Friday
27Apr
UN Climate Scientists Write off Africa
Friday, April 27, 2007 at 09:48AM Climate Scientist Patrick J. Michaels has alerted us to the UN's appalling view of Africa and its development in coming years in the light of its alarm over climate change. Here's a taster:
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly believes that Africa is incapable of developing a 19th-century market economy in the 21st century. Where's the outrage?
In particular, I am referring to the just-released "Policymakers Summary" of an upcoming UN report on "Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability." It predicts that "agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely compromised by climate variability and change....This would further affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition on the continent."
With a diversified economy Africa and the world can easily deal with declines in local food production brought upon by bad weather. Nations of the world do it all the time, every year. The mechanism is the global market.
For the full article in The American Spectator go here.
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