This is from his Dec. 9, 2015 address to Paris COP-21 conference. Kerry also emphasizes that even if all industrial country emissions were zeroed out, it would mean nothing for the climate.
What further proof does one need that #COP21 has no basis is science, and is nothing more than pandering to a bunch of sqalling eco-organizations and poorer countries looking for a handout. What a complete circus.
Here are Kerry’s exact words:
… The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what – that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions –- remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions -– it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65% of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.
h/t to Steve Milloy of junkscience.com
I’m beginning to think that the elites are more and more intent on moving offshore so that they’re retired in a non-taxable jurisdiction when the guido comes to collect on all the national debt that gets piled up paying for this tripe.
So, we’ll admit that not much change needs to take place here, but we do need to send trillions to “developing nations”. And of course, there’s a transfer fee for the bureaucrats.
I’m not a very smart man, but I know one when I see one. This post was actually made on Techdirt on a different subject; but I think it equally applies to the climate debate:
“Much of economics seems to be a herd mentality, which can sometimes defy common sense. One of the things that still sticks in my mind that the card-carrying economists were all in agreement on was the idea that upon the breakup of the Soviet Union, the best way to transition from communism to capitalism was to undertake a so-called “shock therapy” approach. To me (a young whippersnapper with no qualifications to have an opinion) it seemed like an obvious recipe for disaster, but I could never convince my economics professor, who was a straight-shooter in that field (though oddly enough, he thought the established medical profession was pure bunk) even as my earlier predictions were coming true.
It certainly doesn’t bode well for any predictive ‘science’ that when put to the test, the more-educated turn out to be far dumber than the less-educated. Though it’s entirely possible that “shock therapy” economic theory was actually crafted by military strategists rather then economic experts, and the post-Soviet economic collapse was by design rather than by accident.”
Source:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151209/22362033038/techdirt-reading-list-economics-rules-rights-wrongs-dismal-science.shtml#c87
Kerry wants a binding agreement in which the poor countries promise to stay poor. He will bribe their leaders to get their signatures with the money he does not have. They will promise to receive the money provided that no-one controls that their part of the agreement.
Thanks Janice, I wish I looked like Candice Bergin. We are roughly the same age, she is 6 years older. I am just an ordinary Canadian but I do have a science degree. When this global warming bit first started appearing, I took a look and there is nothing there. I guess the climate scientists now forget that we who were born in the 50’s lived through 30 years of cooling when the world was dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and everything else. I remember those years well and have no wish to live through them again especially with the cost of energy as high as it is now. So 5 years ago we bought a small condo in the Bahamas where we live for 6 months. I love our 6 months here. I hate our 6 months in Ontario where you dare not have a shower, wash the dishes or cook between the hours of 7 am to 7 pm. I hate the fact that our heat is on almost all summer, with the windows closed. It is lovely living here with all the windows open and no furnace running. Maybe we will just stop returning to Canada. I think most people will have to move south if the cost of energy keeps increasing.
Dear Eve,
Oh, but you see…. that just makes Ms. Bergin a symbol of the beauty that is within you — and that is the only beauty that really matters. Whatever your outward appearance, your inward loveliness shines out, gracing WUWT.
Thanks for responding — always a joy when someone like you does. Keep on sharing your educated insights and ENJOY THE BAHAMAS!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah (and I don’t do that to be PC — those are the two important holidays that have traditionally been celebrated at this time of year)!
Your American Ally for Science Truth,
Janice
Why the surprise? Most U.S. Government actions over the past few years have accomplished nothing but death, destruction, and disaster for millions. Why expect anything different?
Speaking of accomplishing nothing, I searched Wolfram Alpha for “global temperature trend, 1998-2015”
It substituted the string:
“Using closest Wolfram|Alpha interpretation: global temperature trend,
“More interpretations: 1998-2015”
“Input Interpretation: weather trend; world”
“Output: (data not available)”
Well that’s all right, then. If we all pull together, we can accomplish more nothing in the days to come.
I just don’t get this bigot!!!!! He has been pushing his ‘climate change is the biggest threat to the world’ … so what is he saying in the video?
Kerry is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of the Kool Aid company.
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Chaam: “Drinking the Kool-Aid” (Rev. Jimmy Jones death cult) is a metaphor for being a “true believer” (such as a global warming zealot).
Sorry, Anthony, but the circus is NOT complete–Kerry isn’t wearing a clown suit.
That’s not fair. It’s at the cleaners. He spilled ketchup on it.
Mark, The US has been standing in the world’s toilet for a century. There something about saving their asses in two world wars, assuming the role of world’s police force, taking down the iron curtain, creating the electronic revolution and other economic miracles, the gift of a global economy to them and its success as a free capitalist society that shoved in their faces proof that the socialist way is crap that doesn’t endear it to their oh so superior ‘friends’.
The fact that the toilet didn’t motivate the US to join the world socialist Kumbaya has resulted in measures taken over the past 30 years using CO2 to cajole, threaten, bribe (giving a Nobel Prize to Obama for nothing) the country into it. They saw in Obama a South Chicago social justice activist, black American that they thought had an axe to grind with his compatriots. No time was riper than now to get them in the bag. Kerry’s admission that whatever they did wouldn’t solve the CAGW problem is a stepping back from the brink, thank God. I’ve always relied on the separation that being in the toiliet provided. A real toilet is paradise compared to what they have planned for you.
European socialists, who were seen as useful idiots by Lenin, now have had their tired strategies revolutionized by the the skilled apparatchiks, academics of the persuasion and others slipped into the west under the radar of freedom heading the other way. These guys have proved to themselves that the western EU and US closet socialists were indeed useful idiots after all. They’ve honed Green into freedom killing, civilization ending zealots (useful idiots are scaringly malleable. They will be moved into gulags when they don’t need them anymore.
I know there are fine upstanding socialists in the skeptic ranks, but I’m afraid they won’t see that what they support is no longer in existence. Surely what is clearly in store for the poor, their allegedly main constituency, should be a wake up call for them. Success of this expedition would teach them that they were caught out a second time. Sorry, a rant comes out now and again when the situation is in the hands of millions of ignoramus lambs who think they will number among the chosen. There’ll be a special on rack of lamb if what they desire comes to pass.