UN Chief Needs a Reality Check on Climate Change

by William Yeatman on August 12, 2009

Today the Associated Press reports that United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki Moon told a gathering of UN bureaucrats in Korea that climate change “is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.”

Really?

After all, there are wars raging is Asia. Disease kills thousands of human beings every day in Africa. A third of the world’s population is mired in crushing poverty. These are big challenges that are harming the human family now.

Climate change, however, seems to be on hold. Despite steadily increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, global temperatures haven’t increased statistically since 1995.

So…the head of the United Nations thinks that non-existent warming is a more pressing threat to mankind than war, disease and poverty. Talk about misplaced priorities!

Me August 14, 2009 at 8:44 pm

"After all, there are wars raging is Asia. Disease kills thousands of human beings every day in Africa. A third of the world’s population is mired in crushing poverty. These are big challenges that are harming the human family now."

Dear William,

Nothing states more clearly that you fail to see the bigger picture,

than the excerpt above.

I suppose you also think the earth can infinitely accommodate an ever-increasing "human family" of heterotrophs?

Speaking of things "misplaced"…remove your head from your a##, perhaps this will fix your lack of vision.

love,

me

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