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India Ditches UN Climate Change Group
Several readers have told us that the Indian Government is moving to establish its own group to address the science of climate change since it "cannot rely" on the official United Nations panel. "The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts of its 3000 page 2007 report on climate science was not subjected to peer review. A primary claim of the report was the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, but the claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and rebuffed by scientists. India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region. 'There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,' Ramesh said. 'I am for climate science.'"
Yeah, well I'm gonna make my own climate change group! With blackjack! And hookers! Actually, forget the climate change group...
Is this news? Anything that threatens the "supremacy" of the US will be looked at with suspicion by Americans. The UN, for example. Communism/Socialism is another one.
This is why Americans are so pro-Capitalism and so anti-UN and multilateral collaboration. They don't even think about these issues on their own merit, they just outright reject them.
But the same thing happens in other parts of the world, like Cuba or Bolivia, where capitalism is rejected simply because it is associated with the "evil empire".
People need to grow up and quit the rhetoric and just THINK.
And, until someone builds a pub there, the wilderness is very likely to remain wilderness.
Let's put the science back in science fiction.
David Caruso: I'll believe that this man was killed by swine flu... *puts on sunglasses* ...when pigs fly...
The WHO: YEEEAAAAAAAAHH!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.