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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Climate change seen fanning conflict and terrorism
2007-01-24
Mods, as this is future predictions, I threw it in WoT Politix. Please move if needed. I did note the title used "Climate Change", whereas the article itself uses "Global Warming" *snicker* Methinks Mr. Trevelyan is gonna get 40 lashes by the enviros over that one, lol!
LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming could exacerbate the world's rich-poor divide and help to radicalize populations and fan terrorism in the countries worst affected, security and climate experts said on Wednesday.
Naw, couldn't be Islamo-fascism, it's gotta be climate change global warming!
"We have to reckon with the human propensity for violence," Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the United Nations, told a London conference on "Climate Change: the Global Security Impact."
Of course, he's assuming the Islamo-nazis are human, there.
"Violence within and between communities and between nation states, we must accept, could possibly increase, because the precedents are all around." He cited Rwanda and Sudan's Darfur region as two examples where drought and overpopulation, relative to scarce resources, had helped to fuel deadly conflicts.
Funny, I blame tribal resentments from colonialism and the Arab janjaweed for those 2 "conflicts. In fact, I think we've called them (both) genocide.

Bin Laden On Climate Change
Who knew binny had time to worry about Climate Change?
John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain's Met Office, noted al Qaeda had already listed environmental damage among its litany of grievances against the United States. "You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people."
More nonsense at link.
Posted by:BA

#13  Have I mentioned how much I love that picture. That could be My Sadie.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-01-24 23:01  

#12  #1 RC: "These people actually buy into our enemy's propaganda. Do they do it out of ignorance, or willingness?"

Why choose?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-01-24 21:31  

#11  I caught the name. As soon as I heard it, I figured they'd find this guy naked and dead in a five star hotel handcuffed to a bed...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-24 21:02  

#10  LOL, Frank, I didn't even catch that one and I was the OP (not Old Patriot, mind you).
Posted by: BA   2007-01-24 20:22  

#9  Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the United Nations

this is a John Cleese skit, c'mon....don't mess with us
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-24 19:34  

#8  Next - Global Warming seen fanning the overweight epidemic that is sweeping the country. Two hypes for the price of one!

And it is also responsible for acne, lost socks, bad breath, hang nails....
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-01-24 19:33  

#7  "These people actually buy into our enemy's propaganda. Do they do it out of ignorance, or willingness?"

They do it because they haven't got the brains God gave the average barnyard animal.

The helluvit is, these flathead drooling submorons are allowed to VOTE.

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-01-24 17:01  

#6  New from RonCo: the Global Warminizer™. It slices; it dices; it causes record cold and record heat and killer hurricanes. But wait, that's not all: it also radicalizes populations and fans terrorism. One size definitely fits all.

Hurry while supplies last.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-01-24 16:49  

#5  Has anyone ever tracked the amount of time the left has used an issue as and excuse to justify Islamic attacks and the time the Islamic propoganda started to use that excuse?

I'm thinking there is a few months lag time but not too much more. I'll wait for Al Queda to start banging on about Climate change sometime by midsummer.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-01-24 16:41  

#4  As more and more First World food crops are converted into ethanol, that overpopulation problem will take care of itself.
Posted by: ed   2007-01-24 16:35  

#3  "You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people."

Yes, and how come it took so long to get steroid testing in Major League baseball? Answer me that...INFIDELS!
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-24 16:31  

#2  So is global warming climate change responsible for bunions? My bad knees? The Washington Redskins not having a decent season in a decade? Let's put it this way: What ISN'T global warming climate change responsible for?
Posted by: Jonathan   2007-01-24 15:47  

#1  These people actually buy into our enemy's propaganda. Do they do it out of ignorance, or willingness?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-01-24 14:23  

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