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.
Personally I can’t think of a better place for Kerry to spend his remaining time in office, or even the remainder of his life, than Antarctica. I don’t see what the beef is!
I’m going to put on my hardhat and venture into dangerous territory, I look at the names of the 70 or so respondents thus far and can surmise that only few brave women spoke up against Kerry. The fact is that many women actually like Kerry, or at least will not openly go out of their way to despise him (because their friends would disapprove). For a goof like Kerry, who would definitely be actively shunned if fate made him a conservative like me,, anthropogenic catastrophic climate change … whether is right or wrong it doesn’t matter … is a SAFE SPACE. After seeing the yuuuuge crowds of weeping college-aged women following the presidential election, I got to wondering, if for some reason the chicks despised the climate change warriors … I dunno why maybe windmills and solar chopped up and fried all the cute parrots and pellicans … would you find the Kerrys, Al Gores, the Pachuris, the Decaprios etc anywhere near the issue? Absolutely not. There are more imminent and much bigger problems to be solved but those matters are not for these men, because the chicks yawn about those issues. You could probably argue it would be far better flying all over the world working on other environmental issues like preventing large meteor impacts but there is no viillainous capitalists riding the meteors for the left to hate and the chicks yawn about that issue anyways. I’m pretty sure all of man’s misguided actions and bad behaviors can somehow be traced back to too many chicks approving of and driving the bad behavior … and too few not disapproving (I’m done. … commence crounch creep slowly backwards holding on to hard hat with both hands)
I’ll try posting this again, this time with some asterisks:
Kerry’s one of those people too dumb to know when they’re being sc*mmed and then too embarrassed to admit that they’ve been sc*mmed. 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 sc*m. 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.
God to know that the very end is at January 20th 2017.
Kerry has only 67 more days then the US Marshals will haul him off government property if he doesn’t go willingly.
Wait, wait, wait,
Poor John Kerry is one of the (really) Lost Generation!
He was just a tyke during WW II
and he must “save the world!”
Of course, he was “deprived” of toys, doctors, food rationed, fuel rationed,
…..starving children in Europe, China, etc, there were bad people, etc, etc,etc,
But He Must Save The World!
……without getting his 4 year old self hurt
just like Pelosi, Reed, Gov. Brown, Fieldsten, Boxer, Markey, etc
….and the well trained ego-centric Gen-X folk they taught in school!
A perfect example of how politicians deal with scientific issues – the same way they deal with political issues – mislead the public by misstating the issues. The perennial photo-op – showing folks that he is “Doing something important.” We need to hang a sign around a penguin’s neck “What global warming?” and place the bird in the photo op.
Wow massive earthquake in New Zealand 8 hours after this report. Kerry is in New Zealand on the shore north of the epicenter. Get off the beach Mr. Kerry stop following the water out the ocean is going to come back!!!
Just kidding Kerry! Follow that water! Who knows, it could lead to the “missing heat”.
Watch for the rising seas. It might make a great scare movie for AGW climate change deadenders.
What we need to do is bill these clowns for the last minute ’round the world’ trips on the taxpayer dime! Obama, Kerry and who else is out spending our tax dollars and laughing at us.
The ultimate deadender
One must consider his New Zealand trip and why New Zealand. It’s because of the former Boston based First Wind connections to New Zealand…
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161005005246/en/Longroad-Announces-Investors
BOSTON & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Longroad Energy Holdings, LLC (“Longroad”) today announced the closing of an equity investment and credit commitment from two partners: Infratil Limited, a publicly traded infrastructure investor, and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, a sovereign wealth fund. The principal area of focus is investing in the development of renewable energy projects in North America. Longroad is managed by former executives from First Wind who have an established track record in development, financing, construction management, asset management and operations in this sector.
There has been substantial growth in the sector of direct ownership of renewable energy assets by large institutional investors and pension funds. Longroad’s business model includes helping these types of institutions invest in this asset class, which is characterized by long-lived contracted assets with high quality cash flows. Longroad is a proven team with a track record of value creation and operational excellence; by offering development as well as asset management and operational capabilities, Longroad provides a complete solution to market participants.
Longroad sees opportunity all along the investment spectrum from early stage development to long-lived operating assets. With this investment, there is a significant amount of capital backing Longroad’s efforts and its mandate is flexible and without fund life constraints. Longroad is led by Paul Gaynor, Michael Alvarez, Pete Keel, and Charles Spiliotis.
