A version of this article appeared in print on April 16, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition. That's the frontpage.
They try to crack down on non-PC third-worlders, they’re gonna get a riot.
poverty is bad for the environment.... who knew? (everyone with common sense)
Cooking with dung - if we don’t stop the leftists, that’s what we’ll be doing.
And what, exactly, are they going to replace it with? Or are they just going to let them starve?
I read recently that a third world country, I can’t remember which, suddenly forbade using peat for fires, which made it impossible for people to cook because that’s all they had.
Haven’t India and China been expecting big exemptions from the global “climate change” laws because they’re just “catching up” with the big polluter nations (aka “white male colonialists and imperialists”) and, gee gosh, isn’t the 21st Century *their* time to pollute the atmosphere and to take full economic advantage of the newly self-hamstrung Western idiot nations?
Which Q.E.D. clearly demonstrates that “climate change” has everything to do with political science and very little to do with actual science.
This is a perfect example of liberalism run amuck. Thousands of african die every year from lung disease, because they cook on indoor fires. Obviously, cooking on indoor fires creates alot of air pollution.
Why don’t we use cooking fires in this country? Oh yeah, we are evil and use electric ranges, fed by evil coal burning power plants.
Can Africa have power plants? Hell no - solar for them.
Can Africa damn rivers? Hell no - hurts the environment.
Can africa use DDT and other chemicals? Nope, environment again.
One of the biggest crimes of the last 50 years has been the western world’s refusal to allow Africa to develop itself, using environmentalism as an excuse. Its racist and deadly...
And now, all of the sudden, these idiots figure out that burning dung causes pollution? Whatever.
a rough guess on my part is there around 1billion westerners vs the rest of the 6,790,062,216 world population(CIA Factbook estimation for july 2009)... now tell me who makes more pollution. but it's destroy the west with their AGW scam at all costs.
Can you imagine some prissy libtard running around these villages, with people just surviving, and going off on them with the whole global warming shtick.
This story deviates from the teplate by God!
I long for the day when one of these liberal idiot enviros are treated to a mallet to the temple when they start spouting this idiocy in the future.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............
Lentils simmered over animal dung....I suppose sheep dung makes lentils taste differently than those cooked over goat, or cow dung..?? Imagine the aroma...
Of course if you choose the right cow, you’re potentially cooking with your grandma’s crap, and I suppose these heathens find some nutritional (or cultural) value in that as well...
One can only imagine what other unsavory habits these people indulge in, but we expect them to grasp the fundamentals of Global Warming/Climate Change??
Sounds like the so called scientists just want these poor people to starve to death so we can save the world.
But, but, I thought dumbO’s big plan was to shoot soot in the sky to reduce GW.
‘It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts, each containing a mud cookstove pouring soot into the atmosphere.’
It’s hard to believe because it’s not true.
Concerning air pollution & the Beijing Olympics:
It's also unclear how closely smog and lower temperatures are linked. "We know that air pollution masks the effects of global warming. But to what percentage, we are still not certain," says Ramanathan. "If it's 80 percent, that would be bad news."
Or on 'Global Dimming/Brown Clouds'
These “atmospheric brown clouds” result mostly from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass, and they naturally worsen the impact of climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gas emissions...
... India as a whole had become darker by about two percent per decade between 1960 and 2000, while China had lost its natural light by about three percent to four percent per decade from the 1950s to the 1990s. Poor air quality, less productive agriculture affecting food production and heightening the impact of climate change are the immediate portends.
According to lead scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the US-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “One of the most serious problems highlighted in the report is the documented retreat of the Hind Kush-Himalayan-Tibetan glaciers, which provide the head-waters for most Asian rivers, and thus have serious implications for the water and food security of Asia,”
His solution? Solar cookers for the Asian & African poor-folk. When the sun don't shine, they can starve.
Obama can gather all the soot and shoot it higher up into the atmosphere and to cool things down, right?
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Global warming on Free Republic
“It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts,waved his hand.
