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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Recently Kerry announced that refrigerators and air conditioners were more dangerous than ISIS.
Did he ever dmonstrate his sincerity by turning off the air conditioning in his office, or removing refrigerators from the lunchroom, or traveling in non air conditioned cars?
Did he do anything like that?
First, look beyond the merely rich, to the super rich and the ultra rich. They have figurative and literal legions, countries even, of sycophants, lackeys and subjects, boot polishers and hangers- on, catering to their every whim. All of the recent political phenomena and many social ills, including the entire climate kerfluffle, can be traced to those in the stratospheric social strata and to their desires to not only fit in with their peers, but to outdo them. Above all and universal within the private- jet set, is the goal of increasing not only the insulation thickness between them and us, but also reinforcement and duplication the signal paths to the control circuitry of the system entire.
It’s easy to see where John Kerry so obviously fits into the scheme of things.
Mr. Trump has said he wants to run the government more efficiently and less expensively. How much will he save by simply letting Kerry’s endless travel actually end? I know it’s pointless to ask Kerry for reimbursement. (All this travel is paid for by us, the taxpayers.) I also cannot forget Kerry’s treasonous lies about our military men in Vietnam.
” I also cannot forget Kerry’s treasonous lies about our military men in Vietnam.”
Yeah, we never want to forget that. That’s one reason John Kerry lost the presidency, so his lies had personal consequences for him, and that’s a good thing.
If I remember correctly not a single accusation of war crimes he made in ‘Winter Soldier’ was ever confirmed.
Ya know, I hate the way the left always corrupts concepts. George Washington’s small Army that attacked Trenton there by saving the Revolution were winter soldiers. When Knox dragged that artillery from NY to Boston to end the British occupation there, they were winter soldiers. During the winter of 44-45 the defenders of Bastogne were winter soldiers. In more recent times right up to today it is a matter of pride to have gone through Ranger School during the winter. So much so that we who did so had our tabs sewn on with white thread. John Kerry “Winter Soldier” indeed.
Thank you. The most distressing thing about his lies is that we had to make decisions that balanced the risk to civilians against the risk to our troops. Some of our people died because of our efforts to protect civilians. Kerry spit on their graves.
Kerry served his Country in Vietnam and was even arrested for for a march to honour captures US Troops. I think you need to catch up on the truth.
As a senior politician he’s hopeless!
If Trump has his way Kerry will be unable to work as a lobbyist for at least 5 years.
It would appear he will be independently funded to carry on the Climate Wars.
Although it has been moot to discuss the Obama legacy, it would be worthwhile discussing Kerry’s and Hillary’s.
Between them they presided over a retreat by US power and prestige marked by Crimea, Ukraine, Iraq
West Bank and Israel,latterly failures in Afghanistan and, of course, Syria.
The US deceit which riled the Russians over Libya was the turning point that allowed the Russians to take the moral high ground over Syria, leading to the mass killing going on now.
They just laugh at the UN and US blandishments.
There was a time when the superpower was represented by those of intellect and competence, not climate warriors and those who would not protect, about to be born, children.
Kissinger had the measure of the Soviets.
‘To expect the Soviet leaders to restrain themselves from exploiting circumstances they conceive to be favorable is to misread history.
To foreclose Soviet opportunities is thus the essence of the West’s responsibility.
It is up to us to define the limits of Soviet aims.’
Then there is China and the South China Sea, a Chinese lake with frightened Asian countries about.
Again Kissinger
‘The Soviet practice, confident of the flow of history, is to promote the attrition of adversaries by gradual increments, not to stake everything on a single throw of the dice.’*
Hilary and Kerry used this technique in the Climate Wars, as they uniquely perceived that ‘deniesr’ were on the wrong side of history and that their will and legislative attrition would wear them down, despite the invalidation of the Models underpinning the CO2 catastrophic hypothesis.
By doing so, and burning up so much energy, they lost sight of their primary obligation to keep the US, and so the World, safe from new tyrants.
We are best rid of them.
*Henry Kissinger
White House Years 1979 pp 118, 119
lets not get that all fired up on behalf of Kissinger. One of the icons of the elitist idiocy. But I want to point out that in your entire diatribe you’ve neglected Iran
pimf In next to last sentence,should read: duplication of
Prescription for fitful sleep at darkest hour: go comment on a blog.
Then, somebody’s bound to fall asleep.
He’s just trying to clock up a good stock of air miles that he can use once he’s not getting free flights any more.
…Why do liberals just love to wastefully burn Other Peoples Money..?
Calling climate change a Chinese hoax lowers the tone of the debate. Trump should at the very least say that it is because the science behind CAGW is wrong and that is why he will be repealing the legislation, that way his officials could stimulate a debate with the initiative to put out factual information explaining why Obama was following the wrong advice.
