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2008-02-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Crisis Looms as Bitter Cold, Blackouts Hit Tajikistan

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Posted by Steve White 2008-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 George Bush doesn't care about Tajik people!

Posted by gromky 2008-02-11 04:25|| 2008-02-11 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I've been stirring up the Warmers in several forums with comments about how catastrophic global cooling will be. This is a glimpse of what a future cooling world will look like.

Posted by phil_b 2008-02-11 06:02|| 2008-02-11 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Due to extreme cold promoted by Global Warming, China is mining and burning more coal than ever before in their history. They have to, just to survive, in the face of the tremendous winter resulting from Global Warming. Ju Jintao even made trips to the coal fields to exhort the miners to work continuously in the mines without interruption to save China during the extreme winter (due to Global Warming). And, he didn't mention any interest in clean burning plants. The effluents from their plants waft heavily over the western US, due to prevailing wind currents. Thankfully, China unlike the US, is trying to bring reactors online quickly to provide power for their growing economy. They are also not worried about storing waste. Just worried about getting it done fast, because this is in their national interest.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-11 10:22|| 2008-02-11 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Did the uh, non-Soviets cut off the gas or something? It's the first question to come to mind...

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-11 14:13|| 2008-02-11 14:13|| Front Page Top

#5 The Russians don't have pipelines into China. The Russians recently signed a gas pipeline agreement, but they have been really squirrelly on whether they will actually build it.

Posted by ed 2008-02-11 19:07|| 2008-02-11 19:07|| Front Page Top

#6 "The Russians ... have been really squirrelly"

Isn't that their default mode, ed? ;-p

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