Posted on 09/22/2014 11:28:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Secretary of State John Kerry, the world's top diplomat, is warning that global warming climate change poses as much of a threat to the world as ISIS. More from The Hill:
Secretary of State John Kerry said the threats posed by climate change should be addressed with as much "immediacy" as confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the Ebola outbreak.
During a meeting with foreign ministers on Sunday, Kerry said global warming is creating "climate refugees."
"We see people fighting over water in some places. There are huge challenges to food security and challenges to the ecosystem, our fisheries and ... the acidification of the ocean is a challenge for all of us," Kerry said.
"And when you accrue all of this, while we are confronting ISIL and we are confronting terrorism and we are confronting Ebola and other things, those are immediate," he added, using an alternate acronym for the terrorist group.
"This also has an immediacy that people need to come to understand, but it has even greater longer-term consequences that can cost hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars, lives, and the security of the world," Kerry continued.
While there isn't much evidence to support Kerry's claim that climate change is creating "climate refugees," over the past four days more than 130,000 people have fled Syria because of ISIS.
The number of Syrian refugees who have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing advancing ISIS militants now totals 130,000 and could rise further, Turkey’s deputy prime minister warned on Monday. “A refugee wave that can be expressed by hundreds of thousands is a possibility,” said Numan Kurtulmus warned. …
“This is not a natural disaster… What we are faced with is a man-made disaster,” Kurtulmus said. “An uncontrollable force at the other side of the border is attacking civilians.”
And then of course there was the horrifying situation last month when 40,000 Christian Yazidi refugees were stranded on a mountain top as ISIS climbed to slaughter them.
Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside in the north of the country, according to the United Nations and human rights groups.
Some 40 children have already died from the heat and dehydration, the UN children’s organisation Unicef says, while upwards of 40,000 more are sheltering in the bare mountains, without food or water or access to supplies. It says 25,000 children may be stranded.
Back in February and prior to ISIS beheading two American journalists, Kerry made similar comments when he classified climate change as the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction.
Exit question: When Kerry will have the nerve to get out of the cushy UN board room and into a refugee camp to make his asinine climate change comments?
The lines continue to blur...
Yes John, I know your I.Q.
He is such a dufus.
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The Obamadork, Holder, Kerry, Senator Dances with Lies....
Really, folks, we should look into electing folks with at least an average IQ.
Not to mention some measurable morals.
People who live in and around deserts have always had water problems. Kerry loves his own voice so much it doesn’t matter what he says.
Supporting the Climate Change Hoax would have consequences that can cost hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars, lives, and the security of the world.
Not to mention all of your freedoms being stolen by the government.
He needs to get back into his own swimlane.
People in Greece know he’s just self-identifying.
This is beyond parody. The only scary thing is how close this man came to being president.
Are you saying our sucretery of state is a bottom feeder?
Oh - is “climate change” going to cut my hrad off? What a simple-minded piece of elitist trash.
You mean that the climate may attempt to displace my head from my shoulders? Imagine, there are people who still believe this gigolo muppet.
He needs to stay in the kiddy pool, the deep end is beyond him.
Ankle deep water is a bit over his head.
I can see the parallel between people who cut your head off today and the possibility that average temperatures may rise one degree in a century. It’s easy to understand how some people might think mass murder was a big deal, while other people worry about the increase in perspiration.
You can say anything when you live off your wife’s dead husband’s fortune......
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