Guest essay by Eric Worrall
US Secretary of State John Kerry has vowed to fight climate change up to the very last day of his term of office – by flying to lots of photogenic climate hotspots, and demanding we ordinary people cut back on our profligate wasteful lifestyle choices.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday he will continue his efforts to implement the Paris Agreement on global warming until the day President Barack Obama leaves office on Jan. 20.
Speaking in New Zealand following a trip to Antarctica, Kerry said his administration would continue to do everything possible to meet its responsibility to future generations.
Kerry has long championed climate action but now his legacy is under threat. President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax and said he would “cancel” U.S. involvement in the landmark Paris deal.
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“The evidence is mounting in ways that people in public life should not dare to avoid accepting as a mandate for action,” Kerry said.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/john-kerry-hell-continue-global-warming-efforts-43495398
I don’t know how much Kerry will accomplish in his final days to promote climate change, but I sure envy his amazing taxpayer funded round the world travel itinerary.
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Yes Kerry Kan! I remain staggered at the total hypocrisy of these Warmies travelling the world.
How many wars are going on in the Middle East and the Sec State is going to a Climate Change conference? I assume all the dead people are caused by Global Warming? This person negotiated the Iran agreement? Please give him a notepads and send him on a one way trip to Aleppo. He can discuss Democracy up close and personal.
When people rot they emit methane. He has been told that methane is bad, bad, bad.
Catastrophic climate change is the greatest danger facing the Democratic Party. Of course, Kerry will respond to that threat. On his horse, lance in hand, press corp nearby to record his might deeds.
Geoff,
Priorities. When will they ever get then in order.
Lets all go to a UN Sponsored Climate Conference in Marrakech, Morocco which has some of the harshest laws against Gay activity. Laws so strict that the Luvvy left would be protesting en masse, at Temper Tantrum Level 10, if they existed in any Western Democracy.
Lets not go to Pakistan and advocate for Asia Bibi. This Christian woman suffers one of the most tragic travesties of the modern age. Due to a spat over drinking from a cup during a hot day, while doing field work alongside local Muslim workers, Asia got into a argument and was beaten and possibly molested. The Police got involved and the other field workers made a charge. Since this time in 2009 Asia has languished in jail and has had a verdict of guilty of blasphemy found and today remains in jail waiting for her next trial to see if the death penalty is to be enacted. This in 2016 and two years ago a group of local (150) imams sent a petition to the authorities demanding the death sentence be carried out and promising street protests if it were not or if Asia Bibi was pardoned and the Family allowed to emigrate.
Priorities from this venal administration do not exist other than the permitted narrative.
My apologies to USA citizens for being harsh, and passing comment as an outsider, about your current Administration but this Travesty against Asia Bibi is beyond outrageous.
Wars in the Middle East, Russia setting itself up in Syria, China positioning itself in Africa, A so called ally passing Blasphemy death penalties on innocents but John Kerry will fight to the last to protect the world from the unproven, and most likely, miniscule effects of a trace gas essential to life!
“Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless.”
“What giants?” asked Sancho Panza.
“Those you see over there,” replied his master, “with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length.””
pokerguy
Then Quixote said, “my friend, we will stay here awhile and do nothing. They will burn without doing a thing”.
Yup, trying to burn as much kerosene as possible and ensure the 2016 is “the warmest year in recorded history”. That’ll prove it’s not hoax !!
Greg, there’s no scientific basis to the claim that CO2 is at all affecting the climate, first.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THg6vGGRpvA
Second, any natural warming period following the Little Ice Age will have repetitions of, “the warmest year in recorded history.”
All of them will prove nothing, and none of them will prove anything, about CO2 and climate.
That second point isn’t rocket science. It ought to be obvious to anyone.
Yes Greg, Kerry’s burning of jet fuel is feeding my tomatoes..
Chicken-Little bed wetter.
People like Kerry are puppets to an agenda that dictates their life. They have no conscience, no moral ethic, no respect for anything but the next tidbit of gold.
