Guest essay by Eric Worrall
John Kerry has formed a group which demands a military style mobilization of global resources to combat climate change. But in a novel twist, Kerry has explicitly dismissed the idea of his new coalition developing a plan of action.
John Kerry Launches Star-Studded Climate Coalition
By Lisa Friedman
Nov. 30, 2019, 12:29 p.m. ETWASHINGTON — John Kerry, the former senator and secretary of state, has formed a new bipartisan coalition of world leaders, military brass and Hollywood celebrities to push for public action to combat climate change.
The name, World War Zero, is supposed to evoke both the national security threat posed by the earth’s warming and the type of wartime mobilization that Mr. Kerry argued would be needed to stop the rise in carbon emissions before 2050. The star-studded group is supposed to win over those skeptical of the policies that would be needed to accomplish that.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are part of the effort. Moderate Republican lawmakers like Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, and John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio, are on the list. Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sting and Ashton Kutcher round out the roster of more than 60 founding members. Their goal is to hold more than 10 million “climate conversations” in the coming year with Americans across the political spectrum.
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Mr. Kerry said while individual members might personally promote specific climate policy proposals, like a tax on carbon dioxide pollution, or the Green New Deal, the coalition is not aimed at promoting any particular plan.
“We’re not going to be divided going down a rabbit hole for one plan or another,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/climate/john-kerry-climate-change.html
They want massive mobilization but have no agreed plan, they outright refuse to attempt to develop a plan for deploying all these resources they want to mobilize. What could possibly go wrong?
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World War Zero — John Kerry channels his IQ.
I thought he was Viet Nam War Zero?
So confusing.
War zero works – its all about his little IQ.
It’s so pathetic.
Proof Positive…John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Leo DiCaprio, Arnold Schwarzenegger, et.al. are all talk and Zero Personal Action or Accountability
When Asston Kutcher used to act he was always cast as a dumbass. Huh, weird.
Well, Of Course…John Kerry said Action and Kutcher and DiCaprio went looking for their scripts
“World War Zero” is the perfect name – if you know of the great graphic novel and the not so great movie based on it, it was all about Fighting the Zombie Apocalypse.
So, WW Zero refers to fighting a fantasy enemy that only exists in scary stories and bad dreams. Perfect.
He’s exchanged his magic cap for a magic molecule.
Just an observation from a nobody like me –
Do-gooders don’t do what NEEDS to be done, they just do what makes THEM feel good.
+1
it always requires spending your money, in the end, in order for them to feel good. You aren’t nobody Mr. You are a paying member of the Bank.
There are few genuine saints. We have many wolves in sheep’s clothing. There is, for instance, the communal narcissist.
Lots of do gooders feel their own moral superiority and use it as an excuse to do horrible things.
And many of them are sociopaths, unsurprisingly.
They just want to mobilize taxpayers but do not want to waste money in futile actions :
– they want to keep it all to buy new private jets and mega-yachts.
Clever.
I want to know how they are traveling around the country ? are they going in there first class private jets ?are they going by train ? they should be telling the public the specific things that they are doing in their personal lives to combat climate change and let’s see for ourselves
They’ll be cycling. On bamboo bicycles, OBVIOUSLY.
Or walking, although I gather the US is a bit bigger than Chipping Sodbury, so it may take them a bit of time.
But they’ll probably not be annoying a web-page near you . . .
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“Their goal is to hold more than 10 million “climate conversations” in the coming year with Americans across the political spectrum.”
Translation, they are going to develop another echo chamber to reaffirm their beliefs while ostracizing, denigrating and dehumanizing anyone that disagrees with them.
Well they are also going to declare war on climate change, When was the last boogeyman war we won” Think war on poverty, war on drugs, war on…fill in the failure. They sure spend a lot of you money waging these failed campaigns however.
OR:
Translation:
They are going to use big names to get big headlines to get the public to scare people into agreeing that SOMETHING must be done by SOMEBODY!
(No specifics in the hope that with enough screaming headlines people might forget that the “SOMETHING” they want done is The Green Raw Deal”. And, also, they don’t know who the Dem nominee will be so they’re leaving the “SOMEBODY” blank for now.)
Yet, down the rabbit-hole he goes.
There’s the issue – he likes to create rabbit holes on patrician party lines.
When he was a Senator, we all caught him attempting to amend the Law of the Seas Treaty with a Carbon Tax.
When the press discovered, he said “who doesn’t want a carbon tax”.
He’s always been a Party fop.
I actually worked with Kerry back in the 80’s. Ranked right up there with low intelligence and high ego. I also worked with Gore. Two peas in a pod, so to speak.
So Kerry is Gunboating us again?
How many purple hearts will he put in for this time?
He was never “put in” for his purple hearts. He applied for them himself.
Is this a splinter group?
Correction; Swiftboating us?
To me it’s not a stretch to move from “a group which demands a military style mobilization…” to an actual military style mobilization by a government to enforce climate actions against the wishes of the majority of the population.
People like John Kerry and his fellow political travelers are dangerous. Elect them at your peril.
Tax plant food. Bloomberg is on board.
I keep hearing that this global warming scam is about to end. All I see are the alarmists becoming more shrill and more committed. It doesn’t look like the scam is coming to an end.
Jim
Be patient, it will end before 2100.
If you go fishing and catch a shark its not to bad while in the water but when you start bringing it on board it starts to fight and squirm relentlessly and boy if you get it on deck ,watch out !! So goes the climate alarmist’s.!
