Ebola? U.N. spotlights 'climate change' at Africa summit

President Obama speaking at the U.S.-Africa Summit in Washington

UNITED NATIONS – With Africa facing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak, the United Nations chose as the lead story on Thursday’s U.N. Wire coming out of the U.S.-Africa Summit the headline “Africans see opportunity to finally challenge climate change.”

The headline linked to a Reuters story reporting African climate negotiators attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington this week “said leadership from the United States is critical to finalizing a global deal on measures to address climate change in 2015 after years of deadlock.”

Reuters reported the African bloc sees the potential to reach a breakthrough in the U.N.-led talks to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol by reaching a compromise on how much responsibility for cutting carbon emissions must be taken by developed nations.

As a hopeful sign, Reuters quoted Richard Muyungi, a negotiator for Tanzania who said, “We in Africa are hoping to find language that can address the same concerns but is appealing to each party.”

The wire service further reported Jennifer Morgan, director of the climate program at the environmental research World Resources Institute, said African countries are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as more severe weather, but contribute just 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Secretary of State John Kerry reflected the concern of the international community over climate change, the new terminology replacing Al Gore’s concern over “global warming,” in remarks he made in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 16.

“Climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” Kerry declared.

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In elevating climate change to a No. 1 position in U.S. strategic-risk calculations, Kerry placed it above the risk of a health pandemic such as the Ebola outbreak currently occurring in West Africa, the threat of Islamic terrorists such as Ansar al-Sharia in Libya or ISIS in Iraq, the possibility for a Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas war against Israel.

The concern of the international community over climate change persists even after Norman Loeb, a NASA scientist generally predisposed to support global warming theories, admitted Tuesday in a lecture at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, that global warming is in a 15-year “hiatus.”

But James Taylor, senior fellow for environmental policy for the Heartland Institute, writing in Forbes, contends the failure to detect real-world global warming during the past 17 years casts doubt on the validity of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change computer models dating from 1990 that consistently but incorrectly predicted measurable global temperatures to increase at least 2.4 degrees per century.

Meanwhile, U.S. temperatures through April 26 are the third coldest on record, just behind 1899 and 1912, with the likelihood 2014 will emerge as the coldest year on record in U.S. history.

At the same time, Antarctic sea ice has set another record, with July measured at the highest level on record, while Arctic sea ice remains the highest measured in a decade.