Obviously it is America, the Great Satan, at fault! If only we would sign the Kyoto accords, there would be no more hurricanes, tsunami or kittens trapped in trees. There would be only...
Posted on 12/28/2004 9:57:38 AM PST by dr_pat
...Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has spent much of his 26 years in power warning of the dangers that global warming, erosion and shifting weather patterns pose to low-lying island nations like his own.
...Gayoom has appealed for international assistance.
"We still face the threat of sea level rise," he told Reuters in a recent interview. "There is encroachment of the sea on many islands, there is erosion of our beaches."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.co.uk ...
All I see is where he has spent years warning about the dangers of global warming, etc to islands like his. That's a far cry from global warming = recent tsunamis.
Did you read the article or just dr_pat's false headline?
If the idiot leftists thought there was money in blaming this on little green men in flying saucers, believe me we would be awash in stories about them causing the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
The sad fact is that this is just a natural event in the life of the earth. It would have happened with or without SUVs. It would have happened with or without burning fossil fuels. It would have happened whether it was Sunday or Monday or any other day.
It would have happened regardless of saving the earth from greenhouse gas emissions or not. Just as hurricanes and tornados and thunderstorms and fires occur as the result of Mother Nature doing her thing, this earthquake and the resulting tsunami would still have happened.
After all, we have tracked quakes on other planets - what global warming/SUV/greenhouse gas/human intervention caused those events??
File this one away under "Things that make the Chicken Littles go Hmmmm!!"
Admin Moderator, please pull this thread.....
I was thinking the same thing. This so called scientist needs to get a life. It was 5 degrees in northern NJ last night. Global warming my ass.
"There is encroachment of the sea on many islands, there is erosion of our beaches."
Move to Kansas your moroon.
The sentiment is this : "We (poor island countries) are more vulnerable to tsunamis because USA created Global Warming has eroded our beaches and coastlines."
Obviously it is America, the Great Satan, at fault! If only we would sign the Kyoto accords, there would be no more hurricanes, tsunami or kittens trapped in trees. And that is not at all what the original poster was inferring with his original headline that read something to the effect of "global warming caused earthquake".
I never spoke to as what the poster intended or did not intend.
read the article...why is the headline bogus ?
"At dawn, the most destructive earthquake in recorded European history strikes the Straits of Messina in southern Italy, leveling the cities of Messina in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. The earthquake and tsunami it caused killed an estimated 100,000 people."
If the idiot leftists thought there was money in blaming this on little green men in flying saucers, believe me we would be awash in stories about them causing the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.doh ! i'm an idiot you meant the title in THIS thread...you are right..it's the writer's lame attempt trying to connect what Abdul Gayoom said to the current disaster.
By the time you read it, the Moderator had changed it from the one that was originally posted to the true headline.
Where in the article does it state that it was caused by global warming as the original poster claimed in his false headline (now corrected).
Please ignore my last two posts. thank you.
NOWHERE in the article does it state that it was caused by global warming as the original thread headline stated.
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