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January 24, 2005
HOW CAN SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST DO SO MUCH DAMAGE?
Global warming doesn't exist; it's a figment of those damn tree-hugging liberals' imaginations. Just ask Dubya, he'll tell you. Global warming is just another liberal plot, just like evolution, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and the idea of a round earth. Besides, if the United States abided by the Kyoto Protocol, all the American oil companies wouldn't be able to make such healthy profits. And if you don't love oil companies getting rich, then you just don't love freedom.
Except for one thing: global warming is real, and it's reaching a critical point at which we may not ever be able to undo the damage done, according to an international task force.
Global warming is approaching the critical point of no return, after which widespread drought, crop failure and rising sea-levels would be irreversible, an international climate change task force warned Monday.
"An ecological time-bomb is ticking away," said Stephen Byers, who co-chaired the task force with U.S. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, and is a close confidant of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "World leaders need to recognize that climate change is the single most important long term issue that the planet faces."
World leaders? Actually, just one. Most other world leaders got it a long time ago and signed Kyoto a decade ago. There's only one "world leader" who denies the reality of this issue. And the red states just handed him four more years.
U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected the Kyoto accord, arguing that the carbon emission cuts it demands would damage the U.S. economy.
If the devil's chimpanzee thinks cutting carbon emissions would damage the US economy... wait till he sees what runaway climate change and mass extinctions could do to it.
According to the report, urgent action is needed to stop the global average temperature rising by 2 degrees Celsius above the level in 1750 -- the approximate start of the Industrial Revolution when mankind first started significantly polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. Beyond a 2 degrees rise, "the risks to human societies and ecosystems grow significantly" the report said, adding there would be a risk of "abrupt, accelerated, or runaway climate change."
But yeah, I guess oil company profits are important, aren't they George? Profits over existence... that's the Republican way. Either that, or this is all part of Bush's plan to bring about the apocolypse and the End of Days... just melt the planet down, and you get your End of Days.