Have him go home via Australia to embark upon a Ship of Fools reenactment!
Lurch needs something to distract him from his imminent retirement. Junketing on someone elses dime does fit his history.
Just in case our international readers wonder who Lurch is.
He’s the good looking one in this photo comparison:
You rang?
Couldn’t get a colored photo of Kerry?
You are insulting Lurch!
I suspect he would make a better Secretary of State too.
Imminent retirement…….he will finally have time to resume water skiing.
Kerry was into, or at least photographed, sail-boarding in 2004. He has since been injured bicycling overseas.
Tom, “He has since been injured bicycling overseas.”
The bicycle was attached to a surfboard? 😉
Kerry is quite adept at injuring himself.
That’s how he got his Purple Heart in Viet Nam and claimed that he had been shot by the Viet Cong when dozens of them were shooting at his Patrol Boat from both sides the shore. If I remember correctly, he claimed being shot one (1) in his arm ……. but his boat never suffered a single bullet hole.
Did Kerry steal that scene from Rambo?
More like Herman Munster.
Well he has the United States covered anyway. His trophy Wife’s fortune comes from having one different product for each of the 57 States.
You can probably find the Heinz 57 all throughout the mohemmedan world too.
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His trophy wife? Have you ever seen her? The only thing attractive about her is her dead husband’s money.
Well Michael, if you don’t like a dead conservative’s money, go find your own trophy.
G
The 57-State Department is beHeinz the curve — we’ll be playing catchup for a while.
Motivated by envy?
Don’t understand sarcasm?
I am sure he’ll be asleep at 3am when the phone rings for urgent assistance on a real issue, oh wait!
I’m old enough to remember when war hero John Kerry testified before Congress about his exploits in Viet Nam. I seem to recall he got a medal for shooting his boat’s gun at a shoreline rock and getting nicked by the rock shards. I can’t recall just what was the reason that rock needed to be shot at. It certainly was a waste of ammunition.
Well it ended up getting him a ticket home. Well I’m happy he made it home. Many others weren’t so fortunate.
G
John Kerry married wealthy Teresa Heinz, heir to the Heinz foods fortune. I shall tolerate no negative words about this wonderful woman. Bless her, she makes my favorite ketchup.
This power-couple is routinely referred to as “Cash and Kerry”. Only in America!
He can be Secretary of Condiments in the shadow government.
Have I got the book for you!
https://www.amazon.com/Heinz-Tomato-Ketchup-Cookbook/dp/1580089364
Last to cans of Heinz Chucky Chicken whatever I bought, didn’t have even the tiniest bit of chicken in them.
Democrats = FALSE advertising !
Perhaps, it is Teresa who suggested John Kerry keeps rounding the world on his mission?
Who wouldn’t suggest that to Kerry?
Stay away. Stay far away…
Has a catchy tune to it.
As I asked about Clinton and the Clinton Foundation – “Why does it have to be the end?”
Is it only the most pressing issue of our time when there’s taxpayer money available to pontificate about it?
Money (and/or wifey’s money) where your mouth is Lurch.
Has he offset all the methane from the baked beans?
Her recipe for raisins soaked in gin was the highlight of the 2004 election.
In HS advanced chem class we were challenged to find the most effective fermented solution for producing ethanol.
The group that chose raisins and sugar solution achieved the highest productivity per gallon.
The Chem teacher confiscated al experimental products; we all got A’s and I operated a small still in a bathroom for the next year. Firewater is insipid by comparison.
I think she doesn’t make anything. She had nothing to do with the Heinz 57; except inherit the wealth.
I seem to recall that Mr. Heinz was the political opposite of Viet Nam veteran J Kerry.
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Allan M.R. MacRae,
The funny thing is, it’s not even her fortune. She married into it when she married . Senator H. John Heinz III (a republican).
That’s the hugely funny hypocrisy about liberals. If someone works hard to get ahead and amasses a fortune, they’re considered greedy and intolerant. But it’s acceptable in liberal circles if you inherit or marry into a fortune without having to do a day’s worth of work in your life.
