Posted on 09/09/2001 9:20:37 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Sunday September 9 11:42 AM ET
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Former President Clinton warned Australians that global warming could cause some small Pacific nations to disappear beneath the ocean, creating a refugee crisis far worse than the one Australia has faced in the last two weeks.
At a hospital fund-raising dinner in Sydney on Saturday, Clinton said hundreds of thousands of people around the world would become refugees if climate change isn't addressed.
``The science is unassailable. If the world keeps growing for the next 50 years warmer as it has for the last decade, you're going to see some of the small nations in the Pacific actually flooded,'' he said.
``If you're worried about 400 people, you just let the world keep warming up like this for the next 50 years and your grandchildren will be worried about 400,000 people,'' he added.
Early last week, the Australian government sparked international criticism by barring a Norwegian ship carrying 433 asylum seekers from docking in Australia.
Prime Minister John Howard said he wants to stem a tide of would-be immigrants who arrive each year by the thousands hoping to be given refugee status.
Climate change has been a topic of contention between the United States and other countries. Earlier this year, the Bush administration abandoned the Kyoto climate treaty aimed at stopping global warming, saying it would harm the U.S. economy.
Bush has said he would instead rely on voluntary actions by industry and development of new technologies to capture carbon releases and reduce energy use.
Earlier Saturday, Australia's navy intercepted another boat carrying about 200 suspected illegal immigrants to Australia.
The asylum seekers were being taken to Papua New Guinea before flying to New Zealand and the Pacific island of Nauru for processing of their asylum applications.
Clinton's speech at the fund-raising dinner for Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital is his only public appearance during a three-day visit to Australia.
Keep flapping your jaws clinton. Soon you'll be nothing more than a cartoon character.
None of the mass-migrant movements - from Afghanis trying to move to Australia in the past month to the past 30 years of massive Mexican invasion of the U.S. - have been based on anything but poverty or occasionally political tyranny.
He's not?!?!?
the sun's output
the temperature and currents of the oceans
volcano eruptions
Everything else creates probably less than a 5% variation in the earth's climate.
But homosapiens are convinced that they can make a difference with their green methodolgies. Fat chance!
And if it keeps growing warmer at the rate it did early this morning when the sun came out, in 50 years we'll have an ambient temperature of around 4,000,000 degrees Celsius.
Commonly known as "Sex, Lies and Serial-Rape".
At that rate, it should have been -226 when I got up at ten o'clock this morning.
My "short list of most damaging links"--
-"until clintonese is spoken only in Hell!"--
If you only read one link, make it "Murder, Inc."
The ACU's "hillary book" can be read on-line or purchased singly or in bulk.
FReeper MrBungle's homepage is a goldmine of information.
Sure, if you assume that temperature variations are linear, which they aren't (and that's unassailable).
Making his way across the yard to pet the farm dogs, he heads out towards the barn, he sees the sun just starting to break the horizon and pauses, standing alone in the pre-dawn quiet. For just a moment, he ponders his family ties to the land for the last few decades, his commitment to his loving family, and, without hesitation, heads off to the barn while smiling at the sunrise.
Just then, he sees a dust trail coming up the long road, wondering who would be coming to see him so early in the morning. Squinting a bit, still puzzled, he starts to make out the shape of a rent-a-car looking sedan. As the car pulls up in-front of him he can see the words “Your loving federal government” printed on the side of the door.
“Gmorning guys” says the farmer, to 2 people in black sunglasses, pressed suits and that funny thing stuck into their ears.
Farmer: “Can I help you boys?”
Kyoto collector: “Sir, it’s 587 miles to Chicago, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. We’re on a mission from greenpea.. er um I mean your loving federal government.”
Farmer: “Huh?”
Kyoto collector: “Nevermind, sir.”
Farmer: ”What seems to be the problem, boys”
Kyoto collector: “It’s your cows, sir”
Farmer: “My cows? Well, I’m don’t mean to boast, but we’ve got a pretty good heard this year, we had some feed problems earlier in the summer, but we caught it early, and it’s a good thing we did because…”
(Interrupting) Kyoto collector: “Give us your money”
Farmer: “Pardon me?”
Kyoto collector: “Your money, sir. give it to us.”
