Posted on 07/21/2011 9:34:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice this week issued a blistering rebuke of Russia, China and other countries that blocked the Security Council from adopting a statement linking the threat of climate change to international peace and security.
During the Security Council’s first formal debate in four years on the environment Wednesday, Russia was not swayed by Western nations led by Germany, this month's council president, insisting that the 15-nation panel needs to respond to the effects that climate change has had on Sudan's Darfur region and in Somalia, where the United Nations say famine had struck two areas.
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Ethiopia is between the two countries mentioned (Sudan and Somalia). Does Rice blame Global Warming (err.. Climate Change) for the giant 1888 famine there?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139963/pdf/medhist00069-0113.pdf
That part of Africa has always had famines.
WOW, I’m cheering for Russia and China on this and thumbs down on America. Things are really bass ackwards..
Actually, famine CAN be caused by climate change, but climate change is not caused by humans, so there is nothing that the UN can do to stop it. Their money would be better spent in helping people to adapt the the climate change that might be occurring.
Wow... Getting our butts saved by the Russians... What a world!
We’ve passed the point of absurd.
At face value, I’d call them morons, but there’s nothing ‘moronic’ about it. They are trying to ruin us INTENTIONALLY!
And now they are building churches in Russia, while we are converting them to mosques in America.
Everyday. I mean every fricking day, there is something out of this administration. It’s like we’ve got a Senior High School president in the WH.
Given that we just canceled our future by shutting down the space program, it cannot be much of a surprise to see the USA basing policy on a fraudulent, unscientific claim. Russia, China, and other countries got it correct.
Certainly there is and will continue to be climate change, but that is owing to natural causes (mainly the Sun), and has nothing to do with mankind. The USA is looking more foolish every day under this "Democratic" Administration.
Try picturing a world in which Sweden was a major power... Tsar Peter saved us from that.
These socialist idiots don't recognize how anthropogenic desertification works, which is appropriate considering what they're doing to the Great Basin her in North America.
Oh yes it can be and has been, just not the way these crooked idiot greenies are proffering it. Bad vegetation management has induced deserts on a continental scale which can indeed initiate massive changes in weather patterns.
In fact, there is good reason to believe that the Sahara is man-made, caused by the consequences of urbanization of the Mesopotamian and Nile valleys. As a result, the temperature plume from North Africa reaches all the way to the Caribbean. Only 6,000 years ago, Saudi Arabia had two rivers across it, one FIVE MILES WIDE, and the other with a 100m deep lake nearly 100 miles across. There are hippopotamus teeth of that age to be found today. The edge of the lake bed and water channels are still clearly discernible. When the base of the Sphinx in Egypt was excavated, scientists were shocked that it was marked with water erosion, not wind and sand. That desert was a stable savannah for 9,000 years prior to the beginning of the Nile Valley civilization. Indeed, 3,000 years prior, the nomadic inhabitants of the Sahara imported Asian livestock.
I am currently retranslating the Cain and Abel story for that very reason, for I believe it chronicles these very events. It appears to me that it is every bit as old as it says it is.
Don't forget, this lunatic fringe has the access to the nuclear football. I believe there are strong chances they will use it once they figure out they are broke. Like a high rollers in a seedy gambling joint - when losing, they turn the table and reach for the gun.
Only, The church of climatology is not a fringe - it belongs to the top echelons of world political and economic power. They hoped to tax every living being for breathing through this scam. They hoped to use Chicago Climate Exchange as a tool for that. In their wet dream, CCE would surpass all major stock exchanges combined.
Where is CCE now? Closed silently.
You know why?
Because Ruskies and sunk Copenhagen conference and debunked the scam.
Like zombies, Church of Climatology is creeping back, this time in UNSEC. And again Ruskies killed them off.
Only, Zombies are not giving up. They feed on stupidity of the general electorate. They will strike again.
Preaching of man-made global warming is un-american activity !
I think the Obamunist whackos are starting to panic, knowing that the jig is up next year.
While you are distracted by the debt ball, they are trying to ram a whole bunch of things through right now like this, and job-choking regulations on American Companies.
Some claim that Putin deliberately turned Russian hackers loose on that East Anglia email database with instructions to spread whatever they found there to the four winds. Do you know of any sort of a source for that?
It really does not matter who did it - the stopping of the fraud is what counts. People behind the fraud are not scammers, they are mass murderers.
Up is Down....Right is Left....Russia is freer than the US...
What an insult to Senior High School Presidents.
There can be more of an effect from one volcano than years of human activity. It might be interesting to check the history of large volcanic eruptions during that timeframe. The effects of sunspots and cosmic rays most certainly affect our climate, the only thing humans can do is learn to adapt to the changes.
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