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Divergent views signal tough climate talks ahead

World Nov. 29, 2011 - 03:45AM JST ( 4 )

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NeverSubmitNov. 29, 2011 - 08:09AM JST

The food issue is media hype. Most western countries including Canada, US and even France over produce food. In fact, Canada dumps grain into the Hudson Bay because the government keeps buying the surplus to keep the price high.

Last year, Russia had a bumper crop hence prices are at record lows again. Since the fall of communism, the huge bread baskets of Russia and Ukraine have been developed and if anything, the global food market will continue to be oversupplied in the foreseeable future.

As for the irrigation issue:

Adjusting to a changing world will require $1 trillion in irrigation water management alone for developing countries by 2015, the FAO said.

Exactly $1 trillion? Gimme a break. As if they did some research and the result came around $1 trillion. Like all statistics that come out of the UN, that number is pulled out of hat to look scary.
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WolfpackNov. 29, 2011 - 10:06AM JST

With heat-trapping carbon at record levels in the atmosphere, U.N. climate negotiations opened Monday with pressure building to salvage the only treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

This is a flat out untrue statement. Anyone that has read anything about the history of earths climate knows that the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is not at a "record level" right now. Don't they are editors at the Associated Press?

So the "journalist" that wrote this article writes this:

As if to illustrate the effects of global warming, a fierce storm on the eve of the talks flooded shack settlements and killed at least five people in the port city hosting the international gathering.

Then in the very next paragraph writes:

Scientists say such unusual weather has become more frequent and will continue to happen more often as the Earth warms, although it is impossible to attribute any individual event to climate change.

In other words, there is absolutely no link between the "fierce storm" and climate change (ie. man-made global warming) and it does not "illustrate the effects of global warming".

This isn't just lazy journalism, this is a point of view being pushed as news.

As the talks opened, Canadian television reported that Ottawa will announce its formal withdraw from the Kyoto accord next month.

So Canada has now joined former President Bush and the US. Next, Japan will reject further binding limits on the emission of plant food as well. Why? For the same reason that the US Senate unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol in a test vote, unless so called 'developing countries' like China agree to binding limits, any treaty is simply national economic suicide that would not prevent the onset of the "tipping point" that green fundamentalists are forever babbling about.

Global warming is a leftist fraud. There is no consensus. This is politicized science on the part of activists promoting an anti-capitalist agenda.
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JeremiahWNov. 29, 2011 - 11:53AM JST

"As the talks opened, Canadian television reported that Ottawa will announce its formal withdraw from the Kyoto accord next month."

This is not the Canada I threatened to move to if McCain was elected president.
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illsayitNov. 29, 2011 - 05:50PM JST

Well I hope they use some of that money to tap into the water in the Amazon. There is so much space over there maybe the refugees should head there-Europe is rascist and got no money now, Australia is so dry it's too hard. Lush green Amazon!