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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Climate Theologians Are Getting Desperate

This is amusing:
Climate Alarmist Blames Egypt Crisis On Global Warming
By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters

On Friday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blamed the crisis in Egypt on George W. Bush and the Iraq war.

Two days later, climate alarmist extraodinaire Joe Romm blamed it on - wait for it! - global warming:

"This summer’s extreme global weather raised fears of a 'Coming Food Crisis,' as CAP’s John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in Foreign Policy: 'Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse.' Earlier this month I discussed how, in fact, 'Extreme weather events helped drive food prices to record highs.' Back then, experts were worried about food riots. Now they are happening."

After quoting various liberal media sources such as the Post and NPR, Romm reached this hysterical conclusion:

"Energy insecurity and climate instability have now become key factors in food insecurity, which in turn has become a key factor in toppling governments. [...]

"Those who think that the serious impacts of climate change — and our inane energy policies — on the world economy and U.S. national security are decades away are simply not paying attention.
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Those of us that have been monitoring this insanity for years have regularly laughed at all the world's maladies these folks tie to global warming.

Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, publishes a growing list of such conspiracy theories at his website Number Watch.

I guess if Egyptians, after decades of poor treatment by a corrupt, authoritarian government, revolt and possibly topple said government, it's because in the past 160 years, the planet's temperature has risen by approximately (and debatably!) one degree Celsius. [link]
That's right.  Amidst all the hysteria over global warming, it needs to be remembered that the planet has "warmed" something in the neighborhood of 2° Fahrenheit.  And even that's a guess.

Causing food riots?

Please.

While the upheaval we're witnessing in the Arab world - from north Africa to Jordan - is no laughing matter, "climate scientists" are.  What moron could look at a global temperature change that amounts to virtually nothing and see dire consequences having resulted?

Only those of the fanatical global warming religion kind, for sure.

Entertaining bunch, aren't they?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do these so-called "scientist" have no shame? Blaming Egypt's woe's on the climate? If so, the next logical step is that it is the fault of the USA.

And as for Matthews, he sounds more like a Saturday Night Live skit than a serious commentator.

According to the Left, Bush and global warming cause every bad thing that happens in the world.
...Al...

Cargosquid said...

I blame the crisis on global warming too. If it wasn't for the AGW scammers, we wouldn't be trying to GROW fuel and food prices would be much lower, Europe wouldn't be trying their version of Cap and Trade, etc...

Its all the same people. If they weren't in charge, we wouldn't be having this problem.

wd said...

I think you're on to something, Squid. If we weren't wasting so much Corn on ethanol, the Egyptians, Tunisians, et al might enjoy lower food prices and exhibit less "unrest". A full belly is less likely to riot although it may rumble. (The devil made me say it.)