film series.[19][20]Over the next four years, Norris became Cannon's most prominent star, appearing in eight films, including Code of Silence, The Delta Force, and Firewalker, in which he co-starred with Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr.. Many of the aforementioned films were produced by Norris' brother Aaron Norris, as were several episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. In 1986, he was involved in the production of the Ruby-Spears cartoon Karate Kommandos.After an 8 year layoff, he starred in the 2012 sequel to The Expendables.In October 2014, he revealed that he would be shooting a new film, The Finisher, in March 2015.[21]Walker, Texas RangerBy the end of the 1980s, Cannon Films had faded from prominence, and Norris' star appeal seemed to go with it. He reprised his Delta Force role for MGM, which had acquired the Cannon library after the latter's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Norris went on to make several more films before making a transition to television.[22]In 1993, he began shooting the series Walker, Texas Ranger, which lasted eight seasons on CBS and continued in syndication on other channels, notably the Hallmark Channel.On October 17, 2005, CBS premiered the Sunday Night Movie of the Week, Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire. The production was a continuation of the series, and not scripted to be a reunion movie. Norris reprised his role as Cordell Walker for the movie. He has stated that future Walker, Texas Ranger Movie of the Week projects are expected; however, this was severely impaired by CBS's 2006–2007 season decision to no longer regularly schedule Movies of the Week on Sunday night.Product endorsementsNorris has appeared with Christie Brinkley in a long-running series of cable TV infomercials promoting Total Gym home fitness equipment. Norris has also appeared in a commercial for Mountain Dew.In 2010, Norris appeared in advertisements for communications company T-Mobile in the Czech Republic.[23]In 2011, Norris appeared in advertisements for the World of Warcraft video game.[24]In 2012, Norris appeared in a series of commercials for the Polish bank BZ WBK.[25]Chuck NorrisStyleChun Kuk Do, Tang Soo Do, Taekwondo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, JudoRank10th degree black belt Chun Kuk Do9th degree black belt Tang Soo Do8th degree black belt Taekwondo5th degree black belt in Karate3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsublack belt JudoAppearancesAt the 1994 edition of Survivor Series, he was the special outside enforcer for the casket match rematch between The Undertaker and Yokozuna. He was the enforcer to ensure that nobody interfered in the match.Chun Kuk DoMain article: Chun Kuk DoNorris created the martial art Chun Kuk Do, which is based primarily on Tang Soo Do and includes elements from every combat style he knows. Like many other martial arts, Chun Kuk Do includes a code of honor and rules to live by. These rules are from Norris' personal code. They are:[26]I will develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways.I will forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements.I will continually work at developing love, happiness and loyalty in my family.I will look for the good in all people and make them feel worthwhile.If I have nothing good to say about a person, I will say nothing.I will always be as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.I will maintain an attitude of open-mindedness.I will maintain respect for those in authority and demonstrate this respect at all times.I will always remain loyal to my God, my country, family and my friends.I will remain highly goal-oriented throughout my life because that positive attitude helps my family, my country and myself.Personal lifeNorris receiving the Veteran of the Year award by the U.S. Air Force in 2001Norris during a meeting with Commanding Officer Captain J.R Haley, in June 2005Norris during a promotion ceremony at Camp Taqaddum in the Al Anbar province of Iraq on November 2, 2006FamilyNorris married Dianne Holechek in 1958. In 1963 their first child, Mike, was born. His daughter Dina was born in 1964 out of an extramarital affair.[27]Later, he had a second son, Eric, with his wife in 1965. After 30 years of marriage, Norris and Holechek divorced in 1988.On November 28, 1998, he married former model Gena O'Kelley, 23 years Norris' junior. O'Kelley had two children from a previous marriage. She delivered twins on August 30, 2001: Dakota Alan Norris, a boy, and Danilee Kelly Norris, a girl.[28]On September 22, 2004, Norris told Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart that his daughter Dina was the result of an extramarital affair. He did not meet her until she was 26, although she learned that he was her father when she was 16. She sent a letter informing him of their relationship. After meeting her, Norris said he knew she was his daughter upon seeing her.[29]In 2005, Norris reported in his autobiography that his mother gave birth to him when she was 18 years old.Norris has nine grandchildren.[30]ChristianityAn outspoken Christian,[31]Norris is the author of several Christian-themed books, such as The Justice Riders. He has also been in a few TV commercials promoting Bible study and prayer in public schools, in addition to efforts to reduce drug use. In his WorldNetDaily columns, he has expressed his belief in Biblical creationism,[32]that those who are troubled should turn to Jesus, and is quoted as saying "true patriots" do not stay clear of discussing religion and politics.[33]On April 22, 2008, Norris expressed his support for the intelligent design movement when he reviewed Ben Stein's Expelled for Conservative news, politics, opinion, breaking news analysis, political cartoons and commentary.[34]Martial arts and personal fitnessNorris has received a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu from the Machado family.[35]In his February 15, 2010 WorldNetDaily column, Norris announced that, starting in the fall of 2010, he will begin a second weekly column for Creators Syndicate. This new column, "C-Force", will focus on personal fitness.[36]ActivismPhilanthropyHe is known for his contribution towards organizations such as Funds for Kids, Veteran's Administration National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans, the United Way, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation in the form of donations as well as fund-raising activities.[37]His time with the U.S. Veterans Administration as a spokesperson was inspired by his experience serving the United States Air Force in Korea. His objective has been to popularize the issues such as Pensions and Health care, that concern hospitalized war veterans. Due to his significant contributions, and continued patriotism, he received the Veteran of the Year award in 2001 at the American Veteran Awards.[37]Norris also established the United Fighting Arts Federation and Kickstart Kids in 1990. As a significant part of his philanthropic contributions, the organization was formed to develop self-esteem and focus in at-risk children as a tactic to keep them away from drug-related pressure by training them in martial arts. Norris hopes that by shifting middle school and high school children's focus towards this positive and strengthening endeavour, these children will have the opportunity to build a better future for themselves.[37][38]In 2005, Norris founded the World Combat League (WCL), a full-contact, team-based martial arts competition, of which part of the proceeds are given to his Kickstart Kids program.[37]Additionally, Norris supports the Vijay Amritraj Foundation, which aims at bringing hope, help and healing to the defenceless and innocent victims of disease, tragedy and circumstance in India. Through his donations, he has helped the foundation support Paediatric HIV/AIDS homes in Delhi, a blind school in Karnataka, and a mission that cares for HIV/AIDS infected adults, as well as mentally ill patients in Cochin.[39]Norris with former Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in Londonderry, New HampshirePolitical viewsNorris and his wife at a political event in The Woodlands, Texas on February 15, 2016.Norris is a Republican, and has donated more than $32,000 to Republican candidates and organizations since 1988.[40]Norris supports gun rights and ownership and is against public schools celebrating the Day of Silence.[41]In 2006, Norris began penning a column for the conservative news website WorldNetDaily, sharing his "musings about faith, family, freedom, country, loyalty – maybe even kickboxing."On October 22, 2007, Norris announced his endorsement of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for President.[42]Norris said, "I believe the only one who has all of the characteristics to lead America forward into the future is ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee."[43]After the 2008 presidential election, Norris drafted a letter to President-elect Barack Obama, stating that he should "use and cite the Constitution ... protect American life ... learn from the mistakes of your Democratic predecessors ... [and] lead more from the center".[44]On November 18, 2008, Norris became one of the first members of show business to express support for the California Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, and he chided activists for "interfering" with the democratic process and the double standard he perceived in criticizing the LDS Church without criticizing African Americans, who had voted for the measure by a wide margin.