.The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (Hardcover)
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From Publishers Weekly
Linden, who has been writing about the environment for 20 years (The Future in Plain Sight), is angry that, despite compelling scientific consensus, American politicians aren't facing up to the climate change that is upon us, and he's frustrated that the public isn't forcing them to do so. Such slowpoke acceptance of an inevitability, Linden argues in this articulate polemic, is rooted in the fact that "it has been our good fortune to prosper... during one of the most benign climate periods"—but one that, if past worldwide weather cycles do portend the future, is fast coming to an end, with severe cultural and political consequences. Linden draws his conclusion from millennia of historical evidence, including the relatively recent Little Ice Age, starting in the 14th century, that wiped out Norse settlers in Greenland; more recently, a fierce El Niño in 1876–1878 precipitated droughts that killed millions, and another in 1997– 1998—the most powerful ever recorded and a "taste of things to come"—cost the world economy $100 billion. Several chapters explaining the science of climate change will be hard going for lay readers, but the author's passion for the world to comprehend a coming catastrophe helps propel his alarming narrative. B&w illus. (Feb.)
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I want to beat ladybird, so here is my conspiracy theory.
Why the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's obvious that once global warming floods the eastern US and drought spreads across the Midwest, that the people of the us will have to find a new place to live. At the same time GW will transform the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan into a green paradise, so we are killing off all the current inhabitants with the pretext of the "War on Terror" so that we can clear the ground for our eventual immigration.
Anbar, here we come.
Beat that one.
From Publishers Weekly
Linden, who has been writing about the environment for 20 years (The Future in Plain Sight), is angry that, despite compelling scientific consensus, American politicians aren't facing up to the climate change that is upon us, and he's frustrated that the public isn't forcing them to do so. Such slowpoke acceptance of an inevitability, Linden argues in this articulate polemic, is rooted in the fact that "it has been our good fortune to prosper... during one of the most benign climate periods"—but one that, if past worldwide weather cycles do portend the future, is fast coming to an end, with severe cultural and political consequences. Linden draws his conclusion from millennia of historical evidence, including the relatively recent Little Ice Age, starting in the 14th century, that wiped out Norse settlers in Greenland; more recently, a fierce El Niño in 1876–1878 precipitated droughts that killed millions, and another in 1997– 1998—the most powerful ever recorded and a "taste of things to come"—cost the world economy $100 billion. Several chapters explaining the science of climate change will be hard going for lay readers, but the author's passion for the world to comprehend a coming catastrophe helps propel his alarming narrative. B&w illus. (Feb.)
Amazon
I want to beat ladybird, so here is my conspiracy theory.
Why the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's obvious that once global warming floods the eastern US and drought spreads across the Midwest, that the people of the us will have to find a new place to live. At the same time GW will transform the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan into a green paradise, so we are killing off all the current inhabitants with the pretext of the "War on Terror" so that we can clear the ground for our eventual immigration.
Anbar, here we come.
Beat that one.
posted by madtom at 12:16 AM
2 Comments:
OK, this is all leading to a pretext to use nuclear weapons to render the oil fields of the ME useless so that the domestic soft coal reserves can be made a viable alternative to foreign oil. It is all being manipulated by a unknown but powerful cabal of South Dakotans who own large parts of the coal regions. South Dakotans are a ruthless, manipulative people.
Ok, but can you prove that south Dakota really exist. Has anyone ever met one of these elusive south Dakotans...
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