Posted on 08/16/2002 4:34:06 PM PDT by knighthawk
The United Nations will throw its biggest environmental party in 10 years later this month in Johannesburg. In preparation, the UN has rushed to publication a preliminary report about a new environmental pestilence, the so-called Asian Brown Cloud (ABC).
The UN says the Brown Cloud will kill millions and wreck the Asian monsoon, which is responsible for feeding about 2 billion people in one way or another. But, like many UN environmental reports, this one fails to mention some crucial points.
Nightmarish reports like the one about the ABC have a way of appearing right before big UN environmental conferences -- and being proven wrong not long thereafter. In 1995, a Geneva meeting, which gave rise to the infamous Kyoto Protocol on global warming, was prefaced with a breathless pronouncement that we now had climate models that matched the real atmosphere, lending credibility to gloom-and-doom forecasts of climate change. Months later, Nature magazine was compelled to publish a paper showing that the data which the UN cited was incomplete, and when all the numbers were put in, the correspondence vanished.
The UN's most recent world environment confab occurred last fall in Marrakesh. Days before that one, we learned that the poor islanders of Tuvalu were being drowned by sea-level rises caused by global warming. Within days, an article appeared in Science magazine showing that sea level around Tuvalu has been falling, not rising, for most of the last 50 years.
Lest anyone think the UN has learned anything about its environmental misrepresentations, let's examine the Brown Cloud story.
Summarizing the UN's report, CNN said that the ABC is so awful that it has "scientists warning that it could kill millions of people in the area, and pose a global threat." Further, the cloud "could cut rainfall over northwest Pakistan, Afghanistan, western China and west Central Asia by up to 40%."
Sleazy air exiting Asia is nothing new to climatologists. Reid Bryson, the eminent scientist who many believe is the progenitor of the modern notion of human-induced climate change, wrote about it in the 1950s. Since then, climate scientists have searched and searched through Indian monsoon data to try to find any systematic changes, and there have been none.
Don't take my word for it. Look at page 144 of the 2001 compendium on climate change published by the selfsame United Nations, and you won't find any systematic changes in South Asian rainfall.
The UN's pre-Johannesburg hype prompted CNN to write that the ABC "has led to some erratic weather, including flooding in Bangladesh, Nepal, and northeastern India, [and] drought in Pakistan, and northwestern India." The fact is that there isn't a single shred of scientific evidence to back up those claims. In fact, in its 2001 report, the UN noted that there's no evidence for any systematic changes in extreme weather around the planet.
What's really killing people in Bangladesh and causing the ABC is poverty. The place is so low-lying and poor that a tropical storm which would harm no one in the United States kills 10,000 in the Ganges Delta.
Speaking of tropical storms, they feed on the heat of the surface of the ocean. The more it warms, the more energy can be directed to spin up their fearsome winds. But the ABC blocks out sunlight, reducing the amount of warming at the ocean surface. Everything else being equal, it would reduce the frequency or magnitude of tropical storms in Bangladesh.
When we get near these worldwide gatherings, there isn't a piece of UN science that isn't political. That's because what these meetings are about is blaming the West for environmental degradation, and holding us up for money.
Poverty -- not the West -- is the cause of the ABC. Poverty requires the use of cheap fuels, such as dung, and lousy, inefficient ways of combustion, such as cooking fires. And, more than any of my green friends do, poverty recycles: Families grow, which leads to more and more dung fires, and lousier and lousier air.
Rather than shaking down the West, the UN would be better advised to encourage free-market development - which everyone knows is highly correlated with cleanliness -- and discourage its favourite form of political economy, socialism. The history of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and present-day China show a clear correlation between Big Government socialism, pollution and poverty. In freer societies, there is less government, less poverty and less pollution.
It's time for the UN to stop hyping pseudo-science in support of inefficient, dirty governments, and to get on with the future -- where free markets breed efficiency and environmental protection.
No more UN for US
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The intervening years have only stengthened that first impression.
Never happen.
We would be proud to have you as a citizen of the USA.
You already see the problems American's are having holding onto their property and making a living because of our own governments lies about enviromentalism.
What do you think will happen when a world body is making these decisions?
And as far as Peace is concerned the only Peace the UN is after is the next Piece of the world they can take over for their lords , the elites who created the UN.
The UN's only purpose is to promote world rule and that means death to America and the illusions of Freedom "We" believe we have.
And Death is a viable option for the elites who are after world rule , American's or otherwise.
Henry Kissinger at a Bilderberger meeting in 1992 : "Today , American's would be outraged if UN forces entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow , they will be grateful."
And people believe conspiracies don't exist.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program , until one day America will be a socialist nation , without ever knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas , U.S. Socialist Party Presidential candidate.
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions , begun at a distinguished period , and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers ( administrations ) , too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
Thomas Jefferson
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans' freedom , and before I leave office I must inform the citizens of this plight."
John F. Kennedy (at Columbia University , ten days before his murder).
We have been warned many times throughout our history about tyranny and losing our Freedoms , but we continue to march forward directed by those who will enslave us , to our fate.
It's no wonder they call us sheep , and still view us as "peasants".
"The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks , discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency , first by inflation and then by deflation , the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson
It cannot be said any plainer to explain what is happening in America today.
When will Americans' listen , or will they?
Everyone has seen and heard baby bush puffing up against "corporate" America. Well he is corporate America and has covered up Cheney's part in Enrons' rippoffs.
pappa bush is making lots of money through his interest in United Industries , from baby bushs' "war on terrorism".
Cheney stands to make even more money when Halliburton makes a pipeline in Afghanistan for Unocal. Afghanistan's new ruler was an Unocal employee , evidently the vice president didn't want to play ball with the oil barons.
All this unfolding right if front of American's while the Central Bank that Jefferson warned us about the Federal Reserve tightens our economy costing us jobs.
It's a lie that "war" boosts our economy , it boosts the banksters and corporations profits and drives us deeper in debt. Once again in the near future it appears that the banksters will use war and the economy to move us to gain control over another part of the world , in the name of "Freedom". And like fools we will do it for them , making them more powerful than before and our position in the world weaker. We continue to hang on to the corporate teat like scared pups , turning to the elites for answers.
On February 1 , 1992 , President George Herbert Walker Bush stated: "My vision of a New World Order forsees a UN with a revitalized peacekeeping function. It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN charter to which we henceforth pledge our allegiance."
Hitler said "Tell the people a lie long enough and they will believe it."
The UN is one of those lies , it has nothing to do with Peace.
Welcome to the new world order.
They fear the TRUTH and Christ is the TRUTH.
Standing up with Christ is the only solution to world rule. Sitting on your hands waiting for God to do something won't work.
He has already given us everything we need. When will we use it? Why are we afraid of men , when God is on our side?
Because we have made the fatal mistake of putting rich men above God and ourselves.......
Freedom is worth the sacrifices it will take to keep it.
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