(Tilting his hat back on his head, the farmer gives the boys his best Clint Eastwood squint)
Farmer: “Now boys, I know you’re just doing your job and all, but I can assure you that the wife and I have paid all our taxes in full, and oh, wait a second, are you hear to deliver my W Check?
Kyoto collector: “It’s not about that, sir.”
Farmer: “What’s it about then?”
Kyoto collector: “Your cows, they fart, give us your money.”
(laughing) Farmer: “Now boys, you know I don’t have any control over that kinda thing. Hell, just last night the wife made this corn beef cabbage and, well, huh, huh let me tell ya, when the misty green haze comes, it just does! Besides, that kinda things only natural.”
Kyoto collector: “It’s not about you, sir.”
Farmer: “Right, right, the cows, they fart, and you want my money.”
Kyoto collector: “Exactly, sir.”
Farmer: “What are you going to do with my money?”
Kyoto collector: “Give it to Fidel, sir.”
Farmer: “FIDEL?! What da hell?”
Kyoto collector: “You wouldn’t understand, sir. Just give us your money, your cows, they fart.”
Farmer: “WELL TRY ME!”
(looking down at paperwork) Kyoto collector: “Well sir, it says here, that you gotta pay Cuba money because your cows fart. It says here, you have to buy "credits from developing countrys for permission to make greenhouse gas emissions.”
Farmer: (Looks over his shoulder for the hidden camera, convinced Allen Funt is going to tell him that he’s on candid camera)
Kyoto collector: “Sir please, give us your money, your cows, they fart.”
Farmer: “Look boys, there must be some kind of misunderstanding here, this kinda thing has been going on for decades and…”
Kyoto collector: “It’s the planet, sir.”
Farmer: “Heh, heh, Which planet are you from boys?”
Kyoto collector: “This planet, sir.”
Farmer: “What about the planet?”
Kyoto collector: “It needs saving, sir.”
Farmer: “OK! (taking a deep breath) let me make sure I got this straight, boys. Molly and Bessy over there let one rip, I give you my money, you give my money to Fidel and that saves, what exactly?”
Kyoto collector: “The planet, sir.”
Farmer: Planet Fidel???
Kyoto collector: “The planet, sir.”
Farmer: “Now boys, the wife’s family lives down in Florida, and they don't think to much of your Mr. Fidel, and I don't think they'd take to kindly to me sending this FIDEL person my money! Now I’ve been in trouble with the in-laws before, and let me tell you it’s no treat and…”
(Interrupting again) Kyoto collector: “Sir please, your cows, they fart, give us your money.”
(Clearly frustrated) Farmer: “Now boys, I’m all for doin’ the right thing here, but I just don’t understand how every time my cow farts, Fidel gets a dollar?!?
Kyoto collector: “al gore said so, sir.”
Farmer: “al gore?!?! Get the rope! Er umm sorry boys, it’s just a reaction from our nations longest month. Hehe, ya know, that funny lookin’ feller almost stole the election! (muttering) good-for-nothing-suit stuffing-blow-hard-little-pansy…he put the country through hell!
Kyoto collector: “Please sir, your cows, they fart, give us your money.”
Farmer: “Ok now look here boys, I've gotta get to work, and I don't have time to pussy foot around here. I am not, I repeat not going to give you, or anyone else, my hard earned money just because Bessy and Molly "get a little loose". My money sure as hell aint goin to that scruffy lookin' FIDEL character neither. Now I don’t care who sent ya, greenpeace this, or al gore that, but my money is MY MONEY, and you can just tell that funny lookin’ gore boy to just pound sand! You taking my money is not going to save any planet, with the possible exception of the one al gore is from, now good day! I said good day, boys.”
Science is supposed to be inherently objective. The King of Subjectivity wouldn't know actual science if it came up and bit him on his fat, cynical, socialist ass.
Science is always assailable, and especially the flood of junk science that the econazis float their ship of hysteria upon. Remember that list of "scientists" the U.N. put out agreeing with the Kyoto bulls**t? Turns out most of them had no expertise in weather and climate, in fact many of them were political scientists. The politicians and media ignore a list of some 17,000 REAL scientists that rebut the global warming notion with outstanding clarity.
30 years ago, the global warming freaks were screaming that we were headed into a new Ice Age. These people are quite possibly more dangerous to this country than the Nazis, Communists, and Fascists combined. Their overarching agenda is to take the Unites States down the toilet.
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