Senility?
About a month for this low IQ dolt gigolo to deal with it. I can stand that.
Kerry’s legacy will always be headlined by the election thumping GW Bush gave him in ’04.
He and Algore have that in common, in addition to being Climate Liars.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Never reward stupidity, it only encourages more of it.
Ignorance also causes change to be afraid of. The US elected, “HOPE and CHANGE,” without knowing the meaning or consequences of either.
In the lame stream media here in Australia, more protests at the election result. I thought Americans loved democracy. You have Michael Moore doing his “best” to subvert that. Hillary now blames the FBI for her loss. Seriously?!
Anyway, slightly OT;
http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/the-incredible-pursuit-of-nuclear-fusion-and-how-the-clean-energy-will-change-our-world-forever/news-story/97bbbaf5e5599992254ee046c0806a02
More pie in the sky stuff.
She lost Because her use of an illegal personal server to personally control her official State Dept email communications, and the hosting on dozens of highly classified messages.
The stench of her corruption will be laid bare when a Special Prosecutor returns unbiased justice back to the Dept of Justice. The additional effect of that will be public exposure of how bad the Obama-Lynch DOJ Coverup. They of course tried to cover-up Clinton crimes to save Obama’s legacy, so there was ample motive.
Their hubris is believing they can get away with it will be their downfall. And they still could if Obama issues a boatload of preemptive pardons to his DOJ and the Clinton inner circle on his way out the door.
The most interesting theory I’ve seen on how Team Shillary lost is that they had a Big Fraud Bomb prepared, but didn’t intend to drop it unless they had to – although it would have readily done the job, it might be too obvious for comfort. Until very near the end they actually believed the election was easily in the bag and The Bomb was unnecessary. When reality finally overcame overconfidence / hubris, it was too late to deploy it.
I agree — the liberal elite is more intolerant of different opinions than any other group in America. Only in Entertainment, where sexual assault is a daily forgivable offense, can they criticize Trump for the exact same thing without any sense of irony.
Hillary lost the election because she failed to address the needs of the middle class. Instead, she just expected them to vote for her because her sense of entitlement is somehow different than Trump’s sense of entitlement.
The media and many in the liberal elite think the election was decided on ignorance. They are right — but the ignorance is theirs. The middle class made very rational decisions.
criticize Trump for the exact same thing…
Not really…the one woman that accused Trump of rape….later said she made it up
….Clinton was accused of rape by a whole list of women
Not the exact same thing
When I was referring to “the same thing”, I’m referring to sexual assault in entertainment — not Clinton. My point is that entertainment is rife with sexual assault that they tolerate because they are “Hollywood”, but they condemn Trump for the same thing.
Sexual assault includes more categories than rape. The one rape claim against Trump was tenuous, but there are many other sexual assault claims.
Has she put her unused election night fireworks display for sale on e-Bay yet?
Just to add — Michael Moore and others are Robespierre all over again. People should be free, but only in the direction that I say they should be free. If they vote differently than the way I say they should vote, then they are irrational and should be put out of their misery in favor of those who want ‘freedom’.
Liberal Fascism at its very best.
Patrick,
“In the lame stream media here in Australia, more protests at the election result.”
I’m quite sure they are synthetic, though I’m not sure of all the reasons for synthesizing them . . One that seems clear to me is the pummeling that Globalism inc. has taken at the hands of the British and American people. The NWO gang need to demonize us more than ever, lest the rest of humanity catch the “rule by consent of the governed” disease . .
I wonder why nuclear fission experiments are still financed after many decades of failure. While the perfectly safe molten salt reactor was killed, although an experimental design was operated for five years at Oak Ridge some fifty years ago, with great success.
fusion
Thorium does not go Ka-Boom! – they wanted to refine something that went Ka-Boom! and did not want to pay for the second refinement channel of something that did not.
Patrick MJD: “more protests at the election result.”
