Oh, boy. And yet, it’s really not all that surprising. If this tape is genuine, the question is one why Bin Laden didn’t get on the climate-change bandwagon a long time ago. The enemy of my enemy is my friend; if he were really savvy he would have been railing against the way the Great Satan was destroying Allah’s precious earth for the past decade. In actuality, he has brought it up before, back in 2007, but only as part of a laundry list of complaints against capitalism and democracy.

The newest message as reported in the Daily Mail:

Osama bin Laden has warned of the dangers of climate change.

The Al Qaeda leader spoke in a new audiotape aired in part on Al Jazeera television today.

In the tape, bin Laden warns of the threat presented by global warming – but he also offered a solution.

‘Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,’ he said.

‘All of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.’

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Bin Laden’s solution, then, to preventing temperatures from rising?

‘Bring the wheels of the American economy’ to a halt, he apparently said.

He said the world should ’stop consuming American products’ and ‘refrain from using the dollar’, according to a transcript on Al Jazeera’s Web site.

‘It is necessary for us to avoid doing business in the dollar, and to finish with it in the fastest possible time,’ bin Laden said on the brief tape.

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This morning the UN climate chief attempted to play down recent scandals concerning scientific data on climate change.

Yvo de Boer said the scandals are unfortunate – but do not change the fact that the earth is warming and humans must act.

Global warming sceptics have been reinvigorated since a report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 turned out to be off by hundreds of years, and by leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s climate science unit.

Well, at least Yvo de Boer can be grateful that despite the collapsing evidence he’s still acquiring new and influential allies.

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Addendum: There’s been a little Twitter game going on this morning, consisting of people coming up with one-liner ideas as to what Osama Bin Laden will be saying in his next audiotape. My contributions:

Now it’s up to the EPA to be the strong horse.

And:

Elizabeth Edwards just decided she needs to move on?

Har!

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