Ted Turner: Climate Change ‘Most Serious … Problem Humanity Has Ever Faced’

By on June 26, 2011 in News 53

Pete Winn reports on Mr. Turner’s statements for CNS News:

Media mogul Ted Turner says climate change is “probably the most serious–and, in all fairness, the most complex–problem that humanity has ever faced.”

He added: “It is really easy to understand how some people don’t get it, because it’s so complex and complicated.”

Turner took part in a telephone news conference on Thursday, held by his United Nations Foundation on the island of Svalbard, one of the northernmost regions of Norway.

His comments came in response to a question posed by reporter Sunny Lewis of the Environment News Service about how to change the minds of climate change skeptics…

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  • Andrew
  • space rock

    umm he has no idea if asteroids are coming or aliens, or plaques or me. Plus this capitalist bastard only cares about himself and his elite circle jerks. just trying to get attention, probably wants to cell sun screen or electric cars (in which the battery takes tons of energy and toxins to make then have to be disposed in asia somewhere).
    He should stick to mediocre comedies and sports teams.

  • jackedu317

    climate change?… we used to just call it the weather…

  • Climate Change Is REAL

    You’re developing quite a reputation for ill-informed comments jackedu317

  • Climate Change Is REAL

    You’re developing quite a reputation for ill-informed comments jackedu317

  • Climate Change Is REAL

    You’re developing quite a reputation for ill-informed comments jackedu317

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, hiding out in a cave on a remote Arctic island.

    Get used to it Ted, only the most gullible idiots in the world can’t see through your lies.

  • space rock

    its is real but its not the most complex. And if its time for the human race to go so be it.

  • KxBk6U

    I played the video and read the transcript. He started with a good position saying America needs to develop an energy policy. As it progressed, though, he started to sound like Miss South Carolina answering the map question. I don’t think he really has a clue.

  • DeepCough

    Someone call Ted Turner and tell him that Al Gore beat him to the punch.

  • Syracuse

    I do not think what ted turner says is important or relevant. He’s just the elite that everyone knows about, he protects the others from having to deal with the public WHICH THEY SHOULD. Didn’t T.T, just a few months ago, list overpopulation as the greatest threat to humanity? I swear he’s just a face for the TV, along with all his other doings and dealings. until this you are nothing GIVE US SOMETHING REAL TED TURNER.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a deluded zealot. It’s one thing to hold an unpopular view it’s another to convince yourself that everyone is agreeing with you.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Mr. Turner – a long-time advocate of population control – said the environmental stress on the Earth requires radical solutions, suggesting countries should follow China’s lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time. He added that fertility rights could be sold so that poor people could profit from their decision not to reproduce.’

    The newspaper report is behind a paywall, but it’s reproduced here: http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/03/eugenics-population-reduction-is-this.html

  • Anonymous

    You’re in a tiny minority.  Globally.

    http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/849698/only_a_quarter_of_uk_population_concerned_about_climate_change.html

    You’ve got a slight majority in India (which is industrialising exponentially mainly by burning coal), Japan (which will have to burn coal, oil and gas now that its nuclear program is scuttled) and South Korea.

    You’re delusional.  Get off the internet and out in the real world and you’ll see that your views are laughed at on the street.  Unless you’re in South Korea.

  • Anonymous

    Give your f8 key a break, zealot.

  • Anonymous

    Go back to sleep, ignoramus.

  • realnewz

    HAARP is climate change. LOL

  • Syracuse

    Thank you poster FergalR
    On the other side of things, at least the timing goes well to help (in whatever small way) nullify presidential campaigner Rick Santorums’ public statements to Glenn Beck that climate change isn’t real and that we should “Drill everywhere”.

  • Syracuse

    Thank you poster FergalR
    On the other side of things, at least the timing goes well to help (in whatever small way) nullify presidential campaigner Rick Santorums’ public statements to Glenn Beck that climate change isn’t real and that we should “Drill everywhere”.

  • A fat joint

    Get paid not Laid 

  • space rock

    I like this 

  • A fat joint

    not saying we should speed it up the demise by being careless tho. Dont get me wrong. intelligence is  to be used always even when not needed.

