US Secretary Kerry Understates Climate Change's Significance
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said recently that climate change is as dangerous as, if not more, than the threats posed by the Islamic State and other extremist groups.
Speaking last month in Vienna at an international climate change conference, Kerry said the issue might not get as much public attention as terrorism but that the meeting is as important as a gathering he hosted only Thursday in Washington on combatting the Islamic State.
"What you are doing here right now is of equal importance, because it has the ability literally to save life on this planet," Kerry told the conference of parties to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to end the use of many chlorofluorocarbons from aerosols and refrigerants that deplete the ozone layer.
Ralph Alswang