Explanation: “Cognitive Dissonance Cluster Bomb”
“So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster? You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel.
That’s why the protestors live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.”
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb#_=_
BFL,
“Patrick MJD: “more protests at the election result.”
Explanation: “Cognitive Dissonance Cluster Bomb” ”
So, the idea is that people with cognitive dissonance spontaneously stumble out of the house to protest? I don’t dispute there’s much cognitive dissonance going on, but that does not explain the “protests”. I think Mr. Adams is being a man with a hammer , so to speak, and he’s settling for an explanation that does not explain, but rather coincides.
PS ~ I bet cognitive dissonance was going on in the Clinton supporters posing as Sanders supporters, who “protested” at the Trump rallies too . . but that doesn’t “explain” those protests, does it?
Dave Halliday November 13, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Molten salt reactors do not need Thorium, they can just cope with it (turn it into 233U, slowly). The point is not even that, but the solvent, which is absolutely inert chemically and has a very high boiling point. So the core can be operated at atmospheric pressure. That means it can’t blow up or catch fire, because there is neither pressure nor flammable stuff in it. On top of that it has a large negative temperature coefficient, that is, the higher the core temperature is, the lower the rate of fission in it. It is inherently safe, with no sophisticated regulation at all.
You can’t make radiation damage to fuel, because it is dissolved in the molten salt. And once it is turned off, it does not need active cooling, so no Fukushima type accident can happen.
But the best thing is you can recycle transuranics until they are completely gone, so the final waste only contains fission products with moderate halflife. That means you can extract a hundred times more energy from the same amount of fuel or leave a hundred times less waste behind for a given energy output. Which can never be mined for bomb stuff, because there is no any left in it. And average halflife of isotopes in waste is many orders of magnitude less than for our current Cold War Plutonium factories, so no long term buildup of waste is possible.
We also have plenty of fuel, with as much recoverable energy in a ton of ordinary granite (the default stuff continents are made of) as we can get by burning fifty tons of coal.
Therefore the technology is sustainable, with a negligible land use footprint compared to so called “renewables”. What’s not to like?
The answer is simple Kerry, less people in your country equals less cities and therefore less warming. Why do you let people in?
Good point. All those refugees and illegal immigrants come from countries with much lower per capita carbon emissions. By letting them into the US (or any western country, looking at you Europe) their carbon footprints will increase exponentially. Sending them back to their countries of origin would go a long way to maintaining carbon emissions as low as possible.
Funny how they never volunteer to set the final example….lol
Jetset John Kerry Vows to Fight Climate Change until the Very End….of our patience with this sort of self-indulgent nonsense.
More like Sunset John Kerry
And I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.
Said the big bad wolf.
I hereby promise to never make,in my lifetime,any more pollution than the current president of the USA has in the 8 years he has been in office.
There is an oath that should satisfy Kerry.
Unless of course he is a complete hypocrite.
How is it that reporters do not call him out for NEVER doing his actual job? If Kerry actually spent time working to improve relationships with other governments – oh wait. I was going to type that we would probably be better off as a country, but that would be almost as big of a lie as AGW.
Secretary of State. Of STATE. OF STATE!!!!! Is there no one in the media or public sphere who knows what the job is really supposed to be?
Hint: it is not selling out the country to increase your personal slush fund, and it is not taking taxpayer-funded vacations to various locales in order to vary the location from which you assert your personal superiority and command people to lower their living standards while you maintain (if not increase) your own extravagant lifestyle.
I believe he met with parliament of the indigenous people of Antarctica.
Those are actually penguins; a sort of bird-fish cross that can swim better than it can fly. John Kerry can fly better than a penguin!
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John Freaking Kerry…. like his Senate soul mate Joe The Joker Biden is an affliction on our country that only time will heal. This jackhole is famous for being wrong on every big issue we have faced in the past 30 years.
He was given the Secretary of State job because Obama really runs that himself along with a few close friends from Chicago. The only thing we will ever miss about this loser is kicking his can every few years.
