Photograph by John Kerry/WEF
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the world to act on climate change, describing it as “the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction”.
Speaking in Indonesia, Kerry mocked climate change deniers, equating them to people who insisted that the earth was flat long, saying:
“The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand.
We don’t have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.”
Kerry’s comments came the day after the world’s two biggest polluters, the US and China, announced an agreement that they are to work more closely together to try to combat climate change. They hope that once they have taken a lead on the issue then developing countries such as India and Indonesia will follow suit, with Kerry noting the threats posed by climate change around the world, saying:
“In a sense, climate change can now be considered the world’s largest weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even, the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”
In the UK, Dame Julia Slingo of the Met Office recently said that “all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change” with the recent storms and floods.
