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.
Kerry is just wrong, how did such a drongo become the US sec of state? Dr Goklany and Lomborg etc have looked at the data and shown that everything today is much better than 100 years ago.
The death rate from extreme events have dropped by 97% since the 1920s, SLR isn’t a problem, polar bear numbers are four times higher than 1950s, UAH V 6 data shows that the planet hasn’t warmed for 18.5 years and the south polar region hasn’t warmed since 1979. Greenland warming was faster during the 1920s than the recent warming and seems to be influenced by the AMO, not co2.
Of course you can throw trillions $ at this fraud and you won’t change anything because the non OECD countries will emit 90% of new co2 emissions at least until 2040. Just check the numbers of new CF power stns to be built over the next few years.
“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.”
And who is doing that?
Who politicized climate science?
Who stops papers emphasizing natural climate change from publishing?
Who launches horrible personal attacks against scientists who dare to disagree with the forced IPCC consensus (and gets them fired)?
Before there was anything called “climate science” there was an agenda. Every model has a specificity of purpose and is only useful in that regard yet we see multi-model means, and the ubiquitous “global” index or anomaly used as substitutes for complex system dynamics.
You ask, “Who politicized climate science?”
Well you know the answer. The next question appropriate to ask would be “What shall we do about the politicization of climate science?” There is nothing to be gained in trying to deny the reality that re-hypothecated data is not useful to science. There is much to be gained in challenging the proposed conclusions and attendant “solutions”. The proselytizers of doom have created the rules where all human actions lead to failure. Challenge them to prove the efficacy of their proposal! Will it really work?
Robert Ballard writes: “Challenge them to prove the efficacy of their proposal! Will it really work?”
Robert it’s just as clear to us as it is to you: taxing CO2 will not lower average global temperatures, and the people proposing this solution don’t care. Taxing tobacco doesn’t cure cancer. Taxing gas doesn’t reduce consumption. All taxation ever does is inflate prices and rob people who save money. It’s a “forcing” on the economy that increases the “velocity” of money, nothing more. Essentially it’s a way to steal savings from individuals, to remove the authority of a person over the product of their labor. It’s robbery.
The robbers will never agree to stop robbing. It’s not a scientific argument at all. Just because an attempt has been made to “legitimize” it through the false use of scientific method doesn’t mean it’s science. The people perpetrating this hoax don’t care about science, they care about stealing from you without being incarcerated or hung for it. Science is just a tool for them. They’ve chosen a meme that intimidates the common person. Science is a field that has come to be revered by people who admire its achievements and feel a sense of humility in its presence. They have come to trust science. That trust is being abused, you and I know that, but they (the common people) don’t and can’t. It’s a perfect scam.
The answer to your question is Michael Mann, Andres. He’s the answer to all of them.
After Gelbspan, MM is the guy who politicized climate science. That came after Steve McIntyre showed Mann’s hockey stick was fake, and asked to see the code. Mann’s response was classic. He claimed he was being bullied, and paid fossil fuel stooges were the culprits. His lie was bugled by the environmental NGOs and the MSM made hay with it.
But I blame the American Physical Society. If they had stepped in and demanded common scientific integrity, the play would have stopped right there. But they didn’t. Instead they got on the bandwagon. Amazing to see, and to say, but the chief institution of physics in the US consciously betrayed physics. The entire management deserves to be sacked, the lot of them.
+1
“He claimed he was being bullied, and paid [insert demonized organization here] were the culprits.”
Standard tactics of all the leftist special interest/pressure groups. Projection, evasion, ad hominems. “I can’t possibly be wrong, so any questioning of my over-the-top assertions is an attack on me.”
Thanks, Pat.
I was also thinking of Tom Karl (NCDC), Jim Hansen (GISS) and Phil Jones (CRU), also the “incovenient” Al Gore.
It’s a pity http://www.climatescience.gov/ is no longer available, they were all there.
“Your failure to agree will not be tolerated.”
Unfortunately, Piper, I fear that’s what is really being justified here . . as in, to those who will soon be tasked with making the Internet “safe”, for one thing. Extremists of various sorts can do great damage to all that’s good and holy through the wild open Internet, ya know?
Horses for Courses? it seems that this one is on the wrong track.
Wrong track hell, he’s running in the wrong direction !
