In a video address to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer repeated a long litany of pro global warming talking points. Boxer exhorted delegates to take action and said that skeptics of the manmade climate change were ‘endangering humankind.’
The California senator’s commentary discussing the ‘ravages of climate change’ was wide ranging. Boxer addressed the dangers of an increase in natural disasters, the Climategate scandal, and actions in the United States and her home state to battle the purported threat of global warming.
Boxer’s strongest comments were directed at members of the scientific community who question the anthropogenic climate change theory.
“The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world’s leading scientists agree.”
Skeptics are living a ‘disastrous fantasy’, Boxer said. “And the longer that vocal minority insists on keeping their heads in the sand, the more it endangers billions of people around the globe and threatens to dramatically and negatively reshape the world as we know it.”
Members of the press asked some questions of the senator and while quick with political-related answers, she appeared to be unfamiliar with the details of the message she sought to dispense. She was forced to read from presentation boards, flip through notes and ask aides for assistance to answer the queries.
Boxer was speaking to a willing audience at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. Given the realities of the worldwide economy and the high price of battling man's claimed effects on the planet's climate, it is unlikely any meaningful agreement will be reached.
Providing a counterpoint in his own video address, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma told delegates, “Tossing out any remote possibility of a U.N. global warming treaty is one of the most important things we can do for the economy.”
“Today, I’m happy to bring you the good news about the complete collapse of the global warming movement and the failure of the Kyoto process, as world leaders meet for the United Nations global warming conference in Durban, South Africa,” Inhofe said.
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