Guest essay by Eric Worrall
US Secretary of State John Kerry has just cranked up the rhetoric on Climate Change, by mixing statements about National Security threats and Climate Politics.
According to The Washington Post;
In a speech delivered at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, home to the world’s largest naval base and already experiencing flooding linked to climate change, Kerry called climate change a threat to national security.
“We have to prepare ourselves for the potential social and political consequences that stem from crop failures, water shortages, famine and outbreaks of epidemic disease,” he said. “And we have to heighten our national security readiness to deal with the possible destruction of vital infrastructure and the mass movement of refugees — particularly in parts of the world that already provide fertile ground for violent extremism and terror.
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“The science tells us unequivocally, those who continue to make climate change a political fight put us all at risk,” he said. “And we cannot sit idly by and allow them to do that.”
Kerry’s rant sounds just like Paul Ehrlich’s failed predictions from the 1970’s. Read more: Washington Post
What can I say – hurry up with that dark money cheque Anthony, and make it a big one. I’ll need the cash to build my hollowed out volcano lair, so I can hide from Kerry’s new Homeland Security Climate Ops Team.
Will climate change theatre ever end?
Did anyone here ever see that tv series :”An Idiot Abroad” where the traveler comedian Karl had a fantasy about becoming “Bullshit Man” – a super hero who just flew into meetings and shouted “bullshit” whenever someone was dribbling crap.
Karl would be in his element at CoP meetings.
Yes – hilarious 🙂
My little girl came up with the all time classic line about “An Idiot Abroad”. When I asked if she wanted to watch an episode, she said;
“I want to watch children’s TV for children. An Idiot Abroad is children’s TV for grownups…”
Look up the source of the term ” A crock of s***t”.They must have had their fair share of John Kerrys even thousands of years ago! The ritual should definitely be resurrected!
Kerry simply drives me nuts. What a pontificating buffoon!
So would the creators of the “domination of nature” idea from the Frankfurt school(cultural Marxism)?
Apparently not
Here’s another view of that speech…
https://youtu.be/UXodRLLkth4
Just to keep the record straight: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslimreaction.asp
And read the comments for the video.
The idea that Snopes is some sort of fact checking neutral source of info is laughable.
They are little more than a liberal clearinghouse and disinformation site.
Snopes?
Hah!
Get real.
Menicholas commented: “…The idea that Snopes is some sort of fact checking neutral source of info is laughable….”
I’ve heard this complaint about Snopes but my own observations do not support it. It always cites the source of their investigations and they are valid. If they cannot verify they say so. The only Liberal spin I detect is their tendency to check and report more on facts contrary to Liberal views. Wikipedia they are not.
@Mark – for the most part snopes is pretty good, but it does tend to lean left if there is any possibility that it can. I have seen it in the past on some subjects – I wish I could recall one to cite as evidence.
@Menicolas – apparently you did not follow my suggestion, which was to read the comments on the video, which is a significantly stronger indication of the accuracy of the video than anything snopes may have to say. For your edification I will repeat a couple here:
“For those that understand “Poe’s Law” no further disclaimer is required. For those that don’t………I suggest you look it up.” – posted as the tag line for the video.
“Folks…….this a spoof. It was never intended to be taken as a legitimate news report.” – posted by the same person who uploaded the video.
Let’s try to stick to dealing with facts. This video is a spoof, and was intended to be such. Let’s not put it out there as reality.
You can always tell when John Kerry is telling untruths, just keep an eye and ears open when he sticks his tongue out!
“Climate” is causing the sinking of Norfolk?
Yeah, the transformation is caused entirely by post-industrial CO2 (sarc):
http://www.digitaljournal.com/print/article/424521
Whoops, sorry, I thought that we were talking about the other Norfolk – but still a worthy example!!!
Test.
flooding linked to sinking….not sea level rise
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/01/making-sense-of-senseless-sea-level-scares-in-norfolk-virginia-60-of-the-rise-is-from-subsidence/
Next time you hear someone say “but he’s not good enough to be an elected politician”…
….take a good look at what we have now
A rising tide floats all boats. (higher)
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John Kerry must be channeling Paul Ehrlich. After all, Ehrlich is still writing forty years after he predicted catastrophe, and Kerry admires someone who can show no consequences for being wrong.
