Crazy Even for the UN

This is so appallingly stupid that it defies logic:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.

"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons.

"This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote.

"It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought," Ban said in the Washington daily.

Yes, let's use the global warming bogeyman as an excuse for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in a mass genocide. Maybe Ban Ki-moon should spend a little more time finding solutions to this and all of the other problems the UN has failed to address in recent years, and a little less time assigning blame to the murder of thousands.