"Iron Lady" Took Strong Stance on Climate Change

[Canuckistanian]

Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics who died Monday at the age of 87, is being lionized as the woman who tilted British domestic and economic policy to the right.

Less noted is how seriously she viewed the threat of climate change and the robustness, more than 20 years ago, of climate science and United Nations body tasked with assessing state of that science.

In a 1990 speech at the second World Climate Conference, in Geneva, Thatcher compared the threat of global warming to the Gulf War, which was then just escalating following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=iron-lady-took-strong-stance-on-climate-change

[cali]

1. don't add complexity to the merriment.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Sorry..

I was surprised about this. She wanted to save the world... but without unions.

[Scootaloo]

3. So Baba Yaga baked nice cookies, is what you're saying?

[cali]

4. yes, because addressing climate change as a huge threat is the

same as baking cookies. yeppers.

[Scootaloo]

9. Actually it sort of is

That climate change is a huge threat is basic scientific fact that everyone with access to any amount of information should be expected to accept. It's baseline stuff. It's reality. It's not exceptional at all.

Now you pair that with the rest of that fucking fascist's career, and what do you get? You get a single point where she rose to the level of... accepting basic reality, whoopty fuck.

Baba Yaga baked nice cookies.

[Tx4obama]

5. ... She Thought Mandela Was A ‘Terrorist,’ ‘At Ease’ ‘With Apartheid’

Bashir Continues Anti-Thatcher Crusade: She Thought Mandela Was A ‘Terrorist,’ ‘At Ease’ ‘With Apartheid’
Here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bashir-continues-anti-thatcher-crusade-she-thought-mandela-was-a-terrorist-at-ease-with-apartheid/

[joeybee12]

6. Hitler liked dogs...

So, if you look deep enough, you can find at least one redeeeming quality in all people.

[backscatter712]

7. Would she have taken the same stance today?

Or would she be parroting the Koch party line?

[Iggo]

8. Yeah, and she was probably nice to small kids and animals.

Whatevs.