Glad he got exported from Australia, …someone else’s problem. We have enough greeny dills to worry about here who want to take us back to the dark ages before electricity made things easier. Poor things can’t help themselves (except to other peoples hard earned tax dollars)
Last time I looked Naomi Klein’s travel itinerary was fully listed on her website but now the pages are entirely blank, at least on my browser.
But that doesn’t mean Naomi has taken her own advice and limited her CO2 emissions.
She very recently made the presumably Australian taxpayer paid-for 19,000 mile (30,000 km) round air trip from North America to Australia in order to appear on an ABC one hour television show to lecture the locals about their racism, climate guilt as well as local issues which she admitted she knew nothing about — making comments like “hmmm”.
Most of the bien pensant audience seemed to lap it up.
Message to the ABC and its selected mercenary guests:
“The gravy train has left the platform”.
The Clinton News Network has done nothing but whine with perpetual talking heads, trying to make out that they actually know something; since the first person had the gall to announce what was obvious several hours before, that Donald Trump had clinched the Electoral College majority.
The unbiased news experts would not call States with less than a 5% clear ahead margin. These days that’s a land slide margin.
It was only sheer luck that none of them had actually called it a win for Clinton, before the rot set in.
G
And Lamar Smith was re-elected to the U.S. Congress!
“The evidence is mounting in ways that people in public life should not dare to avoid accepting as a mandate for action,” Kerry said.
The evidence I see points in the direction of:
– Tuning of models to match observations
“The practice of climate model tuning has seen an increasing level of attention because key model properties, such as climate sensitivity, have been shown to depend on frequently used tuning parameters.”
– Adjustment of observations to match expectations.
“Nothing about climate science reeks more of confirmation bias, than the changes scientists make to their own data sets over time. They all show exactly the same pattern of monotonically cooling the past and warming the present, regardless of the instrumentation.”
I would say that the evidence for poor workmanship within climate science is mounting in ways that the people in government should not dare to avoid accepting as a mandate for action.
Isn’t the very end for Kerry come January? I am sure he can keep up his Baghdad Bob appearances till then. After that nobody will pay attention.
I know that physiognomy is an utterly discredited pseudo-science…but am I the only one who thinks that Kerry actually looks as stupid as his actions and statements suggest?
No you are not.
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/kwYi5hpkUco/default.jpg
Kerry used to negotiate with Bashar Assad back before we decided they were our enemy. Hidden microphone picked up the details.
http://www.rockyhigh66.org/stuff/kerry_assad.jpg
ROFL 🙂
If I’m not mistaken, Assad got a medical education in the U.K., so he is probably fluent.
Yes, he did postgraduate medical studies in London, his wife is British-born of Syrian parents, graduated as computer/software scientist and worked as an investment banker.
Kerry says, “The evidence is mounting in ways that people in public life should not dare to avoid accepting as a mandate for action”
What evidence? What ways? That’s rather vague.
I think he’s right. As far as I can tell, Donald Trump has accepted the mounting evidence as his mandate for action. Kerry should do the same.
People have been trying for decades to prove that anthropogenic CO2 emissions will cause catastrophic climate change. Instead, what we have found are more and more confounding factors which make CO2 less and less important. That’s the evidence that people in public life should use as their mandate for action.
Yep the kind of action Kerry isn’t going to like ^_^
His science advisor is Bill Nye
That might explain it 🙂
“The evidence is mounting…” … er … where is it?
Well , duh, it’s mounting in deep ocean. silly. THAT’S why you can’t see it ! That doesn’t mean it’s not there and it’s not “mounting”. There mountains of mounting evidence down there and it’s travesty that we can’t see it yet.
I’ll write Kerry and suggest he fly to Eritrea with Al Gore, Leonardo dI Caprio and Emma Thompson, tour the Afar depression and have their photograph taken while they hold up thermometers and the sign: “12000 miles from Wall Drug”.
I’ve been to Wall Drug — Husteads’ Wall Drug, 510 Main Street, Wall, SD.