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?
Let’s see, the military has to go green and invest in solar panels, and whatever else they have to do to change from olive green to bright eco-green but they don’t have money to train or put boots on their feet after the first pair wears out. Of course, don’t know how many Generals wear out boots.
D’oh , am I on ?
No, he’s absolutely correct.
The climate wants to hack off your head.
Not a single democrat makes any sense.
They are all addled brain!
The US is in major trouble that such a man is even in government. Of course that could be said of all them. They’re varying mixtures of evil and stupid.
So true. I see from your tagline you are former military. WWII or Korea?
I salute you sir.
LOL. That would be a great tagline if you could get it in under the neuron limits.
Last Wednesday, at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafar to be special representative to Muslim communities, Secretary of State John Kerry said it was the United States’ Biblical “responsibility” to “confront climate change,” including to protect “vulnerable Muslim majority counties.”
I swear, he is making Joe Biden seem smarter and smarter each day.
These idiots must make promises to eco nuts for future campaign funding. It is the only thing that makes sense.
Bwah-hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Stop, you're killing me!
“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.”
Something like THAT is easy for HIM to say. Because HE doesn’t know the difference!
In the method still called only 'science,' however, there is never 'consensus,' only hypothesis and theory.
Can we dispense with the National Academies, now, and just shuffle the duties of the National Weather Service over to Foggy Bottom?
Can all this 'consensus' in the Executive be put to use in saving the taxpayer serious money?
The FR name is actually an homage to my relatives who served in WWII - it is they who deserve the salute.
John Kerry Testifies: Global Climate Change will raze villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
What an astoundingly ignorant comparison.
Secretary Kerry's sign language, part two.
They do.
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