[45]During the 2012 presidential election, Norris first recommended Ron Paul, and then later formally endorsed Newt Gingrich as the Republican presidential candidate.[46]After Gingrich suspended his campaign in May 2012, Norris endorsed Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, despite Norris having previously accused Romney of flip-flopping and of trying to buy the nomination for the Republican Party candidacy for 2012.[47][48]On the eve of the election he and his wife Gina made a video warning that if evangelicals didn't show up at the polls and vote out President Obama, "...our country as we know it may be lost forever...".[49][50]Norris also produced the film Answering the Call, which featured his 2007 trip to Iraq to visit the troops.[51][52]Norris endorsed Huckabee again in the 2016 Republican Primary before he dropped out.[53]In March 2016, it was reported that Norris endorsed Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz and that he would be attending a Cruz rally,[54][55]but two days later, Norris stated he would only endorse the GOP nominee once that nominee has been nominated by the party.[56]Norris has visited Israel and voiced support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the 2013 and 2015 elections.[57][58][59]HonorsOn March 28, 2007, Commandant Gen. James T. Conway made Norris an honorary United States Marine during a dinner at the commandant's residence in Washington, D.C.[60]On December 2, 2010, he (along with brother Aaron) was given the title honorary Texas Ranger by Texas Governor Rick Perry.[61]Internet memeMain article: Chuck Norris factsIn late 2005, Norris became the object of an ironic internet meme known as "Chuck Norris Facts", which document fictional, often absurdly heroic feats and characteristics about Norris. Norris has written his own response to the parody on his website, stating that he does not feel offended by them and finds some of them funny,[62]claiming that his personal favorite is that they wanted to add his face to Mount Rushmore, but the granite is not hard enough for his beard.[63]On November 29, 2007, Gotham Books, the adult division of Penguin USA, released a book entitled The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World's Greatest Human based on the Chuck Norris Facts.[64]Norris filed suit in December against Penguin USA and author Ian Spector, claiming, "trademark infringement, unjust enrichment and privacy rights."[65]Norris dropped the suit in May of the following year.[66]FilmographyMain article: Chuck Norris filmographyReferencesJump up^ Kirell, Andrew (May 25, 2012). "Celebrities You Probably Didn't Know Are Republicans". Mediaite. New York City. Retrieved September 17, 2016.Jump up^ "Norris, Carlos Ray, A1C". TogetherWeServed. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-25.^ Jump up to:a b c Berkow, Ira (May 12, 1993). "At Dinner with: Chuck Norris". The New York Times.Jump up^ "Cinema: And Now, a Wham-Bam Superstar: Chuck Norris". Time. May 20, 1985. Retrieved August 14, 2010.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris Endorses Newt Gingrich, Swings Crucial 'Walker, Texas Ranger' Constituency". Reuters. January 20, 2012.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved October 20, 2013.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck; Hyams, Joe (1988). "1". The Secret of Inner Strength; My Story (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Co. p. 6. ISBN 0-316-61191-3.^ Jump up to:a b c Norris, Chuck; Ken Abraham (2004). Against All Odds: My Story. Broadman & Holman Publishers. ISBN 0-8054-3161-6.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris Biography (1940–)".Jump up^ "Chuck Norris : Biography". IMDb.^ Jump up to:a b "Chuck Norris – Strong, Silent, Popular". The New York Times. September 1, 1985.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris Fights to Be a Better Actor in 'Hero and the Terror' Role". The Los Angeles Times. September 2, 1988.Jump up^ "Breaking the Silence : People.com". PEOPLE.com.Jump up^ Wedlan, Candace A. (October 2, 1996). "Body Watch; Kicking Old Habits; Chuck Norris found he couldn't eat just anything after he hit his mid-30s. These days, TV's top ranger feasts on veggies, fowl and fish. And he tries to keep his distance from peanut clusters.". The Los Angeles Times.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris Blog". Archived from the original on February 8, 2010.Jump up^ "Past Sparring Grand Champions". S. Henry Cho's Karate Institute Tae Kwon Do taekwondo tae kwon do karate Karate martial arts Martial Arts Chuck Norris Bruce Lee Master Cho Steven Segal H. Retrieved 2016-03-15.Jump up^ "Questions I am asked most about martial arts". July 9, 2007.Jump up^ "PFC Wieland Clyde Norris". The Virtual Wall.Jump up^ "War Movie Mondays, Missing in Action Movie Review". The Flick Cast. Retrieved July 7, 2012.Jump up^ "Box Office Flashback, December 10, 1984". Pop Dose: Pop Culture News, Reviews and Discussion. Retrieved July 7, 2012.Jump up^ "masternorris.com". masternorris.com -&nbspThis website is for sale! -&nbspmasternorris Resources and Information.. Retrieved 2016-03-15.Jump up^ King, Susan (April 18, 1993). "Chuck Norris: Karate Champ Turned Action-film Actor Turned Series Star?". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 30, 2010.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris shills for T-Mobile ads". The Prague Post. November 10, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2011.Jump up^ "World of Warcraft TV Commercial: Chuck Norris – Hunter". YouTube. December 15, 2011. Retrieved December 15, 2011.Jump up^ "Polish bank BZ WBK commercials with Chuck Norris". January 20, 2012. Archived from the original on September 22, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2012.Jump up^ "Welcome to the United Fighting Arts Federation (UFAF) and Chun Kuk Do!". Welcome to the United Fighting Arts Federation (UFAF). Retrieved 2016-03-15.Jump up^ "Herald Extra: Chuck Norris". Archived from the original on March 25, 2008.Jump up^ "Gena Norris Notes". Free Full Episodes, Clips, Show Info and TV Listings Guide. May 3, 2006.Jump up^ Hart, Mary (September 22, 2004). "At Home and Up-Close with Chuck Norris". Entertainment News | Celebrity News | Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on November 23, 2006.Jump up^ "mentorsharbor.com". Buy Domains - Find a Premium Domain & Open Your Doors, BuyDomains.com.Jump up^ See External Links Drew Marshall InterviewJump up^ Norris, Chuck (October 23, 2006). "On Chuck Norris 'mania' sweeping the net". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 16, 2010.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (November 20, 2006). "America's Code of Silence". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 16, 2010.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck. "Win Ben Stein's Monkey". Townhall. Retrieved April 22, 2008.Jump up^ BJJ Instructors and Students. "BJJ Genius".Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (February 15, 2010). "Ready for feds in your kitchen?". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved February 16, 2010.^ Jump up to:a b c d [1][dead link]Jump up^ "A Renaissance Man". Inside Kung Fu. Retrieved January 1, 2010.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris's Charity Work, Events and Causes". Celebrity Charity Work: Data, News, Events - Look to the Stars. Retrieved January 2, 2012.Jump up^ "Newsmeat: Chuck Norris's Federal Campaign Contribution Report". 2006.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (March 23, 2008). "Guns, God and gays". WorldNetDaily.Jump up^ "Mike Huckabee". Mike Huckabee.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (October 21, 2007). "My choice for president". WorldNetDaily.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (10 November 2008). "Obama, now that you work for me...". World Net Daily.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (18 November 2008). "If Democracy Doesn't Work, Try Anarchy". Townhall.Jump up^ Reilly, Mollie (January 20, 2012). "Chuck Norris Endorses Newt Gingrich For President". The HuffingtonPost.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck. "Chuck Norris Column: How Romney and Our Republic Can Win (Part 1)". News Busters.Jump up^ Poppleton, Travis. "Chuck Norris slams Romney, endorses Newt Gingrich for president". KSL.Jump up^ Bingham, Amy (2012-09-04). "Chuck Norris Warns of '1,000 years of Darkness' If Obama Re-Elected - ABC News". ABC News.Jump up^ Gunter, Booth (2012-11-04). "Six most paranoid fears for Obama's second term". Salon: in-depth news, politics, business, technology & culture.Jump up^ "Norris documentary shines light on troops overseas". Waxahachie Daily Light: Local & World News, Sports & Entertainment in Waxahachie, TX.Jump up^ "Martial arts program for kids to start". The Ellis County Press. May 21, 2009.Jump up^ "Celebrity endorsements for 2016". The Hill.