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He said....What happened in Haiti (earthquake) is due to global warming and warns that it (earthquake) could happen anywhere in the Caribbean....because of the same threat of global warming.
Sure as heck seems like he's equating earthquakes with global warming and climate change.
...the threat ofwhat happened to Haiti is the threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know. They're all in peril because of global warming, they're all in peril because of climate change and all of this....
What a way to jump into the fray; a post filled with weird and unsupported allegations and an embarrassing lack of scientific knowledge. Welcome to City Data, I guess.
Anybody who thinks Danny Glover is a doofus is a doofus. Such a person is a doofus for even thinking, in the first place, about whether or not an actor like Danny Glover is a doofus.
...the threat ofwhat happened to Haiti is the threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know. They're all in peril because of global warming, they're all in peril because of climate change and all of this....
Read it in context:
When he says "the threat of what happened to Haiti" he's clearly talking about the threat of natural disaster - not specifically an earthquake. What he talks about preceding your quote is how the US needs to take a leadership role in the world - what he calls a new internationalism. He believes leading a proper response to this particular natural disaster will establish this leadership and will furthermore be a defining moment of the Obama administration. He builds upon this point by saying that doing so is of great importance because of the increasing peril facing Caribbean nations due to global warming and climate change. In the context of what he's discussing (the US taking a leadership role in a new internationalism in an age of climate change), the peril is clearly the increased risk of natural disaster due to global warming - not specifically earthquakes cased by global warming. He's using a particular example (the response to this earthquake) to highlight one facet of a general principle (how and why the US need to take a new leadership role in a new internationalism). This is not a discussion about the cause of an earthquake - not even remotely.
Granted he stutters a bit, isn't abundantly clear (perhaps he's drunk or nervous), and speaks a little jittered, but in no way does his statement touch on what caused the Haitian earthquake.
Here's a transcript of his whole statement:
"Absolutely, several hospital ships not just one but several hospital ships. I mean we should mount an effort. I mean this should be, I mean we have to mount a much larger effort than the US ever.. the US government could be in the leadership. I believe this is going to be a defining moment for this administration. What we lay forth in a new relationship, in a partnership with Haiti - not one of dominance not one in which it tries to extract even more from the pain of the Haitian people, but a new relationship. And I think that other countries of the region, I think Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba and other countries have already stepped to the point that this is a great moment for another type of internationalism you know and I hope we seize this particular moment because the threat of what happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know. They're all in peril because of global warming, they're all in peril because of climate change and all of this and we need to find....what, when we did what we did back at the climate summit in Copenhagen this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I'm saying'? But we have to act now."
CLIMATE has NOTHING to do with underground events, such as earthquakes.
The only people in the planet who believes such things are ideology-driven fanatics who want to blame Global Warming on everything they can, in order to make Billions in profit and control the lives of individual citizens even more.
2. Tectonic plates (faults) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_%28geology%29 which are underground and cause earthquakes and have been around way before man ever lit a fire to produce carbon monoxide!
Earthquakes have absolutely nothing to do with the climate. Only Danny Glover believes that. But that is based on ideology, not on facts. Just like the whole "Global Warming" scam Glover is trying to scare people with.
How is the climate related to tectonic plates, which are underground and cause earthquakes???
It wouldn't affect Haiti or the region, but climate change absolutely is and historically (in the geologic sense) has been related to and can cause earthquakes. Look up "rebounding crust".
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