UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix: Climate Change a Worse Risk than WMD.

[NNadir]

You remember Hans Blix don't you? If you don't, he was the UN weapons inspector who widely vilified by US interests, including the lockstep US media, for stating the obvious fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, et al were obvious liars when they claimed Iraq was pursuing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

I say "obvious," because any one who knows a bare minimum about nuclear weapons recognizes the vast distance between buying uranium ore in say, Niger, and making a nuclear weapon, but apparently there are a vast number of people - including the entire US media - that doesn't even have a bare minimal undestanding of <em>any</em> nuclear technology, including weapons technology.

Blix was in the Middle East again speaking about the Egyptian and Jordanian plans to build nuclear power plants.

Blix: "Global warming greater threat than WMDs"
26 January 2007

Dr Hans Blix, the former United Nations (UN) chief weapons inspector, warned that climate change is a much greater threat than nuclear weapons, while advocating the promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear technology.


Dr Hans Blix (Image: WMDC)
"The threat against the global environment and global warming are a greater threat than weapons of mass destruction. It is of utmost imperative that the whole world reduces the emission of greenhouse gases," he said, adding, "nuclear power can give the world enormous amounts of electricity without giving any greenhouse gases."

"The (nuclear non-proliferation) treaty (NPT) is under strain, but I think it is an exaggeration to say it is falling apart," Blix said, while admitting that Iran obtaining nuclear weapons would create "a long-term domino effect which would be very serious for this part of the world.

"The region would be much less tense if they didn't enrich their own fuel," Blix said, while conceding that Iran had the right to do so to support civilian nuclear technology. "But you don't need to exercise every right," he added.

He was speaking on 25 January, the final day of a trip to Egypt to promote the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission's (WMDC's) report on reducing weapons of mass destruction worldwide. Blix is Chairman of the WMDC..."

This article comes from one of my favorite websites, the pro-nuclear energy lobbying website: www.world-nuclear.org. I am often complimented by complete strangers who suggest that I am a shill for the nuclear lobby.

Here is the link to the Blix article: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/nuclearPolicies/260107-Blix_Global_warming_greater_threat_than_WMDs.shtml

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Interesting link

...I have a lot of reading to do.

Cheers :toast:

[GliderGuider]

2. Hans Blix? Didn't he get eaten by piranhas?

Oh wait, that was just a movie.

Blix is right on the money. Climate change and peak oil - both threats are an order of magnitude bigger and more urgent than WMD or global terrorism. Some people couldn't get a clue during clue mating season if they smeared their bodies with clue musk and did the clue mating dance in a field full of horny clues.

[NNadir]

3. Blix is a real Cassandra.

He always tells the truth about the future but nobody believes him.