The Biden Administration Is More Worried about Global Warming Than Nuclear War

Amid global crises with rising body counts in Israel and Ukraine, the Biden administration doesn’t want us to forget about global warming. President Biden has even said that he is more worried about the global average temperature rising 1.5 degrees than about the possibility of a nuclear war.

“The only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than a — than a nuclear war is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20 — 10 years,” Biden said during a trip to Vietnam last month. “We’re — that’d be real trouble. There’s no way back from that.”