Kerry: Climate change on par with terrorism, poverty, WMD

NEW YORK — Secretary of State John Kerry said climate change “ranks right up there” with global challenges such as terrorism, poverty and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

“When you think about terrorism, which we think about a lot today; poverty, which is linked obviously to the levels of terror that we see in the world today; and, of course, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — all of these are challenges that don’t know any borders. And that’s exactly what climate change is,” Kerry said Monday at the opening event for New York City Climate Week.