I believe that with a slight twist, Kerry is actually very close to correct: Fear of climate change is a threat to national security.
“The science tells us unequivocally, those who continue to make climate change a political fight put us all at risk,” he said. “And we cannot sit idly by and allow them to do that.”
What the F is he talking about? A political fight is all this ever was.
He is right that the politics puts us all at risk though – his politics.
Sometimes, huge potential problems resolve themselves with no effort on our part.
From:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/03/29/the-horse-manure-problem/
“In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows.”
The UN is in New York. Maybe he was right?
(What did they say about Washington?)
Good one!
seems like they shipped it to Norfolk – and a bunch made it to Malaysia too
And you know [the 1894 prediction] this is not true? The smell coming from NY is the first clue. The easiest way to hide the evidence would be to renumber the floors in all the buildings – what was the 3rd floor would now be number one. New Yourker would never notice. ((sarc!))
I can recommend a visit to Mackinac Island for a real look at the horse manure problem.
http://www.mightymac.org/island.htm
Leave it to John Kerry to conclude that the “mass movement of refugees” is due to “climate change” and not the the his own, and his master’s, incompetence at foreign policy.
Exactly Tom….democrats are trying to blame all their f’ups on climate change
They’ve created a straw man the size of the world!
And just why is no one talking about the “mass movement of refugees” (15+ million) across the southern US border from Mexico and other points south?
No other country on earth even comes close to absorbing that number of refugees (15+ million) so there has to be a dastardly devious reason why so many people are claiming that the US is obligated to “importing” a few more million immigrants from Middle Eastern countries.
Like a “herd of stray cats”. The “do-gooders” can and will find “adoptive” homes for many of said cats, thus decreasing the population of the “stray cat herd”. But that will only “trigger” a breeding frenzy resulting in an equal or greater number than was in the original “herd of stray cats” ….. which will cause far worse problems because the “new” generation of cats will be “smarter” at getting what they believe they deserve.
Immigrants nowadays are initially dependent on many government programs, and as such, generally vote for democrats. Mr. O knows his legacy can only be potential future votes for the dems – hardly anyone is currently inclined to vote for them. Yes, there are many women and a few men who still swoon to their tune, but they’re getting old and after a few more presidential cycles they’ll be migrating south of the border to keep warm.
“Climate” is causing the sinking of Norfolk
so what, nobody will drown…. they’ve got big ships
Just climb up the steps into Suffolk.
The things people will say and do for power and money… [head shake]
I left out a ‘scurrilous’ in there somewhere.
Smacks of George III.
Let’s see, what was that amendment?
He got that right.
Wasn`t that you, John, I saw standing behind the POTUS as he politically nixed Keystone even though the State Department cleared it? That wasn`t political? That wasn`t you? Oh, sorry. You must have an identical twin. My mistake.
Warren Buffet is making too much money moving oil by rail to let Keystone happen.
These Alinskyites love to accuse their enemies of doing what they are doing. Kerry wants to push everyone else out of the arena so his agenda is uncontested. That will give his party a monopoly on the benefits and cronyism that come from politicizing climate change. He’s confident that once opposing voices are silenced, climate-change propaganda will finally be successful at alarming the public. Then they’ll be willing to sacrifice everything to fight the imaginary monster that is hiding in the deep oceans and ready to pounce at any moment.
Louis
They may be losing the battle in Paris, but gaining in North America with Canada’s new PM and growing momentum towards lawsuits in the States. http://ourchildrenstrust.org
Slippery movement
“Kerry called climate change a threat to national security.”
Truth as a cow.
Wagen
November 21, 2015 at 3:17 pm
“Kerry called climate change a threat to national security.”
Truth as a cow.
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Yes, maybe so, but I think that Kerry somehow forgets to mention that the biggest threat to national security, the USA national security, the number one threat,,,,is the misinformation, as it stands, and than maybe climate and than after that whatever follows can be considered as a threat, according to the politics and any other bullshit of the day or the following day after.