  • Nunya

    It’s refreshing to know that Fox news is still wining the war against science.

  • Anonymous

    “Kevin* and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !”
    Prof. Phil Jones
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:N5CLKTnpwlUJ:www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php%3Feid%3D419+jones+%22out+somehow%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.ie

    “I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards ‘apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data’ but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. . . I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1000 years ago.”
    Prof. Keith Briffa
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IvLjXVgtkzkJ:www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php%3Feid%3D138+briffa+there+is+pressure+site:http://www.eastangliaemails.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.ie

    “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
    Dr. *Kevin Trenberth
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9_oupc1prDsJ:www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php%3Feid%3D1048+it+is+a+travesty+site:http://www.eastangliaemails.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.ie

    “Excuse me while I puke”
    Prof Raymond Bradley
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xg859VmoY_8J:www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php%3Fpage%3D1%26pp%3D25%26kw%3Dpuke+while+I+puke+site:http://www.eastangliaemails.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.ie

    I’m no fan of Fox news but if they’re the only MSM standing up to scientific corruption then they’re the best of a bad bunch.

  • Anonymous

    This is the same Ted Turner who advocates paying poor people not to breed, as the world is overpopulated. Meanwhile, he has five kids of his own. What a hypocrite. You’d have to be a fool to listen to this man.

  • Anonymous

    This is the same Ted Turner who advocates paying poor people not to breed, as the world is overpopulated. Meanwhile, he has five kids of his own. What a hypocrite. You’d have to be a fool to listen to this man.

  • Nunya

    Were those fake emails full of typos and bad grammar supposed to be proof? You might want to take off that tinfoil hat and let your head breathe friend. :(

     
    There is debate about the level of human cause, but the fact that extreme climate change is happening can’t be debated.

     
     
     

  • Anonymous

    They were confirmed as real by the university themselves.

    http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/CRU-update

    It’s okay, pull the wool back over your eyes, us adults will save you from this obvious scam.

  • Nunya

    Maybe you should read that link yourself since it explains what portions of the emails were real and how it was used out of context to trick kids “God I hope you aren’t an adult” like you.

    While you are at it please look into how science works, peer review and repeat studies. One group can make a claim, but not forge the research of others that back it up.

    It amazes me that people like you will believe quackery from obscure sources and invested parties with no evidence of value, but ignore science and reason in abundance.

    I suggest you google search your own loose “evidence” of the contrary to read the vast amount of opposing evidence and think for once.

    You aren’t in the know or special for believing nonsense, you are just an idiot. I feel sorry for you and others like you. I hope you live long enough to learn better and regret your stupidity.

  • Anonymous

    They were all real.

    Find me some evidence that they weren’t.

    The Kyoto protocol expires in a few months.  Your pet case is finished.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Actually…I beg to differ. Since we can’t begin to deal with any issues seriously until we have a media that isn’t a profit driven, bias laden, business propaganda machine…technically…that makes YOU the biggest problem the world faces, Ted. Not that I disagree on changing climates and short sighted planning being problems…but until we change the culture that prevents clarity, decisiveness and action…nothing else can happen.  

  • jackedu317

    if man made climate change is real, why was it warmer in the middle ages than it is now? 

  • jackedu317

    and then bought up waterfront property…

  • Rex Vestri

    “It amazes me that people like you will believe quackery from obscure
    sources and invested parties with no evidence of value, but ignore
    science and reason in abundance.

    I suggest you google search your
    own loose “evidence” of the contrary to read the vast amount of
    opposing evidence and think for once.

    You aren’t in the know or
    special for believing nonsense, you are just an idiot. I feel sorry for
    you and others like you. I hope you live long enough to learn better and
    regret your stupidity. “

    WELL SAID, Nunya.   You’re absolutely correct.

    Climate change is real!

  • Anonymous

    . . . and unicorns are real too!

    Another La Niña is on its way.

    http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/images3/nino34SSTMon.gif

    Will you still say it’s warming when it hasn’t warmed for 20 years you tool?

