Global warming the new barrier to development and trade for the rest of the world?

Answer 1

yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!

global warming is being used as a tool to keep developing nations poor and undeveloped. "save the planet, stay poor and undeveloped"...
oh yea, the use of global warming in this regard just so happens to keep competition in check as well.
it kills me how industrialized nations, who r responsible for the majority of the pollution, can tell a poor and developing nation they have to stay poor and hungry in order to limit their pollution. this is the apex of idiocy and hypocrisy.
this position is so mind boggling that one is left with the conclusion that this policy is a deliberate measure to kill more poor brown people and secure the industrialized nations positions of power in the global marketplace.

Answer 2

Hardly!

Bob (above) says “If global warming hits hard…”, but hang on a minute. The globe has been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in about 1850 – so that’s 150 years. If global warming has not “hit hard” in over 150 years, what makes you think that it’s suddenly going to do so anytime in the near future?

On the other hand, the measures that the Global Warming Alarmists are proposing to combat this non-existent hard hitting crisis *will* be bad news for the developing world.

Have a look here… http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=158 This is the Copenhagen Consensus, a group of the world's greatest economists (some of who are Nobel Prize winners) who came together to assess some of the biggest challenges in the world today. They were presented with 17 projects that, it was suggested, would benefit mankind and they ranked them on the basis of how beneficial they thought they would be.

The top 4, listed as “Very Good Projects” were…

1) Control of HIV / AIDS
2) Providing micronutrients
3) Trade liberalisation
4) Control of Malaria

Of the 17 projects, 3 were in the area of combating global warming. They came in at the bottom, 15th, 16th & 17th, in the section listed as “Bad Projects”. They were…

15) Optimal carbon tax
16) The Kyoto protocol
17) Value-at-risk carbon tax

So, some of the best economists in the world believe that the proposed measures to combat global warming would be a waste of time compared to the *real* problems that the world faces.

As ever with global warming - don't believe the hype.

Answer 3

Yes.

If global warming hits hard and they're struggling to cope with coastal flooding and feeding themselves, it's going to be very hard for them to develop. Especially when the rest of the world is in the same boat, and economic times are very hard. Most of them now realize that, and want to do something about it.

EDIT: This is why I think this warming is something unusual and not similar to historical warmings. 10 peer reviewed studies using different methodologies. It stops in 2004, if it went to 2006, it would be even more impressive:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison_png

The "Copenhagen Consensus" was organized by a biased Danish economist (Bjorn Lomberg, and of course he's selling a few books about it). He rigged it by selecting the "right" participants and writing the list of options, making sure the global warming options were not attractive and the others were. It's why the whole world (G8, the UN, etc. etc.) pretty much ignores it as far as global warming is concerned.

Answer 4

Could be but to me it is just hype that is costing us big money. Gore is making big money and he doesn't care if u haft to walk.

Answer 5

No