Climate Alarmist Blames Egypt Crisis On Global Warming
On Friday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blamed the crisis in Egypt on George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
Two days later, climate alarmist extraodinaire Joe Romm blamed it on - wait for it! - global warming:
This summer’s extreme global weather raised fears of a “Coming Food Crisis,” as CAP’s John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in Foreign Policy: “Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse.” Earlier this month I discussed how, in fact, “Extreme weather events helped drive food prices to record highs.” Back then, experts were worried about food riots. Now they are happening.
The Washington Post reported on the connection between food prices and Tunisian violence in mid-January, in a piece headlined, “Spike in global food prices contributes to Tunisian violence.” [...]
Robin Niblett, director of the Chatham House, was interviewed at Davos (click here) and said the Egyptian riots “were driven partly of course by the rise of food prices.”
NPR had a long story on the subject today, “Rising Food Prices Can Topple Governments, Too.”
After quoting various liberal media sources such as the Post and NPR, Romm reached this hysterical conclusion:
Energy insecurity and climate instability have now become key factors in food insecurity, which in turn has become a key factor in toppling governments. [...]
Those who think that the serious impacts of climate change — and our inane energy policies — on the world economy and U.S. national security are decades away are simply not paying attention.
Those of us that have been monitoring this insanity for years have regularly laughed at all the world's maladies these folks tie to global warming. Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, publishes a growing list of such conspiracy theories at his website Number Watch.
I guess if Egyptians, after decades of poor treatment by a corrupt, authoritarian government, revolt and possibly topple said government, it's because in the past 160 years, the planet's temperature has risen by approximately (and debatably!) one degree Celsius.
Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
(H/T Marc Morano)
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OK, it's now offiicial!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 9:50am.
This shark has been well and truly jumped.
Morons
Submitted by RightRealDeal on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 9:52am.
Both Matthews and this character are morons. Can I blame my bad knees on global warming?
What planet did these people come down from?
Back to The Mothership
I heard from good liberal
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 1:13am.
I heard from good liberal sources yes you can claim bad knees on warming...
they have it on page 6,000, 400 of their manual to claim everything on global warming.
Hmmmm
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 9:57am.
I guess we should no longer be surprised by these assertions.
It's interesting that this crap passing for analysis comes up at Davos, where the world's wealth brokers meet. Could it be that even the powerful are turning to "global warming" as a mask to distract the Left from the real factors behind price rises? It's like the Kennedys assuming the role of Champion for the Poor.
Meanwhile, we know that at least part of the rise in food prices is attributable to the production of ethynol, which now consumes 40% of our corn production. The higher demand for corn has caused prices to soar.
Pesky facts are not desired!
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 11:56am.
Really, Galvanic, you know better than introduce pesky facts.
It's Global Warming!!!! Global Warming!!!! Global Warming!!!
(that's the best tantrum I can achieve, I quit being a three year old....well, many, many years ago).
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Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 12:16pm.
Chris Matthews brought up the possibility a New Egyptian government might close down the Panama Canal.
I wonder if Manuel Noriega will return to lead Egypt?
;-) (for our HuffPo lurkers who might think it's a good idea)
one can see same thing in
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 1:18am.
one can see same thing in almost all food commodities.. the peak prices are years ago but todays price is much higher (store shelves) thyen the peaks.
Coffee is a good example, it's peak price was 1998, at that time I paid 3 bucks for a lb, now I pay 9-10 bucks and price is about half on the commodity charts.
Aw, Come on!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:00am.
Geez. Enough with the GW already
Evil-Genius...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:01am.
BUSHROVEPALINBACHMANNREAGANBUSHNEWTROMNEYRUSHHANNIYTYLEVINSCHLUSSELINSTAPUNDITGATEWAYPUNDITCANTORHALEYRUBIO...etc.
Darn...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:02am.
forgot TEAPARTY
No it is not
Submitted by richb313 on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:02am.
No it is not, I know the real reason. 2300 years ago a minor star went supernova but contained within that star was an unusally dense core. The extra energy released in the form of exotic radiations started entering the earths atmosphere 12 years ago. This has led to the seeding of extra cloud particles which is widely known, what is not known, except by a few, is that the extra cosmic radiation has overwhelmed the natural earths defenses. The extra radiation is killing brain cells. This leads to more paranoid behaviour and outlook. That is the Real Reason.
OK I just made it all up, but all of it is plausible even if it is stupid. I bet a few of you might have even been sucked in, just a bit.
Sounds "sciency"
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:21am.
Please... Don't give the left any more ideas!!!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
If you could somehow document
Submitted by Hunter12 on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:59am.
If you could somehow document that there was an evil scientist named GWB-el causing the supernova, who sent his offspring to the third planet from the sun of a minor planetary system, knowing the light of the yellow sun would give his progeny strange political powers, the LSM would totally buy it.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
I think Hunter's got it
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 1:39pm.
I think Hunter's got it figured out. The lefties can't get worked up about naturally occuring events. You gotta place the blame on man. Or more specifically A MAN (either G.W. Bush or Dick Cheney). After all, VP Dick Cheney caused North America to freeze, while witless President Bush was paralyzed by stupidity in "The Day After Tomorrow".that's a stretch
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:13am.
Yeah, I see the Muslim Brotherhood blaming it on global warming too. Does anyone know what's Arabic for "stop global warming now" and has anyone heard it or seen signs in Arabic? Maybe it's the graffitti spray-painted on the tanks?
Ok, I'm being just a touch sarcastic here. The islamists could care less about global warming, they are into global dominance.
-Jon
Ok, getting tired of asking the question, but here goes.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:13am.
The earth has transitioned through 7 ice ages. That's 7 times from hot to cold and back. All this before man walked the earth and could burn his first piece of coal.
