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Sunday

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November 2009

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We're All Gonna Die! Pt. 27

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We’re all gonna die a little bit inside once the women turn to prostitution:

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,” Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

Then we’ll all die from AIDS.

Hat-tip: Stop The ACLU

Wednesday

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November 2009

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We're All Gonna Die! Pt. 26

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Today comes an Al Gore edition of We’re All Gonna Die!

First, the Goracle impresses us with his knowledge of the earth sciences, declaring on Conan O’Brien that the Earth’s core reaches a temperature of “several million degrees.”  Our actual best estimate? 4,000-5,000 degrees Celsius.  As NRO’s John Derbyshire puts it, “If the temperature anywhere inside the earth was ‘several million degrees,’ we’d be a star.”

Now comes word of how Gore plans to open his next apocalyptic book.  He will use the following quote:

I’m offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses.
–Deuteronomy Chapter 30, Verse 19

The cover art even manages to be over-the-top hysterical.  As the so-called science of global warming is increasingly rejected, expect the likes of Al Gore to hyperventilate about the coming doom at even greater frequencies.

Sunday

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November 2009

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We're All Gonna Die! Pt. 25

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And by “we,” I mean the turtles:

This resort town was long known for Leatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectations. “Of course we’re hoping to see turtles — that is part of the appeal,” she said.

But haphazard development, in tandem with warmer temperatures and rising seas that many scientists link to global warming, have vastly diminished the Pacific turtle population.

Only it turns out that warming isn’t really the issue:

Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans’ penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy here. But climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelled in the Pacific for 150 million years.

So let me get this straight.  You had diminishing turtle populations before any supposed warming, while warming only “may” hurt them.  Yet you run the story as “Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica.” Yep, that sounds like the New York Times to me.

Guess what? Climate changes throughout history.  If one location no longer suits the turtles, they’ll move somewhere else. That’s how nature works.  You cannot take a static snapshot of it and preserve it that way for all time.

Tuesday

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October 2009

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We're All Gonna Die! Pt. 23

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If we don’t cede our sovereignty at Copenhagen, then Gordon Brown tells us we’re all gonna die:

He added: “If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice.

“By then it will be irretrievably too late. So we should never allow ourselves to lose sight of the catastrophe we face if present warming trends continue.”

What warming trends? Even the BBC recently discovered that there has been no warming at all for ten years now.  In fact, Washington DC just had its coldest Oct. 16 in 138 years.