4.8. Major Financial Stakes In 2015, the 200 page Climate Change Consulting Report was delivered by the Climate Change Business group, editor of the Climate Change Business Journal410 (CCBJ) for $995. The question raised by Driessen (2015) “So how do White House, EPA, UN, EU, Big Green, Big Wind, liberal media, and even Google, GE and Defense Department officials justify their fixation on climate change as the greatest crisis facing humanity? How do they excuse saying government must control our energy system, our economy and nearly every aspect of our lives – deciding which jobs will be protected and which ones destroyed, even who will live and who will die – in the name of saving the planet? What drives their intense ideology? ” is easily answered in the aforementioned report: the annual revenue of the Climate Crisis and Renewable Energy Industry has become a $1.5-trillion-a-year business! This tax-payer funded carbon tyranny will take control of each and every aspects of your lives through all facets of economic activity, including low carbon and renewable power, carbon capture and storage, energy storage (such as batteries), energy efficiency, green buildings, transportation, climate change adaptation, and consulting and research and the future biggest commodity market based on carbon trading (don't forget that if you trade corn on the CME you are a shameful speculator but if you trade carbon emission rights you help mankind redeem its sins). As it grows at a [17-24%] rate annually (Harper, 2015) and considering an average growth rate of 20%, one immediately sees that we talk most probably of a monster-industry wasting in 2020 (at 20% discounted growth rate over five years) and at a global scale sort of (1.2 5=2.488) 2.48*1.5=3.73 trillion-a-year (in USD). Yes an industry the size of the GDP of Germany (3436 B€ in 2019), based not only on vested interests but on massive forced spoliation of the taxpayers and deliberate delusion of the citizens, as Nova (2015) explains “it’s the only major industry in the world dependent on consumer and voter ignorance. This is not just another vested interest in a political debate; it’s vested-on-steroids, a mere opinion poll away from extinction. You can almost hear the captains of climate industry bellowing: Keep ‘em ignorant and believing, or the money goes away!”. Furthermore, as Delingpole (2016) states “I call climate change 'the gift that goes on giving' because day in day out I get an endless stream of stories to write about the corruption, incompetence, skullduggery of the climate alarmism industry. (…) Can it be right that people who have worked hard for their money should have it taken from them and then wasted in so spectacular fashion?”. In the guise of saving the world’s environment, massively funded green-lobbies and ideas could advance and impose all their usual obsessions: control, regulation, state intervention, moralistic Troyan horses, compulsory impoverishment but though this time with a smiling, fluffy face, because all these hardships are for the sake of your salvation and that of your children ; the string is big but works wonderfully, brainwashed people kept in the constant climate-scare gale ask for more. As reminded by Yeo (2019a) “Estimates of how much climate finance is flowing around the world depend on who is doing the counting. The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an international thinktank that publishes annual analyses, says that total climate-related financing was $510 billion to $530 billion in 2017, the latest figures available, up from $360 billion in 2012. The UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), put it at $681 billion in 2016”, but already in 2014, the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) of the UNFCCC estimated “ the current volume of climate finance worldwide to be in the range of 340 to 650 billion dollars. Within this amount, the flows from North to South countries are estimated in the range of 40 to 175 billion dollars of which public flows total between $35 to 50 billion ” also see for a confirmation of some figures (OECD-G20, 2015). This is no small money, but as never enough, it is stated in (IPCC, 2018b), D.5.3. p.24, that an annual investment of $2.4 trillion is needed in the energy system alone until 2035 to limit temperature rise to below 1.5 °C from pre-industrial levels, that is around 2.5% of the world’s economy (Yeo, 2019a). And the effort to tackle climate change goes beyond transforming energy systems: it includes spending on so many other things, as for example reforestation, coastal-defense systems and many other wasted efforts to cut emissions and adapt to rising temperatures.
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