I really, really hate this stuff. The best documentation even the most radical lefties can produce concludes that in the last 150 years, the average temp has risen slightly less than 1 degree.
One degree.
One degree.
Say it with me...one Degree.
Keep in mind that we went through the entire industrial revolution and strip mined the hell out of West Virginia during that time.
The evil United States has since enacted the toughest environmental laws IN THE WORLD. You can actually breathe the air in LA now, but really can't say the same about Mexico City or Hong Kong. Shouldn't you global warming asshats be bugging the sh*t out of the Mexicans and the Chinese? Or is it that you guys just hate America and don't really give a f*ck about the environment...
Anyways, this AP article is the global warming equivalent of Jessica Lange testifying about farmers' problems in the 80's. Another testament to the worthlessness of the U.N.
'Climate Witnesses' Testify About Warming
By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
As scientists debate whether global warming is affecting Earth, "climate witnesses" told a U.N. environmental conference Friday they are already feeling the heat of the changing weather patterns they say are drastically affecting the way of life from the Himalayas to the South Pacific.
In the past we just accepted it was the will of God," said Penina Moce, a woman from Udu, a fishing village in Fiji. "But now we believe there could be other reasons." (so now a fishing villager is competent to testify as to the causes of "global warming"?)
....The 44-year-year-old mother of five said many on her South Pacific island of 400 people are alarmed by recent signs of altering climate: shortened rainy seasons, eroding coastlines and dwindling fish stocks. Water, already in short supply, has become even harder to come by, she said....
....Anil Krishna Mistry, a 37-year-old rice farmer living in mangrove swamps along India's border with Bangladesh, said he is worried by what he sees as changing climate patterns.
He said the region is under constant threat of flooding from heavy rains and that rising sea levels have washed away huge tracts of land and made others too salty for rice growing.
"There were 64 types of mangrove plants in the region, but now half of those species are dying out," said Krishna Mistry. "The mangrove stands act as a barrier against high tides from the oceans," he said, but rising sea levels and high tides are making the freshwater salty.
He said subsistence farmers are losing rice paddies and freshwater drinking supplies to the rising saltwater tides and that many try to survive by poaching and by overfishing in the 104 islands in the region.
"We are surrounded by water, but don't have a single drop to drink," Krishna Mistry said. "The changes in monsoon patterns are leading to more unpredictable weather. Many people are living on the edge, with no other place to go."
Norbu Sherpa, an expedition guide in the Himalayas, also warned of a changing landscape in the Everest region.
"In the years that I have worked as a trekking expedition guide, I have seen snow lines and glaciers go back higher and higher, he said. "Meanwhile, new lakes are forming, others are growing larger and larger.
This is some worthless sh*t.
One degree.
One degree.
Say it with me...one Degree.
Keep in mind that we went through the entire industrial revolution and strip mined the hell out of West Virginia during that time.
The evil United States has since enacted the toughest environmental laws IN THE WORLD. You can actually breathe the air in LA now, but really can't say the same about Mexico City or Hong Kong. Shouldn't you global warming asshats be bugging the sh*t out of the Mexicans and the Chinese? Or is it that you guys just hate America and don't really give a f*ck about the environment...
Anyways, this AP article is the global warming equivalent of Jessica Lange testifying about farmers' problems in the 80's. Another testament to the worthlessness of the U.N.
'Climate Witnesses' Testify About Warming
By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
As scientists debate whether global warming is affecting Earth, "climate witnesses" told a U.N. environmental conference Friday they are already feeling the heat of the changing weather patterns they say are drastically affecting the way of life from the Himalayas to the South Pacific.
In the past we just accepted it was the will of God," said Penina Moce, a woman from Udu, a fishing village in Fiji. "But now we believe there could be other reasons." (so now a fishing villager is competent to testify as to the causes of "global warming"?)
....The 44-year-year-old mother of five said many on her South Pacific island of 400 people are alarmed by recent signs of altering climate: shortened rainy seasons, eroding coastlines and dwindling fish stocks. Water, already in short supply, has become even harder to come by, she said....
....Anil Krishna Mistry, a 37-year-old rice farmer living in mangrove swamps along India's border with Bangladesh, said he is worried by what he sees as changing climate patterns.
He said the region is under constant threat of flooding from heavy rains and that rising sea levels have washed away huge tracts of land and made others too salty for rice growing.
"There were 64 types of mangrove plants in the region, but now half of those species are dying out," said Krishna Mistry. "The mangrove stands act as a barrier against high tides from the oceans," he said, but rising sea levels and high tides are making the freshwater salty.
He said subsistence farmers are losing rice paddies and freshwater drinking supplies to the rising saltwater tides and that many try to survive by poaching and by overfishing in the 104 islands in the region.
"We are surrounded by water, but don't have a single drop to drink," Krishna Mistry said. "The changes in monsoon patterns are leading to more unpredictable weather. Many people are living on the edge, with no other place to go."
Norbu Sherpa, an expedition guide in the Himalayas, also warned of a changing landscape in the Everest region.
"In the years that I have worked as a trekking expedition guide, I have seen snow lines and glaciers go back higher and higher, he said. "Meanwhile, new lakes are forming, others are growing larger and larger.
This is some worthless sh*t.
