Global warming, or the more politically-correct 'climate change', is now being blamed for the riots taking place in Egypt, according to a report at Climate Progress.
Using the scare line, "Food prices were driven up by extreme weather and high oil prices," Joe Romm links food prices in Egypt to global warming.
Quoting an NPR story, Climate Progress notes that part of the reason for the chaos in Egypt is rising food prices:
Many of the people protesting are also angry about dramatic price hikes for basic foodstuffs, such as rice, cereals, cooking oil and sugar.
Naturally, all because of "climate change."
This summer’s extreme global weather raised fears of a “Coming Food Crisis,” as CAP’s John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in Foreign Policy: “Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse.” Earlier this month I discussed how, in fact, “Extreme weather events helped drive food prices to record highs.” Back then, experts were worried about food riots. Now they are happening.
Of course, none of it has to do with the policies of the Egyptian government or the push by the radical Islamic group Muslim Brotherhood.
Human emissions (i.e., breathing), combined with rising oil prices and extreme weather get blamed for the political chaos in Egypt. Why not? After all, liberals seem to connect everything else to global warming.
The author attacked Newsbusters as "climate ostriches" and called conservative columnist Michelle Malkin an "anti-science extremist" for disagreeing with his assertions.
But like a poor marksman, the author of the rant at Climate Change incorrectly attributed Michelle Malkin in his link. The actual article at Michelle Malkin's website was not written by Malkin, but by Doug Powers, who asks:
What in the world caused wars, upheavals, strife, poverty, starvation and inflation before global warming? I can’t remember, but in any case, we’ve got another symptom of global warming to add to a list that has grown faster in the past ten years than Al Gore’s waistline.
Noel Sheppard writes at Newsbusters:
I guess if Egyptians, after decades of poor treatment by a corrupt, authoritarian government, revolt and possibly topple said government, it's because in the past 160 years, the planet's temperature has risen by approximately (and debatably!) one degree Celsius
Extreme weather is a major contributing factor — and our top climate scientists say global warming has contributed.
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Got one thing to say..........CRAP................ I wonder if Global Warming had anything to do with ....... uh...............nevermind.. it's too far-fetched to even quantify a response.................Like I said..... CRAP..
Is the first sentence meant to deride "climate change" as some kind of liberal P.C. euphemism? "Climate change" was one of (Republican strategist) Frank Luntz's coinages. Does that still make it 'politically-correct' [sic]?
Where I live, we see climate change frequently. We call them "seasons" - specifically, spring, summer, winter, fall. For more on this, you can see this article: http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/political-correctness-is...
@Joe Newby
From the article you linked: "Political correctness also plays a huge role in the advancement of many liberal causes like the environment or gay rights. [...] What was once "global warming" is now "climate change"; gay marriage" is now "marriage equality", and so on."
My point here is that "climate change" was developed and promulgated by Republican strategists, and that "plain talk" (the absence of euphemism) is neither a conservative nor liberal quality. While I reckon you and I would disagree on just about everything politically, I imagine we might agree that politicians of all stripes have a hard time with clear, simple language.
Step back and look at this from a wider perspective. Prices are going up because of the man-made global warming SCAM, not because of man-made global warming. Global warming is a myth, it doesn't exist. It's basically a tool to exert political control and taxes. As has been said - follow the money, and the EU and UN are by far the biggest funders of this (the oil companies do not fund the sceptics, as they are falling over backwards to be politically correct and seen to be green).
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