Terrorism versus Global Warming

There was a discussion on Fox News this morning concerning the President's comments on terrorism. He is reported to have said that terrorism is overblown. There are more people who will die from global warming than from terrorism.
This is the result of a President voted into office by an electorate with an unrealistic attitude toward hope and change. As human beings, almost all of us have a positive attitude with the hope that somehow things will be better. However, there is also a practical side of human nature, which is realism or an ability to face facts. Those persons who believe strongly in a future based on hope with an inability to recognize existing facts are candidates for psychoanalysis, depending upon the degree to which they live in a non-real world. I don't claim that Pres. Obama has gone so far that he needs psychoanalysis, but his borderline position with respect to recognizing facts as opposed to his emotional feeling of hope have done significant damage to our country.
More specifically, the President could have said that more people would be killed by an asteroid hitting Earth or a severe outbreak of bubonic plague than will be killed by terrorists. If he had done so, it would be more obvious that he did not understand reality. The point being that terrorism is here and most of us can clearly recognize it, whereas an asteroid or a bubonic plague effect is so remote as to not be worth considering. However, he chose to make the comparison with global warming, presumably on the basis that 50% of the general public believe that global warming is real. That's rather a high number but taken in its proper context it is still insignificant with respect to reality. Terrorism is here and 100% factual, probably recognized by 99% of the voting public.
If Pres. Obama wants to relate the factual existence of terrorism to a factual existence of global warming. He has a lot more work to do. He has already accomplished much by convincing 50% of the public of global warming reality but that is still nowhere near 99%.