To close down the debate without a National discussion allows his opponents to call him a D**********
We tried to hold a debate, but the warmists shut it down, citing “the science is settled” and 97%. So we examined the evidence and established that there was no evidence to support the CAGW theory (and much evidence contradicting it). To call for a debate now that we have the power to implement a sensible decision smacks of a refusal to face facts & a delaying tactic besides.
No it not a delaying tactic, he needs reopen the mines at the same time as telling the Nation and World why Obama and others should never have closed them down. He needs to take hold of the agenda at the same time as forcing his opponents to explain their bad science and misplaced use of bad science, he must get them out of the closet and debating the facts as they are known not as they have been presented for the last two decades or more.
Donald Trump called climate change a Chinese hoax years ago in an off-handed tweet during a discussion about manufacturing. He said it was a joke, which completely plausible in context. He did not say it at any time during this election campaign.
The only problem with Trump’s comment then and now is he didn’t include the rest of the HOAXERS, (the UN, UK, France, Germany . . .).
I very much hope there is a National discussion. Before several congressional committees. Live on TV. With people like Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, Steve McIntyre and a host of others called in to testify and explain the facts.
The climatocracy has always been too cowardly to debate. Heck, they are too cowardly to appear on screen or at a Congressional hearing at the same time as skeptics. Major media covers climate with the same integrity as they covered the recent election. Don’t debate, investigate them as a RICO violation. And dismantle by wrecking ball the corrupt network of interests that has sustained this social madness. Expose them all.
Twitter only allows 140 characters max.
They want it both ways. After years of saying “the debate is over”, now they suddenly want a debate? Sorry, doesn’t work that way.
“To close down the debate without a National discussion allows his opponents to call him a D**********”
Hang on to your hat! Trump’s is not shutting down the debate, he will be supercharging the debate. You can bet the climate alarmists are not going to go quietly and are going to have a lot to say, and there will be a lot of rebuttal also.
Yeah, hang on to your hat.
yes this site is going to be more valuable than ever as a place where science comes first and ideology trails far behind
No debate, please. A debate would be counterproductive. Too technical for the average joe. Much better for Trump to use the bully pulpit to educate in short, declarative sentences. CO2 is not a pollutant; no proof it has any effect on temperature, cutting emissions hurts the poor, Little Iceage, recovery therefrom, been much warmer in the past, seas much higher, . Even better a slick video heavy on emotional content. Do not give a national stage to the fraudsters.
Kerry’s one of those people too dumb to know when they’re being scammed and then too embarrassed to admit that they’ve been scammed. Unless it’s actually willful ignorance in service of moral superiority posturing seeking ‘social license’ and / or they’re benefitting in some way (money, power, prestige, status, fame, respect, etc.) from the whole charade.
And CAGW’s not a ‘hoax’, it’s a scam. Hoax could imply being just a harmless prank or jape. Giving trillions of taxpayer dollars (see: opportunity cost) to political cronies to solve a non- or near-non-existent “problem” is not on the same level of misdirection or deception of, say, Piltdown Mann.
It continues to astonish me that these people think it’s a sign of humility and responsibility to assume not only that we have the power to stop theclimate from changing but that we should bankrupt and impoverish ourselves doing so.
He no longer even appears sincere. He is, in retrospect, a cynical grand stander pathetically ineffective, untruthful and always on the wrong side of history.
“in retrospect”???
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb#_=_
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/12/jetset-john-kerry-vows-to-fight-climate-change-until-the-very-end/comment-page-1/#comment-2340852
Here’s a hand signal for Kerry:
http://s11.postimg.org/n724hf5lv/addams_family_hand_thing2.png
Except not that particular digit.
ROFLMAO! 😀
(It’s ‘Thing’ from The Addams Family, for those who don’t know)
Whoops don’t know what happened..
(moderator can you remove previous post?)
A rough fix for you
Try again..
Dead man walking…..
Maybe President Trump and Congress will put some teeth in the Data Quality Act.
It’s only a flesh wound.
OT but just read an American mortgaged his farm for one million when Donald first announced he was going to run for president , the farmer bet the lot that Trump would win and with odds over 300 -1 he is one filthy rich happy Trump supporter .
Having worked in IT Security at the National Science FOundation (and having been ‘in charge’ of ITSec for the data center @ur momisugly the South Pole – yep there is one), I know how much it costs to fly to that area. It offends me a great deal that this clown (the only word I can politely use to describe him) chose to expend so much money, time, and resources, to have a 2 day grandstand on his way out. Not only that, but the number of people who can go to that location is limited. There are probably some worthwhile scientific endeavors that will go unfulfilled this year because their slots were taken by the outgoing SoS & his entourage.
What a waste
OT but worth of a note
M 7.8 earthquake followed by M6 and M5+ aftershocks near Christchurch off New Zeeland coast. Christchurch was hit by a strong earthquake few years ago
Tsunami warning issued.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000778i#executive
Is it just me, or does it seem like there have been a lot more earthquakes in the last few months ?