As far as I can tell, the USA’s NSA is already very much concerned and in a very much “hands on” with the main threat of the national security of USA,,,,,, the misinformation…….. The rest comes only after as a secondary or whatever threat….
And it is trying for the best with the “social engineering” methods to keep anything at control, for as long and as much that is possible, under the circumstances.
And WUWT it is under the treatment as far as this concerned.
cheers
Ok, John. Show us the way. Walk the walk. Start by asking your boss to stop tooling around in that massive 747. A gossamer-winged, solar powered Air Farce 1 would really inspire me, and I’d start believing all the hubris. At least the Pope has the sense to ride a Fiat Popemobile. Appearances matter, and “Do as I say“ admonitions don`t have any effect on me other than to give me a good chuckle.
Why does’t he get good Swift Boat (Boot ?) He deserves it ….
They’ve been banging on about ‘climate refugees’ since 1995. So where are they? I feel like a refugee from the apocalypse in other people’s heads
Kerry and Obama still maintain that the weather is the greatest threat to humanity.
Not Russia, not ISIS. The weather.
This is why Obama plans to attend the Paris Climate circus in a couple of weeks.
The worst President ever.
Russia is the one fighting ISIS. Not the US. We should all thank Putin.
Putin’s first bombing missions in Syria targeted those rebel forces which were acting against the Syrian government. The Russian mission exists to support Assad and thus, maintain the Russian warm water port in Syria. Since Paris, the Russian propaganda machine has made sure that everyone gets to hear about Russian bombing runs against Daesh/ISIS.
Those altruistic Russians…
Agreed
I’m at a loss, utterly. Can Kerry actually believe what he’s saying? Help me out here. Please.
Thanks.
The real question must be – does Kerry really believe ANYTHING? The current crop of quotes causes real doubt.
Liberals are naturals at employing selective amnesia to handle their mental gymnastics. (Those without this capability call it lying.)
Again explained by the Frankfurt school in the “Critical theory” Hernert cultural Marxism. If it supports Marxism and its agendas its logical.
Young Justin Trudeau got elected recently, and Canada got a whole lot stupider. This election was a National IQ Test, and Canadians failed. Justin won a third-world election – all style and no substance.
It used to be that intelligent Canadians could feel rather smug – we had an honest and capable Prime Minister in Stephen Harper, and we could look south to the USA at the global warming ravings of Obama and his acolytes with disdain.
Now we have the same warmist lunatic ravings on both sides of our common border, and even worse, we are stuck with Justin for four years!
Regards, Allan
References:
1. The UN’s IPCC Has No Credibility On Global Warming September 6, 2015
by Allan MacRae
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/the-uns-ipcc-has-no-credibility-on-global-warming-6sept2015-final.pdf
2. Cold Weather Kills 20 Times as Many People as Hot Weather September 4, 2015
by Joseph D’Aleo and Allan MacRae
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
Low Info Voters more concerned about what the Kardashians are wearing !!
I didn’t even know what the Kardashians was About until the last few weeks. I had (and always will have) better things to do, like Learning.
I don’t pay attention to the Kardashians, but from the blurps I have noticed, I wasn’t aware that they wore anything.
(Weren’t they the “bad guys” on a Star Trek spin off?)
Stephen Harper’s conservatives won the last election, where they got a majority of parliamentary seats, with 39% of the vote. The liberals, and their cheer leaders in the media, said it wasn’t legitimate. Now Trudeau fils has won a majority with 39% of the vote and it is hailed by the same people as a glorious landslide.
Here is the just-announced Alberta Climate Policy by the new Harpo-Marxist government of Alberta .
We are not amused.
Regards, Allan
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-climate-change-newser-1.3330153
Alberta’s climate change strategy includes a tax on carbon, a cap on oilsands emissions, a phasing out of coal-fired electricity and an emphasis on wind power.
“Our goal is to become one of the world’s most progressive and forward-looking energy producers,” said Premier Rachel Notley. “We are turning the page on the mistaken policies of the past, policies that have failed to provide the leadership our province needed.”
