cont.
... This isn't by any means to minimize the plight of 3rd World peoples in the tropics, many of whom indeed suffer greatly from endemic disease, grinding poverty, ethnic and sectarian violence, and corrupt oppressive governments.  (I've seen these things directly.)  But these problems have been there for centuries, so it strikes me as exceedingly odd that now we must attribute them all to AGW, and insinuate that somehow, the United States is primarily at fault.  

Congratulations!  You've just given a 'get-out-of-jail-free!' card to every tinpot dictator, kleptocrat, and murderous tyrant to come down the pike!  "Oh, it's not *my fault* that my country is bankrupt, wracked by civil war, starvation, and ethnic violence!  It's Global Warming!"  Wow.  :-/