This just in from The Daily Climate, Kerry tells us we are winning, but the blames the usual suspects rather than the message itself. I love the part about where we “made up our own science“, which is sort of like when Kerry swiftboated the weather back in 2008, except there was really no support for his position in science. Of course that lack of basic understanding couldn’t be the reason “people just turn off” when he’s talking about climate, could it?
Kerry: ‘We have lost the notion of responsible capitalism’
Venting frustration at the lack of progress on environmental issues, U.S. Sen. John Kerry voices the exasperation of a core constituency in President Obama’s re-election bid.
By Doug Struck For the Daily Climate
BOSTON – Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, exasperated at what he called “the flat-earth caucus,” on Sunday described the frustrations of working on environmental issues in the U.S. Senate.
Even amid the “Tuesday Group” – a bi-partisan bloc of lawmakers, mostly Democrats, who are interested in energy issues – “you can’t talk about climate now,” Kerry said. “People just turn off. It’s extraordinary. Only for national security and jobs will they open their minds.”
Kerry, in a dinner speech at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, voiced the exasperation of an environmental movement that had high hopes with the election of President Obama in 2008 but has been disappointed by the administration and largely shut out after the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
“The irony is that we used to be a nation that valued science. We have become a nation that is now discarding science,” Kerry said. He spoke at a conference on the challenges facing the Arctic, attended by Iceland’s president, Olafur Grimsson.
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Opponents to the legislation “made up their own science. They made up their own arguments,” Kerry said. “The Republicans created this idea of (carbon credit) trading because it avoided command and control by the federal government.” Then, “they just decided to pick up and brand this a negative.”
Kerry blamed brothers David and Charles Koch, oil billionaires who have bankrolled attempts to discredit climate change, as well as opposition from energy companies. “You have Peabody Coal. You have MidAmerican. They have these big old cash cows, these old coal-powered plants. It’s just cash coming in, and they want to keep it that way.
Full story here
johanna says:
March 27, 2012 at 4:43 pm
What is it with Massachusetts voters and dissolute aristocrats anyway? Do they secretly wish for a return to the monarchy?
According to a buddy who’s a former Massachusetts resident, the voters kept sending Teddy back to DC because it was the only way they could keep him off the roads in Massachussetts. However, most Taxachusetts voters continue to vote Democrat because their parents voted Democrat, and their parents voted Democrat because *their* parents voted Democrat — lather, rinse, repeat…
“you can’t talk about climate now,” Kerry said. “People just turn off. It’s extraordinary. Only for national security and jobs will they open their minds.”
Except that climate skeptics have been BEGGING to discuss this issue in the form of debate for, oh, 20 years now. It’s Kerry and Gore and the rest of their ilk that have sprinted away from talking about climate.
Goodie says: ….’studied the hard way like most real scientists, poor and eating cheese sandwiches!’
Luxury! (to parody Monty Python)
Should have tried pot noodles.
I suppose we could have studied ‘global warming’ and been well funded.
Empirical error?
Sorry, should have been…. Goldie says:
Must have tried some of that ‘crack’ in the Antarctic (other thread).
The usual bla bla bla from lefty folks who’s expertise is in transfering their merits or lacky self onto others they dispise. Hand them a mirror. 🙂
@ur momisugly frozenohio
Yes! You are right! John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, did indeed serve in Vietnam! I’m sure he learned all he knows about global warming and politics while riding swift boats.
“The Republicans created this idea of (carbon credit) trading because it avoided command and control by the federal government.” Then, “they just decided to pick up and brand this a negative.”
The disturbing thing to me is how many people (including the vast majority of the students in my classes) feel that it is wrong to “brand … as a negative” the idea of “command and control by the federal government.”
John Kerry ordered swiss cheese on a Philadelphia cheesesteak.
You can’t get much more out of touch than that.
Your reference to the Swiftboat Crewmen and Officers, and the former POW’s and their surviving spouses is rather vile, offensive and confused. The media portrayed the Swiftboat sailors as telling lies about John Kerry, when these good men stood together to tell the truth. Your statement “Kerry Swiftboated the weather” uses the term in the opposite meaning, suggesting that Swiftboating is telling a lie. Please remove and correct your reference that Kerry “Swiftboated” anything. I stood upon the deck of PCF-44 along with Kerry in 1968. He gave false statements to congress and the nation. The men of the Swiftboat Squadron could not stand by and allow this deception to continue unchallenged. Thank you for your kind consideration.
REPLY: While I appreciate and understand your concern, and there is no disrespect intended to good men such as yourself and your crewmates, nor their spouses/families, the term “swiftboating” has in fact joined the vernacular of the USA, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating
Based on the Wikipedia definition, what Kerry did trying to link global warming and tornadoes was in fact “an unfair or untrue political attack”. It is a term used by others in the same type of argument, such as here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2012/02/20/swiftboating-science/
Thus, my use of the term is fair game. – Anthony
Fair game? There are alternatives which, especially when Kerry is directly involved, are much less offensive to the Mechanic and his mates. Don’t be bitter, reconsider!!
😉
>:)
“Only for national security and jobs will they open their minds.”
Pretty much the only Constitutional powers you idiots are granted.
Indeed. Even more alarming, in retrospect, is our good fortune at avoiding the charlatan Algore in the White House. Imagine the EPA with 10 years lead time. . .
I have lived here in The Peoples Republic for the better (or worse) part of five decades, and I don’t understand it, either. I fear that in order to get rid of our Representative in Congress, the execrable Ed Malarkey, I’ll have to run against him myself. But it would be fruitless; I’d be swamped by rampant moonbatism.
/Mr Lynn
In reply to philincalifornia: please do not compare Prince Charles with Kerry. Charles is not tall; if by dumbo you mean he has big ears so do I and many others (if you mean he is dim, I disagree); uless he dies before the Queen he WILL (no wannabe about it) be King; and as to some of his beliefs he is as entitled to them as you are to yours. He also does many charitable acts, and ,yes, he can afford to. Can the same be said about Kerry?
Sorry, I just couldn’t let that go!
Anthea
The earth has always been round. It’s the measured global temperature anomaly that has been flat for more than a decade now
$50 billion would go a long way toward helping the small businesses in this country, but Obama wants to help the public employee unions who helped elect him. The states need to get rid of more of these people and get private sector jobs in place. The taxpayers are fed up with the salaries, pensions and benefits these public employees are getting at our expense. All you have to do is look at New Jersey. Governor Christie is taking on the teachers union, and more power to him. We need more governors like him.
ACORN is a ultra liberal/marxist group that helped Obama get in the office due to the fact that the people they registered to vote, did so in the locale where they were registered, and by absentee vote in their home state.