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Mayor de Blasio addresses United Nations, calls climate change an 'existential threat'
nydailynews.com ^ | September 23, 2014 | JENNIFER FERMINO

Posted on 09/23/2014 8:56:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Calling climate change an "existential threat," Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday opened the UN Climate Summit by urging the world's citizens to change the way they live for the betterment of the planet.

De Blasio, speaking in front of hundreds of world leaders in his first address before the United Nations, said the reason the Earth is facing this crisis is because of our own behavior.

"We know humanity is facing an existential threat. The cause is us – how we heat our homes, how we transport ourselves, the reckless way in which we live. This is an issue we all face. No one is spared. And our mutual need to survive should instill in us a kind of unity we so rarely experience," he said.

He said the problem of climate change is particularly acute in New York City, which recently announced sweeping new rules that will make the city greener.

"Two years ago, Hurricane Sandy left 44 dead in our city. The storms to come will be far more lethal. We are not presented with options," he said.

"We have only one choice – urgent, daring action."

He also issued some rare words of praise for his predecessor, Mike Bloomberg, who has been a leading voice in the world highlighting the issues of global warming.

"Greenhouse gas emissions are down 19 percent from 2005, because of a plan instituted by my predecessor Michael Bloomberg, now the U.N.'s Special Envoy for cities and climate change," he said.

Afterwards, de Blasio said it was a "tremendous honor" speaking before the world body.


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax

1 posted on 09/23/2014 8:56:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The elitists speak...


2 posted on 09/23/2014 8:57:45 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Socialist governments are also existential threats, if the words of more than a hundred million dead have any meaning.


3 posted on 09/23/2014 8:59:47 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Idiot liberals are an “existential threat.”


4 posted on 09/23/2014 9:02:48 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The concept of how it can be used to fleece our wallets makes it a very serious threat.


5 posted on 09/23/2014 9:03:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“OK now lets dig into our chateaubriand”


6 posted on 09/23/2014 9:04:05 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Tailgunner Joe

All of the elites will depart NY City in their limos and private jets after telling us how dire the situation is.


7 posted on 09/23/2014 9:35:13 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: headstamp 2

Hmmm. Maybe de ducheio ought to start using some of the gar-bage to build some dikes if he’s that friggin’ worried. Oh, adapt? Nah. That might take actual work. For no reason.


8 posted on 09/23/2014 9:37:02 PM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey Billy! You retard! Blow it out your kazoo!!!


9 posted on 09/23/2014 9:39:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j613vD6JF_A

class A hypocrite


10 posted on 09/23/2014 9:44:25 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Assclown!!!!


11 posted on 09/23/2014 9:58:23 PM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

One Communist idiot preaching to a horde of Communist idiots.


12 posted on 09/23/2014 10:03:19 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Definition of EXISTENTIAL 1 : of, relating to, or affirming existence 2 a : grounded in existence or the experience of existence : empirical b : having being in time and space

Nope, sorry Billy Boy, I don't think Bolshevik climate change fits the definition.

13 posted on 09/23/2014 10:12:55 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I prefer to call it a nonexistent threat, cause that is more accurate.


14 posted on 09/23/2014 10:48:54 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I have a solution for de Blasio. He needs to run a thermostat control wire to the sun. Then, when things get too warm, he can turn down the sun’s temp from his air conditioned suite. That’s the ticket!


15 posted on 09/24/2014 2:06:22 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Elitists should declare war on the sun and it’s radical offshoot the S.S. (solar system)


16 posted on 09/24/2014 2:42:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Why is this dim-bulb speaking in an international forum?


17 posted on 09/24/2014 6:45:16 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Why is this dim-bulb speaking in an international forum?


18 posted on 09/24/2014 6:46:27 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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