Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Global Warming Is A Security Threat: Sen. John Kerry and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John Kerry (AP) (Photo from CBS.)

Kyoto Redux: Clinton Vows to Use Cabinet Position to Push for Climate Treaty -- Business Media Institute

Secretary of State nominee and Senate Foreign Relations Chair both call global warming a 'security threat.'

Change we can all believe in? How about the same song and dance, but just a different day?

In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations committee she would use the office to shape foreign policy that would fight climate change

“You Mr. Chairman [Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.] were among the very first in a growing chorus from both parties to recognize that climate change is an unambiguous security threat,” Clinton said. “At the extreme it threatens our very existence. But well before that point, it could well incite new wars of an old kind over basic resources – like food, water and arable land.”

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My Comment: I live in Montreal. The forecast for tomorrow night is -30C. Global warming ?!?!?!? .... Are these people nuts?

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