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Posted on 12/28/2004 2:35:18 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - With the world's attention focused on the earthquake/tsunami that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in at least ten countries that surround the Indian Ocean, media organizations like Reuters are pinning part of the blame for the catastrophe on "global warming."
"A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in [the] future," wrote Alister Doyle, an environmental correspondent for Reuters, who attributed the opening paragraph of the story to "experts." However, Doyle's story did not contain any quotes directly mentioning the theory of global warming.
Instead, Doyle's narrative referred to the controversial subject. "Global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep the oceans at bay," Doyle wrote.
Brad Smith of the environmental group Greenpeace was quoted in the Reuters story, but only as follows: "Coasts are under threat in many countries ... Development of roads, shrimp farms, ribbon development along coasts and tourism are eroding natural defenses in Asia."
According to Doyle, "Scientists say a build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere from human burning of fossil fuels threatens to trigger more powerful storms and raise sea levels, exposing coasts to more erosion.
"Island nations like the Maldives, swamped by the tsunami, could literally disappear beneath the waves if seas rise," Doyle added in the Reuters story without using expert quotes to back up the assertion. "[I]n Bangladesh, 17 million people live less than one meter above sea level, as do many in Florida in the United States," Doyle reported.
Richard Klein, a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, was quoted on how poor regions of the world are more vulnerable to natural disasters.
"Vulnerability has as much a social dimension as an environmental one," Klein told Reuters.
Two weeks ago, at a United Nations climate change conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cybercast News Service reporter Marc Morano spoke with a former member of Greenpeace who had just urged people attending the conference to ignore the issue of global warming.
"Climate change is a huge thing, but there is very little that we can do about it," Bjorn Lomborg told Morano. Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, said world governments would be wise to worry less about climate change and concentrate instead on problems he considers solvable, like AIDS, poverty and inadequate sanitation.
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For this theory to stand they will have to try a little harder to incorporate an undersea earthquake in a ropical region as being caused by global warming.
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(barking moonbat ravings off)
Isn't it obvious that Karl Rove made this happen to distract the world from the massive fraud coverup in Ohio?
Bush's fault < /sarcasm >
I thought for once there was finally a disaster that would not be pinned on global warming. I was wrong.
BTW, everything other than cat dander causes earthquakes too. Barbara Streisand told me so last week.
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Seriesly, the only way 'global warming' had anything to do with this is from the inside! (Increased mantle heat flow causing more oceanic plate propagation, causing subduction, causing earthquakes in subduction zones.... )
Maybe they can drill a really deep hole and jump in, or just go lay by their dish.....
They have NO SHAME - not with the billions and billions involved in what they hope to grift from the US Treasury.
There is one thing that bothers me, though, and that's the awful, terrible quality of the videos shown to date. The people are terrified, swinging their cameras all over the place. I'm surprized we didn't see ten second staring straight into the sun. I'm a photographer. It should not bother me, given those circumstances. But I just can't help myself, to some degree. I just get frustrated watching amateurs waste the moment. Easy to say - I know. It's always the wrong people, in the wrong place. Again, they had to have been terrified, and probably all just got their digi-videos for Christmas and didn't as yet understand how to operate them? Pet peeve. I don't want to trivialize the deaths of over 25K innocent people, believe me.
Well, don't cha know that plate tektonics are caused by Bush not signing the Kyoto treaty!
Coral reefs and mangrove swapms having been damaged by "global warning" might have saved tens of thousands of people? Yeah, right.
Mark
Those Glo-bull Warming Warning wheels really got cranking....Next:
Bush and America are really at fault.
There is one thing that bothers me, though, and that's the awful, terrible quality of the videos shown to date.
I was struck by that, too. I'm old enough to remember the picture a Navy photographer took of a bomb detonating on a carrier deck- it killed him, but he got the picture as it did.
It would be hard to say what anybody would do under that kind of disaster. The folks who took those shots did alright under the circumstances. Watching impending death would make anybody nervous, even professionals.
Liberals would find a way to blame Bush. It sure didn't take them long to link the Christmas Day disaster to Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.
Our media is censoring scenes where people are in the process of being swept out or dying. Fox showed some of this the first time some video came in, but it was never shown again.
As far as the Global Warming causing tsunamis is concerned, part of this is built on the sad state of science education in this country. Most of the people in the U.S. don't believe in the fact of evolution. Linking false cause and real effect is easy if you have not been trained in objective analysis and observation.
