World leaders are lying to the public about the climate crisis and dismissing scientific evidence. “Today we have public leaders who not only try to avoid the truth, but who try to alter it, through thousands of lies,” he said. Mr Kerry was speaking after addressing a global oceans summit in Cork where he said the world and its climate do not have the time or space to deal with “presidents and prime ministers” who deny the truth about climate change. “We can’t protect oceans without solving the problem of climate change and we can’t solve that without protecting the oceans — they go hand in hand,” he said. If it’s man-made it can be ‘man-solved’.”The summit, sponsored by PwC, was also addressed by young Irish activist and youth ambassador Alicia O’Sullivan, 17, who described the realities of climate change as “terrifying” and challenged world leaders to act now to save her generation’s future.

Source: Irish Examiner June 11, 2019 05:03 UTC