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hatrack

(59,583 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 08:47 AM Sep 2014

Actual Headline! "UN Chief Detects 'Sense Of Anxiety' On Climate Change"



(Reuters) - On the eve of Tuesday's U.N. climate summit, the United Nations chief underscored the urgent need to tackle climate change by moving toward an energy-efficient, low-carbon global economy.

Speaking at the opening of Climate Week NYC, a set of more than 140 climate-related events across the city, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had noticed much more urgency to address climate change than he had seen in previous U.N. gatherings on the issue in 2007 and in 2009, when governments failed at a Copenhagen conference to agree a new binding climate treaty.

"In 2014, people are coming with a sense of anxiety," said Ban, who participated in the People's Climate March that drew more than 310,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan on Sunday. "More and more people understand that climate change is happening and approaching much faster than one would expect," said Ban.

Those concerns have led 125 prime ministers, presidents or their deputies to say they will attend New York the summit. "There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B," Ban said, delivering his much-repeated mantra.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-foundation-climatechange-summit-idUSKCN0HH2Q120140922?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews
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Actual Headline! "UN Chief Detects 'Sense Of Anxiety' On Climate Change" (Original Post) hatrack Sep 2014 OP
Why is what Ki-moon said, a world leader on climate change, so funny? I see nothing funny. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #1
Can't pull one over on that guy phantom power Sep 2014 #2
Whoa ... careful there! Nihil Sep 2014 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Why is what Ki-moon said, a world leader on climate change, so funny? I see nothing funny.
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 09:07 AM
Sep 2014

Reuters is corporate evil incarnate, propaganda central for corporations.

The oligarchs would not enter battle with the masses without complete control of major media news sources.

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
3. Whoa ... careful there!
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 04:49 AM
Sep 2014

Don't want to panic folks now do we?








A "sense of anxiety". After all these years.


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