Posted on 07/21/2011 4:35:39 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice this week issued a blistering rebuke of Russia, China and other countries that blocked the Security Council from adopting a statement linking the threat of climate change to international peace and security.
During the Security Council’s first formal debate in four years on the environment Wednesday, Russia was not swayed by Western nations led by Germany, this month's council president, insisting that the 15-nation panel needs to respond to the effects that climate change has had on Sudan's Darfur region and in Somalia, where the United Nations say famine had struck two areas.
"We have dozens of countries in this body and in this very room whose very existence is threatened," Rice said without naming the countries. "They've asked this council to demonstrate our understanding that their security is profoundly threatened.
"Instead, because of the refusal of a few to accept our responsibility, this council is saying, by its silence, in effect, 'Tough luck.' This is more than disappointing. It's pathetic. It's shortsighted, and frankly it's a dereliction of duty."
Moscow's was "skeptical" about efforts to have the council address climate change, Russian envoy Alexander Pankin said, according to Reuters.
"We believe that involving the Security Council in a regular review of the issue of climate change will not bring any added value whatsoever and will merely lead to further increased politicization of this issue and increased disagreements between countries," Reuters quoted him as saying.
India and Brazil, both temporary members of the council, also express reservations about getting the body involved.
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Putin probably said, “Hold my vodka and watch OBummer and his crowd of moronskies”.
wow, Russia got it right on this one, who would of thunk it?
Ethiopia is between the two countries mentioned (Sudan and Somalia). Does Rice blame Global Warming (err.. Climate Change) for the giant 1888 famine there?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139963/pdf/medhist00069-0113.pdf
Give me one scenario where you can envision that. We've got states being invaded and their residents being killed and this doesn't cause any such action. What will? Never happen. The lion that roared.
The Russians and Chinese recognize a Commie when they see one. Hard to out Commie a Commie.
“Never thought I would live to see Russia opposing the US from the right.”
No, nor did I ever expect to be hoping that Qadaffi would defeat western Europe.
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ditto.
and remember that speech by Putin, a year or 2 ago,
where he praised free-market capitalism,
and warned us to learn from their mistakes,
and not become a socialist welfare state?
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