In his valedictory speech to the annual meeting, the UN secretary-general painted a sombre tableau about the effects of climate change, especially on impoverished countries that were least to blame for it.
And he lacerated the fast-shrinking minority of politicians or scientists who still denied there was any threat as “out of step, out of arguments and out of time.”
If the froward scientists failed to toe the line, he added, they will receive a multitude of UN Resolutions denouncing them, after which the US will be forced to act “unilaterally.”
They conveniently left out that by 2040 it will take a couple thousand billion dollars to call somebody who cares.
Sounds like a substantial decrease to me.
Everyone knows this is the ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’ of the cult of nincompoop twaddlemouthed addlebrains. Obviously if you just “name it and claim it” it makes global warming, um, realer or something.
I mean, it could only get realer, right? Being completely imaginary and all.
Just sayin’.
TW: waterworld!
I love the UN for the courageous way it always stands up for innocent people in impoverished countries, as long as the threat is decades away and there are more billions to be guilt-tripped out of the US in the process.
Hey, maybe if we ally ourselves with the Janjaweed and convince them to stop killing kids and start making vague, distant threats against them instead, we’ll finally see Kofi take some action in Darfur.
I’m just looking for our share of the payolla, since we missed out on OFF. Since we invented the EPA, and the whole concept of cleaning up the environment, when will Europe and the third world ante up the license fees?
Pay, or drown in your filth.