Bush, Rev. Moon, Paraguay and climate change

[jaybeat]

OK, so the news about the Bush family buying up acreage in Paraguay, right next to where Rev. Moon also owns land, has been around for a while. One of many sources, http://www.wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php">here.

Fast forward to the latest news on climate change.

Alaska to get British-style temperature

By Jeremy Lovell

London - Parts of the world could heat up by over 10°C this century with big areas becoming uninhabitable, according to a climate prediction experiment.

"We are very rapidly heading back toward the greenhouse world of the dinosaurs," Bob Spicer, one of the scientists who mounted the joint BBC/Oxford University study, said on Friday.

"Back then northern Alaska had mean annual temperatures of about the same level as we have in London - about 10 degrees (C)."

Most scientists agree average world temperatures will rise two to six degrees Celsius this century, mainly because of carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport, putting millions of lives at risk from flood and famine.

A draft report by 2 500 scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sees world temperatures rising 2°C to 4,5°C by 2100 unless greenhouse gas emissions from factories, cars and power plants are cut radically, informed sources said on Friday.

The British experiment used computer projections to plot the global climate from 1920 to 2080 - long enough for the results to be statistically significant.

Initial results are on the www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange website. Projections for Britain will be released on Sunday and full results will be published later in science journal Nature.

Colored maps of the world results seen by Reuters show a splash of red, meaning rises of at least 10°C, across the whole Arctic region by 2050. By the 2070s this red stain has spread south into northern Siberia and Alaska.

Full article here.

Where it gets interesting is if you look at the map of which parts of the globe are project to warm the most (red), and which are projected to warm the least (green). The *only* significant area of green on land in the *entire world*??? You guessed it--Paraguay!



Other maps and info here.

So, when searching for a spot to live out the End Times (which you and your family have worked so hard to bring about), it pays to do your homework!

[ewagner]

1. Just out of curiosity

What's the elevation of Paraguay? How far above sea level and....consequently from rising sea levels....????

[jaybeat]

2. High enough...

From wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Paraguay

The Chaco Region

Separated from the Paraneña region by the Río Paraguay, the Chaco region is a vast plain with elevations reaching no higher than 300 meters and averaging 125 meters. Covering more than 60% of Paraguay's total land area, the Chaco plain gently slopes eastward to the Río Paraguay. The Gran Chaco, the entire western portion of the region, is subdivided into the Alto Chaco (Upper Chaco), bordering on Bolivia, and the Bajo Chaco (Lower Chaco), bordering on the Río Paraguay. The low hills in the northwestern part of the Alto Chaco are the highest parts in the Gran Chaco. The main feature of the Bajo Chaco is the Estero Patiño, the largest swamp in the country at 1,500 square kilometers.

And this, from the wonkette article:

Oh, and both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what Paraguay’s drug czar called an “enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades.” And it sits atop the one of the world’s largest fresh-water aquifers.

Damn Bushies think of everything!

[mod mom]

3. That's Uraguay look at this map:

[mod mom]

4. That's Uraguay look at this map:

[jaybeat]

5. More like northern Argentina, but still...

Quite a coincidence, don't you think?

Plus, early climate change forecasts may have varied somewhat in the location of the "green zone." Then, of course, there is the question of political and military manipulability, etc.