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U.N. Leader: Climate Crisis as Dangerous as War

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Posted on Mar 1, 2007
Ban Ki-Moon
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Thursday that the danger posed by war “is at least matched by the climate crisis,” and urged the U.S., which produces roughly 25 percent of all greenhouse emissions, to take a leading role in addressing global warming.

At least one American takes the plea seriously: Al Gore criticized the media Thursday for excessively taking an “on the other hand” approach to climate reporting at the expense of consensus and fact.


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Speaking to schoolchildren at a UN conference in New York, Mr Ban said his generation had been “somewhat careless” with the planet but that he was hopeful that that was changing.

“The majority of the United Nations’ work still focuses on preventing and ending conflict,” he said.

“But the danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming.”

Last month, a panel of scientists organised by the UN published a report showing that human activity was “very likely” to be causing climate change, and predicted rises in temperatures and sea levels.

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By mite, March 2, 2007 at 9:16 am Link to this comment
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Bull Sh*t U.N. General Ban Ki-Moon including all you World Government Control-Taxation as*h*les.

War is a racket and billions of dollars are made from it. A world tax from every person because of this global warming B.S. would help fill up your treasure chests.

The U.N.‘s Agenda 21 and others only leads to a One World tyranny controlled by the elite with all God given rights and liberty erased.

A grandmother tried to save America in 1945 with her testimony before the U.S.Senate. She delivered a moving speech before the U.S. Senate in the hope of stopping the adoption of the United Nations Charter. In the Congressional Record of July 9, 1945 Catherine P. Balwin recognized a Trojan Horse of British-European-Israel to destroy America’s Substance.

http://www.libertygunrights.com/Mrs Baldwin.html
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck42705.shtml

The secret agenda of the U.N. and its hegelian members fool us no more.

I direct all free peoples to the paper from Paul M. Weyrich ‘The Free Congress Commentary UN Taxation-A Dangerous Precedent of September 19, 2006.

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By Quy Tran, March 1, 2007 at 7:05 pm Link to this comment
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Don’t you dare to tell Bush about this danger ?
He’s playing dumb long time ago regarding this crisis.

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