We’re All Gonna Die, White House edition:
Man-made climate change threatens to stress water resources, challenge crops and livestock, raise sea levels and adversely affect human health, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Tuesday.
The nearly 200-page document on global climate change — released by the White House science adviser and mandated by Congress — does not include new research, but encompasses several recent studies on the effects of global warming over the last half century.
In other words, the White House has rehashed the usual scare-mongering in order to drum up “support” for the upcoming vote on the Waxman-Markey, cap and trade disaster. In a press release, Sen. Inhofe correctly noted “that despite millions of dollars spent on alarmist advertising, the American public remains rightly skeptical of the so-called ‘consensus’ on global warming.”
Right on cue, the White House’s propaganda arm (MSM) made sure you aren’t being fooled by the nice weather and, you know, general lack of anything approaching Armageddon.
With a cooler-than-usual winter and a mild temperatures leading up to the beginning of summer, global warming alarmists are finding they are losing steam in the debate. But “NBC Nightly News” won’t give up the fight.
…”This less-than-beach-like weather may have you wondering about global warming,” Thompson said. “This cold spell is a snapshot, just a couple of weeks. Global warming is something that happens over decades and centuries. So hang in there, summer and its warmth is on the horizon.”
That news of warm weather and theory of global warming was reassuring for Williams. “Glad to hear that. I was beginning to worry,” he said.
Lest you get too worked up, I am pleased to be able to inform you that our generous leader has a solution: money for the Chicoms!
CommentsU.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said that there was “no question” that China would receive both financial and technological assistance from the United States as part of upcoming climate change talks to be conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“This is a developing country issue, which includes China,” Stern told reporters on Friday. “I think there is no question that a Copenhagen agreement is going to have to include mechanisms to provide the financial flows and technological assistance to developing countries.”
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They aren’t buying the hopenchange spin:
“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.
His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.
Of course Reuters has to deflect. What they are dancing around is the fact that it reflects skepticism at Obama’s reckless policies, and what it means for the strength of the dollar.
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Fox news reports on the outcome of a meeting between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and the Chinese Foreign Minister concerning efforts to get North Korea to halt it’s provocative actions.
“China’s really trying. We’re trying. Everyone is trying except, unfortunately, the DPRK,” Hill told reporters, referring to the North by the initials of its formal name. “So far the DPRK seems to want to choose a road of deeper isolation.”
Hill said a Chinese delegation visiting Pyongyang have held meetings with North Korean officials but want to conduct more. He had no details of the talks.
Supporters of a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on the North over its missile tests last week have postponed a vote to give China time to use its influence as the North’s main ally and aid donor to push for renewed negotiations.
“Unfortunately, we don’t yet have any sign that the DPRK attaches the same amount of importance to this process,” Hill said.
North Korea isn’t interested in talk. Unless we show that there are going to be real consequences for his actions, Kim Jong-il will continue to laugh at our demands of “talks”. China and Russia continue to balk at the prospect of holding North Korea accountable.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized Japan for what he called its uncompromising stance on the resolution.
“The Security Council’s reaction must be firm, but it mustn’t be overloaded with emotions and mustn’t contain threats that could drive the situation into a deadlock,” Lavrov said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the draft Security Council resolution now under discussion is fraught with all these unacceptable drawbacks.”
Beijing has proposed an alternative resolution with many of the same measures ? on a voluntary basis. It calls for a return to the six-party talks, which involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.
Voluntary…what’s the point of that? If North Korea wanted to comply with any of those measure, they could simply do it now. But they don’t want to, we have to force them to. This is exactly why the U.N. and it’s security council are utterly worthless. China and Russia are not interested in security. They want insecurity, particular surrounding America, so that they can move in and form a second super power out of the east.
Not surprisingly, the anti-american Cuban lacky, Hugo Chavez, is supporting the rogue North Korean actions.
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The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Japan agreed Monday to continue discussions on a resolution against North Korea in response to missile tests that rattled the region last week.
The Tokyo-sponsored resolution that calls for sanctions would have to be altered for the council to approve it, China’s ambassador told reporters after a meeting with envoys from the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Japan.
“If they wish to have a resolution, they should have a modified one, not this one,” Ambassador Wang Guangya said.
China’s consideration of any resolution was considered significant since Beijing had been pressing for a presidential statement, which is not legally binding.
Once again China is obstructing. How long must we pretend that China and Russia deserve a say in dealing with these rogue states? How long must we pretend that they are on the side of security, when their every action shows they really want to encourage these destabilizing forces?
Meanwhile, Japan is considering the merits of a preemptive strike against North Korea, though they apparently lack the capability.
CommentsJapan was badly rattled by North Korea’s missile tests and several government officials openly discussed whether the country ought to take steps to better defend itself, including setting up the legal framework to allow Tokyo to launch a pre-emptive strike against Northern missile sites.
“If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack … there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defense. We need to deepen discussion,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.
Japan’s constitution bars the use of military force in settling international disputes and prohibits Japan from maintaining a military for warfare. Tokyo has interpreted that to mean it can have armed troops to protect itself.
A Defense Agency spokeswoman, however, said Japan has no offensive weapons such as ballistic missiles that could reach North Korea.
Japanese fighter jets and pilots are not capable of carrying out such an attack, a military analyst said.
“Japan’s air force is top class in defending the nation’s airspace, but attacking another country is almost impossible,” said analyst Kazuhisa Ogawa. “Japan has no capacity to wage war.”
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When Israel defends itself from Islamist terrorism, the Council responds almost immediately with condemnation. Will it respond similarly to North Korean missile launches? Doubtful, but that’s the question as Japan proposes a draft resolution to sanction North Korean.
The draft – which has the support of the United States, Britain and France – is tougher than previous versions. It adds language saying that no nation will procure missiles or missile related “items, materials goods and technology” from North Korea, or transfer financial resources connected to the North’s program.
Also included is earlier language ordering countries to “take those steps necessary” to keep the North from acquiring items that could be used for its missile program. Diplomats said it could be put to a vote Saturday.
Not surprisingly, Russia and China are obstructed these efforts. The constant protections they offer for tyrants and agitators has to make us question the kind of long term threat China and Russia are intending to pose. It certainly seems that they are doing everything they can to protect anyone attempting to be a thorn in our side. If they want us weakened, we need to start asking why, and how they plan to exploit that weakness.
In a stance that mirrors their positions on Iran and Sudan, veto-wielding members China and Russia look set to block efforts by the U.S. and its allies to respond strongly to the latest provocation by the Kim Jong-il regime, which lobbed at least seven short-, medium- and long-range missiles into the Sea of Japan as Americans celebrated Independence Day.
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But French envoy Jean Marc de la Sabliere, whose country holds the council’s rotating presidency this month, said afterwards that China and Russia were pushing for a presidential statement.
A statement from the body’s president is a far weaker diplomatic response to a crisis than a legally binding resolution entailing sanctions.
Russia taking the same stance with regard to North Korea that they took with Iraq is troubling. Does that mean they are also selling weapons to North Korea, like they did Iraq?
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