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris Endorses Ted Cruz". March 8, 2016.Jump up^ Heil, Emily (March 8, 2016). "Roundhouse kick! Chuck Norris to stump for Ted Cruz". The Washington Post.Jump up^ Recio, Maria (March 10, 2016). "Chuck Norris Bows Out of Cruz Event". The Star-Telegram.Jump up^ Thornhill, Ted; Irvine, Chris (March 17, 2015). "A campaign with more muscle: Chuck Norris endorses Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election as cult action hero says he is crucial to safety of Israel". Daily Mail.Jump up^ "What is Chuck Norris doing in Israel?". Jerusalem Post. February 5, 2017.Jump up^ Becker, Gahl; Froim, Yoni (February 6, 2017). "Chuck Norris arrives in Israel, peace seems imminent". Ynetnews.Jump up^ "Conway makes Chuck Norris honorary Marine – Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved January 2, 2012.Jump up^ Norris, Chuck (December 2, 2010). "Former TV lawman Chuck Norris to be given honorary Texas Ranger title by Gov. Rick Perry today in Garland". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved December 12, 2010.Jump up^ "Web Archive: Chuck Norris". Archived from the original on October 19, 2006. Retrieved November 3, 2006.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris facts read by Chuck Norris". YouTube.Jump up^ Ian Spector (2007) [2007-11-29]. The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human. Gotham. ISBN 978-1-59240-344-8.Jump up^ Kearney, Christine (December 21, 2007). "Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure". Reuters. Retrieved December 23, 2007.Jump up^ "Chuck Norris drops lawsuit against university student". The Hindustan Times. May 30, 2008.Further readingThe Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real Problems, Zen Buddhism and martial arts. Little, Brown and Company (1996). ISBN 0-316-58350-2.Against All Odds: My Story, an autobiography. Broadman & Holman Publishers (2004). ISBN 0-8054-3161-6.The Justice Riders, Wild West novels. Broadman & Holman Publishers (2006). ISBN 0-8054-4032-1.Norris, Chuck. Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America, Regnery Publishing (2008). 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I don’t know why Michael Knowles believes this. But, from its inception, the agenda surrounding the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming has been led primarily by politicos, particularly from the UN.For many CAGW alarmists- UN officials, globalists, leftist politicians, greedy and unscrupulous bankers and other investors, radical environmentalists, and avowed socialists/communists, the theory of CAGW is not really about climate change. Rather it is about changing the political and economic systems of the world. Specifically, it is about instituting one world government, replacing capitalism and democracy with global authoritarian socialism, and markedly reducing global population (see proof of this below).“…the global warming rubric has provided an ideal platform to accomplish exactly what [former socialist Venezuelan president] Chavez has in mind…to enable the U.N. to advance large transformational visions of socialism, wealth redistribution, and ultimately, global governance.” The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson“So-called Climate Change, aka Global Warming, is a neo-malthusian deindustrialization agenda originally developed by circles around the Rockefeller family in the early 1970’s to prevent rise of independent industrial rivals.” The Dark Story Behind Global Warming aka Climate ChangeThe UN and many of its globalist, socialist and environmentalist members and advisors, particularly oil billionaires Maurice Strong and David Rockefeller, along with Rockefeller’s Club of Rome, initially developed much of this scheme. It was formalized at the 1992 Rio Climate Conference (organized by Strong) as UN Agenda 21 or the Sustainable Development Agenda: “Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced; a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level … Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice … The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of the society as a whole.” David J.C. Shearman – No B-S here (I hope)Lest you believe this is just conspiracy theory (as so many alarmists try desperately to make us believe), read what many alarmists have admitted:Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party USA: “Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”UN Commission on Global Governance: "The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.""This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution." . Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history." - Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate ChangeFormer U.S. democrat Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, joined Maurice Strong in addressing the 1992 Climate Summit audience: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” (Wirth is now president of the U.N. Foundation which lobbies for $hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries "fight" climate change.) The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History LessonChristine Stewart, then Canadian Minister of the Environment, speaking before editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald in 1998, said, “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_StewartDavid Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth: “The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature’s proper steward and society’s only hope.”Judi Bari, Principal organizer of Earth First! - "If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.” Reported in the New American March 7th, 2013 and "Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature." Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary conceptHelen Caldicott, an Australian physician and a leading member of the leftist political organization Union of Concerned Scientists: “Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth.”(By the way, according to the reference below, the Union of Concerned Scientists is a left-wing advocacy organization that spreads unscientific alarmism about environmental and energy topics. It is not a scientific organization although it is treated as one by the press and others ignorant of its true political agendas. It began as a leftist anti-Vietnam War group and now promotes catastrophic CO2 global warming, anti-nuclear energy, anti-GMO, radical environmental stances, and other left-wing agendas. Apparently anyone can join for $25 to become a “concerned scientist”. Though founded in 1969 by faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCS’ mission from the beginning has never been the pursuit of knowledge through scientific discovery. It has instead pursued left-wing advocacy on technology, environmental, and energy issues—regardless of what the scientific data have shown. Union of Concerned Scientists - Left Exposed Its president is not a scientist but a lifelong political activist. He is close to Al Gore and former democrat senator and CO2 global warming alarmist, Tim Wirth, who commented about the theory of CAGW this way: "we've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." (Not surprisingly, after Wirth left the Senate and the Clinton administration he ended up at the United Nations as president of the UN Foundation. National Review: Climate Change Hypocrisy Also see: https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-the-Trump-administration-is-actively-censoring-data-about-climate-change/answer/Charles-Holley-10/comment/104179721Club of Rome: “Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years from today it will probably be too late.”David Rockefeller, billionaire founding member Club of Rome and close friend of Maurice Strong: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…”(Many of the above quotes from: C3: Global Warming Quotes & Climate Change Quotes: Human-Caused Global Warming Advocates/Supporters)"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class- involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing- are not sustainable."- Maurice Strong, Canadian oil billionaire socialist, close friend of David Rockefeller, organizer of the Rio Earth Summit and the UN Foundation The Green AgendaOne of the most ardent supporters of CAGW, socialist author Naomi Klein: “…most leftists have yet to realize that climate science has handed them the most powerful argument against capitalism since William Blake’s ‘dark Satanic Mills’…The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot. They arrived at this analysis by taking a hard look at what it would take to lower global emissions as drastically and as rapidly as climate science demands. They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system. As British blogger and Heartland regular James Delingpole has pointed out, 'Modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the left: redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, greater government intervention, regulation.' Heartland’s Bast puts it even more bluntly: For the left, 'Climate change is the perfect thing…. It’s the reason why we should do everything [the left] wanted to do anyway.' Here’s my inconvenient truth: they aren’t wrong... arriving at these new systems is going to require shredding the free-market ideology that has dominated the global economy for more than three decades. What follows is a quick-and-dirty look at what a serious climate agenda would mean in the following six arenas: public infrastructure, economic planning, corporate regulation, international trade, consumption and taxation." Capitalism vs. the ClimateClub of Rome, environmental think-tank and consultants to the United Nations. "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself...humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose… Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time…Democracy