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Artifact: A Chilling Tale of Global Warming (United Nations' children’s book)
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| February 2007
| Katherine Mangu-Ward
Posted on 01/31/2007 7:01:45 PM PST by neverdem
Artifact: A Chilling Tale of Global Warming
Katherine Mangu-Ward | February 2007 Print Edition
The United Nations has ventured into children’s publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming. In November the odd little picture book cum policy brief, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, made the rounds at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Kenya.
The night after he loses the race by falling through a weak place in the ice, Tore has a dream in which he sees the Inuit goddess Sedna, who warns him that “rich countries use—and waste—an awful lot of energy. Huge cars. Too many cars instead of efficient trains and buses.” The animal kingdom comes out in full force with some nightmarish warnings of its own. A snowy owl tells Tore winning dogsled races “might not be your top worry” soon, since “some people who hunt for a living are already going hungry because a lot of seals and walruses are heading north.” A polar bear moans that he is starving, and then—when Tore gets upset—a whale calls to him: “That’s the spirit! Get good and angry. You’ll need all that energy to make a difference.”
Tore awakes, furious and full of resolve to build solar panels and to nag his parents about their gasoline consumption—the United Nations’ idea of a happy ending.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; anticapitalist; blameamericafirst; childabuse; classenvy; globalwarming; greenieweenies; indoctrination; junkscience; littleredschoolhouse; propaganda; socialistutopia; un; unitednations; usoutofunnow
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:01:49 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: knighthawk; DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:03:36 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Oh, brother.
Anyone remember the UNICEF barfer about the bombed Smurf village? Hope you had a good laugh because you paid for it.
To: neverdem
Global warming, pagan godesses, humanized animals, Throw in a little herb and its the perfect bedtime story!
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:06:19 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: neverdem
Well, isn't that special.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:06:56 PM PST
by
Mark
(REMEMBER: Mean spirited, angry remarks against my postings won't feed even one hungry child.)
To: neverdem
"A polar bear moans that he is starving,..."
And yet, there are more bears now than anytime in the past 50 years.
To: neverdem
Sorta like bombing Smurfs?"
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:08:55 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
To: neverdem
If Mars had more efficient trains and buses, it wouldn't be experiencing so much warming.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:09:07 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: neverdem
It must have been rather easy to write this book. Just take the clildren's book of the 1970s about the looming Ice Age, change cold to hot, and it's all ready for distribution.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:09:41 PM PST
by
Trunk 71-74
(A god that needs man to carry out his dirty work is impotent!)
To: neverdem
The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin, gettin' kind of warm so we might as well swim.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:13:20 PM PST
by
Hawk1976
(Vince Mcmahon '08)
To: neverdem
The U.S. needs to kick the U.N. out of New York. If the U.N. were in Africa or India the delegates could get a better perspective on the world's problems.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:13:45 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: neverdem
What is this? "Global Warming Alert Week" ???
Seems there is a full court press this week for Global WarmingTM stories in the MSM, as night after night, day after day, we get pestered by these MSM rodents and their slavemasters, the DNC
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:15:34 PM PST
by
RedRover
(They are not killers. Defend our Marines.)
To: neverdem
The night after he loses the race by falling through a weak place in the iceIs there anything in the book about the education system failing him? I mean, shouldn't one learn about thin ice and thick ice in school? Also, anything in it about all the money people will save since they won't need to buy winter clothes?
To: Mr_Moonlight
What is this? "Global Warming Alert Week" ???The UN is due to relase its latest version of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, shortly.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:20:27 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Now everthing is all better.
Tore and all his people have a job in the refinery.
Nobody has to listen to the imaginary voices of animals for wisdom anymore.
Tore has a truck and a house and might race his dogs in the Iditarod next year.
Just for fun.
OK, I'm dreaming here.....
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:29:04 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: Mr_Moonlight
"What is this? "Global Warming Alert Week" ???
Seems there is a full court press this week for Global WarmingTM"
Seems to be a funny week for that it is freezing her in KY and most of the midwest!!
To: Mr_Moonlight
It was announced last week that a new IPPC report would be released this week (on Friday), all who promised to embargo the report have been leaking like sieves ever since.
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:39:54 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Old Professer
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:41:15 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: neverdem
If they were so concerned about global warming, wouldn't the little eskimo be dressed in an izod short sleeve polo?
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posted on
01/31/2007 7:49:26 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
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