Kumi Naidoo, New Greenpeace President, "Disappointed" In Obama

BBC :

The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has told the BBC he will make human life more of a priority for the environmental group.

Mr Naidoo also criticised US President Barack Obama for failing to make the fate of the earth a priority.

Read the whole story: BBC

Comments

[InYourWorld]

I am all for the environment and preach conservation to people. But I have seen first hand activities that greenpeace has engaged in they bordered on terroism, at the very least monkey wrenching and criminal. Any organization that supports people throwing feces at you does not have my respect.

[lendtolease]

Uh, who cares?

[quisp65]

One thought process I imagine every president goes through is asking his advisors & experts how much can we do about a particular problem and how much is just politics and just looking like you're doing the right thing. On climate change all the solutions are just politics and feeling good about yourself. The real solution of radical population control is not politically possible in this day and age. Obama right now is spending his energy on issues where he thinks he can make a difference, he will deal with "feel good about yourself issues" later when his political momentum dies down.

[jlab]

The Dark Side has scored a tremendous victory in the war on the inconvenient truth. All they have to create is doubt, and that is easier than proving science.

And look at their triumph: Any article dealing with global climate change on this website is crawling with KoolAid drinkers and global warming deniers. Are they all paid for by the industry? I don't think so. Most of them are just examples of what happens when facts become too scary: People can't bear to think of the amount of problems facing them, so they just refuse to deal with reality. I'm so tired of debating these deadbeats.

[quisp65]

The environmental movement has been hijacked by the left. Just as the right denies the environmental problem, the left ignores the population problem. If the solution is radical population control, then all of the ideas that the left use to tackle the environmental problem will become less significant. Just as there are articles showing global warming as crock there is articles showing how the population increase is actually lessening and will start declining. I feel these opinion pieces are biased and their intent is to not let the population problem dampen the environmental movement.

[jlab]

I'm getting a pretty strong apples-and-oranges vibe from your comment.

These problems or their solutions shouldn't have anything to do with left or right. If I were you, I'd ask myself: Couldn't it be that the environmental movement feels so "lefty" to you because it has to fight so much BS fabricated by the right and the corporations who own it?

[Jpwill]

They say seeing is believing. Maybe Mr Obama should get on a plane with the rest of the climate change deniers and visit some of the places already suffering the effects of a warmer planet.

http://www.greenexplorer.ovi.com/getinspired/australasia/australia/climate-change-deniers-holida/

[TheGNN]

Congratulations Kumi on your new role at Greenpeace. I was in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, earlier this year planting fruit trees with children. As a former Greenpeace Communications strategist (nine years ago), I applaud your initiative to highlight the relationship between human life and the environment - I think understanding this connection will make Greenpeace more powerful and effective. All the best.

[mick7191]

Stick it. We have our own country to worry about.

[jlab]

Sweetie, I hate to break it to you, but "our own country" is on the planet, as well. How about YOU stick it, you genius?

[mick7191]

Because we can't do anything until we get our own act together. The rest of the world can wait.

[indy oriented]

Perhaps he should listen to scientists that are not paid by the climate chane research slush fund.


APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change

"However, the petition's signatories claim that "measured or reconstructed temperature records indicate that 20–21st century changes [in climate] are neither exceptional nor persistent, and the historical and geological records show many periods warmer than today". They say that various natural processes, such as ocean cycles and solar variability, could account for variations in the Earth's climate on the time scale of decades and centuries. "

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40916

[darkmark]

160 against and 47,000 for repairing man's contribution to climate change. you're stretching things if you think you have a basis for debunking climate change being man made. its not as if we're talking about the government's efforts to convince people that marijuana is the killer weed. these are scientists trying to convince governments to act on life and death problems of global proportions. and who do you work for?

[research]

"the climate chane research slush fund." (sic)

LOL! who has the money in the climate debate?

->the largest corporations in the world: Oil, coal, gas.

Versus a bunch of workaday researchers?

Follow the Real Money.

[lendtolease]

Amen, Brother. My son chose climate change (aka global warming) as his research project. Amazingly, he came to the conclusion there was no global warming or uncharacteristic climate change. I really questioned him on it, mainly because I didn't want him to receive a bad grade, but he had the facts to support the thesis. Congrats to him, got an "A", and actually convinced some of the kids in his class. A great outcome all around.

[research]

Your Son? Well, that settles it.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

Mr Naidoo the POTUS has other items on his menu, he hasn't forgotten about his pledge but home needs to be taken care of first.

[Brute]

OBAMA'S 71 CAR MOTORCADE...

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0911/71_vehicles.html

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

What does this have to do with anything?

[Hamartia]

Mankind's effect on global climate change is actually refuted by the only hard science that exists in that regard.

Therefore, it has nothing to do with anything based in reality.

Scientists that aren't riding the global warming bandwagon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming

[pumpupthevolume]

if it was'nt ignorant ppl who keep threatening his life maybe he would'nt need the 71 car motorcade. Let reality set into your thinking instead of your envy and hate of him.

[lendtolease]

And how do 71 cars protect him????????????????