has failed us, a new system of global governance, based on environmental imperatives, must be implemented quickly...A radical change from the current trajectory is required, a complete reordering of global society..." From their book “The First Global Revolution”. The First Global Revolution For more COR quotes see: The Green AgendaAustralians Professor David Shearman and ecologist Joseph Wayne Smith published The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. Amazon’s blurb says, “This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction―and climate change in particular―is the operation of liberal democracy.” Originally a research tract, the abstract says the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. [Good luck with that!] David J.C. Shearman – No B-S here (I hope)"Government in the future will be based upon . . . a supreme office of the biosphere. The office will comprise specially trained philosopher/ecologists. These guardians will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities." David Shearman, an IPCC Assessor for 3rd and 4th climate change reports Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical) and https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/warmist-yearns-for-the-freedom-of-a-dictatorship/news-story/c3f37af24d1ad137dde65fac558c95f0Quotes from an article about a recent UN study: “Meeting current or growing levels of energy need in the next few decades with low-carbon solutions (i.e., renewables) will be extremely difficult, if not impossible. The economic transition must involve efforts to lower total energy use.…international freight transport and aviation cannot continue to grow at current rates.…dairy and meat should make way for largely plant-based diets. But capitalist markets will not be capable of facilitating the required changes – governments will need to step up, and institutions (i.e., globalist elitist groups) will need to actively shape markets to fit the goals of human survival. It can’t happen without considerable reframing of economic-political thinking, however.” This is how UN scientists are preparing for the end of capitalismDr. John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar - “A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives... using an armed international police force. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization". (His book, “Ecoscience” co-authored with Paul Ehrlich in 1977) and “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being." Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical) and https://antioligarch.wordpress.c...Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev recognizing the importance of using climate alarmism to advance global socialist/Marxist objectives, stated in 1996: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.” The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History LessonEvo Morales, the socialist president of Bolivia at the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP-20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: "The origin of global warming lies in capitalism… If we could end capitalism then we would have a solution.” 'The origin of global warming lies in capitalism'Former socialist President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, at the 2010 UN Mexico Climate Conference: “Our revolution seeks to help all people…Socialism,... that’s the way to save the planet; capitalism is the road to hell…Let’s fight against capitalism..." The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson (He received a standing ovation from the huge crowd of attendees!)The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist (environmental magazine based in Seattle) writer, to tweet enthusiastically in 2018, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.” U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States.” - Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Professor of Population Studies and author of “The Population Bomb” (1968) and co-author of “Ecoscience” (1977) with John Holdren http://green-agenda.com/index.htmlRichard Benedick - former US Deputy Assistant of State, headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department: “A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” from the 1990 book “Trashing the Planet” Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical)Former French President Jacques Chirac, supporting the Kyoto Protocol: “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/01/22/the-u-n-s-global-warming-war-on-capitalism-an-important-history-lesson-2/#116f7bca29be"The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Climate Conference) is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to – compliance” -Dixy Lee Ray, PhD Biology Stanford, former Democrat governor of State of Washington, U.S. https://www.azquotes.com/author/12122-Dixie_Lee_RaySaikat Chakrabarti, US Congresswoman and avowed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff-“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/?utm_term=.b996d5303802For additional similar quotes, see: John Walker's answer to Could someone please provide a printable copy of the "global warming agenda” by “the globalists” who are said to push it?Frequently alarmists will try to discredit the above quotes by fallaciously claiming they are taken out of context. But whenever available, I have included the entire context and/or the reference from which quotes were taken. One can look and see for themselves that the quotes express exactly what is indicated. No amount of spin will change that.For a deeper understanding of the political ideology driving the CAGW scam, it is imperative to look briefly at history. WWII devastated the infrastructure and economies of Europe and Japan. The US developed the Marshall Plan (the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948) with help from the left-of-center think tank, the Brookings Institute as requested by then Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Arthur Vandenberg. Although a Republican, Vandenberg rejected nationalism and embraced “internationalism”. He strongly supported FDR’s founding of the United Nations.Internationalism is an important component of socialist political theory, based on the principle that working-class people of all countries must unite across national boundaries and actively oppose nationalism and war in order to overthrow capitalism…Internationalism (politics) - Wikipedia The ideal for many internationalists is to create democratic socialist globalization and a one-world government.Ironically, the Marshall Plan was initially developed as a foreign aid plan to the devastated European nations in part to deter the advance of Soviet communism. The US sent the current equivalent of $100 billion to these nations, which was meant to cease once they had recovered. But in 1951, the Marshall Plan was replaced by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, which was replaced by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, which continued $billions in economic aid to portions of Europe along with parts of Asia and South/Central America.Of course, economic aid continues today and has expanded to numerous other countries even though the Cold War ended decades ago. Many of these nations were allowed to raise tariffs against American products while the US usually did not reciprocate. While aid to wealthy western nations has essentially ceased (except for the $billions in military protection the US continues to provide), many of these nations have maintained tariffs on American imports. Thus, since WWII, America has already been redistributing much of its wealth to scores of nations around the world. Again, ironically, many conservatives supported foreign aid to prevent the spread of communism, while much of the drive for this continued wealth redistribution from leftists and globalists was based upon the desire to “fundamentally transform” American exceptionalism and nationalism into internationalism by the redistribution of American wealth and power (anyone recall that phrase, “fundamentally transform”, from Obama’s speeches?).So this is the historical link between the UN goal of internationalism and its goal for the redistribution of American wealth/power to other nations via its fraudulent CAGW campaign. But instead of $billions, it is now $trillions. (It is also simple to comprehend one of the primary reasons the left/socialists/globalist elites loathe Trump and his reciprocal tariffs meant to diminish the flow of jobs and wealth to foreign nations! He is the first president to attempt this since 1948, and the left is trying desperately to make him fail and remove him from office by any means in order to keep him from pursuing his goal of keeping America a sovereign, highly successful capitalist nation and world leader. To them the ends justify their Machiavellian means.)So the CAGW agenda has been led primarily by the UN, particularly the IPCC, and leftist politicians, radical leftist environmentalists, and other socialists. But over the years, wealthy bankers, greedy politicians and other investors have realized that the “green agenda” is a potential gold mine. Certainly Al Gore has cashed in on it. When running for president in 1999, he reported a net worth of $1.7 million. Since then, he has been involved in multiple lucrative climate-related business ventures and