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2006-05-15 Africa Subsaharan
Climate change may kill millions in Africa: report
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Posted by Deacon Blues 2006-05-15 09:14|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 File under "complete and unadulterated bullshit".
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 10:51||   2006-05-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 "And even if the globe is warming it might be a whole lot cheaper to accommodate that than try to fight it."

Hallelujiah!

Eureka!

SOMEBODY GETS IT

I am not Robinson Crusoe after all.

The climate has always changed always will. Yes, we might have caused it to change too quick this time but we only have one option: deal with it.

Even if you cut carbon emissions 100% tomorrow the Earth will STILL heat up.

And the green movement has committed suicide with the Kyoto madness, conning everyone into thinking global warming means you therefore HAVE to shut down the use of fossil fuels.

and the nuclear industry jumped right on the coat-tails and said 'we're the clean green cheap alternative' even though they aren't.

It costs billions to implement stupidity like Kyoto (whenever it's reported on they never say how MUCH effect implementing will have on global warming rate - have you noticed? try to find it quantified I challenge you.)

But those billions could be spent on irrigation systems, wells, new dams, breakwaters, cyclone shelters, water pipelines.

But the watermelon movement (i refuse to call them greens they are communists pretending to care about the environment) would prefer the Western world to throw that money at bureaucrats to have soirees at 5-star hotel junkets instead in the name of preventing all carbon emissions.

Oh year and reduce the first world to third world living standards while allowing indonesia, india and china all the carbon pollution they can pump out.


By the way: anybody yet worked out how much MOUNT MERAPI the exploding volcano is spewing out greenhouse gases?

I bet a lot as volcanic activity is responsible for most greenhouse gases in the atmosphere anyway. But don't worry, no watermelon will bother putting out a press release about that. they only care if there's a big business or western government to blame.
Posted by anon1 2006-05-15 11:34||   2006-05-15 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 If it wasn't for global warming 20,000 years ago, most of what we know today as Europe and North America would still be under an ice sheet. There would be no wealth to redistribute in the first place. Let alone an internet, or English, or ...
Posted by Angaing Speamp1215 2006-05-15 11:45||   2006-05-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Thats nothing!

I heard that later this evening - at around 6-8 its going to start to get DARK!

YES! Dark! as in the 'absence of light'!

And this will continue for at least 8 hours until it begins to get a little light again!

Oh the HUMANITY!
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-15 11:45||   2006-05-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 lol CrazyFool.....:-)
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 11:53||   2006-05-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#6 arid regions becoming drier and wet regions getting wetter.

Ooooh, sounds like lots of fun irrigation projects on offer. Talk to the Israelis, guys, they were the ones who so effectively drained the malaria swamps that Rome had turned the Galilee region into. Or, we could just move all of Africa to Greenland and Siberia as soon as it gets warm enough. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-15 14:02||   2006-05-15 14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 CrazyFool, The Onion was all over this months ago...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-05-15 14:11||   2006-05-15 14:11|| Front Page Top

#8 The climate won't kill nearly as many people in Africa as the environmentalists who banned DDT.
Posted by RWV 2006-05-15 15:06||   2006-05-15 15:06|| Front Page Top

#9 or Mbeki's AIDS policies
Posted by Frank G 2006-05-15 15:29||   2006-05-15 15:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like women, children and minorities will be hit hardest.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-15 15:35||   2006-05-15 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey - it's AFRICA. Millions will die regardless of anything we do or don't do.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-05-15 15:36||   2006-05-15 15:36|| Front Page Top

#12 It's always amazed me that the world worries about carbon dioxide, which accounts for between 5 and 6 percent of greenhouse gasses, but says nothing about water vapor, which constitutes 94 to 95%. We worry about the smaller amount, but not the larger. The big reason is that we have no clue how water vapor affects climate. Does that mean that carbon dioxide is more important than water vapor in determining climate change? Of course not, but who's going to worry about water vapor...
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-05-15 19:07|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-15 19:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't worry starvation cause by there own government, aids and war will get them first.
Posted by SPoD 2006-05-15 19:55|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-15 19:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Disease spread by global warming could kill an extra 185 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of the century and turn millions more into refugees unless rich nations take action now, a report said on Monday.

The article fails in the first paragraph.

By the year 2100, virtually every human alive today will have died. That is over 6.5 Billion deaths due to every cause possible, including old age. Trying to identify the cause of 185 million out of the total and attribute cause to climate change is meaningless.

Death is a zero sum game, and over a 100 year window, there are no survivors.
Posted by john">john  2006-05-15 21:40||   2006-05-15 21:40|| Front Page Top

#15 The real reason for global warming is that heat rises. Since the earth is flat, the cold air falls off the edges and the warm air continues to accumulate above us.
Posted by 2b 2006-05-15 21:48||   2006-05-15 21:48|| Front Page Top

#16 john - maybe different life spans in the coming years - I feel like living to 110!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-05-15 21:57||   2006-05-15 21:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Sorry, john. My grandmother's older brother died at 107. But "over a 130 year window, there are no survivors," seems irrefutable. ;-)

2b, physics is irrefutable, too. Clever!
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-15 22:04||   2006-05-15 22:04|| Front Page Top

#18 "I don't mind being dead---but it's bein' dead for so long that bothers me."

--memory paraphrase of Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, blues singer
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-05-15 22:30||   2006-05-15 22:30|| Front Page Top

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