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.
He must be talking about the famous Global Warming Scam, the plan to take money from the U.S. and give it to the U.N. Yes, that is a big threat - if we pay attention to it. Since I don't plan on doing so I will stick with Terrorism as the Biggest Threat until something bigger and badder comes along. Clinton and Gore are peas in a global warming pod.
Agree...double agree....this slimeball continues to
snow job the liberals..press and otherwise...well,
if his wife of convenience..makes it....we all just
better climb in a hole somewhere...By the way, I have
noticed quite a few women this site....are any of them
a possible vote for HRC??...because of the gender thing?
Jake
Bill Clinton made a major address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1997. He spoke with gusto about what he called "this new global era" and "the emerging international system." Then he used an amazing metaphor: he said he is taking America into a "web of institutions and arrangements" to set "the international ground rules for the 21st century." He identified the treaties that will take us into this web: the World Trade Organization, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the NATO Expansion Treaty, and the Global Warming Treaty.
Clinton said that "the forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things." Then he described our troops lost in a crash of a UN helicopter in Bosnia as "citizens of the world." Those men signed up to serve in the American armed forces. Who made them "citizens of the world"?
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The most important of the Clinton's treaties designed to regulate our nation's economic life is the Global Warming Treaty agreed to by Al Gore in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. This treaty would bind the United States to reduce our energy emissions to 7% below our 1990 levels.
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Meanwhile, China, India, Mexico, and 100 other developing nations would have no limitations at all. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that U.S. fossil-fuel-burning plants would move out of the United States to countries where there are no such restrictions. And, of course, that's the purpose: to distribute our wealth to the Third World.
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First, the Clinton Administration has already put 47 large areas of land, called "Biosphere Reserves," under control of the UN and prohibited development in these areas. The area involved is larger than the state of Colorado.
Second, Clinton issued an Executive Order called the American Heritage Rivers Initiative under which he took over 10 rivers this year, putting hundreds of thousands of acres along the banks of the rivers under control of federal regulators with full authority. This Rivers project is a direct threat to our private property rights guaranteed in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th Amendments.
Third, Clinton is also trying to implement the unratified Biodiversity Treaty through the President's Council on Sustainable Development. It is busy developing curriculum for the schools.
The World Heritage Treaty of 1972 granted special powers to the corrupt UN agency called UNESCO to designate selected American treasures as World Heritage sites and develop regulations and policies concerning their use. The United States doesn't even belong to UNESCO because Ronald Reagan pulled us out of it. Nevertheless, 20 World Heritage Sites have already been claimed and marked by UNESCO, including Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, and even the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall. I visited Independence Hall and saw the big bronze UNESCO plaque impudently asserting that this sacred site -- where the Declaration of Independence was signed and our Constitution was written -- belongs to "the common inheritance of all mankind."
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No flames... You're just as wrong and ignorant as he is!!! That's all!!!
Welcome troll, you guys are always good for a few laughs!!!
Mt. St. Helen discharded about 1/2 of a
cubic mile into the atmosphere.
Kratoa (sp?), in the South Pacific around the
middle of the 19th century, discharged SEVERAL
cubic miles into the atmosphere.
Now this debis from inside the earth contains
a lot of bad stuff. I would think much worse
than exhaust from cars.
Since the earth survived theses explosions, I have
put global warming among the threats that the earth
really is FLAT.
Sorry ! Wrong post! Meant for Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit!!!
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."
And when the natural cycle of the earth returns to its cooling side, Clinton and Gore will be praising the forward-looking efforts they made to successfully save us from destruction. Thanks, Bill and Al, in advance.
I shan't attempt to explain why the First Rapist has decided to become an retread Al Gore, but this statement screams for the obvious and simple response.
"No, Mr. President, the greatest threat to civilized society has always been and remains ignorance.
You have now joined those who display a classic form of it; the marriage of ignorance and demagoguery."
lol
I was wondering. Thanks for the clarification.
Global warming must be one of the least of threats we face.
A nuclear Iran is way up there though, and the spread of Islam.
Here you go...
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman Statesman - Speech in the Roman Senate - 42 B.C.
Gee, wonder if Hillie agrees...?
Algore could teach 7th grade science. Maybe he has been teaching Clinton.
Nothing to worry about there, Fritz...
Ignored, is more the likelihood.
To normal informed human beings, that is as much a threat as daily periods of light and darkness...
There is no darkness. On June 21 we will have our annual midnight sun baseball game played without lights at midnight just because we can.
Well, then. Humanity does have a new and awful threat. And it's all your fault.
oGre......that's a good one.
However, after watching that show with Gina Davis about a female president, rumor has it that Gore will undergo a sex change because he believes that the country is finally ready for a woman in the White House. After the operation is complete, he's going to change his name from "Al Gore" to "Our Gal".
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