Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore found an unlikely ally in his mission to save the world from the ravages of global warming – Osama bin Laden. In a new audiotape released by Al Jazeera, the terrorist warns that it is industrialized nations that are to blame and urged “drastic solutions" to solve the climate change crisis.
Bin Laden echoes many who believe the manmade climate change theory saying, "Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact." The comments are akin to the oft-repeated ‘the science is settled’ argument.
It is the industrialized world and of course primarily the United States that is to blame for global warming. “All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming," he says on the tape.
According to bin Laden, it is the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the United States that has caused global warming to impact the world. He said, "Bush the son, and the [US] Congress before him, rejected this agreement only to satisfy the big companies."
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The treaty was ratified by 187 nations but not by the United States. Since then, it has become widely accepted that the agreement did nothing to curb emissions in the nations that did ratify it.
Offering his solution, bin Laden suggests by working on concert, other nations can collapse the U.S. dollar and thus force about a solution. "I know that there would be huge repercussions for that, but this would be the only way to free humankind from slavery... to America and its companies."
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Comments
Really, this is actually quite funny. Especially since Monotheistic Abrahamic Religion has been at the core of almost every major war since Rome...What this tells me is that "people" are far less interested in truth than they are in something they cannot fix, or change. Remember, the ice ages happened BEFORE man existed here...(except for minor ones of course) but than (unless you are simply joking) terrorists generally do have massive amounts of scientific degrees and evidence available to them regarding this...
I like your articles, but this one is a bit off the wall
Thanks, Jesse. While bin Laden did truly release a tape today with the comments as quoted, the story itself is of course done a bit tongue in cheek. :-)
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