5/1/12, "Boko Haram: Regional force 'should help Nigeria'," BBC
"Chad's leader has called for the urgent creation of a regional force to tackle Nigerian Boko Haram militants.
The Islamist group operates in northern Nigeria, but President Idriss Deby said it was posing a threat to its neighbours around Lake Chad.
"Our basin is exposed to insecurity because of the permanent threat posed by Boko Haram," he said.
Nigeria has been struggling to contain attacks by the militants who want to impose Islamic law in the country.
On Monday, a suicide attack on a police station in Taraba state, which borders Cameroon, killed at least 11 people. No-one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Boko Haram militants have carried out many similar attacks.
They have targeted government institutions, churches and bars as well as mosques belonging to rival Muslim groups across northern Nigeria over the last 20 months.
Last year, the group also attacked the UN headquarters in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
"I am demanding the creation of a joint deterrence force. We have to make this decision here today," President Deby told a meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, which includes Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
If we don't eradicate them, we won't be capable of saving our Lake Chad," he said.
Some experts have warned that the group is building links with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which has mainly been active in the Sahara - across Niger, Mali and Algeria."...
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Boko Haram group's name "means "Western education is forbidden"" (item near end of BBC article)
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Ed. note: The article mentions several African countries rely on Lake Chad and fear it will be lost to the Islamic terror group. As a point of interest, the deterioration of Lake Chad was cited by Al Gore as proof of global warming (which therefore means US taxpayers must pay billions) but Gore's claim was later refuted by a British judge. Additionally, Africa has recently discovered tremendous untapped ground water reserves. They will likely remain untapped as it will keep the people poor and fighting and provide a reason to blame US taxpayers for poor conditions in Africa and demand billions from them. Also UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-moon uses Lake Chad to sell global warming.
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10/11/2007, "British judge finds nine errors in Al Gore's "alarmist and exaggerated" Inconvenient Truth movie," BritainandAmerica.com
"The British newspapers are full of stories this morning about a High Court judge's criticisms of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie. See The Times(now subscrip.), Daily Mail and Guardian.
Mr Justice Barton had been asked to rule on the film after the British Government had announced plans to have it distributed throughout the nation's schools....
Justice Barton found 'nine scientific errors' in the film and accused Mr Gore of "alarmism" and "exaggeration". Although he agreed that the film was "powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced," he said that it was a political film and was so "one-sided" that it needed to be accompanied with other materials that provided pupils with balance if the Government was to continue with its plans to distribute it to schools....
Even the environment analyst of the BBC - which has been at the forefront of campaigning for action on climate change and was recently forced into cancelling a day of programmes dedicated to the subject - said the ruling would be "embarrassing" for Al Gore."...
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Chart with 9 Gore film errors, Lake Chad #6, 10/11/2007, "Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore's 'alarmist' climate change film," UK Daily Mail
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10/11/2007, From UK Times (now subscription)
"Error six
Gore: The drying up of Lake Chad was used in the film as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming, said the judge.
Judge: “It is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”"
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"African water supplies may be more resilient to climate change than was thought." No African 'Holocaust.' Global water scare studies 'as climate changes' divert millions from US taxpayers.
4/20/12, "'Huge' water resource exists under Africa," BBC, Matt McGrath, Science Reporter
"Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater."
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UN courts Hollywood, asks for global warming story lines:
2/21/11, "Global warming: the United Nations courts Tinseltown," LA Times blogs, Greenspace
"The United Nations has long courted celebrities for its peace-keeping and anti-poverty efforts, from Mia Farrow and Ricky Martin to George Clooney and Angelina Jolie.
- It is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Hollywood stars grasp at gravitas; the U.N. pushes for publicity.
Now the beleaguered multi-national agency, fresh from a disappointing round of climate negotiations in Cancun, wants something more concrete:
- actual story lines in movies,
- television and social media drawing attention
to the dangers of global warming.
The push comes at a time when public concern over climate change has plummeted in the polls and Congress has rejected federal legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
“Usually I speak to prime ministers and presidents, but that has its limits” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who arrived in Los Angeles on Monday for a high-profile outreach effort.
- “Movie producers, directors, actors — they have global reach.”...
“I have traveled around the world and seen it for myself from Antarctica to the Brazilian rain forest
once a huge sea that has now dried up and become a small pond.”"
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