Environmentalists Surf Tsunami Tragedy

Fox News ^ | December 31, 2004 | Steven Milloy

[metalmanx2j]

Environmental activists are shamelessly trying to exploit last week's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in hopes of advancing their global warming and anti-development agendas.

Two days after the tragedy, the executive director of Greenpeace UK (search) told the British newspaper The Independent, "No one can ignore the relentless increase in extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree."

Friends of the Earth (search) Director Tony Juniper told the same British newspaper, "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."

A spokesperson for the Indonesian arm of Friends of the Earth told the Agence France Presse, "We can expect in the coming years similar events happening as a result of global warming and therefore help and prevention are the responsibility of the Northern countries as well."

Exploitation of tragedy is a sport played not only by environmentalists. Insurer Munich Re used the event as an opportunity to renew its call for action to fight global warming, which the insurance industry has recently started to blame for natural disasters.

[mc6809e]

These comments are just proof they are insane.

[xjcsa]

Has anyone here read Michael Crichton's new book "State of Fear"? An excellent novel which savagely tears apart modern global warming doctrine. This story is an amazing echo from the book.

[evolved_rage]

I guess repeated excessive warming and cooling could cause....

Oh who am I kidding, its Bush's fault...

[Uncledave]

I totally agree with this. If all these victoms didn't go ahead and get themselves born and then have the nerve to grow food and build shelter, they wouldn't be dead right now.

/sarc.

[ChicagoRighty]

I'm so glad you posted this. I am in the middle of a heated argument with a leftist relative that is heavily involved with moveon.org. She is claiming (and the organization is to send out email to the effect) that the quake was due in part to the bombing that went on in Iraq.

I'm just gobstruck at her seriousness in blaming the administration for the deaths.

Any tidbits of facts or factoids fellow Freepers can lay on me to hit her with (regarding how ridiculous this is) is appreciated.

[Riley]

Friends of the Earth (search) Director Tony Juniper told the same British newspaper, "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."

Have they offered some kind of convoluted explanation of how 'climate change' can be responsible for seismic events that have been happening since time immemorial?

What amazes me is that there are people who will believe this stuff.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

[uglybiker]

When that email goes out I want to read it.

Please PING me when it gets posted.

[Lazamataz]

Two days after the tragedy, the executive director of Greenpeace UK (search) told the British newspaper The Independent, "No one can ignore the relentless increase in extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree."

THIS IS NOT A F***ING WEATHER EVENT!!! AND IT *IS* A NATURAL DISASTER!!!

Greanpeece sucks a&&.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Lets see, an earthquake on the ocean floor thats 6 miles underwater is caused by global warming... Insanity? No friggen lamebrain sh*theaded asssuchin gawdamn idiots !!!!

[cake_crumb]

We ALL knew it was only a matter of time before they exploited SOME natural disaster for their old-new global warmingcooling schtick. After all, they're using Kyoto and Algoe-orderd, complimentary "environmental study" that basically predicted that global warming is responsible for literally EVERYTHING, from the weather and geological events to increases in violent crime.

Now every time a tectonic plate dares to move, moisture has the gall to precipitate upon us or any other new "crisis" is invented by the media, all they have to do is sit back and say they told us so.

[Riley]

I'm so glad you posted this. I am in the middle of a heated argument with a leftist relative that is heavily involved with moveon.org. She is claiming (and the organization is to send out email to the effect) that the quake was due in part to the bombing that went on in Iraq.

Oh my goodness. She actually believes that? You could detonate every nuclear weapon on earth in downtown Baghdad, and it wouldn't budge the earth's plates an inch.

[NorCalRepub]

LOL........I liked the way you come to the point....as if earthquakes and tidal waves did not exist before man was walking upright......things like this really really amaze me like they are so bizarre I almost can't get mad.

[Lazamataz]

She is claiming (and the organization is to send out email to the effect) that the quake was due in part to the bombing that went on in Iraq.

Amazing. Utterly, moronically amazing.

I'm just gobstruck

You mean Gobsmacked.

Gobsmacked.

Gobsmacked.

Unununium. Unununium.

[noblejones]

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Any tidbits of facts or factoids fellow Freepers can lay on me to hit her with (regarding how ridiculous this is) is appreciated.
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The force expended by the earthquake, underwater landslides and ensuing tsunamis were greter than the combined total of every munition ever fired by human kind.

[inquest]

Friends of the Earth Director Tony Juniper told the same British newspaper, "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."

"Climate change predictions" include geoseismic events? Has this been published in Nature?

[uglybiker]

RFE list PING

[aspiring.hillbilly]

All the environmental activists who believe that crap need to be bitch slapped some sense into their greenhouse gas filled heads.

[ChicagoRighty]

No, I was first Awesmacked... then I became gobstruck... :-)... sorry about that.

[Riley]

You know, maybe this is really a good thing. Let the high priests of the environmental movement publicly declare that 'climate change' caused an earthquake.

When somebody is determined to publicly make a fool of themselves, get out of the way and let them. Doubly so when it's some self-anointed 'environmentalist' snake-oil salesman.