Is Kerry still there?
I just hope to hell this is not the start of new parallel to the “Gore effect” 🙂
Is Kerr still there?
No he got away, unlike these three animals stuck there waiting for a rescue helicopter.. Were they lucky or they sensed where the safe bit of ground is to be found ?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F714f2384-aa5a-11e6-9d1d-8992545bee51.jpg?crop=2116,1190,216,301&resize=600
Clintons will be annoyed at the lost opportunity to profit from this particular earthquake.
as a trigger certainly is possibility. A shout can trigger an alpine avalanche
In 2011 I compiled ten constitutive months of day by day numbers of global daily quakes M>4.5 (red line with green dots), with various geomagnetic parameters (green, orange, blue and magenta lines). Also I plotted new and full moon dates.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/EQ.gif.
(click on the graph to enlarge)
Final result shows near Gaussian distribution. As far as the moon is concerned, I have impression that i occurrence of earthquakes in proximity of new moon is a fraction more likely than in proximity of a full moon.
Northwestern Argentina as well with over M 6 with smaller shocks recorded.
Moon is closest to earth in 70 years.
Correlation and not causation? Much scientific work needs to be done but funds are wasted on climate change!
Are there 1946 quake records?
Earthquake Track
Today’s Biggest Earthquakes.
Quake locations over M 3 within the last 24 hours.
http://www.earthquaketrack.com
Are there 1946 quake records?
Yes, both Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were born in the summer of 1946, as well as a very, very close relative of mine.
There’s a fairly respectable theory that new moon and full moon tidal forces; earth and sun acting in concert, can be that straw that breaks the camels back. And special super moons would do so only better.
I hadn’t connected it moonwise, but my wife mentioned the full moon last night. I consider the theory (by a respected geologist) to be quite plausible.
G
Well we Kiwi, never pass up an opportunity for publicity. When you are that far flung as they say, away from everything else, you have to do something special.
Well are really good at the ALL Blacks, and pretty reasonable Americas Cup sailors too.
But an occasional Shaky Isles event works pretty good too.
Happily, this time was less destructive of life and property than the Christchurch one. That was awful.
Happy you mostly survived it down there.
G
Hi big G
Just posted what may be a relevant comment further above including new/full moon dates.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/12/jetset-john-kerry-vows-to-fight-climate-change-until-the-very-end/comment-page-1/#comment-2341539
Any chance Kerry could be left behind in Antarctica?
He could build a farm on Antarctica; clearly that should be possible shortly
Am I the only one to notice that embedded in the report link is this nugget: “…John Kerry hell…”
Apropo.
THAИK GⱭⱲD FOR JOHN KERRY.
Future President Trump is neutering the AGW movement. Now the law of averages is going to kick back in with tornadoes and hurricanes. Weather history shows that eventually we will have an active tornado and hurricane year. You watch and see: when, not if, an active severe weather season occurs, it will be blamed on Trump cancelling all the climate change money, or used as a reason why Trump should not have taken away their 30 pieces of silver. And people like John Kerry, Al Gore, Barack Obama, and other uber-rich liberals will blame Trump for events that have occurred many times in the past.
oh, give John Kerry a break. What else is he supposed to do? Nobody on either side in the middle east will talk to him anymore, since he played false with all of them. The Russians are sick of him and have no use for him, not after they successfully pulled Kerry’s pants down around his ankles with respect to the Syrian situation. China is sick of him and won’t talk to him anymore, and he’s NEVER tried to warm up Obama’s frosty relations with Great Britain.
So, Antarctica is left as the place that will give him the “warmest” reception anywhere on this planet.
Does this mean that Kerry will give up his yacht?
Only if they pry it from his cold water logged fingers.
Let him try. President Trump will simply undo whatever he and his cohorts hastily throw together. The Trump team are already working on work-arounds for whatever “deals” the Climatists come up with:
“Alternatives were to send a letter withdrawing from a 1992 Convention that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement, voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year’s time, or to issue a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord, he said.”
http://cop22-marrakech.com/news/trump-moving-to-quit-paris-climate-agreement-m-quickly-106.html
There is absolutely no legal binding to any of it. The Donald can end the US participation in those agreements the day he takes office with the stroke of his pen. End of story.
My guess is he could also send the treaty to the senate and let them refuse it.
bobl
While it would be a way to get a refutation of it by the legislature I really see no political advantage in submitting it to the Senate. The exact same people that would be critical of a Republican POTUS voiding the agreement would be equally critical of a Republican Senate for not ratifying it as a treaty and are part of the same group that have been refuted by Trumps election. Besides, to submit it to the Senate could be construed to concede that the president has an obligation to take such action with such a worthless POS. IMO it would be a complete waste of time when there are so many other issues so much more important to deal with. Nope IMO on this issue I think Trump just needs to do what most expect him to.