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.
It’s a shame that people like him have so much control over politics at every level of government and business in the USA. Friends, prepare to stop buying so much in support of that, and stop being duped by lying, globalist politicians.
Someone should inform this idiot that we currently have 3 complete nuclear reactor core meltdowns that are completely out of control and no one has a clue as to how to stop them. Right now we are apparently just hosing the corium masses down with water and waiting a few years. Perhaps he could steer some of his immense neurons in that direction and come up with some ideas or clues as to how we can salvage that area of Japan.
He did in one of his earlier kook speeches.
Series too???....ARRRGHHH....
LOL, now that's funny, I don't care who you are..:=)
What are you going to do, Ted; wave your hands around your head faster and scream like a louder Chicken Little?
We're saved, we're saved!!
He did in one of his earlier kook speeches.
I know and remember, Ted is a nutcase; unfortunately the liberal nutcases still take him seriously..:=(
The old hippies are getting desparate that their dreams of full fledged comminism have not materized yet and they may just die before seeing that happen. So they are pushing hard...
Oh, believe me, I know, I peruse a lot of commie AGW websites, they are truely desparate because their lie just isn't being bought anymore; but leave it to the lamestreammedia to try to perpetuate the hoax; hey, it gives me posting material here on FR..:=)
Actually, there was one guy who developed a process to destroy pollution and was going to market it - Capn Planet stopped that nonsense, yes sireee! (Why? never explained)
Ah, yes, the EVIL Cheney/Bush regime and of course BIG OIL, ba$tard$..:=)
Glad my kids didn't have to watch that $hit...
It’s a good thing that guys like Ted are around. You know, people who can actually understand the science and who have the money to fix the problem.
Hey, wait... Ted, you have enough money to fix the problem, don’t you? Why won’t you fix it?
When the glaciers start herding everyone towards the equator, it will become very simple.
Climate Change ‘Most Serious ... Problem Humanity Has Ever Faced’
No Tedy boy. The hoax of Climate Change is the problem.
Though it does put a marker on the misinformed, weak minded
and just plain dumb people in our society.
To think that every time I burn a tire on Antienvironmentalist Day, I contribute to global warming.
Sheeesh.
GOEBBLES WARNING ALERT!!!
Ted is so conflicted. He is frightened. He is getting old and seeing his end. He cannot accept that even though he feels he is so central to the existence of humanity that he will die. Ted you will die. It is is often so with those who are existentially bereft of meaning. Bye, now, Ted.
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