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2.12.2008 9:09 AM

NY Mayor: Global Warming Akin to Terrorism

U.N. Convenes Climate Change Negotiations

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By Dan Shapley

Like other New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg knows first-hand the horror of terrorism.

Yet Bloomberg, in a speech to the United Nations, compared global warming to terrorism, and said both require a longterm fight based on a coordinated strategy. The U.N. meeting in New York is one of a series of meetings on climate change following the agreement in Bali that committed the world's nations to structuring a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement on climate change by 2009.

Bloomberg has won accolades for his PlaNYC, a 30-year strategy for making New York more sustainable, and for pledging to bring together the major cities of the world in a coordinated fight against global warming. He's known as a pragmatic mayor who typically values outcomes over sound bites.

That he made the striking sound bite comparing terrorism and global warming shows just how serious he takes the threat.


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