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U.N.: Global warming could cause 'climate chaos'

2011-02-18

Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate secretariat, warned of the destabilizing effects created by growing water stress, declining crop yields and damage from extreme storms in some of the world's poorest countries, which could set off mass international migration and regional conflicts.

And in fact, has been doing just that since decolonization became a serious movement in the middle of the last century.

Figueres said the world's military budgets grew by 50% in the first nine years of this century.
Rather than continue that growth in weaponry, she said, the generals should invest in ~~high-speed rail~~ preventative budgets to "avoid the climate chaos that would demand a defense response that makes even today's spending burden look light."
Riiiight.... How about you travel to Egypt and discuss why they need to cut their budget to help get along with the Jews, dear? I guarantee you will not like the response.
Can we please defund the UN now while we are making cuts?

Posted by:DarthVader

#4 ION CHINESE MIL FORUM [old Artic?]> ONE REASON WHY FOREX RESERVES ARE HUGELY IMPORTANT | [NYT.com] WHEN CHINA GOES HUNGRY, THE WORLD SHAKES.

ARTIC = Govt. Official denotes that, in China,
CATASTROPHIC DROUGHT tended to occur every five years during the 1950's, every two years since the 1990's. + every year since the Year 2000.

* Also, SPACE WAR > SCIENTISTS: FEWER BIG FISH IN THE SEA.

and

* TOPIX > WIKILEAKS: SAUDI ARABIA OIL RESERVES A "BIG BLUFF".

GUAM TAOTAMONAS STRIKE TRUE AGAIN - Besides POST-GULF OF MEXICO/BP DEEPWATER HORIZON PEAK OIL, RESOURCES, 'tis looks like our future OWG-NWO that no Democratic American = Socialist-Govtist Amerikan formally voted for will have YET ANOTHER GLOBALLY LE' SERIEUSE' ISSUE to talk about/discuss YEAR 2030-2050.

Yet another reason, past = current + to come, for the OWG + GWCC PERT BOYZ to double-check their Math.

OR DO THEY NEED A MADONNA FAN FROM GUAM TO DO IT [again]?

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-18 22:46

#3 The pic of the guy with the Excedrin headache and the caption: "Not this $hit again," would have also been appropriate.

Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-18 17:28

#2 My civil engineering news blog usually has a climate change article a week. Today there were two, which I posted, with some snarking.

Have the Warmers started to panic? Budget slashing got them worried?

Posted by: Bobby 2011-02-18 15:39

#1 "At a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, members characterized the world body as inefficient and corrupt. Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is leading the drive to slash funding and has introduced a bill to get the UN on a rapid schedule of reforms. At the head of the list is to de-fund the corrupt UN Human Rights Council.

One Republican member of the committee, Dana Rohrabacher of California, said the UN should be one of [the United States'] prime targets for reducing expenditures in order to bring down this deficit in the next few years.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-18 15:05

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