Skidt med resten
Danmark er rustet til klimaforandringer
Skriver politiken.dk.
… bare vi har vores på det tørre, så lad de andre sejle (i) deres egen sø!
Bloggen (klik på “Ældre indlæg” neden under Blåtand) kommenterer mere eller mindre satirisk aktuelle nyheder fra Politiken etc.
Websitet (klik på menupunkterne øverst t.h. – under sider) handler især om Danmarks Radio & Co.
Og om hvordan statsradiofoniens arvtagere specielt ved deres valg og vinkling af nyheder
(Børn&Bananas, Danske Danskere, JanteFjante, Myter&Traditioner, TumpeTV, Varmvind&Lunluft)
er med til at gøde jorden for Fogh, Pia den fromme K. og andre mere eller mindre fordækte nationalister
samt Sand&Salighedsmonopolister med en mission om at Danmark skal frelse verden
- og så også lige (med den anden hånd) knække The Axis of Evil.
DR&Co.s udanske dansktone sigter efter at producere konsensus om Danmarks og danske danskeres overlegenhed.
Sammen med det der trives i et sådant klima kan den meget vel være en medårsag til den senere tids voldsomme sammenstød (ReligionsRabalder, KulturKamp). Ikke kun på religiøse og etniske fronter, men også mellem kreative unge og etablerede magtstrukturer samt magthavere, som tror, de kan gå på vandet.
English abstract
This blog/site is about the connection between Danish media and nationalism, xenophobia and especially islamophobia in Denmark. As the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) already said in its Third Report on Denmark:
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Climate of opinion
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104. ECRI notes with deep concern that, as indicated above, the climate in Denmark has worsened since its second report and that there is a pervasive atmosphere of intolerance and xenophobia against refugees, asylum seekers, as well as minority groups in general and Muslims in particular. The media, together with politicians play a major role in creating this atmosphere.
Blåtand, ej blåøjet
Artikkelen er overoptimistisk vrøvl. Sandheden er at ingen aner hvilke klimaforandringer vi ligesom skal være rustet til.
De bare lader som om. Politikere og byrokrater har gennem mindst et halvt århundredes vanemæssig ønsketænkning vænnet sig til halvsandhedernes ubekymrede tilstand. Men denslags giver naturlovene pokker i.
“How Dry We Are
A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought
By Tom Engelhardt
Georgia’s on my mind. Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a city in trouble in a state in trouble in a region in trouble. Water trouble. Trouble big enough that the state government’s moving fast. Just this week, backed up by a choir singing “Amazing Grace,” accompanied by three protestant ministers, and 20 demonstrators from the Atlanta Freethought Society, Georgia’s Baptist Governor Sonny Perdue led a crowd of hundreds in prayers for rain. “We’ve come together here,” he said, “simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray up a storm.” It seems, however, that the Almighty — He “who can and will make a difference” — was otherwise occupied and the regional drought continued to threaten Atlanta, a metropolis of 5 million people (and growing fast), with the possibility that it might run out of water in as little as 80 days or as much as a year, if the rains don’t come.
Here’s a little summary of the situation today:
Water rationing has hit the capital. Car washing and lawn watering are prohibited within city limits. Harvests in the region have dropped by 15-30%. By the end of summer, local reservoirs and dams were holding 5% of their capacity.
Oops, that’s not Atlanta, or even the southeastern U.S. That’s Ankara, Turkey, hit by a fierce drought and high temperatures that also have had southern and southwestern Europe in their grip.
Sorry, let’s try that again. Imagine this scenario:
Over the last decade, 15-20% decreases in precipitation have been recorded. These water losses have been accompanied by record temperatures and increasing wildfires in areas where populations have been growing rapidly. A fierce drought has settled in — of the hundred-year variety. Lawns can be watered but just for a few hours a day (and only by bucket); four-minute showers are the max allowed. Car washes are gone, though you can clean absolutely essential car windows and mirrors by hand.
Sound familiar? As it happens, that’s not the American southeast either; that’s a description of what’s come to be called “The Big Dry” — the unprecedented drought that has swept huge parts of Australia, the worst in at least a century on an already notoriously dry continent, but also part of the world’s breadbasket, where crops are now failing regularly and farms closing down.
In fact, on my way along the parched path toward Atlanta, Georgia, I found myself taking any number of drought-stricken detours. There’s Moldova. (If you’re like me, odds are you don’t even know where that small, former Soviet republic falls on a map.) Like much of southern Europe, it experienced baking temperatures this summer, exceptionally low precipitation, sometimes far less than 50% of expected rainfall, failing crops and farms, and spreading wildfires. (The same was true, to one degree or another, of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, and — with its 100-year record scorching of Biblical proportions — Greece which lost 10% of its forest cover in a month-long fiery apocalypse, leaving “large tracts of countryside…. at risk of depopulation.”)
Or how about Morocco, across the Mediterranean, which experienced 50% less rainfall than normal? Or the Canary Islands, those Spanish vacation spots in the Atlantic Ocean known to millions of visitors for their year-around mild climate which, this summer, morphed into 104 degree days, strong winds, and fierce wildfires. Eighty-six thousand acres were burnt to a crisp, engulfing some of the islands in flames and smoke that drove out thousands of tourists? (…)”
Og sådan fortsætter det. Artikkelen er afslørende og meget grundig. Den gør det arbejde vore journalister enten ikke vil, ikke gider eller ikke tør at gøre, men som faktisk er livsnødvendigt.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174863/as_the_world_burns
Mere her: “Barcelona is a dry city. It is dry in a way that two days of showers can do nothing to alleviate. The Catalan capital’s weather can change from one day to the next, but its climate, like that of the whole Mediterranean region, is inexorably warming up and drying out. And in the process this most modern of cities is living through a crisis that offers a disturbing glimpse of metropolitan futures everywhere.(…)” Hvornår læste du det i Politiken? Nåh nej, de var vel mere optagne af at reklamere for Bjørn Humbug, undskyld Lomborg.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spains-drought-a-glimpse-of-our-future-833587.html