The Monitor (Kampala)
8 July 2009
The Karimojong blame the spell of calamities like drought and disease to the "angry gods". Little do they know that their area is suffering the consequences of a larger problem, climate change.
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Blaming the gods makes as much sense as buying into the false notion of global warming. They call it "climate change" after 15 years of referring to it as "global warming." The climate is cooling, they know, they hope you'll forget the other term. If carbon emissions cause warming and now the planet is cooling, then how do they justify carbon emission reductions? It's a scam.
In addition to your list I would also add the politcal structure. When countries embrace marxism and collectivism, they remove individual initiative. Rhodesia used to be the breadbasket of Africa. When it became Zimbabwe, it fell apart.
Get real. The Africans have it right. The gods are angry. The global warming crap is crap. We will pay for allowing frauds like Al Gore to proliferate.
Check out this website for a more balanced report: http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v1/1/3.htm
By far the most important ecological feature of this region is its rainfall pattern. As a semi-arid area it may get short rains during April and a longer rainy season from June to early September; however, this pattern is not reliable and in many years the rains are sparse, or fail altogether. Thus, drought and hunger are a recurrent feature of life in Karamoja.
I forgot to mention that the article I just referenced was written 13 years ago and references that same sort of problems 30 years ago.
Put aside the global warming spin for a moment, I didn't see any examples cited of Ugandans blaming "angry Gods". I may be mistaken, but every quote I saw referred to "God" being angry. I think that in addition to having an extreme environmentalist agenda, the author is also showing his disdain for belief in God by mockingly referring to polytheism.
Seriously, some people are so blinded by their agenda...
The average annual rainfall in Israel has doubled since 1948. Coincidence?
CO2 is the "green" gas upon which , with H2O , all life is built . CO2 is provably increasing crop yields in every corner of the planet .
On the other hand textbook physics proves the temperature of objects in our orbit are about 1/21 the temperature the sun decides to be . ( See my CoSy.com for the algorithm . )
The anti-carbon marxists , willing to sacrifice the living for a pseudo-science future are worse than a fraud ; they are anti-life and anti-green .
The average temperature of earth has gone down, gotten COOLER for 8 years in a row. Uganda has a problem, but it is an area problem, not worldwide. In New York City and Chicago and several other areas of the USA the temperatures are about 8 degrees below normal. New York has not had a day of 30 degrees Centigrade this year. That is very cool for summer. In Texas we have had a lot MORE rain than normal this summer.
The average temperature of earth has gone down, gotten COOLER for 8 years in a row. Uganda has a problem, but it is an area problem, not worldwide. In New York City and Chicago and several other areas of the USA the temperatures are about 8 degrees below normal. New York has not had a day of 30 degrees Centigrade this year. That is very cool for summer. In Texas we have had a lot MORE rain than normal this summer.
"The average annual rainfall in Israel has doubled since 1948. Coincidence?"
Now THAT comment is funny! Another thing to blame on the Jews...LOL!!!
Angry gods are just as plausible as global warming. But lets be realistic and put the blame where it really belongs...mostly overpopulation, also deforestation, pollution of rivers and groundwater, overuse of groundwater by agribusiness/agriculture. "Global warming" is jsut a catchy phrase used by communists to realign the wealth of the world, and will be unsuccessful and their demise.