served on the boards of numerous high-profile companies like Google and Apple, often because of his public image as a savior of the planet from CAGW. As of 2013, his fortune was estimated at $200 million, a good chunk of which was derived from climate change-related business.Gore was one of the early promoters of the Chicago Climate Exchange (along with Enron!) He, President Obama, and others lobbied feverishly to have CO2 “Cap-and-Trade” legislation passed by Congress, which would have mandated all industries that produced CO2 to either limit their production of CO2 or purchase carbon credit “off-sets” from companies that started with excess credits or which lowered their production enough to sell their excess supply of CO2 credits, all via transactions through the Chicago Climate (commodities) Exchange! In essence, CO2 emissions could initially remain the same, or even increase, for companies willing to pay the additional cost. However, over time, CO2 emission levels were to be sequentially lowered, which would have driven the price of carbon credits (and the Exchange’s stock price) higher and higher. At its founding, it was estimated that the size of the Exchange’s carbon trading market could reach $500 billion. That estimate ballooned over the years to $10 trillion! R.I.P.: Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Has Died | National ReviewOf course, huge commissions would have been made in the buying and selling process, just like any other commodities trading. And lots of big investors (including Gore and other CAGW promoters) wanted to get in on the action. Goldman-Sachs was the largest shareholder owning 18% of the Exchange. Al Gore, with three former Goldman Sachs bankers, together made up the fifth largest. According to figures released by the Federal Election Commission, Goldman Sachs was also heavily invested in the Obama presidency. Goldman's PAC and individual Goldman contributors made up the campaign's second-largest donation, nearly $1 million.But without the needed legislation (which was never passed by republican congressional majorities), the Exchange could not generate the huge profits envisioned by its wealthy investors. In 2010 it was bought by Intercontinental Exchange (a publicly-traded commodities exchange company). Included in the sale was the European Climate Exchange (still quite profitable because of all of the global warming legislation passed across the EU) for over $600 million. Obviously the original investors made a chunk of change from the sale.“Unlike most real markets, the carbon market was created by banks and governments so that new investment opportunities could seamlessly dovetail with specific government policies. It’s a fantasy casino based on a doctrine of pure science fiction…Placed in its proper historical context, we can see that the man-made global warming movement was a classic merger of radical Collectivist ideas and huge financial opportunities… Never has the world seen a more stunning collusion between government (include the UN here) and big business” - The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange - 21st Century Wire“A $16.3 trillion public investment [i.e., increased federal taxes] is necessary to make those [climate change] goals a reality, which falls in line with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said any viable climate change plan needed to come with a $10 trillion price tag – at least– in order to ‘have a shot’.” Bernie Sanders Unveils Massive $16 Trillion Green New Deal PlanIn the end, the public (consumers and taxpayers) pay the $trillions that the CAGW scam is costing, with $billions of that money going into the pockets of “green” investors and businesses, all pushing the CAGW theory.Bernie Sanders Is Open To A ‘Meat Tax’ To Combat Climate Change(Guess who’s voting for Bernie):“Al Gore is standing to rake in $millions from a World Resources Institute meat consumption reduction report, one that will certainly help boost profits for the meat substitute manufacturers – in which Gore just happens to be a big stakeholder! Gore, partner and advisor to Kleiner Perkins, Beyond Meat’s big investor, stands to haul in $millions, should governments move to restrict real meat consumption” (Or institute a meat tax!) Climate Hustler, Partner At ‘Beyond Meat’ Largest Investor, Al Gore Moves To Profit Big From Anti-Meat DriveBut Gore is small potatoes compared to others hoping to rake in $trillions, who are also fervently pushing the CAGW agenda, albeit behind the scenes of course:“A key player in the linking of world financial institutions with the Green Agenda is outgoing Bank of England head Mark Carney. In December 2015, the [globalist] Bank for International Settlements’ Financial Stability Board (FSB), chaired then by Carney, created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), to advise ‘investors, lenders and insurance about climate related risks.’ That was certainly a bizarre focus for world central bankers.“In 2016 the TCFD along with the City of London Corporation [the financial center of England] and the UK Government initiated the Green Finance Initiative, aiming to channel trillions of dollars to ‘green’ investments. The central bankers of the FSB nominated 31 people to form the TCFD. Chaired by billionaire Michael Bloomberg of the Financial Wire, it includes key people from JP MorganChase; from BlackRock–one of the world’s biggest asset managers with almost $7 trillion; Barclays Bank; HSBC, the London-Hong Kong bank repeatedly fined for laundering drug and other black funds; Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, mining giant BHP Billington and David Blood of Al Gore’s Generation Investment LLC. In effect it seems the foxes are writing the rules for the new Green Hen House.“Bank of England’s Carney was also a key actor in efforts to make the City of London into the financial center of global Green Finance. The outgoing UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, in July 2019 released a White Paper, ‘Green Finance Strategy: Transforming Finance for a Greener Future.’ The paper states, ‘One of the most influential initiatives to emerge is the Financial Stability Board’s private sector Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), supported by Mark Carney and chaired by Michael Bloomberg [2020 US democratic presidential primary candidate]. This has been endorsed by institutions representing $118 trillion of assets globally.’ There seems to be a plan here. The plan is the financialization of the entire world economy using fear of an end of world scenario to reach arbitrary aims such as ‘net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.’“The links between the world’s largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for ‘sustainable’ economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be.“In February 2019 following a speech to the EU Commission in Brussels by Greta Thunberg, then-EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after gallantly kissing Greta’s hand, appeared to be moved to real action. He told Greta and the press that the EU should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next 10 years. Juncker proposed that between 2021 to 2027, ‘every fourth euro spent within the EU budget go toward action to mitigate climate change.’ What the sly Juncker did not say was that the decision had nothing to do with the young Swedish activist’s plea. It had been made in conjunction with the World Bank a full year before in September 26, 2018 at the One Planet Summit, along with the World Bank, Bloomberg Foundations, the World Economic Forum and others. Juncker had cleverly used the media attention given the young Swede to promote his climate agenda.“On October 17, 2018, days following the EU agreement at the One Planet Summit, Juncker’s EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Breakthrough Energy-Europe in which member corporations of Breakthrough Energy-Europe will have preferential access to any funding.“The members of Breakthrough Energy include Virgin Air’s Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, HRH Prince Al-waleed bin Talal, Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio; Julian Robertson of hedge fund giant, Tiger Management; David Rubenstein, founder Carlyle Group; George Soros, Chairman Soros Fund Management LLC; Masayoshi Son, founder Softbank, Japan.“Make no mistake. When the most influential multinational corporations, the world’s largest institutional investors including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, the UN, the World Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks of the BIS line up behind the financing of a so-called green Agenda, call it Green New Deal or what, it is time to look behind the surface of public climate activist campaigns to the actual agenda. The picture that emerges is the attempted financial reorganization of the world economy using climate, something the sun and its energy have orders of magnitude more to do with than mankind ever could—to try to convince us ordinary folk to make untold sacrifice to ‘save our planet.’” [while making themselves richer than God!] https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209Yes, there are many climate scientists who are very outspoken about CAGW, such as James Hansen and Michael Mann. But the real power behind the “green agenda” lies in the UN, politicians, wealthy elitists, investors and bankers, radical environmentalists, globalists and socialists. It’s a reprehensible and sinister money-making plot and scam on the entire world’s population. But feel free to obey and hand over your financial assets and constantly increasing tax payments to these greedy charlatans and mendacious politicians.

