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ABC's Angst: Will Billions Die From Global Warming?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/31/2007 8:15:28 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Edited on 01/31/2007 8:45:10 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]

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To: Loyalist
By the year 2150, not a single person living today will be alive.

Damn!
Guess I might as well stop taking those supplements.

41 posted on 01/31/2007 8:28:13 AM PST by evad
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To: Joe 6-pack

It's not fair to ask the right questions, sir.


42 posted on 01/31/2007 8:28:28 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

LOL!


43 posted on 01/31/2007 8:29:03 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: oldvike
The news media and all politicians can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

HA!

44 posted on 01/31/2007 8:29:07 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Per the inset: 1-3 billion could suffer from water scarcity

200-600 million could go hungry

It's that way now!......Who are they trying to scam?........

45 posted on 01/31/2007 8:29:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left has the answer already:
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
A movement offering humanitarian alternative to human disasters.
www.vhemt.org


46 posted on 01/31/2007 8:29:22 AM PST by polymuser (Neoliberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The key question is, "Will women and minorities be adversely affected?"


47 posted on 01/31/2007 8:30:04 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I watched a bit of a History Channel show on the Black Plague the other day.

The show talked about how when people were dying (presumably of Yersinia Pestis infection) people interpreted this as a curse from God and that they must have done something to deserve this punishment.

And it has always been thus. Something happens and populations blame God or "the gods" or whatever the current religious construct is.

The Global Warming scare is this medieval thinking dressed up with the buzzwords of modern "Science".

It's basically we have offended "Gaia" (or whomever) and now Gaia (or fill in the blanks) is punishing us and we must make penances and offer up sacrifices to "Gaia" to prevent this evil he/she/it is visiting upon us.

In other words this is medieval or prehistoric behavior dressed up to look like modern "Science".


48 posted on 01/31/2007 8:30:14 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Tax-chick
I got all caught up in the scare over the milenium crisis where everything was going to go to hell when the clock struck twelve on 01/01/2000, so I made this real elaborate plan about how to deal with food shortages, etc. May plan was that if I got hungry on New Years day, I would go down to Safeway and buy a couple of steaks. Imagine my embarrassment when it all turned out to be a bunch of hooey! I had done all that planning needlessly.

Well, here we go again. Just to be on the safe side, I am taking precautions against global warming. My plans involve adjusting the thermostat on the AC to a lower level if it gets hot. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

49 posted on 01/31/2007 8:30:19 AM PST by San Jacinto
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To: Tax-chick

"Why do they care if billions of people die?"

They don't, but if they can scare enough people badly enough, people will give up even more of their freedom to the elites in the hope of being saved. I think, however, that the increasing shrillness and hysteria surrounding the global warming debate will eventually backfire on the libs. Thankfully for our side, overplaying their hand to the point of looking ridiculous is what socialists do best.


50 posted on 01/31/2007 8:31:14 AM PST by LadyNavyVet
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To: wideawake
Assuming that the "global warming" myth is a fact for the sake of argument - how exactly are these two billion people (one-third of the Earth's population) expected to die?

Well, if you look carefully, there is no attempt at establishing a baseline figures. Throughout my lifetime, tens (hundreds?) of millions have died due to cultural inertness, corruption, political indifference (they are "free" and independent contries), due to disease, war, famine and cultural "helplessness".

Either this climate if forced (by outsiders) to change, eschewing "political correctness", or limit these hysterical reports to how many more will die due to low cultural expectations, and the invariable high rate of meeting those low expectations...

51 posted on 01/31/2007 8:32:14 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sam Champion is "passionate" about global warming.

There's a shock, a homosexual weather man reading off a teleprompter takes the liberal extremist non-scientific view of global warming.


52 posted on 01/31/2007 8:33:29 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Now, THAT was funny!!!


53 posted on 01/31/2007 8:34:23 AM PST by DanTheAdmin (It's true.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sam Champion is a buffoon. He still can't give me an accurate forecast ten days from now. Until he can, he needs to STFU. He's a socialist.


54 posted on 01/31/2007 8:34:45 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: megatherium
European or North American populations are pretty safe, the problem is in places like India or subsaharan Africa --

So what's the problem then? I guess the biggest threat is that this global warming horseshit will get so deep we can't get from one place to another.

55 posted on 01/31/2007 8:36:32 AM PST by San Jacinto
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten; Red Badger

A simplistic need to assign blame, perhaps?


56 posted on 01/31/2007 8:36:42 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Loyalist
By the year 2150, not a single person living today will be alive.

YIKES!

57 posted on 01/31/2007 8:37:05 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: MaestroLC

You people scoff at the Gospel of Global Warming. It killed all the Martians didn't it????


58 posted on 01/31/2007 8:37:45 AM PST by Patrick1
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
The Global Warming scare is this medieval thinking dressed up with the buzzwords of modern "Science".

It's basically we have offended "Gaia" (or whomever) and now Gaia (or fill in the blanks) is punishing us and we must make penances and offer up sacrifices to "Gaia" to prevent this evil he/she/it is visiting upon us.

In other words this is medieval or prehistoric behavior dressed up to look like modern "Science".

Ain't that the truth. Global warming is nothing more than raw pagan supersition, the kind our ancestors used to live by.

SUVs cause pollution. Pollution angers the gods. Logically, the scientiests deduce, the gods will be seeking retribution. We have only one chance to win back the favor of the gods. Sacrifice.

Perhaps, if we sarcifice enough horsepower to atone for our fossil fuel consuming lifestyle sins, the gods can be appeased.

Umbaga!!!

59 posted on 01/31/2007 8:38:45 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They make it sound like losing a billion muslimes is a bad thing.


60 posted on 01/31/2007 8:42:58 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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