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| Is the American Nuremberg near? |
Itsdb |
03/02/07 |
As you may recall, the latest rage among the greens is to call for a "climate Nuremberg" for those "bastards" destroying the climate. Now we know for sure those "bastards" refer to the U.S.
Arctic residents tell panel U.S. carbon emissions violate their human rights
By George Gedda
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:16 a.m. March 1, 2007
WASHINGTON – Northern Canadians told an international commission Thursday that carbon emissions from the United States have contributed so much to global warming that they should be considered a human rights violation. One activist said temperatures have climbed so much that Arctic residents need air conditioners.
The case was pressed by the Inuit community before the 34-nation Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In a petition, the group asked the commission's assistance “in obtaining relief” from the impact of global warming, and makes specific reference to the United States as the country most responsible for the phenomenon.
The commission, however, lacks the legal authority to compel the United States to take action.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit activist, said the well-being of her people is under threat – and that the need for air conditioning is just one example of the spread of global warming.
Climate change, she said is “destroying our right to life, health property and means of subsistence,” she said. “States that do not recognize these impacts and take action violate our human rights.”
She said ice formations are much more likely to detach from land, and take unsuspecting hunters out to sea where they face an uncertain fate.
Beyond that, she said hunters can no longer be sure of ice thickness and whether it is safe to travel.
“Many hunters have been killed or seriously injured after falling through ice that was traditionally known to be safe,” she said.
The United States did not respond to the Inuit claims before the commission, an arm of the Organization of American States. The Bush administration has said it is taking steps to reduce global warming, but domestic and international critics say it is not doing enough, given that the United States is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Scientists generally agree the Arctic is the first place on Earth to be affected by rising global temperatures. They say that unless developed nations such as the United States – responsible for one-fourth of world's greenhouse gases – do not dramatically reduce their emissions within the next 15 years, the Arctic ice likely will melt by the end of the century.
The Inuit population hails from Canada, Russia and Greenland, as well as Alaska, where they are known as Eskimos. They have been trying to tell the world for more than a decade about the shifting winds and thinning ice that have damaged the hunting grounds the Northern peoples have used for thousands of years.
Watt-Cloutier was nominated with former Vice President Al Gore for a Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change.
Well I guess if they can't defeat us militarily or economically they might as well get us for "crimes against humanity" for destroying the earth. I hear it gets upwards of 60 and occasionally 70 in the arctic interior - I'm sure that feels pretty warm to the Inuits. I even heard that Fort Yukon, Alaska - just north of the arctic circle - actually hit a high of 100°F once. On June 27, 1915.
This is sure to influence the Nobel committee to continue their trend of selecting ecologists and micro-credit pioneers instead of more traditional winners like terrorists. Why?
"This is clearly some of the most import conflict prevention work that is being done. Climate change could lead to enormous waves of refugees, the likes of which the world has never seen before," Heidi Soerensen, a Socialist Left MP who nominated Gore and Watt-Cloutier, told daily Aftenposten on Thursday.
"One hundred million climate refugees, major changes in drinking water supplies and a reduction in biological diversity ... will rapidly become a major security threat," co-nominator Boerge Brende, of the Conservative party, told the paper.
Climate Nuremberg, climate refugees, what's next? |
Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 03/02/07 4:46 pm:
Besides China (and their fast paced building of coal-generated power plants) and the Norks, Canada itself isn't doing much better. I guess it's too convenient to blame the US than for these Canadian Inuits to look at home...
CANADA: February 7, 2007
OTTAWA - Canada's greenhouse gas emissions will continue to soar in the next few years, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.
Harper projected in a policy speech that by 2010 Canada's emissions would be about 46 percent above the targets it had agreed to hit by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. That's up from 35 percent above the target in 2004, the latest year for which data are available.
Canada's latest figures show 24 tons per person of carbon emissions, roughly the same as the US per person figure - although both are less than Australia's 27.54 tons per person.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 03/02/07 5:59 pm:
re carbon offsets . goofy aint half of it. with Gore it begins to resemble to 'oil for food ' scam .
check out my next posting
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