The article you reference is like most other articles fallaciously claiming the global warming “science is settled”. It’s primarily opinion derived from otherwise inconclusive or manipulated data.It’s utterly absurd to claim that the theory of CAGW has been proven or even validated by the scientific method. It hasn’t. It is still just hypothesis based upon correlation; partially estimated, extrapolated, manipulated, and manufactured temperature data; flawed and manipulated computer models using the manipulated temperature data and “educated” guesses of climate sensitivity to CO2; and an incomplete understanding of how CO2 affects climate combined with an unproven hypothesis speculating that “greenhouse gases” warm the earth in violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.There is an immense amount of information contradicting the theory of CAGW, including dozens of failed computer model predictions, published evidence of mendacity by climate alarmist scientists, contradictory temperature measurements, non-correlation of CO2 and global temps, etc. Thousands of scientists have gone on record denouncing the theory as fraudulent and/or exaggerated. Many climate alarmists have even admitted they have exaggerated their claims and conslusions. Others have changed from alarmists to skeptics.And we now know that the primary driving forces behind the global warming scam are the usual suspects- money and power:For many CAGW alarmists- UN officials, globalists, leftist politicians, greedy and unscrupulous bankers and other investors, radical environmentalists, and avowed socialists/communists, the theory of CAGW is not really about climate change. Rather it is about changing the political and economic systems of the world. Specifically, it is about instituting one world government, replacing capitalism and democracy with global authoritarian socialism, and markedly reducing global population as illustrated below.“…the global warming rubric has provided an ideal platform to accomplish exactly what [former socialist Venezuelan president] Chavez has in mind…to enable the U.N. to advance large transformational visions of socialism, wealth redistribution, and ultimately, global governance.” The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson“So-called Climate Change, aka Global Warming, is a neo-malthusian deindustrialization agenda originally developed by circles around the Rockefeller family in the early 1970’s to prevent rise of independent industrial rivals.” The Dark Story Behind Global Warming aka Climate ChangeThe UN and many of its globalist, socialist and environmentalist members and advisors, particularly oil billionaires Maurice Strong and David Rockefeller, along with Rockefeller’s Club of Rome, initially developed much of this scheme. It was formalized at the 1992 Rio Climate Conference (organized by Strong) as UN Agenda 21 or the Sustainable Development Agenda: “Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced; a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level … Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice … The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of the society as a whole.” David J.C. Shearman – No B-S here (I hope)[Agenda 21 is now being replaced with the UN’s Agenda 2030, with the same globalist/socialist goals.]Lest you believe this is just conspiracy theory , read what many alarmists have admitted:Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party USA: “Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”UN Commission on Global Governance: "The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.""This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution." . Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history." - Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate ChangeFormer U.S. democrat Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, joined Maurice Strong in addressing the 1992 Climate Summit audience: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” (Wirth is now president of the U.N. Foundation which lobbies for $hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries "fight" climate change.) The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History LessonChristine Stewart, then Canadian Minister of the Environment, speaking before editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald in 1998, said, “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_StewartDavid Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth: “The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature’s proper steward and society’s only hope.”Judi Bari, Principal organizer of Earth First! - "If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.” Reported in the New American March 7th, 2013 and "Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature." Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary conceptHelen Caldicott, an Australian physician and a leading member of the leftist political organization Union of Concerned Scientists: “Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth.”(By the way, according to the reference below, the Union of Concerned Scientists is a left-wing advocacy organization that spreads unscientific alarmism about environmental and energy topics. It is not a scientific organization although it is treated as one by the press and others ignorant of its true political agendas. It began as a leftist anti-Vietnam War group and now promotes the theory of catastrophic CO2 global warming, anti-nuclear energy, anti-GMO, radical environmental stances, and other left-wing agendas. Apparently anyone can join for $25 to become a “concerned scientist”. Though founded in 1969 by faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCS’ mission from the beginning has never been the pursuit of knowledge through scientific discovery. It has instead pursued left-wing advocacy on technology, environmental, and energy issues—regardless of what the scientific data have shown. Union of Concerned Scientists - Left Exposed Its president is not a scientist but a lifelong political activist. He is close to Al Gore and former democrat senator and CO2 global warming alarmist, Tim Wirth, who commented about the theory of CAGW this way: "we've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." (Not surprisingly, after Wirth left the Senate and the Clinton administration he ended up at the United Nations as president of the UN Foundation. National Review: Climate Change Hypocrisy Also see: https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-the-Trump-administration-is-actively-censoring-data-about-climate-change/answer/Charles-Holley-10/comment/104179721Club of Rome: “Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years from today it will probably be too late.”David Rockefeller, billionaire founding member Club of Rome and close friend of Maurice Strong: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…”(Many of the above quotes from: C3: Global Warming Quotes & Climate Change Quotes: Human-Caused Global Warming Advocates/Supporters)"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class- involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing- are not sustainable."- Maurice Strong, Canadian oil billionaire socialist, close friend of David Rockefeller, organizer of the Rio Earth Summit and the UN Foundation The Green AgendaOne of the most ardent supporters of CAGW, socialist author Naomi Klein: “…most leftists have yet to realize that climate science has handed them the most powerful argument against capitalism since William Blake’s ‘dark Satanic Mills’…The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot. They arrived at this analysis by taking a hard look at what it would take to lower global emissions as drastically and as rapidly as climate science demands. They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system. As British blogger and Heartland regular James Delingpole has pointed out, 'Modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the left: redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, greater government intervention, regulation.' Heartland’s Bast puts it even more bluntly: For the left, 'Climate change is the perfect thing…. It’s the reason why we should do everything [the left] wanted to do anyway.' Here’s my inconvenient truth: they aren’t wrong... arriving at these new systems is going to require shredding the free-market ideology that has dominated the global economy for more than three decades. What follows is a quick-and-dirty look at what a serious climate agenda would mean in the following six arenas: public infrastructure, economic planning, corporate regulation, international trade, consumption and taxation." Capitalism vs. the ClimateClub of Rome, environmental think-tank and consultants to the United Nations. "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself...humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose… Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time…Democracy has failed us, a new system of global governance, based on environmental imperatives, must be implemented quickly...A radical change from the current trajectory is required, a complete reordering of global society..." From their book “The First Global Revolution”. The First Global Revolution For more COR quotes see: The Green AgendaAustralians Professor David Shearman and ecologist Joseph Wayne Smith published The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. Amazon’s blurb says, “This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction―and climate change in particular―is the operation of liberal democracy.” Originally a research tract, the abstract says the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. [Good luck with that!] David J.C. Shearman – No B-S here (I hope)"Government in the future will be based upon . . . a supreme office of the biosphere. The office will comprise specially trained philosopher/ecologists. These guardians will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities." David Shearman, an IPCC Assessor for 3rd and 4th climate change reports Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical) and https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/warmist-yearns-for-the-freedom-of-a-dictatorship/news-story/c3f37af24d1ad137dde65fac558c95f0Quotes from an article about a recent UN study: “Meeting current or growing levels of energy need in the next few decades with low-carbon solutions (i.e., renewables) will be extremely difficult, if not impossible. The economic transition must involve efforts to lower total energy use.