Obama's climate change hoax envoy: You know how I know that CO2 is dangerous? Because of a flood in Pakistan two years ago and a drought in parts of the US this year

TheDartmouth.com: "Voices" speaker talks climate change

Climate change — regardless of its polarizing nature — must return to the center of political debate because of its pressing consequences for both the international and national community, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department Todd Stern ’73 said in the fourth talk in this summer’s “Leading Voices in Foreign Policy” lecture series on Thursday.
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“We can join the flat-earth society, we can say that global warming isn’t real, but at the end of the day unless we act to stop it, [the earth’s temperature] will continue to rise,” Stern said.

Although public conversation about climate change has waned, Stern said that the effects of changing natural systems should not be ignored.

“Even if all environmentalists were socialists and secularists, that wouldn’t alter the reality that earth’s temperature has been increasing,” Stern said.

Stern cited several examples of recent “catastrophic” environmental disasters, such as major flooding in Pakistan in 2010 that resulted in $9.5 billion in damages. The current severe drought in the United States has affected over 40 percent of the continental U.S.

“Scientists can’t [attribute] any particular event to global warming because nature doesn’t leave that kind of signal,” Stern said. “But they also say these are exactly the kinds of events we can predict for a warmer world.”  [Hey Todd:  Name a year, any year ever, that didn't include plenty of droughts and floods somewhere on Earth.]
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Despite the serious concerns related to climate change, Stern said he is optimistic about the future of global warming policy.