The investment by Infratil and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund into Longroad will be managed by investment management firm H.R.L. Morrison & Co.
About Infratil Limited
Infratil is an owner and operator of businesses in the energy (mainly renewable), transport, data centres and social infrastructure sectors. Its energy operations are predominantly through Trustpower in Australia and New Zealand. Infratil is listed on both the New Zealand and Australian Stock Exchanges (IFT.NZ, IFZ.AX) and currently owns assets in excess of NZ$6.5 billion, visit http://www.infratil.com.
About New Zealand Superannuation Fund
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is a NZ$30 billion sovereign wealth fund established by the New Zealand Government to partially pre-fund the future cost of universal pension payments. A long-term, growth-oriented investor, the Fund has returned 9.7% p.a. since inception in 2003. The Fund is managed by the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, a Crown entity. The Fund is a 50:50 shareholder in RetireAustralia, alongside Infratil. For more information, visit http://www.nzsuperfund.co.nz.
About H.R.L. Morrison & Co
Founded in 1988, Morrison & Co has become one of the world’s leading specialist infrastructure investment managers with operations in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong. Today Morrison & Co manages over NZ$9 billion of assets on behalf of retail, institutional and sovereign wealth fund clients.
About Longroad Energy Holdings, LLC
Founded in 2016, Longroad Energy Holdings, LLC is focused on renewable energy project development. Longroad also provides asset management and operations services.
More here:
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Although I disagree with virtually everything that the CBC says about climate, I do listen to many of their programs. Today’s “The Sunday Edition” is good for at least the second and third items. To judge for yourself, go to: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition
Ian M
Having just watched Bernie Sanders on Meet the Nation I believe I know were the dems are heading: Climate change will be the center piece of a new “national movement” similar to Earth Day where by the paid for demonstrators create the illusion that there is a “mass movement” to retain and expand environmentalist goals. That is really what is behind Kerry promoting an otherwise done deal with respect to new administration policy. Nobody should think the battle over neo-malthusian assaults on science are in any regard over. We are going to need the assistance of the Climate denier level 7 and his minions more than ever!
The real test now is whether Bernie will be man enough to tell his rioters to grow up.
No. He’s not, even though Shrillery screwed him to the wall.
Just when the rats abandon the sinking ship will be telling. The first rats will have a chance at redemption and they know it. The last rats will remain in the bunker talking to themselves.
Correction: Kerry vows to fight “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming”, “climate change”, or whatever other prophecy promises the greatest capital, social, and narcissistic return.
So He’s given up trying to sort out the peace deal with Putin?
John Kerry reporting for duty…..wait where did everybody go?
Don’t go away mad, Jawn – just GO AWAY. (And shaddup.)
Kerry’s next job ..
Ambassador to Somalia ..
Taxpayers will front a one way ticket only
Come election day – Where was John Kerry? He was in Antarctic. On the most important election in US recent history, Kerry is in Antarctic. What is going on in the Antarctic which requires such attention ie what’s up with that? GK
He wanted to have a headstart on hell freezing over if Trump won?
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I wonder if Kerry would support an effort to stop Global Warming by the U.S. (ideally the world) stopping its consumption of ketchup for a week…… It is, after all, an unnecessary luxury…
If AGW is real, John Kerry did his best work in the battle over 20 years ago when he was Gore’s whip in the vote to defund U.S. nuclear power (IFR breeder programme). Non-CO₂ nuclear power was well and truly spiked by that. Republicans did not reactivate breeder reactors because they knew it needed cross-Party support to work.
Can’t give all credit to Sen. Kerry in the fight for more global CO₂
He’ll solve global warming “just like that”.
https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2016/just-like-that-va-acquires-tommy-cooper-collection/
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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Yeah, sure it is mate. And after maybe 30 years we’re STILL waiting to actually see it. There’s nothing happening that we haven’t seen many times before. What an evidence-free scam this has been. Can’t wait to see Trump begin the prosecutions.
Kerry is a very lucky man to leave public office wealthier than when he came in. Met his heiress wife through her first husband Republican Senator Heinz. His family had the condiment fortune. She’s the shrill self absorbed type but knows how to “make a pencil feel like a cigar” as “Churchill said of Wallace Simpson.