  • 5by5

    Whether or not a 1/4 of the population of one island on the planet thinks global warming is the MOST important environmental issue or not, doesn’t make the FACT of catastrophic global climate change any less true.

    Indeed what is says in the article you linked to FergalR  is that there are a host of OTHER environmental concerns that they are ALSO worried about, like overpopulation (which incidentally is a contributing factor to global warming), and waste pollution (ditto), and energy security (meaning they know fossil fuels are running out and they’d like more sustainable energy which would also reduce global warming).

    But like all nimrods with comprehension problems, apparently you didn’t read past the headline, “Only a quarter of UK population concerned about climate change”, thereby missing the entire POINT of the article.

    I’m afraid, my dear, that it is YOU who are in the minority. The rest of the world has long ago accepted the FACT of the problem, and are more concerned with solving it and other environmental challenges AS WELL.

    Seriously, learn to read. That’d be a good start.

  • Anonymous

    Get a life dude. You’ve been at it for 12 hours now and you haven’t managed to convince anyone.

  • 5by5

    Because we’re in a solar minimum that’s mitigating the effects of man-made global warming, you idiot.

  • 5by5

    Yes, it’s stunning that real scientists didn’t want their work polluted by oil-company paid partisan corporate hacks.

  • 5by5

    All of the hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade, fool.

  • 5by5

    Yes, and restraining breeders from popping out a puppy every three seconds when we’re already using three Earth’s worth of resources gets in the way of the far rightwing’s militant fecundity. 

    I mean, how else are they going to get anyone to vote for their batshit crazy ideas, if they don’t give birth to these humans and warp their brains with bible home-schooling?

  • Anonymous

    Idiot?

    Bwhahaha!

    You snakes were saying the Sun couldn’t have a measurable effect 1 year ago.

  • Anonymous

    Not the “MOST” important issue, actually, Mr. CAPS one of the THREE most important out of FIFTEEN.

    Here’s the top ten most populated countries on the survey – I’ll put a plus beside the one that score GW higher than the global average:

    Global    33%

    China     21%
    India     55% +
    USA       27%
    Brazil    42% +
    Russia     9%
    Mexico    44% +
    Germany   38% +
    France    29%
    UK        25%
    Italy     27%

    Your caused is a laughing stock, throughout the non-warming world.

    Here’s the full survey for you to cry over:
    http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/sri-environment-global-advisor-april-2011-computer-tables.pdf

  • Anonymous

    Your mind is closed.

    When the scam collapses I want you to remember your time with me fondly.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, you mean the record that began at the end of the Little Ice Age?  Impressive.

    We’re halfway through this year, it’s on course to be the 11th warmest in history.

    Will you say: “It’s one of the top twenty warmest years on record!”

  • Anonymous

    One way or another mate you’re clearly troubled by climate change. I feel pity for you and hope you get your shit sorted, cheers.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, CRU where the emails were hacked/leaked from, was funded by BP and Shell, look at the acknowledgements at the end here on their own website:

    http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/

    And your beloved ExxonMobil is halfway through giving $100 million to Stanford’s climate-related research:

    http://gcep.stanford.edu/about/sponsors.html

    Big Oil bankrolled the scam that conned you.  Where is your God now?

  • Anonymous

    Actually, CRU where the emails were hacked/leaked from, was funded by BP and Shell, look at the acknowledgements at the end here on their own website:

    http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/

    And your beloved ExxonMobil is halfway through giving $100 million to Stanford’s climate-related research:

    http://gcep.stanford.edu/about/sponsors.html

    Big Oil bankrolled the scam that conned you.  Where is your God now?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t cry.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t cry.

  • Hadrian999

    say what you will about the guy but he has an awesome steakhouse

  • jackedu317

    thanx…

  • Dlcooper77

    Climate change is real.  It has always been with us but it is not man made, it is a natural cycle of time. Those who believe it is man made must also believe that there must have billions and billions of people in the past the put too much caron in the air and it melted the glacier that once dipped down into north America as far south as at is now New York City.  Hey, I will sell you bridge, forget have no title to it, believe me like you believe the nonesense of Ted Turner and Al Gore and company.