Posted on 05/21/2006 10:15:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
Ex-president Bill Clinton said Saturday that global warming is a bigger threat to the future of America than terrorism.
Speaking to the graduating class at University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Clinton insisted:
"Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have."
Clinton explained: "It's the only thing we face today that has the power to remove the preconditions of civilized society."
The theme is not a new one for the former president. Last September, he predicted that New York City would eventually be devastated if the U.S. didn't start taking global warming seriously.
"We know if something doesn't happen to slow this warming down, whole island nations in the Pacific will be flooded," he told CNN's Larry King. "We'll lose 50 feet of Manhattan Island in New York within the next 50 years if we don't do something to turn this around."
Still, Clinton said Saturday that he was optimistic that the global warming crisis can be solved, "assuming we get off our butts and do something about climate change in a timely fashion."
"I think we should be in the Kyoto climate change system," Clinton said, without noting that while president, he declined to sign the Kyoto Protocols.
How many people has global warming been known to have killed? ZERO!
the rapist is so consistent: he just lied.
We can guess how Bill defines "rubber" though....
You know trolling around looking for a fight is rather childish. If you have nothing better to do with your time, I suggest you get a job.
Nice you have opinions, too bad they are without even the slightest merit nor have any grounding in either Scientific fact nor intellectual honesty.
Ah my apologies, you are German. Your Socialists have so wrecked your economy, there are no jobs. You really do not have anything better to do.
Bill Clinton is attempting to start a journalistic front--as Rush Limbaugh calls it; in order to deflect the electorate's attention from terrorism.
That is the Left's only chance to make headway in the elections.
Full Disclosure: Unless they think they have the new touch voting machines, the ones without audit trails, rigged well enough that they can now steal the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
Cheers!
Why do you think he's right? Do you believe humanity is too stupid to adapt to climatological changes? We're a bit more evolved then our ancestors who survived the last Ice Age after all.
Terrorists on 9/11: 2752
Ted Kennedy: 1
Global Warming: 0
"Ex-president Bill Clinton said Saturday that global warming is a bigger threat to the future of America than terrorism."
Can't we get a collection up and keep the guy supplied with liquor and hookers....I mean office interns? It always worked before........it would keep him busy.
Ice caps melting on Mars more important then anything on Earth.
Why you insensitive *&%$#!! Whatabout Dinosaurs and mid-specie transitions from cold to warm climate? What about Neanderthals, mammoths and sabre toothed cats? They were people too, before Bush used Wesley Clark's time machine to go back and teach them unecologically sound industrial and home heating methods!!
Bubba, reaching out to absurdity.
I thought they believed Karl Rove controls nature? In collusion with aliens living deep beneath the tectonic plates of the Himalayas, If I recall that India Times story correctly.
"they'll control the winds, tides and Teutonic plates."
They'll control Germanic dinnerware? 8)
Clinton Check:
Yep. Still a self-aggrandizing jerk. My universe is spinning on course...
X42 is so desperately in search of a legacy. Too bad he already has one he doesn't want; a blue dress.
Bill Clinton thought Microsoft was a bigger threat to national security too than terrorism was. I can see that not even 9/11 has changed his warped worldview.
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