MOGADISHU (Spl) – Celebrations broke out across downtown on Thursday after word arrived from America that the U.S. State Department’s key anti-piracy office proposes to add a $114,000-a-year lawyer who will battle against global warming.

Admiral Garaad Mohamed, commander of the National Volunteer Coast Guard that has inspected approximately 40 suspicious foreign ships and their crews along the Somali coast, held up his BlackBerry and read from the department’s budget request for 2010: “The Office of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (L/OES) is dedicating more time and resources to climate change – a presidential priority – which includes ongoing negotiations and initiatives, such as the December 2009 Copenhagen conference.”