The killings in Darfur? Blame ‘em on …

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 18, 2007 at 8:03 am

global warming:

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.

Good Lt. at The Jawa Report writes in response:

That’s good news for the US military – there’s nothing they can do to stop what’s really causing Darfur’s problems. And we all know what a world breadbasket and model of prosperity Darfur was before this arbitrary assault by the planet’s weather patterns; an assault that is literally possessing and directly ordering the lunatics there to slaughter innocents with machetes.

Hence, we don’t need to intervene with our military there. Nothing the military can do to stop “climate change.”

Right? Angelina?

Makes sense to me …

I say we send a team of global warming diplomats, led by Al Gore, to set up an office there in order to solve the gw crisis. After all, once that is solved, all will be back to normal in Darfur.

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  1. Baklava says:

    I’ve noticed that watch sales have plummeted as people just use their mobile phones to tell them.

    I suppose the watch manufacturer employees who need food and water AND shelter have a right to pillage and kill because ……

    ….. that is how hunger is handled right?

    Or wait a minute, we went through a depression here also.

  2. Baklava says:

    Bleck. I meant to type “to tell time”.

  3. Don Surber says:

    As Milli Vanilli sang, “Blame it on the (lack of) rain …”

    Oh wait. Milli Vanilli never sang.

  4. Lorica says:

    This is rather funny considering the 1st Sudan Civil war, between the Islamic North, and the Christian South, actually started in 1955. So after that ended apparently everyone was just one big happy Sudanese family!!! Well until Global Warming came around and ruined everything.

    Hmmmmm Here is more interesting information:

    Finally, in June 1983, the Sudanese Government under President Gaafar Nimeiry abrogated the Addis Ababa Peace Agreement (A.A.A.)[2]. The situation was exacerbated after President Gaafar Nimeiry went on to implement Sharia Law in September of the same year [3].

    And this was the cause of the 2nd Civil war in Sudan. Hmmmmm That’s just odd, according to the dorr nobb at the UN, it was the disgruntled Christian farmers who were at fault for putting up fences. Now we find out that there were tensions, and wars, going quite abit further back in time. And apparently Christians didn’t want to live under Sharia law. SURPRISE!!!

    Who do these idiots think they are dealing with, I mean damn….You can fool some of the right some of the time, and you can fool most of the left the majority of the time, but ya ain’t evah gonna fool everybody all the time ya idiots. – Lorica

  5. vatar says:

    Just when you thought the UN couldn’t be more of a joke, they go and prove you wrong.

  6. Tom TB says:

    There will be far more discord on this Planet when jet-setters like UN officers start telling us what we can and can’t do.

  7. The UN—-bringing out the un in the phrase *coming undone* , emphasizing the un in unbelievable, stressing the un in ungodly and in general not un derstanding basic factors of evolution.

    If it weren’t for gross incompetence and graft, nothing would get done in a timely manner at the UN!

    NIce catch Lorica! Facts be damned – full speed ahead!

  8. Drewsmom says:

    What in the hell is this bozo talkin about? Global warming and not Islamist slaughter mongers — yeah, send algore to the rescue, oh, and by the way send tipper with him. Maybe if they kissed in front of em that non-heat experiene of love would freeze em all.=))

  9. Lorica says:

    Thanks Forest. I have long believed that the Liberal Motto should be, “Don’t let facts get in the way of a perfectly good lie”. :) It amazes me how often they can be held to that standard. – Lorica