UN climate scientists write off Africa
The American Spectator
by Patrick J. Michaels
04/26/07
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly believes that Africa is incapable of developing a 19th-century market economy in the 21st century. Where’s the outrage? In particular, I am referring to the just-released ‘Policymakers Summary’ of an upcoming UN report on ‘Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.’ It predicts that ‘agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely compromised by climate variability and change. …This would further affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition on the continent.’ With a diversified economy Africa and the world can easily deal with declines in local food production brought upon by bad weather. Nations of the world do it all the time, every year. The mechanism is the global market...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11348
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Patrick J. Michaels
04/26/07
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly believes that Africa is incapable of developing a 19th-century market economy in the 21st century. Where’s the outrage? In particular, I am referring to the just-released ‘Policymakers Summary’ of an upcoming UN report on ‘Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.’ It predicts that ‘agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely compromised by climate variability and change. …This would further affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition on the continent.’ With a diversified economy Africa and the world can easily deal with declines in local food production brought upon by bad weather. Nations of the world do it all the time, every year. The mechanism is the global market...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11348
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 26. Apr, 14:27
