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| UN beleives that natural disaters aren't natural; Blames America for them | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 21 2005, 02:41 PM (1,001 Views) | |
| CV6 Enterprise | Jan 21 2005, 02:41 PM Post #1 |
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U.N.: No 'Natural' Disasters? Anybody else think that the UN is completly useless? First of all, global warming, if it is happening, is probably nautral. We are just coming out of an small ice age that happened from the, I believe, 1500's to the 19th centery. That was a JEOPARDY clue. Just the fact that the US is responsible for earthquakes, and tsunamis is redicules. They arn't cause be changes in the climate. As for the weather, Earth has climate cycles, like I said earlier. We are just in a cycle of strange weather. It's completly natural. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Jan 21 2005, 03:27 PM Post #2 |
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The UN is an example of what happens when the inmates are charged with running the asylum. |
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| Hoss | Jan 21 2005, 05:18 PM Post #3 |
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Now, how was the USA responsible for this one? |
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| CV6 Enterprise | Jan 21 2005, 05:28 PM Post #4 |
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Good question. That is what I was getting at, Global warming is natural. |
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| somerled | Jan 22 2005, 02:38 AM Post #5 |
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This is the text of the piece , and , you guessed it , it comes from the Fox Network.
I like the idea of , now that would be a treat , and maybe, just maybe , changes in how these business and the USA's government behave might come about. Nothing like raiding the bank account to get someone's attention. Hey, just market forces at work there. |
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| Dwayne | Jan 22 2005, 07:06 AM Post #6 |
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Thank God there's atleast one news service that's willing to expose the truth. |
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Jan 22 2005, 09:43 AM Post #7 |
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So what? That's your automatic discount? You think the UN is NOT saying this. Fox News, and other sources, reported on some lunacy at the UN. CV6 used this link. Would you have trusted the source more if it came from CNN or The Age? |
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| Fesarius | Jan 22 2005, 03:16 PM Post #8 |
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Yes, but I have no specifics. I did like the Jeopardy reference, however! |
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| CV6 Enterprise | Jan 22 2005, 04:09 PM Post #9 |
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I guess I'll just discount anything an Austrialian news network says then. |
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| CV6 Enterprise | Jan 22 2005, 04:11 PM Post #10 |
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The United States has some of the lowest emmisions per person than anyother country. Why don't you harp on Mexico, or parts of Asia or Aferica? They polute much worse than the United States per person. You anti-Americanism is blinding you agian. |
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| Fesarius | Jan 22 2005, 04:11 PM Post #11 |
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^^^ I think that Somerled was just joshing. He has been in a bit of a snit lately.
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| ds9074 | Jan 22 2005, 04:17 PM Post #12 |
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I am strongly convinced of the case that the world is warming usually quickly due to greenhouse gas emissions and one of the largest emitters in the USA. It is also the largest industrial country not to sign up to the first stage of combating those emissions; the kyoto protocol. Part of global warming is extreme weather related and a lot of hazards are to do with human influence as much as they are natural events. The UN is right to drop the title natural and incorporate these events. Its not just global warming, for example flooding can be made significantly worse by urbanisation or a natural event that would have caused little problem could cause a landslide because of deforestation. |
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| Fesarius | Jan 22 2005, 04:28 PM Post #13 |
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^^^ You might change your opinion on global warming if you were about ten feet from where I am right now.
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| ds9074 | Jan 22 2005, 04:30 PM Post #14 |
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I'm sorry but your plain wrong. The USA has some of the HIGHEST emmissions per person than any other country. METRIC TONS OF CO2 PER CAPITA (2000) [selected countries numbers refer to ranks in full table] (Source: Secretariat of the UNFCCC, http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi...7&fID=my&cgID=) 1. Qatar - 70.1 2. Netherlands Antilles - 46.2 3. Bahrain - 28.8 4. Kuwait - 21.34 5. UAE - 20.9 6. Aruba - 20.6 7. USA - 20.6 10. Canada - 18.71 11. Australia - 18.21 25. Netherlands - 10.91 27. Israel - 10.5 28. Germany - 10.41 31 Japan - 9.81 33. UK - 9.31 39. New Zealand - 8.11 50. South Africa - 7.4 72. Mexico - 4.3 100. China - 2.2 Your anti-UN feelings are blinding you again. WHY does the USA need to emit twice as much CO2 per person as countries like the UK, Germany or Japan? |
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| ds9074 | Jan 22 2005, 04:31 PM Post #15 |
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Why? |
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