Global Warming is being Blamed for the Genocide in Darfur

From breitbart.com:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. “The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons.

“This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote.

“It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said in the Washington daily.

When Darfur’s land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water, he said.

With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing.

“For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,” he said.

A UN peacekeeping force may stop the fighting, he said, and more than two million people may return to rebuilt homes in safe villages.

“But what to do about the essential dilemma: the fact that there’s no longer enough good land to go around?”

“Any real solution to Darfur’s troubles involves sustained economic development,” perhaps using new technologies, genetically modified grains or irrigation, while bettering health, education and sanitation, he said.

Sudan is not the only country with such problems, Ban said, and pointed to Somalia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso as African countries with “food and water insecurity.”

Khartoum agreed this week to accept 23,000 UN and African Union peacekeepers after four years of fighting, which has killed at least 200,000 people.

Every time I think I’ve heard it all on global warming, something else even more ridiculous comes along. Now this time I know I’ve heard it all. Because the so-called average earth temperature has risen less than a degree, genocide has been taken place in Darfur. Even if there was such a thing as an average earth temperature, which there isn’t, this argument is ludicrous. It’s time to blame the PEOPLE responsible for the genocide, and stop making excuses for them. When we can make excuses for genocide we have truly become a blameless society. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot, PEOPLE are responsible for global warming, maybe he has a point after all.

Now I know I’ve heard it all. But of course everything that goes wrong in the world is George W Bush’s fault. And we have heard that his environmental policies are destroying the earth. We even had some people say his environmental policies were the reason for hurricane Katrina, so it’s only a matter of time before Bush’s policies are blamed for the genocide in Darfur. Then I know I will have heard it all.