{"article":{"id":257161,"heading":"World Bank\u2019s call for slowing global warming ignores own role","author":"Systemic Disorder","created":"2012-11-22 20:54:59","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:30","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:11:30","article":"

Global warming appears, or so it seems, to have begun to be taken more seriously this week as none other than the World Bank issued a report sounding the alarm bells. But let us not grow warm in our hearts just yet that corporate leaders have suddenly decided to yield to science and reality.

What we have here is a case of truly monumental hypocrisy. The policies of the World Bank and its sibling, the International Monetary Fund, have constituted non-stop efforts to impose multi-national corporate control, dismantle local democratic institutions and place decision-making power into the hands of corporate executives and financiers, the very people and institutions that profit from the destruction of the environment.

The World Bank’s report, “Turn Down the Heat,” prepared for it by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, does incorporate the latest thinking of climate scientists. It paints a dire picture of a world in which the average temperature will increase by four degrees Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the 21st century without large-scale policies to reverse the trend.

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<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/systemicdisorder.wordpress.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The World Bank is a key organization in the concatenation of processes that has brought the world to the brink of catastrophic climate change. To issue a report on the likely future destruction to be wrought by global warming without acknowledging its own role is beyond chutzpah.\r\n","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/11\/257161.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":257162,"heading":""catastrophic climate change- oh my..."!","article":"Another "catastrophic climate change" piece.\r\nTell the assholes who are using Operation Clover leaf and HAARP to produce freak weather, to stop messing with the biosphere.\r\nJust to extort a carbon tax for the stinking IMF.","author":"nope...","parent_id":257161,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-11-22 21:31:07","modified":"2012-11-22 21:31:07","fileurl":""}]}