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?
“reporting for doody”...
I’m trying to picture beheaded polar bears...
I knew that would be along soon....
Distraction. John Kerry-Heinz claims climate change is going to doom the world as real crisis of unsolved problems in Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Africa, etc. go unattended for which he is responsible.
When the President or the Secretary of Defense open their mouths we realize how low have fallen the U.S.
A quote of the CZECH President at election of Barack Obama:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
I agree.
When I think about what was considered “normalcy” in this country 30, even 20 years now, and what the majority of Americans now accept as “normal”, it is really a major political and cultural leap. I can’t believe the things that people say and believe, accept, now, that they would have half-apologetically mumbled some years ago, for fear of being thought to be a fruit loop.
I think that the title given to this traitor, (earned as the leader of anti-war veterans with Communist support), by ISIS is most becoming.
I do NOT avail myself of the ‘climate scare’, having become knowledgeable of the book in the 1970’s written about ‘the possibility of a coming Ice Age’, having more credibility than anything thses moronic eggheads can put together, and the politicians using this scare to control our lives.
More wisdom from one of our ‘Northern overlords’...
“John Kerry said it was the United States’ Biblical “responsibility” to “confront climate change,”
Wrong again.
The Bible is against the Climate Change Hoax.
Remember where it says not to LIE?
we need to arm the Branch Algorian rebels to fight climate change!
We live in bizzaro world where the idiot insane are running the show
Great post.
John (Ketchup Boy) Kerry has moved in the ranks of Uncle Joe who recently said, ”There’s no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world’s most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead.”
It must be that Potomac water.
Kerry is a turd.
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