Arab Spring, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, etc etc…
….We didn’t have anything to do with it…it was climate change
I know…we’ll blame it on climate change
The preceding public service announcement was brought to you by “Hope and Climate Change”…….
Climate change is to blame for belly button lint and colliding black holes in far away galaxies. That’s all one needs to understand about the scientific underpinnings of climate change.
Kerry also told the President of India that their continued refusal to toe the climate Armageddon meme was equivalent to India using a weapon of mass destruction on the world. Kerry has been Obama’s lap dog spreading the AGW religion and ignoring the real problems facing the world. An international embarrassment.
I reckon India must have taken Kerry’s advice to heart as I see they have lowered the boom on Greenpeace.
“The Greenpeace India’s registration has been cancelled under Section 13 of the FCRA, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday night.”
Kudos to the Indian government.
I’ve always admired John Kerry’s ability to say absolutely ludicrous stuff while keeping a straight face
Botox.
Or advanced rigor
The absurd claims of Kerry and Obama regarding climate change caused sea level rise acceleration are addressed here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/16/latest-noaa-mean-sea-level-trend-data-through-2013-confirms-lack-of-sea-level-rise-acceleration-2/
Kerry is just recycling these same old, flawed and completely discredited claims.
these gents will all go into the history books as massive fools. they may think they are noble, but they need to open up their eyes and ears, listen to non-syncophant advisors and judge for themselves…..then decide how they want history to judge them. unlike many other political statements (which have no definite or proveable right or wrong), climate predictions are falsifiable by merely waiting. they can’t make the weather warm up to their predictions just by continuing to repeat them, and the veneer over the falsified adjustments is too thin to fool anybody.
are you listening John Kerry? are you listening Mr. President? are you listening James Hanson?
This from the man who declared his government had “neutralized” Al Qaeda on the same day Al Qaeda killed dozens and had taken 100s hostage in Mali.
Reality. John Kerry. It’s not possible to use them in the same sentence.
Kerry has been lying since he got back from Vietnam in 1971. For this, he has been rewarded with high office (including a shot at President) and a billionairess wife. So why would he tell the truth about anything?
That John Kerry is a fool, there is no doubt. The only question is how much harm does his viewpoint, his precipice declaration do to humanity. He is both evil and should be regarded as such. Little should society regard his utterances. Little should society regrade those of his commander and chief: Barrak Obama. They are one in the same.
Think of the amount of problem solving energy wasted on this apocalyptic claptrap.
No wonder so many areas of the world with real problems are getting worse. Those we should be able to count to solve real problems are instead chasing phantoms and perversely insulate themselves farther from reality by deciding that democracy and freedom are not worthy in comparison to their obsessions.
Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Gore, Ehrlich and the other sorry long list of climate obsessed fools deserve the disrepute they are earning in spades.
Kerry has a long track record of failed analysis.He is persistent about it.
In reality, the only doomsday scenario in relation to Climate Change is substantial Sea Level rise.
We all know how pro cAGW the BBC is, and yet surprisingly, it has jus reported the latest finding that suggests that Sea Level rise by the end of the century will likely be 10cm, and that the previous shrills of alarming rise are unlikely, in fact have no more than a 1 in 20 chance of happening.
See generally: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34859398
“there are parts of it that are just too bumpy and rough or are not sloping in a way that will allow…”
Amazing news for anyone who ever wondered why vast chunks of Antartica do not just roll off into the sea.
This is like science for 7 year olds.
What are they going to explain next? Why the himalayas aren’t likely to fall down within the next decade?
it’s painful to witness the debate descending to this level.
But refreshing to not that at least one person was capable of pointing out something that to many intelligent observers falls into the category of “completely bleedin’ obvious”.
Should have read “refreshing to note”.
“Note” vs. “not”
I’m a frequent victim of typos myself. The saving grace is that human minds tend to fill in those gaps, as I’m sure you know? This site doesn’t offer an edit function which seems a bit backward but that’s the way it is. S1M1L4RLY, Y0UR M1ND 15 R34D1NG 7H15 4U70M471C4LLY W17H0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17.
You could have left those numbers out – my mind would still have read it.
Well isn’t that ashame, is it just me or is there a tinge of sadness here in the admittance of we’re not all doomed as fast as we thought and now the roosting begins?
