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July 09, 2005
Couldn't We Have Gotten More Than "Talk" on Global Warming?
By: Rowan
I guess that I shouldn't be surprised, but I am deeply disappointed that all that came out of the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, was an agreement to talk. I realize that Bush provides the log jam on the issue, but there is a world at stake after all.
But perhaps there is a "larger plan" in the Bush "climate change" stance that is captured by Simon St. Laurence in his satire "Frustrated by France, US Plans New Ice Age for Europe. Please read the whole piece, but some tantalizing excerpts follow:
"Alerted by oceanographers that global warming might eventually lead to disruptions in ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream's warming of Europe, the Bush Administration has embarked on an ambitious plan to disrupt the Gulf Stream and make Europe look like northern Canada."We can do it without lifting a finger, burning millions of gallons of fossil fuels, melting the ice caps, and throwing off the currents," said Vice-President Dick Cheney. "We can take advantage of our natural bounty and build our economy while disrupting those of our opponents.""
And
"Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took a more bellicose stance, suggesting that the United States should explore military options for disrupting the current, suggesting that "global warming takes as long as sanctions to work, and we know they don't work.""
And
"Although the British have perhaps the most to lose, facing the prospect of a glacial Scotland and frozen England, Prime Minister Tony Blair calmly stated that "our faith in the unique understandings between the United States and the United Kingdom remains intact. Perhaps this ice age will remind the French and Germans of the value of NATO and in particular of the value of American opinion within NATO.""
Of course, the U.S. would not be unaffected by such a "strategy," but Bush has already recommended building "sea walls" to protect the U.S. from rising ocean levels.
Posted by Rowan at July 9, 2005 11:47 AM Category: Global Warming
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Comments
This idea that we are invincible makes me almost laugh.
Freezing Europe would surely cause us to freeze as well, would it not?
Building the walls of Jericho is going to save us? I think we need to remember the story of Jericho. Those walls did come down, eventually.
Walls will not stop the wind and the rain.
I cannot believe the vanity of it all.
Posted by: Shawna at July 9, 2005 03:48 PM
Ahhhh, you got to love the French and their penchant for satire. The problem is when the satire begins to sound so real that one is not entirely sure if it's a joke!
I, too, am tired of these international "talks," these bureaucratic assertions that there is "dialogue" in place, that the action will come in a timely manner. Shouldn't there be some sense of urgency when we are seeing extremely insidious effects of global warming.
Again and again on this site we seem to conclude that for our government to respond to the condition of global warming, there will need to be a disaster or serious crisis.
Posted by: Pamela at July 13, 2005 11:59 AM