Posted on 12/28/2004 2:35:18 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - With the world's attention focused on the earthquake/tsunami that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in at least ten countries that surround the Indian Ocean, media organizations like Reuters are pinning part of the blame for the catastrophe on "global warming."
"A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in [the] future," wrote Alister Doyle, an environmental correspondent for Reuters, who attributed the opening paragraph of the story to "experts." However, Doyle's story did not contain any quotes directly mentioning the theory of global warming.
Instead, Doyle's narrative referred to the controversial subject. "Global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep the oceans at bay," Doyle wrote.
Brad Smith of the environmental group Greenpeace was quoted in the Reuters story, but only as follows: "Coasts are under threat in many countries ... Development of roads, shrimp farms, ribbon development along coasts and tourism are eroding natural defenses in Asia."
According to Doyle, "Scientists say a build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere from human burning of fossil fuels threatens to trigger more powerful storms and raise sea levels, exposing coasts to more erosion.
"Island nations like the Maldives, swamped by the tsunami, could literally disappear beneath the waves if seas rise," Doyle added in the Reuters story without using expert quotes to back up the assertion. "[I]n Bangladesh, 17 million people live less than one meter above sea level, as do many in Florida in the United States," Doyle reported.
Richard Klein, a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, was quoted on how poor regions of the world are more vulnerable to natural disasters.
"Vulnerability has as much a social dimension as an environmental one," Klein told Reuters.
Two weeks ago, at a United Nations climate change conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cybercast News Service reporter Marc Morano spoke with a former member of Greenpeace who had just urged people attending the conference to ignore the issue of global warming.
"Climate change is a huge thing, but there is very little that we can do about it," Bjorn Lomborg told Morano. Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, said world governments would be wise to worry less about climate change and concentrate instead on problems he considers solvable, like AIDS, poverty and inadequate sanitation.
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For this theory to stand they will have to try a little harder to incorporate an undersea earthquake in a ropical region as being caused by global warming.
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(barking moonbat ravings off)
Isn't it obvious that Karl Rove made this happen to distract the world from the massive fraud coverup in Ohio?
Bush's fault < /sarcasm >
I thought for once there was finally a disaster that would not be pinned on global warming. I was wrong.
BTW, everything other than cat dander causes earthquakes too. Barbara Streisand told me so last week.
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Seriesly, the only way 'global warming' had anything to do with this is from the inside! (Increased mantle heat flow causing more oceanic plate propagation, causing subduction, causing earthquakes in subduction zones.... )
Maybe they can drill a really deep hole and jump in, or just go lay by their dish.....
They have NO SHAME - not with the billions and billions involved in what they hope to grift from the US Treasury.
There is one thing that bothers me, though, and that's the awful, terrible quality of the videos shown to date. The people are terrified, swinging their cameras all over the place. I'm surprized we didn't see ten second staring straight into the sun. I'm a photographer. It should not bother me, given those circumstances. But I just can't help myself, to some degree. I just get frustrated watching amateurs waste the moment. Easy to say - I know. It's always the wrong people, in the wrong place. Again, they had to have been terrified, and probably all just got their digi-videos for Christmas and didn't as yet understand how to operate them? Pet peeve. I don't want to trivialize the deaths of over 25K innocent people, believe me.
Well, don't cha know that plate tektonics are caused by Bush not signing the Kyoto treaty!
Coral reefs and mangrove swapms having been damaged by "global warning" might have saved tens of thousands of people? Yeah, right.
Mark
Those Glo-bull Warming Warning wheels really got cranking....Next:
Bush and America are really at fault.
There is one thing that bothers me, though, and that's the awful, terrible quality of the videos shown to date.
I was struck by that, too. I'm old enough to remember the picture a Navy photographer took of a bomb detonating on a carrier deck- it killed him, but he got the picture as it did.
It would be hard to say what anybody would do under that kind of disaster. The folks who took those shots did alright under the circumstances. Watching impending death would make anybody nervous, even professionals.
Liberals would find a way to blame Bush. It sure didn't take them long to link the Christmas Day disaster to Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.
Our media is censoring scenes where people are in the process of being swept out or dying. Fox showed some of this the first time some video came in, but it was never shown again.
As far as the Global Warming causing tsunamis is concerned, part of this is built on the sad state of science education in this country. Most of the people in the U.S. don't believe in the fact of evolution. Linking false cause and real effect is easy if you have not been trained in objective analysis and observation.
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