Climate change as dangerous as war: U.N. chief Ban - Reuters

[Eugene]

Climate change as dangerous as war: U.N. chief Ban

By Michelle Nichols

Thu Mar 1, 3:05 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war,
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to
take the lead in the fight against global warming.

In his first address on the subject, Ban said he would make climate crisis the focus of
talks with leaders at a meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations -- Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Russia.

"The majority of the United Nations work still focuses on preventing and ending conflict,"
Ban said. "But the danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least
matched by the climate crisis and global warming."

"In coming decades, changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals from droughts
to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land are likely to become a major driver of war
and conflict," Ban told an international U.N. school conference on global warming, meeting
in the U.N. General Assembly hall.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070301/wl_nm/climate_un_ban_dc_2

(Associated Press)

Ban wants U.S. to debate climate change

By ALEXANDRA OLSON, Associated Press Writer

1 hour, 49 minutes ago

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active
debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States
to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.

The U.N. chief was addressing a student conference on global warming that brought hundreds
of high-schoolers from around the world to the U.N. General Assembly hall.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_sc/un_climate_change

[Porcupine]

1. Climate Change can remove your country

War can only kill it's people or change the boundaries. Climate Change is far worse than war.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Well, nukes can terraform pretty well too.