AFP: UN chief in Mongolia to highlight climate change

ULAN BATOR — UN chief Ban Ki-moon began a visit to Mongolia Sunday aimed at highlighting the impact climate change is having on people's everyday lives, his office said.

Ban planned to spend time later Sunday in a traditional Mongolian herder community whose livelihoods are being hit by water shortages and desertification, his office said.

2008: Harsh winters force Mongolian horsemen to abandon nomadic life - Telegraph

Three particularly harsh winters since 2000 have killed a third of the nation's livestock.

In 2001, the temperature dropped to a record-breaking -57C. Some 15,000 herders lost all of their animals through starvation and cold, and with them, their money and food. More than a quarter of the 2.6m population has left the vast rural areas, where herdsmen have lived since before Ghengis Khan's empire was established in the 13th century, and have fled in desperation to the cities.

‘Gore-istas’ still hysterical

In the July 21 edition of The Signal, Dan Glidden wrote a letter ("Save our smog?") disputing my earlier letter ("Climate change hysteria") on climate change legislation.

What complete drivel, even using the Gore mantra: "There is no way to debate around (global warming)."

Of course there is.

In case you missed it: Global cooling hits Al Gore's home - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

... the propaganda machine has had to work overtime to maintain what is threatening to become the most expensive fiction in history.