Atlantic Comes Alive: NHC Tracks Not One, Not Two, But Five Tropical Systems

Now a post-tropical cyclone, Hilary was moving through Nevada early Monday with maximum sustained winds of 39 mph. The storm battered parts of Southern California with heavy winds and torrential rainfall on Sunday. Shifting our attention to the once-quiet Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center tracks five tropical systems.

After a "historic lull" in tropical activity across the Central Atlantic this hurricane season, NHC is tracking Tropical Storm Franklin, located 245 miles south of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Behind Franklin is Tropical Storm Gert, located 455 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Then Tropical Storm Emily is over 1,100 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

Besides TS Franklin, Gert, and Emily, NHC also tracks two more systems. Invest 91L is located in the Gulf of Mexico, with an 80% probability of forming in the next seven days. And Invest 92L is located in the eastern Atlantic and has a 70% chance of formation this week.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/atlantic-comes-alive-nhc-tracks-not-one-not-two-five-tropical-systems

Chinese Energy Firm That Paid Hunter Millions Also Funded NGO That Advised UN On Climate Change, Archives Show

CEFC China Energy Co. (CEFC), the Chinese energy firm that directed millions of dollars to Hunter Biden and his associates, also fully funded a non-governmental organization (NGO) that worked with the United Nations UN on issues pertaining to climate change and that its de facto leader used to engage in international corruption.

The CEFC NGO sponsored two UN programs that awarded funds annually to selected recipients whose work focused on climate change and “sustainable development,” according to archives of the CEFC NGO’s website.

Patrick Ho, the nominal leader of CEFC’s NGO, was convicted in 2018 for bribing a high-ranking Ugandan UN official for preferential treatment of CEFC in future Ugandan business dealings, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.

CEFC China Energy Co. (CEFC), the Chinese energy firm that paid Hunter Biden and his associates millions of dollars, fully funded a non-governmental organization (NGO) under the CEFC brand to engage with the United Nations on climate change, web archives show.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked firm and its affiliates paid Hunter Biden-tied shell companies and associates more than $8 million in a web of complex financial maneuvers, according to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Much of that money changed hands after CEFC’s NGO arm, called the China Energy Fund Committee, established the “Powering the Future We Want” grant program with the United Nations and an annual scholarship prize alongside the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to an archived CEFC NGO webpage.

CEFC’s business arm fully funded the CEFC NGO as “a high-end global think-tank to expand international cooperation” on energy, according to archived webpages, and the NGO received “special consultative status” with the UN in 2011, according to the State Department. Beyond these relationships with the UN, CEFC’s NGO also utilized some of its UN contacts to perpetuate international bribery schemes, one of which led to the eventual conviction of the NGO’s nominal leader, Patrick Ho, in 2018, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.

The scheme centered around Ho using the CEFC NGO to pay foreign officials associated with the UN in exchange for unfair advantages in future deals for CEFC’s business arm, disguising the payments as charitable donations or campaign contributions, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.

The “Powering the Future We Want” initiative offered $1 million starting in 2014 as “an annual grant to recognize exemplary individuals and organizations from around the world for their work in promoting global energy sustainability,” according to the NGO’s archived website and a UN webpage. A separate “strategic partnership” with the UN IPCC supported climate change-related research and the careers of young climate scientists from developing countries with a scholarship program, according to the CEFC NGO’s archived website.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/21/cefc-united-nations-hunter-biden-china-climate-change/