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‘Dereliction Of Duty’: U.S. Blasts Security Council Climate Inaction As ‘Pathetic,’ ‘Shortsighted’ | Without any apparent sense of irony, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council for being unable to reach consensus on a statement that climate change poses a direct threat to peace and security, despite “manifest evidence” that it did. “This is more than disappointing. It’s pathetic, it’s shortsighted, and frankly it’s a dereliction of duty,” she said. For almost 20 years, global action to fight climate change has been hobbled by the intransigence of the United States, from the first Bush administration to the Obama administration.