Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thinks Israeli settlements are causing dangerous global warming.
At the UN Earth Day ceremony in New York on Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed the “Israeli occupation” for global warming. The ceremony was intended to mark the signing of an agreement reached at an international summit in Paris last December, but Abbas seized the opportunity to engage in Israel bashing.
Abbas took the podium and addressed the representatives of 193 nations gathered to address global environmental issues. “The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared, “And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine. Please help us stop the occupation and the settlements.”
Regardless of your position on the Israel / Palestine situation, suggesting that Israeli settlements contribute significantly to global warming is utterly implausible. But this latest twist in climate politics simply adds tension to a situation which has been brewing, since Palestine was admitted a few days ago, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
If the US continues to fund the UNFCC, or fulfils Paris “pledges” to contribute to the UNFCC climate fund, not only is this a violation of current US law, there is a serious possibility some US provided money might be diverted to help fund terrorist attacks.
OMG !! Absolute proof of the insanity of this S.C.A.M. !!
Of course he did. I’m sure he would say my local K-Mart closing down is because of Israeli occupation.
On the plus side, the US State Department pick-up basketball team could beat the holy tar out of the Palestinian team.
I am just hoping that after the US elections in November we get an Administration that will flush all this nonsense down the tube.
WUWT – have you seen the comprehensive attack on the BBC’s bias. in notalotofpeopleknowthat blogosphere? I hope it goes viral. Pages and pages. Devastating
[snip – that’s over the top, and an ugly image we don’t need here – Anthony]
I think it is more a case of using any opportunity to air the issue of the illegal encroachment of Isreali settlements on Palestinian land. Please don’t take this as being anti-semetic as my wife and hence my children are jewish.
And I am sure that the live wire genius standing next to Abbas would agree with him.
Sure, why not.
If 4 additional molecules of CO2 per 10,000 is believable as the cause, why not Israeli occupation. There is no illogical explanation in our post-modern world of science.
We may as well blame the Iditarod for melting Antarctic ice caps (which are actually growing) even though it is run in Alaska. No logic necessary to support the argument.
Logic and science are dead and have been replaced by a French Impressionist version where the “vision” is more important than the accuracy.
ROFLMAO!!!! That’s (mis)using propaganda for you! Too fricking funny. How did he NOT crack up while making that ridiculous statement? And how did the 193 delegates he addressed not laugh him out of the room?
Who’s next in the firing line? Because here’s how it goes: __insert country/politician/leader__ says, “don’t blame us for ___insert social/political/religious excuse for more money___ because it wasn’t US, it’s THEM! ___insert opposing social/political/religion/country/ideology__ for this mess because THEY ___insert bogus claim__ did it!”
Seriously this is a case of the ghost of “Not Me” that resides in houses all over the world.
A nasty political dispute, but so is CAGW in general. To paraphrase an old coment “it’s politics all the way down”.
I would have thought it was the complete opposite – Israel is teaching the world how to live with climate change (if such a thing exists).
This began in the 1970s with the drilling for water programme, which greened vast swathes of Israel and ‘Palestine’.** But the water levels dropped in the bores, and it was eventually discovered that this was fossil water, with no possibility of replenishment.
So Israel embarked on the largest desalination program, probably in the world, and is now producing half of the regions water requirements through desalination.
How Israel deals with a ‘devastating’ drought, by doing nothing.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/science/1.596270
And Israel has developed this expertise to such an extent, that it is now teaching California how to deal with droughts. So Israel saves California from ‘climate change’ too.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-13/israel-desalination-shows-california-not-to-fear-drought
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** An apprpriated name. The original Palestinians were the Peleset, and they came from Mycenae in Greece. They invaded the Levant during the Sea People invasions of the 11th century bc. They are probably cognate with the biblical Philistines. But the original Peleset-Palestinians were all erradicated during the 7th century Arab-Muslim invasions of the Levant. So the present ‘Palestinians’ are not Palestinian at all. Arab, Persian or Parthian perhaps, but not Palestinian.
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Isn’t it peculiar how suddenly areas of conflict are the result of “climate change” with a fully developed local explanation from every where from the Indian sub continent to the Arctic and the Middle East like “Venus on a Half Shell” springing forward from the lips of local political hacks?
Business as usual – for politicians. We the people pay for this nonsense.
That’s a keeper. The copyrighted Climate Change con caused my homework not to get done and for me to be late today. You’re in the 3 percent denier camp if you say otherwise.
Well, you would have to agree that the whole middle east problem produces an awful lot of hot air.
Let it be known for all future generations that in the early 21st century human civilization went off the rails and converted from making things to making things up. This was all made possible by sprawling factory cities in China.
That guy pictured with Abbas is the real con artist of the 21st century and I hope his granddaughter realizes that some day.
Are these idiots, and I mean IDIOTS really this naively insane? Why yes Tom they are….they really are.
Great picture! John Kerry looks his I.Q.
Stan Laurel was for the climate change agreement too. Who knew
They’re a little late to file their claim for redistributive change from catastrophic anthropogenic government whoring.
Is that John Kerry, who works for our government, smiling great big and shaking that @ur momisugly$$h0!e$ hand?
Why yes, it is.
In the old days the U.S. gave away huge concessions in international agreements in return for some assurances on human rights provisions in the foreign land. Now they do it for climate change agreement. Enjoy….and watch your backside if you are allied with the U.S. on anything like security etc.
It makes complete sense if you view it through a greenie lens.
The Israelis are more affluent than the Palestinians, therefore the Israelis use more energy. Much of the energy comes from fossil fuels and promotes CAGW.
If we reduce everyone to the level of the Palestinians we will reduce atmospheric CO2 and will help to save the planet. Never mind that the population of Israel is only 8,476,600. Everyone has to do their part.
It’s so simple. 🙂
Until Israel stops annexing land through genocide and adheres to their original agreement 50 years ago…I could care less what Palestine says.