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I don't know about this alarmist approach. Drives me crazy!

Mayor Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism

By BENNY AVNI
Staff Reporter of the Sun
February 12, 2008

http://www.nysun.com/article/71103

"UNITED NATIONS — While he acknowledged that scientists are unable to predict its consequences, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday compared the scourge of global warming to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Although it is a "long-term" fight, he said, reducing gas emissions may save the life of "everybody" on the planet, the same way that fighting terrorism and its proliferation saves lives in shorter terms.

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Mr. Bloomberg renewed his call, made first late last year, for taxing countries such as America that emit large amounts of carbons, which are believed to cause changes in the planet's climate. "So long as there's no penalty or cost involved in producing greenhouse gases, there will be no incentive" to meet targets set by international institutions, the mayor told the General Assembly. "For that reason, I believe the U.S. should enact a tax on carbon emissions."

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"Terrorists kill people. Weapons of mass destruction have the potential to kill an enormous amount of people," Mr. Bloomberg told reporters after addressing the U.N. General Assembly, but "global warming in the long term has the potential to kill everybody."


This is unbelievable. Global warming is more dangerous that a terrorist? Global Warming may or may not kill civilization but I am quite certain a terrorist would.

I saw the Alec Baldwin narrated show as well and I was not impressed. A lot of what ifs. They made it seem like all of that catastrophic, killer stuff was going to happen overnight.

Glad you liked it though.

-faz