Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:53:02 AM
On the
LA Times front page this morning, we get a strory about Adam Abdi Ibrahim who lives in the Somalia. He is moving to a refugee camp because of climate change. Of course, what he is really doing is leaving his land because Somalia is a war torn nation with no industry to fight a drought.
He's not fleeing warlords, Islamist insurgents or Somalia's 18-year civil war. He's fleeing the weather.
"I give up," said the father of five as he stood in line recently to register at the camp. After enduring four years of drought and the death of his last 20 animals, Ibrahim, 28, said he has no plans to return.
He is fleeing a drought, not climate change. Here is the bigger problem:
Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change is quietly driving Africa's displacement crisis to new heights. Ibrahim is one of an estimated 10 million people worldwide who have been driven out of their homes by rising seas, failing rain, desertification or other climate-driven factors.
Four times as many people are being displaced by ethnic slaughter. What are we doing about that? Nothing if you read the news daily.
Next month, several industrialized nations will meet with the IPCC again trying to decide how much money we should pour into a cause that is nothing more than a theory, while the same parent organization, the U.N., sits back and does little to nothing about the atrocities accuring all across Africa by Islamic extremists.
Ibraham is one of lucky ones to have been able to make the choice to leave. Most in the part of the world aren't as lucky. Many of the refugees ran for their lives, while others didn't make it, being raped and tortured to death by murderous lunatics. Even
U.N. peace keeping soldiers have been involved in the madness.
So, in my estimation, these dummy's at the IPCC have their priorities all screwed up. But that is just my opinion.