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UN Climate Chief: 'Not Very Far' from Considering 'Climate Change as a Public Health Emergency'
CNS News ^ | 08/28/2014 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 08/28/2014 10:32:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry has called climate change “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now,” and his French counterpart has warned of climate “chaos” in 500 days, and now the U.N. climate change chief is implying that climate change can be viewed on a par with the deadly Ebola outbreak.

Christiana Figueres told a World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted event in Geneva Wednesday that “we are not very far” from the point where climate change should be declared an international public health emergency, according to her prepared remarks.

Under international health regulations, a PHEIC is declared in a case where “an extraordinary event” is determined to constitute a public health risk through the international spread of disease; and “to potentially require a coordinated international response.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; glowbullwarming; hoax
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Does this mean quarantine for climate change deniers?
1 posted on 08/28/2014 10:32:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Is an Ebola epidemic that’s now claimed more than 1000 lives a “Public Health Emergency?”


2 posted on 08/28/2014 10:34:32 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

Something that is not happening is a public health emergency?

How about a Russian invasion, is that not a problem?


3 posted on 08/28/2014 10:36:20 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Steely Tom

“Is an Ebola epidemic that’s now claimed more than 1000 lives a “Public Health Emergency?””

No...

It does nothing to enrich connecte Socialists/Oligarchs, or to transfer wealth from the west to the third world.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 10:37:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Rusty0604

If they could just provide an example of this climate change....


5 posted on 08/28/2014 10:38:25 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Rusty0604

I’m sorry, but I live in the real world and right now, the real world dictates that ISIS is more of a threat to “Public Health Emergency”.

Morons


6 posted on 08/28/2014 10:38:26 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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To: Rusty0604
Between the Obama Coup and this, it is obvious that the Communists feel the time is ripe for the total takeover.

Guaranteed that the death camps start soon.

7 posted on 08/28/2014 10:38:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Rusty0604

Translation:Al Gore made millions on this carbon scam and by God we’re not going away until we get our payday too.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 10:39:03 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Steely Tom; tcrlaf
Is an Ebola epidemic that’s now claimed more than 1000 lives a “Public Health Emergency?”

The West African Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO on August 8, 2014.

9 posted on 08/28/2014 10:41:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Rusty0604

A reasonable response to this Public Health Emergency would be to confiscate 100% of savings accounts and suspend voting rights for all climate change “deniers”. Drooling sycophants will only be charged 50% of their savings accounts.

While this response may seem harsh, the turning back of extreme climate change will be worth it. That is all.


10 posted on 08/28/2014 10:43:47 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rusty0604

11 posted on 08/28/2014 10:49:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: Steely Tom

Speaking at the conference Wednesday, Chan linked climate change to the emergence of new human diseases. She said many of these originate in wild animals, whose populations, concentration and incursion into areas where humans live are impacted by climate variables.

But she cautioned against speculation that Ebola may be affected by climate.

“I am aware of speculation that climate change may influence the frequency of outbreaks of Ebola virus disease,” she said. “I must emphasize we have no evidence that this is the case.”


12 posted on 08/28/2014 10:50:22 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Lazamataz

You’re right.

During the final weeks of his presidency, Reagan warned us several times that freedom is not free, it is not passes down throught the bloodline. If must be fought for and preserved by each generation. If not, you’ll be telling your kids and grandkids what it was like in America when men were free.


13 posted on 08/28/2014 10:55:36 AM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: Rusty0604

The UN needs to be closed down — at once and permanently.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 10:58:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
What were those 51 things to "make a difference"? I'm betting that they are very, very close to what is proffered as what we should do to keep us from "warming"!

What arrogance! Like man has anything, ANYTHING! to do with the temperature of this planet.

15 posted on 08/28/2014 11:02:19 AM PDT by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Rusty0604

“the biggest challenge of all that we face right now,”

Oh yeah. And the “IS” bearded bastards are not a problem? And your policies that kill jobs are not a problem? And ebola? And racial animosity?


16 posted on 08/28/2014 11:03:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Rusty0604

A world controlled by Global Warming Nuts = ISIS on Steroids


17 posted on 08/28/2014 11:04:51 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: mc5cents
Like man has anything, ANYTHING! to do with the temperature of this planet.

There were two young (skulls full of mush) callers into the KLBJ morning show yesterday and they were insisting that there are less than 10 years to reverse the climate change effects people have on the course of planet history. Talk about indoctrination in the pubic sckrewels.

18 posted on 08/28/2014 11:08:57 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

notice the article about why we can’t beat the soviets?

guess the elites were wrong about that one too.


19 posted on 08/28/2014 11:10:38 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Rusty0604

Lack of dictatorial powers is a public heath emergency. Got it.


20 posted on 08/28/2014 11:17:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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