Sunday - April 01, 2007

Glowbull Warming Pity Party

The NY TIMES is having a bad case of bleeding heart this morning and they want you to feel bad for the poor folks in Africa and Asia who will drown and/or starve during the current glowbull warming cycle. And it’s all your fault because you drive SUV’s and use too much electricity watching “American Idol”. And George Bush had something to do with it too, which the editors at the TIMES will figure out later.

Actually this may be a good thing in a cold-hearted way. The areas that will be hardest hit are the ones that are intensely overpopulated anyway. Maybe this is Mother Nature’s way of “culling the herd”, if you know what I mean. Not to mention the fact that coastal areas like THE GAZA STRIP will be the first ones under water - and I don’t think anyone outside of Gaza City would consider that a bad thing.

Actually I have my own solution for the current glowbull warming cycle: turn off your air conditioners and get used to it, No, really. Live like your ancestors did and roll with the seasons. Let your body acclimate. Besides a little sweat might go a long way toward solving the obesity epidemic that everyone is crying about. In addition, all those air conditioners that have been pumping heat out of your house or office and into the atmosphere being turned off will make glowbull warming less dangerous to us all. So go buy plenty of deodorant, turn off the A/C and help save an African family today.

Then again, may be not ....

Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms
(NY TIMES) - April 1, 2007

The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas.

But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world’s most vulnerable regions — most of them close to the equator and overwhelmingly poor.

Next Friday, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that since 1990 has been assessing global warming, will underline this growing climate divide, according to scientists involved in writing it — with wealthy nations far from the equator not only experiencing fewer effects but also better able to withstand them.

Two-thirds of the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas that can persist in the air for centuries, has come in nearly equal proportions from the United States and Western European countries. Those and other wealthy nations are investing in windmill-powered plants that turn seawater to drinking water, in flood barriers and floatable homes, and in grains and soybeans genetically altered to flourish even in a drought.

In contrast, Africa accounts for less than 3 percent of the global emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burning since 1900, yet its 840 million people face some of the biggest risks from drought and disrupted water supplies, according to new scientific assessments. As the oceans swell with water from melting ice sheets, it is the crowded river deltas in southern Asia and Egypt, along with small island nations, that are most at risk.

“Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic,” said Henry I. Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. “A much higher fraction of passengers from the cheaper decks were lost. We’ll see the same phenomenon with global warming.”

Those in harm’s way are beginning to speak out. “We have a message here to tell these countries, that you are causing aggression to us by causing global warming,” President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda said at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February. “Alaska will probably become good for agriculture, Siberia will probably become good for agriculture, but where does that leave Africa?”

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