I can’t believe that they are all going to Paris to talk about a non-problem, when the real problem is staring them in the face.
J. Philip Peterson: Perhaps in Paris they will find a hostile climate they can rendition.
It could be worse than that. There is credible information in Paris that the DEACH have gas weapons. Two or three thrown into the conference centre could kill 40000 green idiots.
Further to my above comment, the first paragraph of the blockquote was my comment.
The quote from the BBC article should have commenced with the second paragraph:
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Well.
Back in the day, the Democratic National Committee did give a “Hoot” and “study” to the Dan Akroid and Eddy Murphy Film, “Trading Places”. A jurists writes, “A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.”
In Real Life, Eddie Murphy plays Barak Hussein Obama! But “WHO” plays Dan Akroid (What a Hemorrhoid!)
Ha Ha
Curious to me how Kerry could be so stupid to preach such a fallacy to the “naval experts” at Norfolk. Out of deference to his office they would not refute him publicly, and perhaps not even privately to his face, but would surely in their innermost being as in “Planet of the Apes”, reveal to themselves the worrisome aspect of having such an idiot for a Secretary of State.
It must be really difficult to have put one’s life on the line for such fools. This is how powerful nations armies become demoralized and ripe for defeat.
The US Navy has it’s own oceanography department. I believe that the top dog is an admiral. He was complaining how screwed Norfolk is a couple of years ago. As the son of a naval officer, I lived in Norfolk as a youngster. The city is built on filled creeks and rivers. Large parts of the bases were built on filled swamp land. All of the active duty officers tow the Obama line. 75% of all bombing runs in Syria are cancelled for fear of civilian deaths. Cancelled runs come from the top. So when you hear how many sorties we have made, how many drop weapons? When the news media tells you that the US has made 65% of the bomb runs, I can only presume that it means that we have dropped 16% of the bombs. Nothing like encouraging your enemy to hide among civilians. France and Russia have become the real martyr machines. Raqqa needs to be leveled as an example. The civilians are being slaughtered by ISIS anyway.
I wonder how China would deal with ISIS
I suspect an old russian nuke may be smuggled into ISIS territory.
Then detonated and ISIS blamed for blowing themselves up.
At least that is what I would consider if I was the russian president.
Frankly the man was born a moron and has been in the descending parabola curve since.
Kerry and the gang are acting more and more desperate, and their alarmism is sounding more and more shrill. Could it be they are beginning to realize that this is the last time they can cry wolf before no one will believe them anymore?
Once again, proof – if ever it was needed – that to be a politician you do not need any functional brain cells.
Does Kerry actually believe this carp? I think there are more pressing things than lowering the oceans – such as stopping the terrorists dead in their tracks. At best, he is dishonest, and worst, he is a idiot.
In a desperate attempt to change the subject from his recent diplomatic blunders Jonh Kerry says ” hey look, the world is doomed”
The US Secretary of Ketchup has to be the laughing stock joke of diplomats from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe with his “climate change is the world’s most important threat” drivel.
The only thing the 3rd world wants out of Paris COP21 is the aid money and to be left alone from blithering morons like Kerry and Obama.
In John Kerry’s world of science, plants do not depend on CO2.
Indeed, how could they? Since the CO2 is to be found in a layer 1/4″ thick at the top of the atmosphere, many kilometres above the tallest redwood tree.
From his flat-earther-condemning speech in Jakarta;
“Try and picture a very thin layer of gases – a quarter-inch, half an inch, somewhere in that vicinity – that’s how thick it is. It’s in our atmosphere. It’s way up there at the edge of the atmosphere. And for millions of years – literally millions of years – we know that layer has acted like a thermal blanket for the planet – trapping the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the Earth to the ideal, life-sustaining temperature. Average temperature of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going. Life itself on Earth exists because of the so-called greenhouse effect. But in modern times, as human beings have emitted gases into the air that come from all the things we do, that blanket has grown thicker and it traps more and more heat beneath it, raising the temperature of the planet. It’s called the greenhouse effect because it works exactly like a greenhouse in which you grow a lot of the fruit that you eat here.
This is what’s causing climate change. It’s a huge irony that the very same layer of gases that has made life possible on Earth from the beginning now makes possible the greatest threat that the planet has ever seen.”
Que pendejo.
(I’m on vacation in Mexico).