The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Well, the UN has spoken, so I guess it's all over except for the actual warming.

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.

Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.

″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.

Yeah...a bit long in the tooth, but it amused the hell out of me so I figured I would share it with all of you climate skeptics who demand stupid stuff like facts instead of just the beauty of pure emotion and socialist control of the means of production.

Until the temperature sensors are moved away from man-made heat sources, and until satellite data are also taken into consideration (supposedly very good quality numbers), and the data are made public in both raw and adulterated forms, I will continue to point and laugh and maybe use a sharp stick now and then.

*Here's a clue: June 29, 1989

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