Posted on 06/25/2011 8:32:29 PM PDT by PROCON
CNSNews.com) – Media mogul Ted Turner says climate change is “probably the most serious--and, in all fairness, the most complex--problem that humanity has ever faced.”
He added: “It is really easy to understand how some people don’t get it, because it’s so complex and complicated.”
Turner took part in a telephone news conference on Thursday, held by his United Nations Foundation on the island of Svalbard, one of the northernmost regions of Norway.
His comments came in response to a question posed by reporter Sunny Lewis of the Environment News Service about how to change the minds of climate change skeptics.
“A few climate skeptics and deniers seem to be holding up action to curb climate change,” Lewis said. “What can be done to convince and persuade these holdouts as to actually realize what so many scientists know and are telling us in urgent terms?”
Turner applauded the question.
“That’s a very good question," he said, "and if we knew the answer to it, we’d already have an energy policy in the United States. You know, my good friend Boone Piockens points out, and absolutely correctly, that the United States, in its history, has never had an energy policy including during the Arab oil shocks of the ‘70s, and we still don’t have (one), and we need to.
“The only thing I can think of, is we just have to keep working, just like we are doing now, and get as much publicity as we possible can for the issue, and increase the amount of the debate, and persuade people with both the evidence, which is overwhelmingly in favor of climate change being a serious problem, probably the most serious--and in all fairness--the most complex problem that humanity has ever faced,” Turner said.
Referring to climate change skeptics, Turner added: “It's really easy to understand how some people don’t get it because it’s so complex and complicated. But that doesn’t mean we have to do, all of us, do what we can to try to convince people to do the right thing and then motivate them to take the action.”
Turner is the founder and chairman of the United Nations Foundation, and presided over the organization’s semi-annual meeting, which took place June 19-25 in Oslo.
Jane Fonda is the most serious problem Ted faced.
Jane Fonda is the most serious problem Ted faced.
Yes, but you repeat yourself..:=)
What is it with leftists and RINOs> They all believe we need a "policy" for everything. They are too arrogant to understand that capitalism will solve ALL problems.
Elites believe only they know how to make society succeed. The reality is that elites ONLY wind up destroying all that is good. They are truly evil.
It is so complex and complicated that top scientists promoting it must manipulate and make up facts to get us dumb people to understand it.
So true, everything a liberal politician touches becomes a major problem for this country; way too many to mention!
Until we had an energy policy we had abundant energy. Strange how that works in with the rise of socialism isn’t it?
LOL!!! Yes I suppose I did.
Ted has buffaloes.
just saying
I need some damn global warming to get my garden to start growing.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Don’t pick on poor Ted. He has mads two useful contributions to America - TCM and The Weather Channel.
I got you most urgent human thingy whatever right here.
Suck it.
“’A few climate skeptics and deniers seem to be holding up action to curb climate change,’ Lewis said. ‘What can be done to convince and persuade these holdouts as to actually realize what so many scientists know and are telling us in urgent terms?’”
Well just offhand, Ms. Lewis, having Turd Tanner of your side would seem to be a major liability.
Wow! It’s complex AND complicated?
We’re doomed!
Ted Turner, the new Uncle Ted.
Ted Turner is a card carrying moron. He and Jane Fonda were made for each other. It was like Satan meets Vampira. I couldn’t believe they broke up. Ted’s cheese slipped off the plate about 25 years ago.
When Ted Turner talks...
**dramatic stinger**
...people fart.
Not only HUGH, but it’s really series too!!
In the 60s, eco-prophet Paul Ehrlich confidently predicted food rationing and famine in the twenty-first century. Ehrlich is still alive to see the epidemic of obesity we have instead. He and Ted Turner should be confined in a monkey house where people can point at them and laugh. Instead they are both revered figures in the environmental movement and veritable icons of media culture.
Ted has bipolar ice-cap disorder.
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