Posted on 01/13/2015 7:32:20 AM PST by opentalk
Secretary of State John Kerry is currently in India as advance guard for President Obama’s visit later this month. The president is going there to try and get some commitment from India (or the illusion of a commitment) to reduce its emissions of dreaded greenhouse gases. Until now, India, along with China, has resisted calls for major reductions, effectively blocking any global treaty limiting fossil fuel use.
The president is very keen on changing this before this December’s United Nations confab in Paris, where such a treaty is supposed to be inked. Kerry’s mission is to get India ready for the president. Speaking at a trade conference in the state of Gujarat, Kerry said, “Global climate change is already violently affecting communities, not just across India but around the world. It is disrupting commerce, development and economic growth. It’s costing farmers crops.”
In reality, global climate change is exerting no detectable effect on India’s main crop production.
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Tough sell: Tell ‘em that AGW is causing flooding in Bangladesh, once know as East Pakistan.
India is not going to listen to Obama/Kerry! They think (officially) that “Anthropogenic Global Warming” is nothing but political hucksterism!
Obama when screwing up America isn’t enough, he sets his sights on other countries too.
India is not going to listen to Obama/Kerry! They think (officially) that “Anthropogenic Global Warming” is nothing but political hucksterism!
Absurdity... thy name in John (Alkie) Kerry...
Costing farmers crops?
They changed their talking points when I wasn't looking? Global warming is bad for agriculture?
That's a new low in ignorance! Even assuming "Global Warming" were fact.
As an aside, if we wish to warn the people of India as free citizens of an occupied country, how should we address those warnings? Must be a lot of people from India on FR...
from Lucianne
from article:
... Further, if Kerry was saying that climate change is reducing crop yields around the world, that’s wrong too. The increase in global yields has also been constant for decades.
Another keeper.
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