CLIMATE CHANGE – ‘A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION’

John Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs

Steve Almasy, February 17, 2014 (CNN)

“Saying that climate change ranks among the world's most serious problems -- such as disease outbreaks, poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on all nations to respond to ‘the greatest challenge of our generation.’ …[Speaking before college students in Jakarta, Indonesia, he called climate change ‘another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction’ and] criticized climate-change deniers, saying ‘a few loud interest groups’ shouldn't be given the chance to misdirect the conversation…Kerry reiterated U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion in the State of the Union address that climate change is an undeniable fact…Too many ecosystems such as Indonesia's are in peril because of climate change, he said…” click here for more

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