Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots

[stephanie]

this is what a global warming disciple sounds like..

By Brent Baker | April 2, 2008 - 02:18 ET

Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show,
CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.”
On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:
Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

and much more from Ted at..
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-b...ng-cannibalism

[hjmick]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!

Eat me.

[Little-Acorn]

this is what a global warming disciple sounds like..

It's what a complete fruitcake sounds like. Maybe it's the same thing?

[actsnoblemartin]

agreed, ted turner is like your drunk uncle at thanksgiving, never know what whacked out stuff your gonna hear out of that mouth

It's what a complete fruitcake sounds like. Maybe it's the same thing?

[hjmick]

Well, look who's back.

Welcome back Martin.

[avatar4321]

8 degrees warmer? sweet. i hate the cold.

[Yurt]

Eat me.

now that was good!

[red states rule]

Ted is not up on current weather events


Global Warming Update: Snowfall Records Being Broken in New England
By Noel Sheppard | February 28, 2008 - 11:12 ET

Remember all those articles last year about how ski resorts were going to go bankrupt, and that folks with vacation homes near such areas were going to take a bath as global warming significantly reduced snowfall levels?

Well, ski enthusiasts and investors around the country should rest assured that this media hype was just as accurate as all those hurricane forecasts in 2006 and 2007.

In fact, much as what has occurred in Wisconsin this year, parts of New England have experienced more snow than ever in history as reported by USA Today late Wednesday evening

Another snowstorm swept across New England on Wednesday, toppling seasonal snowfall records and dumping so much heavy snow on buildings that some collapsed under the weight.

In Vermont, Burlington's 7.6 inches pushed the official snowfall past the February record of 34.3 inches and the winter record from December, January and February of 96.9 inches.
Around a foot of snow had fallen in parts of Vermont and New Hampshire.

Concord already had set a record for the snowiest December, January and February, and the storm pushed the total for the three months to 97.5 inches. For the entire snow season, Concord has seen 99.6 inches, off the record of 122 inches, set in the winter of 1873-74, but still enough to make it the 10th snowiest winter on record.

In northern Maine, Caribou had seen 144.5 inches this season as of Wednesday morning, putting it on pace to break the record of 181.1 for the entire season, said National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Turner.

There's so much snow that Ski Press World issued the following press release Wednesday:

The abundant snowfall that has blanketed Vermont's ski areas all season has continued at a record-breaking pace with snowfall totals that have already shattered the 50-year-old mark for the snowiest February in Vermont's history.

As D'Aleo reported:

Central New England too has been snowy. Concord, New Hampshire also has now exceeded 100 inches for the season with another light snow event last night. Official amounts will be available later today. They are closing in on the all-time record of 122 set in 1874. In this New Hampshire Public Radio story, they report the heavy snow is causing problems for many New Hampshire towns and cities.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...en-new-england

[mundame]

this is what a global warming disciple sounds like..

By Brent Baker | April 2, 2008 - 02:18 ET

Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show,
CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.”

No, wait ---- it's what the great scifi/alternate history writer S.M. Stirling sounds like. Ted Turner has obviously been reading Stirling's new trilogy beginning with Dies the Fire. I recommend it heartily, along with his Nantucket-transplanted-to-1250 BC trilogy that preceded it. (Island in the Sea of Time is the first of that trilogy. Wonderful.)

Stirling's single big change in Dies the Fire is that as Nantucket is transplanted (systems intact) to 1250 BC, ALSO the rest of the world loses explosions. That is, guns and bombs and automobiles do not work any longer. At all.

Whoops, no more big semis hauling groceries into the cities. There is a Great Dying, as cities instantly become unviable. Cannibalism does occur in various areas, for awhile and for more than awhile if the areas can't re-establish government. They are called "Eaters," and are gradually wiped out by the peoples who establish walled communities and governments.


Ted Turner has borrowed this for his "global warming" idea, which is not nearly the same sort of thing: it's not instantaneous and it's not so serious, even if it were to happen.

No, Stirling's novels are provocative because of course anyone reading him sees he is perfectly correct: instantaneous failure of our systems WOULD cause a mass dying and perhaps cannibalism, because we are now dependent for survival on our advanced systems.

But Turner is silly to try to spread that idea out to cover a gradual change in climate. That's just a perversion of what Stirling is saying, and it doesn't work, IMO.

[red states rule]

No, wait ---- it's what the great scifi/alternate history writer S.M. Stirling sounds like. Ted Turner has obviously been reading Stirling's new trilogy beginning with Dies the Fire. I recommend it heartily, along with his Nantucket-transplanted-to-1250 BC trilogy that preceded it. (Island in the Sea of Time is the first of that trilogy. Wonderful.)

Stirling's single big change in Dies the Fire is that as Nantucket is transplanted (systems intact) to 1250 BC, ALSO the rest of the world loses explosions. That is, guns and bombs and automobiles do not work any longer. At all.

Whoops, no more big semis hauling groceries into the cities. There is a Great Dying, as cities instantly become unviable. Cannibalism does occur in various areas, for awhile and for more than awhile if the areas can't re-establish government. They are called "Eaters," and are gradually wiped out by the peoples who establish walled communities and governments.


Ted Turner has borrowed this for his "global warming" idea, which is not nearly the same sort of thing: it's not instantaneous and it's not so serious, even if it were to happen.

No, Stirling's novels are provocative because of course anyone reading him sees he is perfectly correct: instantaneous failure of our systems WOULD cause a mass dying and perhaps cannibalism, because we are now dependent for survival on our advanced systems.

But Turner is silly to try to spread that idea out to cover a gradual change in climate. That's just a perversion of what Stirling is saying, and it doesn't work, IMO.

Ted has paid to much attention to Al Gore

[Hobbit]

Here is an unaltered photograph of Ted Turner as he made those comments.

[red states rule]

Al Gore's Travelin' Global Warming Show