What if ISIS attacked Paris to prevent the COP21 climate conference in France from reaching an agreement that would impact their oil business?
No, I’m not kidding. Look here?
Is it a coincidence that the terrorist outrage in Paris was committed weeks before COP21, the biggest climate conference since 2009? Perhaps, writes Oliver Tickell. But failure to reach a strong climate agreement now looks more probable. And that’s an outcome that would suit ISIS – which makes $500m a year from oil sales – together with other oil producers.
Hey John Kerry, would that make this a tragedy with some rationale?
Eric Worrall at WUWT (H/T for the link and quotes) finds epic faults in this thinking.
This line of reasoning is deeply flawed. ISIS are not a legitimate supplier of oil, they are oil smugglers. If a future climate agreement were to place a prohibition on oil, or slap on a massive global carbon tax, the black market price of oil would skyrocket – groups like ISIS would make a fortune, helping oil consumers avoid carbon taxes which legitimate providers would have to pay. It seems much more likely that ISIS didn’t know or didn’t care about the COP 21 climate conference, or who knows – perhaps the recent atrocity was just a prelude, a distraction from a much bigger planned attack on world leaders, when they gather in Paris.
No matter what the question is the answer, and correct me if I am wrong, is the compassionate embrace of more refugees.
Let’s make a drum circle and pray to Gaia by the light of our iPhones.