…international freight transport and aviation cannot continue to grow at current rates.…dairy and meat should make way for largely plant-based diets. But capitalist markets will not be capable of facilitating the required changes – governments will need to step up, and institutions (i.e., globalist elitist groups) will need to actively shape markets to fit the goals of human survival. It can’t happen without considerable reframing of economic-political thinking, however.” This is how UN scientists are preparing for the end of capitalismDr. John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar - “A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives... using an armed international police force. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization". (His book, “Ecoscience” co-authored with Paul Ehrlich in 1977) and “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being." Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical) and https://antioligarch.wordpress.c...Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev recognizing the importance of using climate alarmism to advance global socialist/Marxist objectives, stated in 1996: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.” The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History LessonEvo Morales, the socialist president of Bolivia at the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP-20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: "The origin of global warming lies in capitalism… If we could end capitalism then we would have a solution.” 'The origin of global warming lies in capitalism'Former socialist President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, at the 2010 UN Mexico Climate Conference: “Our revolution seeks to help all people…Socialism,... that’s the way to save the planet; capitalism is the road to hell…Let’s fight against capitalism..." The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson (He received a standing ovation from the huge crowd of attendees!)The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist (environmental magazine based in Seattle) writer, to tweet enthusiastically in 2018, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.” U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States.” - Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Professor of Population Studies and author of “The Population Bomb” (1968) and co-author of “Ecoscience” (1977) with John Holdren http://green-agenda.com/index.htmlRichard Benedick - former US Deputy Assistant of State, headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department: “A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” from the 1990 book “Trashing the Planet” Inconvenient Quotes (For Climate Alarmists) (Al Gore, enemy, global warming, ethical)Former French President Jacques Chirac, supporting the Kyoto Protocol: “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established.” The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson"The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Climate Conference) is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to – compliance” -Dixy Lee Ray, PhD Biology Stanford, former Democrat governor of State of Washington, U.S. https://www.azquotes.com/author/12122-Dixie_Lee_RaySaikat Chakrabarti, US Congresswoman and avowed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff-“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/?utm_term=.b996d5303802For additional similar quotes, see: John Walker's answer to Could someone please provide a printable copy of the "global warming agenda” by “the globalists” who are said to push it?Frequently alarmists will try to discredit the above quotes by claiming they are taken out of context. But whenever available, I have included the entire context and/or the reference from which quotes were obtained. One can look and see for themselves that the quotes express exactly what is indicated. No amount of spin will change that.For a deeper understanding of the political ideology driving the CAGW scam, it is imperative to look briefly at history. WWII devastated the infrastructure and economies of Europe and Japan. The US developed the Marshall Plan (the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948) with help from the left-of-center think tank, the Brookings Institute as requested by then Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Arthur Vandenberg. Although a Republican, Vandenberg rejected nationalism and embraced “internationalism”. He strongly supported FDR’s founding of the United Nations.Internationalism is an important component of socialist political theory, based on the principle that working-class people of all countries must unite across national boundaries and actively oppose nationalism and war in order to overthrow capitalism…Internationalism (politics) - Wikipedia The ideal for many internationalists is to create socialist globalization and a one-world government.Ironically, the Marshall Plan was initially developed as a foreign aid plan to the devastated European nations in part to deter the advance of Soviet communism. The US sent the current equivalent of $100 billion to these nations, which was meant to cease once they had recovered. But in 1951, the Marshall Plan was replaced by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, which was replaced by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, which continued $billions in economic aid to portions of Europe along with parts of Asia and South/Central America.Of course, economic aid continues today and has expanded to numerous other countries even though the Cold War ended decades ago. Many of these nations were allowed to raise tariffs against American products while the US usually did not reciprocate. While aid to wealthy western nations has essentially ceased (except for the $billions in military protection the US continues to provide), many of these nations have maintained tariffs on American imports. Thus, since WWII, America has already been redistributing much of its wealth to scores of nations around the world. Again, ironically, many conservatives supported foreign aid to prevent the spread of communism, while much of the drive for this continued wealth redistribution from leftists and globalists was based upon the desire to “fundamentally transform” American exceptionalism and nationalism into internationalism by the redistribution of American wealth and power (anyone recall that phrase, “fundamentally transform”, from Obama’s speeches?).So this is the historical link between the UN goal of internationalism and its goal for the redistribution of American wealth/power to other nations via its fraudulent CAGW campaign. But instead of $billions, it is now $trillions. (It is also simple to comprehend one of the primary reasons the left/socialists/globalist elites loathe Trump and his reciprocal tariffs meant to diminish the flow of jobs and wealth to foreign nations! He is the first president to attempt this since 1948, and the left is trying desperately to make him fail and remove him from office by any means in order to keep him from pursuing his goal of keeping America a sovereign, highly successful capitalist nation and world leader. To them the ends justify their Machiavellian means.)So the CAGW agenda has been led primarily by the UN, particularly the IPCC, and leftist politicians, radical leftist environmentalists, and other socialists. But over the years, wealthy bankers, greedy politicians and other investors have realized that the “green agenda” is a potential gold mine. Certainly Al Gore has cashed in on it. When running for president in 1999, he reported a net worth of $1.7 million. Since then, he has been involved in multiple lucrative climate-related business ventures and served on the boards of numerous high-profile companies like Google and Apple, often because of his public image as a savior of the planet from CAGW. As of 2013, his fortune was estimated at $200 million, a good chunk of which was derived from climate change-related