But the strategy will not be cheap and will be paid for not only by industry, but by ordinary Albertans.
If the policy is approved, the price of gas at the pump will jump by 4.7 cents per litre and home heating costs will rise by $320 per year by 2017 and $470 by 2018.
There will be, however, consumer rebates to offset some of those increases.
The carbon tax on industry is expected to raise $3 billion a year, which will be reinvested in renewable energy sectors and cover increased costs to consumers.
The province sees the emissions cap as motivation for the oilsands sector to innovate and become more globally competitive.
Excellent exec summary.
Wow, u folks have gone bonkers.
It gets cold up there.
Your not using your national resource.
You will be cold and lose wealth.
What’s the upside ?
::::: I used to think your currency was one of the better safe havens because you used your resources wisely, held down debt and aspired to reasonable lifestyles ::::
What can one say about a clown like Kerry? At best, he was the second presidential bullet America missed after Gore. In the aftermath of the Paris atrocity, he like his master can only see global warming as the great security threat. What planet do they live on?
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/terrorism/
Pointman
I would love-love-love to debate either Kerry, or Obama, or both of them on this. Like most readers here, I’ve forgotten more basic science than either the Community Organizer/ Choom Gang member, or the Viet Nam fake HE-RO have ever learned.
You can almost see the invisible hand moving, as the puppets parrot “Climate change!!”
+100
DB
Recommend you do a Clint Eastwood empty chair debate.
You’re quite the articulate fellow.
Post it on YouTube.
Check out this webpage. Lists up in coming lawsuit actions/state. Hansen and his granddaughter in Oregon is one. http://ourchildrenstrust.org/state/oregon
Maybe the defense attorneys need a good dose of WUWT you tube priming.
The Nam fakery is in part redefined in the late Hackworth’s book About Face. A necessary tolerance of getting past Hackworth own ego-look at me, but his coinage of pecking-order is still current. The components are: 1. 2nd Lieutenant (partially the rank but mostly the mental decision making) 2.School Boy (as in, my teacher in a class did not teach all of those other things) 3. Ticket Puncher (promotion) 4. Bureaucrat (an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment)
It has become obvious to me as a non climate physics person that politicians are actually intellectually less than the mass of people concerning science and the pursuit of knowledge.
Interesting that the comments at WaPo are running 95% in the skeptics’ favour.
Hilarious . the pot calling the kettle black !!! Look in the mirror John and know your enemy !!
No, he doesn’t believe what he is saying. Everything is about power and politics for folks like Kerry, Obama and Clinton.
He may be one of the actual fools.
Not that he isn’t also a big fat liar, but he is almost surely stupid enough to believe his own lies after long enough.
Headlines are the only reality to those engaging in the proselytism that is the defining characteristic of the doomsday chorus. The hired spokesman in the pulpit can preach to the choir ad infinatum; the debate will be won when three or four show up at the local council meeting to object to the waste of taxpayer resources. On-line mastery of a subject is regarded with as much respect as the most ignorant repetition of the current meme. A lifetime’s commitment to science is often met with vulgar ad hominem attack. This is the reality of the mass media:
Headlines count even when they have noting to do with the story;
Repetition of nonsense is the same as empirical proof;
Refutation and falsification are not possible;
Expert opinion is ontological (my mom says -it’s the UN – 97% !).
And, of course, “you are a moron/denier/anti-science ect.”
So if you like correcting the internet or doing battle with mental midgets you have a lifetime of opportunities. If, on the other hand, you are interested in bringing about change, in your world, that is based on on careful evaluation and deliberation of real world cause and effect then show up at that council meeting, sign in to address the school board, and commit time to talking to your neighbors about why you have chosen to reject the agenda that is driven from afar. This is a political battle and “all politics is local”.
Great post. I’ve always translated “Think global, act local” as “Big Green will tell you what to think and where to make a nuisance of yourself.” The whole CAGW thing is sophistry at its worst.
Ya know, if he was talking about global cooling, he might actually have a point. As it is, with climate change equated to global warming, he’s out to lunch.