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July 09, 2009

Angry gods

There are those who believe the sky is falling and attribute every change in the weather to imaginary forces conjured up by man's greed. Then there are people who take a more rational view of the weather.

Take Ugandan witch doctors. Much less susceptible to climate change hysteria than, for example, your average journalist.

The Karimojong blame the spell of calamities like drought and disease to the "angry gods". Little do they know that their area is suffering the consequences of a larger problem, climate change.

The money quote is provided by an NGO programme manager. While terse, it benefits from an irrefutable grasp of cause and effect which is (drum roll, please) more than I can say for the "scientific consensus" on climate change.

"If it doesn't rain soon, I predict drought will hit the region again," Mr Nyeko says.

Related: China and India decide not to jump off the cliff.

Obama may plan to return home, waving a piece of paper over his head to the adoring masses of the White House press corps, claiming a victory for climate change in our time, but that’s as far as it will go without the two most populous nations on Earth exempting themselves from it. Obama will push for the limitations in other ways, though, through Congress and the EPA, while China retains its economic advantage over the US, and India builds one.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 9, 2009 07:08 AM

Comments

A few sacrifices to Thor is all that's required.

Posted by: cm [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 9, 2009 09:40 PM

I live in rural China, we routinely have brownouts and blackouts as consumer power consumption is expanding vastly faster than baseload plants can be built. The next time I hear some dillwad bleating about how coal fired power plants are raping the earth I'll recollect every 36C night when the fan quit working and every 7C winter morning when the electric blanket had knocked off during the night and beat them to death with a length of bamboo.

Posted by: Rob [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 9, 2009 11:47 PM

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