business.Gore was one of the early promoters of the Chicago Climate Exchange (along with Enron!) He, President Obama, and others lobbied feverishly to have CO2 “Cap-and-Trade” legislation passed by Congress, which would have mandated all industries that produced CO2 to either limit their production of CO2 or purchase carbon credit “off-sets” from companies that started with excess credits or which lowered their production enough to sell their excess supply of CO2 credits, all via transactions through the Chicago Climate (commodities) Exchange! In essence, CO2 emissions could initially remain the same, or even increase, for companies willing to pay the additional cost. However, over time, CO2 emission levels were to be sequentially lowered, which would have driven the price of carbon credits (and the Exchange’s stock price) higher and higher. At its founding, it was estimated that the size of the Exchange’s carbon trading market could reach $500 billion. That estimate ballooned over the years to $10 trillion! R.I.P.: Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Has Died | National ReviewOf course, huge commissions would have been made in the buying and selling process, just like any other commodities trading. And lots of big investors (including Gore and other CAGW promoters) wanted to get in on the action. Goldman-Sachs was the largest shareholder owning 18% of the Exchange. Al Gore, with three former Goldman Sachs bankers, together made up the fifth largest. According to figures released by the Federal Election Commission, Goldman Sachs was also heavily invested in the Obama presidency. Goldman's PAC and individual Goldman contributors made up the campaign's second-largest donation, nearly $1 million.But without the needed legislation (which was never passed by republican congressional majorities), the Exchange could not generate the huge profits envisioned by its wealthy investors. In 2010 it was bought by Intercontinental Exchange (a publicly-traded commodities exchange company). Included in the sale was the European Climate Exchange (still quite profitable because of all of the global warming legislation passed across the EU) for over $600 million. Obviously the original investors made a chunk of change from the sale.“Unlike most real markets, the carbon market was created by banks and governments so that new investment opportunities could seamlessly dovetail with specific government policies. It’s a fantasy casino based on a doctrine of pure science fiction…Placed in its proper historical context, we can see that the man-made global warming movement was a classic merger of radical Collectivist ideas and huge financial opportunities… Never has the world seen a more stunning collusion between government (include the UN here) and big business” - The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange - 21st Century Wire“A $16.3 trillion public investment [i.e., increased federal taxes] is necessary to make those [climate change] goals a reality, which falls in line with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said any viable climate change plan needed to come with a $10 trillion price tag – at least– in order to ‘have a shot’.” Bernie Sanders Unveils Massive $16 Trillion Green New Deal PlanIn the end, the public (consumers and taxpayers) pay the $trillions that the CAGW scam is costing, with $billions of that money going into the pockets of “green” investors and businesses, all pushing the CAGW theory.Bernie Sanders Is Open To A ‘Meat Tax’ To Combat Climate Change(Guess who’s voting for Bernie):“Al Gore is standing to rake in $millions from a World Resources Institute meat consumption reduction report, one that will certainly help boost profits for the meat substitute manufacturers – in which Gore just happens to be a big stakeholder! Gore, partner and advisor to Kleiner Perkins, Beyond Meat’s big investor, stands to haul in $millions, should governments move to restrict real meat consumption” (Or institute an onerous meat tax!) Climate Hustler, Partner At ‘Beyond Meat’ Largest Investor, Al Gore Moves To Profit Big From Anti-Meat DriveBut Gore is small potatoes compared to others hoping to rake in $trillions, who are also fervently pushing the CAGW agenda, albeit behind the scenes of course:“A key player in the linking of world financial institutions with the Green Agenda is outgoing Bank of England head Mark Carney. In December 2015, the [globalist] Bank for International Settlements’ Financial Stability Board (FSB), chaired then by Carney, created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), to advise ‘investors, lenders and insurance about climate related risks.’ That was certainly a bizarre focus for world central bankers.“In 2016 the TCFD along with the City of London Corporation [the financial center of England] and the UK Government initiated the Green Finance Initiative, aiming to channel trillions of dollars to ‘green’ investments. The central bankers of the FSB nominated 31 people to form the TCFD. Chaired by billionaire Michael Bloomberg [2020 candidate for the US democratic presidential primary], it includes key people from JP MorganChase; from BlackRock–one of the world’s biggest asset managers with almost $7 trillion; Barclays Bank; HSBC, the London-Hong Kong bank repeatedly fined for laundering drug and other black funds; Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, mining giant BHP Billington and David Blood of Al Gore’s Generation Investment LLC. In effect it seems the foxes are writing the rules for the new Green Hen House.“Bank of England’s Carney was also a key actor in efforts to make the City of London into the financial center of global Green Finance. The outgoing UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, in July 2019 released a White Paper, ‘Green Finance Strategy: Transforming Finance for a Greener Future.’ The paper states, ‘One of the most influential initiatives to emerge is the Financial Stability Board’s private sector Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), supported by Mark Carney and chaired by Michael Bloomberg. This has been endorsed by institutions representing $118 trillion of assets globally.’ There seems to be a plan here. The plan is the financialization of the entire world economy using fear of an end of world scenario to reach arbitrary aims such as ‘net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.’“The links between the world’s largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for ‘sustainable’ economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be.“In February 2019 following a speech to the EU Commission in Brussels by Greta Thunberg, then-EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after gallantly kissing Greta’s hand, appeared to be moved to real action. He told Greta and the press that the EU should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next 10 years. Juncker proposed that between 2021 to 2027, ‘every fourth euro spent within the EU budget go toward action to mitigate climate change.’ What the sly Juncker did not say was that the decision had nothing to do with the young Swedish activist’s plea. It had been made in conjunction with the World Bank a full year before in September 26, 2018 at the One Planet Summit, along with the World Bank, Bloomberg Foundations, the World Economic Forum and others. Juncker had cleverly used the media attention given the young Swede to promote his climate agenda.“On October 17, 2018, days following the EU agreement at the One Planet Summit, Juncker’s EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Breakthrough Energy-Europe in which member corporations of Breakthrough Energy-Europe will have preferential access to any funding.“The members of Breakthrough Energy include Virgin Air’s Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, HRH Prince Al-waleed bin Talal, Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio; Julian Robertson of hedge fund giant, Tiger Management; David Rubenstein, founder Carlyle Group; George Soros, Chairman Soros Fund Management LLC; Masayoshi Son, founder Softbank, Japan.“Make no mistake. When the most influential multinational corporations, the world’s largest institutional investors including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, the UN, the World Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks of the BIS line up behind the financing of a so-called green Agenda, call it Green New Deal or what, it is time to look behind the surface of public climate activist campaigns to the actual agenda. The picture that emerges is the attempted financial reorganization of the world economy using climate, something the sun and its energy have orders of magnitude more to do with than mankind ever could—to try to convince us ordinary folk to make untold sacrifice to ‘save our planet.’” [while making themselves richer than God!] https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209Yes, there are many climate scientists who are very outspoken about CAGW, such as James Hansen and Michael Mann. But the real power behind the “green agenda” lies in the UN, politicians, wealthy elitists, investors and bankers, radical environmentalists, globalists and socialists. It’s a reprehensible and sinister money-making plot and scam on the entire world’s population. But feel free to obey and hand over your financial assets and constantly increasing tax payments to these greedy charlatans and mendacious politicians.