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?
Kerry ahieves something few are capable of:
1. Being a “dhimmi” tool for ISIS
2. Being a Dummy at the same time
Freegards
LEX
I think Kerry smoked a little too much Agent Orange during the 10 minutes he was in Vietnam.
See post# 29
Whadda maroon.
BUT...the electorate of MA just couldn’t get enough of John. How many times have they sent him to DC? If John is on the far side of dim that puts the MA electorate in a complete black out.
Not just Kerry. Senior people in the Navy are saying stupid crap like this.
So this means john the traitor kerry is on the global warming side?
He is the dumbest SOB POS ever!
(I’m so glad he got appointed to “high” office so the world would see what we have always known.)
“Reporting for Doody!
Just when you think he couldn’t say anything more idiotic, he tops (bottoms?) himself.
I suppose that there’s really not much to worry about with ISIS then. If we leave it alone, it will take care of itself. It’s going to do what it’s going to do regardless of outside intervention.
“This is beyond parody. The only scary thing is how close this man came to being president.”
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No, what’s even scarier is that we probably would have been at least as well off if he had come back in 2008 and won. It’s hard to imagine him as worse than what we actually have now.
ISIS is but a regional threat to mid-East countries, but the Global Warming zealots are a threat to all of Western Civilization.
In Brazil, it’s a very vulgar gesture as well, similar to flicking the bird.
But – I saw this documentary where we caused the climate to get so out of control, that sharks were getting sucked up into twisters and then raining down on & swallowing the poor unsuspecting people on the ground... So that’s gotta be worse than beheading, if we don’t do something RIGHT NOW!!
He is a person of self-inflated import.
The urgency they have thus far dealt with ISIS speaks volumes as to how unimportant this is. Kerry the commie cut deals with the damn VC in Paris. Once a traitor always one. Once a liar always a liar like the clowns imaginary wounds. He is as bad a Hilliary and she lied and lied about Benghazi.
I like to give him a swift kick in his Heinz end.
Yeah—should be able to access the definition for fool and have a whole gallery of Kerry, both Clintons, Hagel, Brennan and the kenyan usurper as exemplars of the definition.
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