As a Senator Kerry held hearings on US POW/MIA possibly left behind in Vietnam. He asked Kissinger why he didn’t push the North Vietnamese harder on this issue during peace negotiations. Kissinger was stunned that Kerry of all people would ask yhis question of him. He replied “:this whole situation is Kafkaesque. Senator you are the reason we could not bring more pressure to bear. You and your friends were demanding that withdraw immediately no matter the cost:
Kerry responded :Well I don’t want to re-hash the whole Vietnam war. Of course he didn’t
But we did in 2004.
“Kerry responded :Well I don’t want to re-hash the whole Vietnam war. Of course he didn’t
But we did in 2004”
Yes, we did, didn’t we. John Kerry was exposed for the liar he really is. He lied and called his fellow Vietnam troops war criminals. He colluded with the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris while the war was still going on. I would call that action treason. Kerry is one of the reasons South Vietnam is not a free country today. Kerry is one of the reasons millions of innocent people were killed and displaced as a result of the collapse of South Vietnam. Kerry is a real winner.
Has anyone taken note of the 7.8 quake that hit NZ around 8 hours ago? There have been numerous aftershocks as well as 2 dead so far. This is a supermoon quake, or was it a Super Kerry quake.
New Zealand is getting rocked fairly hard…http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22satellite%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-87.31949084254614%2C-82.96875%5D%2C%5B87.28640567459908%2C483.046875%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Anull%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22map%22%2C%22list%22%5D%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D
Those of us living in New Zealand noticed it for sure. Where we are – 500 km from the epicenter – it felt like the whole house was on a large boat – a massive slow rocking and shaking back and forth with the house creaking and everything swaying back and forth. Lasted for about 3 or 4 minutes which is a long time for an earthquake. Hit just after midnight and woke up the whole damned country. Everyone had a sleepness night – many slept in cars on hills away from the coast because of the Tsunami warning.
New Zealand is used to this kind of thing, but even by our standards this was a big one. They are now saying 7.5, possibly 7.8? That is massive. When they get that big they are hard to measure. It was very widespread and of unusually long duration. Some geologists are saying it was really two big quakes in different parts of the country; one in the North Island triggering an even bigger quake in the South a few seconds later. Whatever it was the whole place was rocking there for a while.
We were fortunate this time that the epicenter wasn’t smack bang under the CBD of a large city. Not too much damage so far – a historic homestead that didn’t meet modern earthquake standards has collapsed and killed someone and another person died of a heart attack. However roads have been destroyed in the area around the epicenter and power and communication has been out in that area so it is possible there might be more. It has been followed by a series of big aftershocks – a bunch of 4’s and 5’s and three big 6’s – which were coming about every five or six minutes for a while.
Hat tip to our host who, being Californian, no doubt also has an earthquake story to tell.
Four or five minutes is a long shake. I was in San Francisco for the last big one, and that only lasted for 15 seconds. I grew up in SF. My first memory of a large quake was in 1957. That scared the heck out of me. I was too afraid at the time to look under my bed to see if there was something under it.
Maybe the Moon being so close to Earth had something to do with the earthquakes.
I have been watching the daily quake map ever since 3/11 when Japan was rocked by that great quake. It looks to me like the most probable time to have one of the larger quakes is either around the Full or the New Moon. The next most likely time is during the mid moon either ascending or descending. Something of interest which I noted earlier this year was that the timing changed from at the Full/New Moon to the most likely point being 2 days prior to a Full/New Moon. I do not know why that would be, but that is what I have observed during this year.
yeah this was a full moon event.
Happens enough to be a good theory: tidal trigger.
G
There is a weak correlation with the frequency of big earthquakes and the moon, so it looks like it does have an influence in triggering the timing of events. But some pseudoscientific astrological types claim to be able to predict specific earthquakes in specific locations by using the moon and also invoking the ‘influence’ of planets. This has given the whole idea a very bad smell among geologists.
Here is another example of the claim I made above. Yesterday was the day prior to the mid moon descending, and there was a strong 6.4mag quake in Argentina. Today is the mid moon and Japan just got hit with a very strong 6.8mag quake, along with three aftershocks so far of around 5.0 magnitude. The next most likely time to have a strong quake will be between the 27th to the 29th of this month.
The Japan quake hitting at Namie is way to close to Fukushima. Fukushima has hundreds of above ground tanks full of radioactive water. That is an ever present danger to the area.