Actually, if the earth was slowed by 3 microseconds maybe the earthquake will cause a GLOBAL WARMING. The Al Gores have it backwards.
We will be getting a bit more sun with the slowdown.
Global warming!!?? More like global BS from the left's lapdogs.
Try thinking for a change. It hurts at first, but your brains could use the exercise.
with president Gore this would NEVER have happened /sarcasm
wash your keyboard with soap and hot water now!
LOL!
All "natural" disasters will be blamed on the hair-brained global warming theory until the United States signs the Kyoto nonsense, dismantles whatever manufacturing apparatus that has survived NAFTA and WTO, and joins the ranks of Third World failed nations.
The HAARP project in Alaska that pokes holes in the upper atmosphere could very easily be creating disaster.
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" ... I don't want to trivialize the deaths of over 25K innocent people, believe me."
and ...
"Of course this is not to trivialize in any way the human disaster this event is."
Mind you I don't mean to be critical, but I find it interesting that you both find it necessary to spell out individual disclaimers.
A sad commentary on political correctness and the debilitating consequences to our mind set.
How many fingers am I holding up?
Snort. Note to Greenpeace: Tell it to Krakatau.
"If John Kerry were President, that Tsunami would walk again! Wait, the Earthquake is speaking to you through me! It is saying "Please give more money to the ACLU....and don't even think of voting for that Torte Reform Act...."
You are probably right. You get to be very aware of appearing insensitive and there are oodles of people who are ready to pounce at the slightest hint of same. This is true even at FR the bastion of straight speak!
Why is it liberal politicians are always pointing with their fingers?
They're rude.
"The HAARP project in Alaska that pokes holes in the upper atmosphere could very easily be creating disaster."
Is that the one that makes my ears ring here in NC?
Very true.
I find that, in defiance, I have become more "crude" in many of my remarks here.
Not a recipe for success, I'm afraid. ;)
The HAARP project in Alaska that pokes holes in the upper atmosphere could very easily be creating disaster.........
Actually, we poked the holes to allow the greenhouse gases to escape and create a draft to draw warm air up here from the equator. (Grin)
I just don't like to give someone the obvious cheap shot so if they have a criticism it is, hopefully, substantive and not the PC blather one sees too much of. That is the reason for these types of "Disclaimers"
What, are we gonna have low-carb tortes now? Yuck.
agreed
So is Ben Roethlisberger, from the Steelers, and many are waiting (almost panting, can't you hear them?) for his coming loss.
I goes with the territory.
We can't, though I do, think all should agree with our sentiments, but must be true to ourselves.
The slings and arrows are simply one part of it.
Of course, having a thick skin goes well with a thick head, in my case. ;)
It was only a matter of time. It's all the Republicans' fault.
The shots we see were taken by survivors! This was real; not a movie.
L.O.L..The poor media...trying anyway they can...the village idiots are trying to tie global warming to tetonic plate movement. The poor bastards must have never taken a geology class...
Maybe, but you would think someone on a high floor with a view of the Ocean would have been able to capture it. I've been to Phuket/Patong Beach and most seaside hotels are arranged perfectly for a complete, panoramic view. Just surprised one out of the thousands so situated did not obtain a clear record of this event.
What the Environmentalist Wackos don't want to face it the fact that the center of the earth is a huge Uranium fission Plutonium breeder reactor. As the Plutonium builds up, the core gets more energetic and we have periods of warming. Since the climate models only include the heat coming from the sun, they don't explain the increase in the near ground atmosphere temperatures, and the increase in deep ocean water temperatures. Antarctica is melting from the bottom up.
So nuclear power is the most natural thing in the world! This really makes them crazy.
Consider this article as Alister Doyle's attempt to get in on the ground floor for any UN grants or government contributions toward a very long term and lavishly funded "study" on the interaction between earthquakes and global warming. Alister would, of course, head this study seeing as he's an acknowledged expert in the field, having been the first to write about it for Reuters and all.
In his mind, he's probably got the money half spent; head office Geneva, global travel requirements, consultants to hire, conferences to attend and so on. So much to do, so little time.
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I wondered if they would do this. I wondered if they had the 'nads. I guess there is no limit to the contempt in which these elitists hold "the masses."