BBC does not report UN discredited premise for climate cash, still notes rich nations urged to pay $10 billion climate reparations

News was published in the past 24 hours that the UN Climate report used its "natural disasters" prediction without substantiation. And that this claim alone was used as the

• reason to transfer billions of dollars in Copenhagen from so-called rich nations to poor nations.

The disgraced claim became a central feature of the movement aided by proclamations of Obama, Miliband, and Brown.

• The BBC does not mention this news in their story of demand for billions to be transferred based on climate injustice.

BBC: "Brazil, China, India and South Africa have urged wealthy nations

• to hand over $10bn (£6bn)

pledged to poor nations in 2010 to fight climate change.

• The group - known as Basic - said the money must be available at once "as proof of their commitment" to address the global challenge.

The plea was issued after a meeting of the four nations in Delhi.

• The funds were pledged in a non-binding deal agreed at last year's Copenhagen global climate conference....

After the Delhi talks, environmental ministers from the four nations issued a joint statement calling for

• rapid distribution of $10bn that
• industrialised nations promised to the developing world to tackle climate change in 2010.

The first funds should go to the least developed countries, including

• small island states and African nations,

China's top climate negotiator Xi Zhenhua said, the Associated Press reports."...

• "Rich Nations Urged to provide $10 billion in climate funds," BBC News, 1/24/10

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