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.
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This whole administration’s foreign policy is such an incompetent disaster they need to distract with “climate change ” as a national security threat.
Eric, you are too kind. To me Kerry starts sounding like Heinrich Kramer from the 1480’s or biblical even.
It says much about the utter loss of credibility of the USA’s decision-making processes that such a useless blowhard could even reach the steps of Congress, let alone one of the most powerful Offices of State in your hugely powerful land.
The road to hell is paved with self-serving intentions………
John Kerry’s incompetence is self-evident to anyone with half a brain. However, the really important question about him is: “Does he wear a wig?”
Hair hangs on longer where is no brain.
Interesting radio interview with Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars at https://www.nas.org/images/documents/PW_Radio_WJR_8-24-15.mp3 about John Kerry involvement with 2nd Nature, an entity birthed after the recently widowed Teresa Heinz connected with John Kerry at the 1992 Rio Summit and they cooked up scheme to wine, dine and enlist college presidents to sign on to their sustainability (all encompassing) initiative. At 8-24-15 some 700 colleges in US were “signed on” by top administrators, many others active without being signatories. McKibben, Naomi Klein figure, as well campus unrest. Interesting 19 minutes.
Wont John Kerry be presenting his resume at the nearest McDonalds come next general election in the USA?
In that case he will become unemployed. He doesn’t have the common sense needed for any job there.
SteveT
Yes but think about the ketchup franchise he could bring to the table!
Eric Worrall highlighted the key to Kerry’s remarks. All of Kerry’s “climate” ramblings led up to the words which revealed his true agenda; the end of free speech (and freedom, for the peasants.)
Do not fail to understand that the entire scenario of climate disaster was formulated by a handful of elites, as a means to an end. That end was the subjugation and reduction of human populations, i.e., more for them by way of fewer of us.
Hear, hear. What we are witnessing is the global attempt to eviscerate and destroy democracy.
As was reminded on the radio the other day, “Big brother is about controlling people and what they think by using a manufactured scare or danger.”
Precisely what ‘climate change’ amounts to – a manufactured scare.
Old England,
That is exactly right, and when one looks at the “carbon” scare from that perspective, it all falls into place and makes perfect sense.
DB/Old England
It does make sense.
Make a totally baseless claim that the growth of man is killing the atmosphere .. earth.
Ignore the easiest of counters that its been warmer in the past 5000 years.
You have to ignore this otherwise you get laughed out the door.
If I asked you to invest money based on the above tenets, you’d throw me out and warn your friends.
I woke up with a headache again. Very unusual for me. I have to stop reading WUWT before I crash. It causes my mind to race right when I should be relaxing it. Last night I read WUWT and some comments. Then picked up Hoffer’s True Believers again and reread the sections concerning the most likely groups of followers in a mass movement. The author is spooky accurate concerning the current CAGW movement (obviously he doesn’t speak to it directly), its early promoters and its base following … fallen out of favor professionals seeking to regain validity, disenfranchised/disillusioned adults and youth of previous means. The truly poor aren’t targets because they are too busy focused on a meal and roof over their heads. The mass movement targets communities where the family unit has been weakened. The family unit is the enemy to the mass movement.
This quote sticks with me ..
“we join a mass movement to to be free from individual responsibility or in other words “to be free of freedom”.
Perhaps the solution to resolving the hoax of CAGW is to identify it as a mass movement. Appeal to the emotional disgust of being associated with a con. Appeal to the common sense need to not wanting to be seen as a fool who gave up his freedom for a hoax.
I highly recommend rereading True Believers, but don’t do it before you try to sleep.
Knute,
I read The True Believer back in the ’70’s. A very prescient book. You’re right, I should re-read it. What’s old is new again.
Unfortunately this is the new tactic to strangle the US economy. By elevating the fake threat to one of national security, Obam a can make an agreement with the Security Council of the uN
Well in all wars, as in the war on “climate change”, the first casualty is Truth:
“…… and already experiencing flooding linked to climate change”. One more time – Norfolk was built on a filled-in saltwater marsh which has been compacting and subsiding ever since. Add to that the fact that the whole area is subsiding as a result of post-glacial rebound and Norfolk is getting a double whammy. If anything it’s not as bad as it would be because there is a general increase in polar-regions snow and ice.
Would that the sea level would be rising – I’d have sailboat depth at my dock eventually. But personal observation here on the middle peninsula is that absent the (very) occasional storm surge water levels are remaining within the bounds of natural variability.
Gents, this is all hype for Paris – his boss told him to pull out all stops. I believe that there is huge preparation going on in all parts of the CAGW mosaic.