So how is any fluctuation in temperature now us?
Silly earthling
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:20am.
Because this time it's so darn lucrative.
Asked and answered by yourself!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 5:36pm.
“The earth has transitioned through 7 ice ages. That's 7 times from hot to cold and back. All this before man walked the earth and could burn his first piece of coal.”
Obviously, it was that early conservative malcontent burning coal that caused the previous ice ages and started a chain of events cumulating in today’s global warming… and yes – no doubt he was a direct family ancestor of GWB (or is it Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann?)
The Mantra
Submitted by Huapakechi on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:27am.
You people just don't understand! The earhquakes, fires , floods, tsunamis, droughts, hurricanes, corruption, disease, political repression, religious terrorism, and riots are all due to anthropogenic global warming. In fact, according to the accolytes of the one world government movement / global warming religion, there is no ill on the planet that is not due to manmade global warmning.
Scream down those who question or oppose! Ignore the evidence! Block the efforts to drill our own oil! The citizens of the United States must suffer to tthe same degree as the subjects of every despotic socialist dictatorship around the globe! <sarc off>
TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
These "green" vermin are using a web of regulation, mandate, and judicial fiat to destroy the economic engine that drives this nation. They seek to strangle us by increasing the price of oil to insane hights.
This is the mantra of those who would eliminate the Constitution and subject this glorious experiment in Freedom to the whims and dictates of the corruptocracy of the united nations.
Well, they blamed GW for
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:36am.
Well, they blamed GW for Katrina, so he stopped all the hurricanes for a few years while FEMA proved their value to the American people.
If the current resident would emulate GW, the economy would be roaring along very nicely.....
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Something I wrote off the cuff yesterday...
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:37am.
Oh where oh where did that Global Warming go?
Like when we were kids, we have ice and snow.
Heat waves was the reason, ignoring the season,
now that it's ice and snow the Warmers say whoa.
Warming causes cooling is now what they say,
pretending folks don't see the game that they play.
The doom and the gloom has come full circle, yet it's so darn strange,
now that ice and snow is the danger, its suddenly Climate Change.
So if the mercury rises or if it falls the solution to it all remains consistent,
pay more in taxes, cede more control and don't you dare be resistant.
That the science is settled and the debate is over is what we are endlessly told.
Being green means paying green and that alone controls both heat and cold.
The books were cooked and there's no way around it,
questioning with boldness sought truth and then found it.
Yes, climate changes and so does the weather
how do they think a scale became a feather?
There's a food crisis now.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:44am.
There's a food crisis now. There are too many people on our planet. The reason for that is, well, if you feed people who can't support their own populations with the resources that they control, you create a "false" population. Everything is fine until the resources to feed them run out. Then, they will starve themselves back to levels that can be maintained by their resources. Haiti is a perfect example. They are an overpopulated island that can't grow enough food to feed themselves. They have no other resources other than their population. If they want to survive, they will have to emmigrate or go to war.
It's really pretty simple:
Population=Resources
Are we strong enough to face facts and let nature take it's course?
You're right
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 10:51am.
And if a significant source of that food decides to stuff it into gas tanks, everything comes to a head very quickly.
Third world starvation is part B of the Liberal plan for instability. Iowa should be very proud.
Hmmm...Just ban the GOP, problem solved
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 12:40pm.
Face it. If the GOP is banned, virtually every problem would be solved. No more global warming, no more racism, no more sexism. No more cars, no more billionaires; hell, no more millionaires. No more capitlism, no more dictators, no more crimes.
Yep, blame it all on the GOP. So ban the GOP, then all is solved.
(This is actually not sarcasm, but a condensed answer you can give to virtually any argument by a leftist. It is called "Illustrating absurdity by being absurd" as Rush so brilliantly articulates.)
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Look Obama Thinks
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 1:30pm.
he can see Egypt from his window
roflmao
→ No, Abernathy
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 1:30pm.
That's the Panama Canal.
Like a poor marksman, he
Submitted by jdawg2009 on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 4:04pm.
Like a poor marksman, he attacked Michelle Malkin for something she didn't even write. Guess facts are just a bit too inconvenient for liberals.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/global-warming-blamed-for-egyptian-riots
BTW, he also said Newsbusters was full of "climate ostriches".
Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Submitted by Conservator on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 4:03pm.
Not really; I recall Danny Glover saying the Haiti Earthquake was a result of climate change.
Danny Glover Blames Earthquake on Global Warming
Don't look toward Hollywood for rationale political opionions.
Another Environmental Disaster we didn’t see coming!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 5:59pm.
Lake Tahoe is situated on the California/Nevada boarder. It has just come to my attention that there are no Humpback Whales in the lake… how petty yet arrogant of us to think we could allow the Bush administration to give the Japanese fishing fleet open access to the lake with no ramifications!
I, for one, am appalled!!
And BTW, I have also noticed a decided lack of naturally occurring Polar Bears and Penguins near Coral Gables, Florida!
And don’t even get me started on the subject of no Manatees in Billings Montana!!! ;o)
Gosh grumpy you are from the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 1:18am.
Gosh grumpy you are from the fine state of Arizona...I am sure in that state, death valley misses those whales too..manatees and the environmentalists never griped... count your blessings.
When did they move Death
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 9:21am.
When did they move Death Valley?
;=}
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
The sightings of Sperm Whales
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 9:19am.
The sightings of Sperm Whales in the Great Salt Lake in Utah have been very rare lately......
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Darn. I thought for sure
Submitted by DaChew on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 6:04pm.
Darn. I thought for sure after the National Antiquities building was looted and they detroyed those mummys that, surely, they'd blame all this on Sarah Palin.
You know, 'cuz she's a mummy too? Trig, Bristol...
Thank you, thank you! I draw energy from your boos.