1) Political speeches have taken on a shrill character
2) They are even using the massacre in Paris as a lever
3) T. Karl timed his pause buster for this
4) Shukla enjoined the gov to charge skeptics under RICO
5) All the Arctic ice graphs from Japan, Denmark, Norway, U of Illinois etc. have halted their plots and you will see some massive revisions in ice extent coming out in the next days.
6) They are trying to bury recent studies showing accretion of the Antarctic ice cap with new game-over disintegration of the shelves and sheets.
Paris is CAGW’s Manhattan Project.
If all the truth in Kerry’s statements was arranged end-to-end it would reach the height of 0.1 millimeter…..
They are desperately worried that their Paris Conference will be upstaged by a terrorist attack. They will say anything to try to make Climate Change appear the bigger threat so they can grandstand their hoax. If the Conference ends like a damp squib they will suddenly put Terrorism back on the agenda to cover their embarrassment.
Here’s a sobering thought experiment to determine how big a threat something is to the society in which we live. Let’s say one is in the theatre and bellows out two words to determine if the general public perceives what those words represent as a threat to themselves, others in the theatre, and thus the society in which they live. So, at the top of their lungs, that person screams out, “Climate Change.” Except for likely hearing a number of “shhhs” and “shut ups” the only other reactions are likely to be a number of quizzical looks with ‘who is this nut job’ expressions on the fellow theatre goer’s faces.
Then, shortly afterwards, that person screams out, “Allahu Akbhar.”
John Kerry, with his tony mansions, and his tony yacht, and deeply sheltered from the lives and reality of the rest of us, apparently believes it’s the former. Shortly after the Paris attacks he seemed mystified and contrasted it to the Charlie Hebdo attack which he initially called out as “legitimate” and, immediately catching the blunder, walked the statement back.
Now, assuming John Kerry could possibly have more knowledge than sensible people, and attribute any refugee crisis to Climate Change rather than the mayhem his boss’s administration has cultured in the ME, may I present a recommendation to him to both counter Climate Change and any resultant refugee crisis. For both crisis how about subdividing into multi-family units each of his 5 mansions? He can live on the yacht.
Please stick to ketchup and let the real scientists theorize about climate.
Yikes – a bit jarring to hear this from one of our top government officials about his political opponents:
“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.”
“The science” says we can’t allow dissenting voices? Gee.
Okay, stop with the scary mask face and psycho talk. Just tell us how much new revenue you are after. That’s not asking too much is it?
Directness is not the conman’s forte’.
In fact, the indirect approach is in vogue.
It is still about trust in da world because you can’t cover everything in a contract.
Here’s an interesting experiment conducted by Wharton.
Essentially, folks get over being lied to but being run over and lied to about it is the hardest scenario to recover trust. When CAGW hits the dust, modern science is gonna take a really big credibility ding.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/promises-lies-and-apologies-is-it-possible-to-restore-trust-2/
I see Kerry or Obama’s face and I have the same reaction I had when I saw Bill Clinton’s face when he was in office. “What’s going to go wrong now?”
(He visited an Ohio State practice session last week. 😎
For those who don’t follow or care about US college football, OSU lost to Michigan State last Saturday. Their first loss in, I think it was, 23 games
“They were a contender!”
So was he . . hypothetically . . but thanks for this little ray of hope, this Kerry effect you may have detected 😎
John, I don’t want to leave you with the wrong impression. This was “The Clinton Effect”. (It has more than one cause.)
Bill Clinton watched the Buckeyes practice. He even addressed the team.
(I hope Bill visits Michigan before Saturday! 😎
Polities annexed science, which is corrupt and must listen to the politicians, who want to impose their power above the power of nature. The fact that politicians and corrupt scientists, want to convince the civilization that CO2 is the main culprit of climate change, there is a complete deception and nature and the laws of nature and its power. It is good to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, to cleaner atmosphere, but an increase in consumption of natural gas, bringing profits to politicians, and science is not able to assess the consequences cause “Caverns” from which will be drawn out natural gas?
Climate change is occurring on all planets due to mutual influence of the planets and the sun, but in a way that science does not know and does not want to understand. Time will tell. Around 44 to 46 years (one of the most important cycles) will be significant climatic changes (count from the end of the Maunder minimum), but there are many others and the strengths and weaknesses of influence. If science does not want to know, will help her future weather events,
“Around 44 to 46 years”
That’s bad news. If this charade goes on for another 4 plus decades many will die for stupid reasons while a few get rich. Science as a respected field will spend many years trying to recover its credibility. All because of a sleek con.
Shocking.