I agree Jim….I think we’re losing
If we could turn the argument around to we’re paying china and the developing world.. they are doing it…
…we might win it
But as long as we let them blame us….we going to lose
So tens of thousands of scientists are wrong about climate change and carbon emission levels are not increasing and recycling is a waste of time. Gad, I hope you naysayers are right.
“So tens of scientists are wrong about climate change”
There, fixed it for ya.
This is a practical IQ/common sense test. All those named as on board just failed the test. That or they have essentially admitted that their need fro fame in influence overrides any responsibility for integrity.
Yup.
All who fail this Gullibility Test should/shall be kept out of any position of authority.
+1
Once upon a time mass popular delusions died out after a while. I presume that people living through previous delusions felt as frustrated at the stupidity or certain of their beliefs as the two sides of the global warming / climate change hysteria.
Money was usually involved in the past just like now.
The current mass panic shows no sign of rectifying itself .
How much longer will the current exercise in civilizational self harm and wealth re-distribution run? What will it take to wake people up or stop them deluding themselves before real damage is done ?
Another ice-age? Another world war? or some sort of global collapse of some element of daily/human life. Very worrying times. Very interesting times.
Mass delusions can go on for a long time – sometimes for centuries or millennium. But in this case the global warming mass delusion requires an actual specific physical event to happen in real time. And that’s why the global warming mass delusion is doomed to a short life as a mass delusion.
In this case the global temperature is supposed to go up. And not just go up but go up so much that millions of people are supposed to die and whole countries are supposed to disappear. And all of this within a specific short time frame.
Most people may be gullible and stupid. But when you walk out your front door and a freezing wind smacks you across the face, well no matter how gullible or stupid you are you know there ain’t no global warming. Just give it a few more winters for people to see that nothing has changed.
“But in this case the global warming mass delusion requires an actual specific physical event to happen in real time. ”
Already several such predictions have failed to come to pass. Each time they moved on to the next dire prediction or simply moved the goal posts.
The ice caps have not melted.
Droughts have not gone permanent.
Deserts have shrunk in places.
Sea levels rise continues to be measured in the millimeters.
Winters are still winters.
Summers are still summers.
The growing season has not gotten longer.
Crop yields have increased, not decreased.
Real pollution has decreased.
The polar bears prosper.
Famines have decreased.
Islands remain above sea level.
Some glaciers still retreat and some still advance.
Global warming didn’t really happen so it got renamed climate change. That was almost 20 years ago now.
Some have tried to rename climate change into other names such as climate disruption.
There has been a decrease in extreme weather events.
All true KT66, you’re preaching to the choir here in this discussion group! I’d feel good if you could tell me that you are actively spreading the truth (accprding to your list above) community-wide; if you were actually talking it up with your neighbors or anyone else you have access to. The alarmists are lost, nothing to be done there except correct what’s being presented in the public school classrooms by mostly innocent, but totally ignorant teachers, and that’ll take time. Meanwhile there are many climate ‘agnostics’ out there, who are not clued in, in desperate need of some understanding of the science involved (the fact that the IPCC’s prognosis is based entirely on failed computer modeling, for instance), just as they’re in short supply of knowing the failures of Socialism, by the way.
Kerry’s an idiot and in desperate need of refurbishing his own self-image, but still has enough residual clout among those paying little attention to this scam, to do some real damage.
Like him or hate him (for his style) Trump’s instincts are spot on on this issue but he’s not going to be able to do it alone if we just remain passive members of the ‘Commentariat’!
I have to agree with you Bob, I’ve been thinking that we need to do something too. Why is it that famous people think that what they have to say carries more weight, or that most people really care what they think.
I don’t know what it’s like trying to get your opinion ‘out there’ in your neck of the woods but here in Australia it’s next to impossible. Almost all of the MSM are left wing here, but even the very small number of right thinkers have ‘gatekeepers’, we have been trying to be heard for months.
Most artists seem to be left to extreme left thinking, though I most definitely am not. After moving to the country six months ago and having very little contact with any of my friends decided to ‘out myself’ and raise the issues such as KT66 listed. Out of around 20 people only three even bothered to respond, and one of those is probably the only other right of centre person in the group.
I continue to try to get the truth out there, based on references from a lot of research, and this site gave me the confidence to do so. Most of my friends of many years have recently turned their backs on me rather than having a conversation. I find their ignorance exasperating, they parrot rubbish and simply say ‘scientists have proven’…fill in the blanks.
Have ‘real’ scientists been so completely shut down? Stupid question I guess, Peter Ridd lost his job due to his convictions, and the Great Barrier Reef truly is doing well.
How do we get the truth out there?
And just to add to your list KT66, The Great Barrier Reef is in excellent health.
Yes. More than the failed predictions, their eagerness to point to an event and yell, “climate change,” which is quickly shown to be nothing new (like the reefs, or polar bears hunting whales), convinced me that the climate catastrophists are either ignorant or deceitful, if not both.
You cannot take anything they claim at face value.
The shrill tone we see today from the alarmists undoubtedly does reflect their concern that they are pushing their luck, that 45 years without any period of substantial cooling is unusually long in the historical record. Any undeniable cooling before they have their schemes in place will spoil their generation-long efforts and ruin their credibility for who knows how long.
But I’m not so optimistic that reality will be obvious to the general public any time soon. The past couple of decades have proved that if the alarmists can torture the data to say it is 0.001 degree warmer, that’s the hottest year evah. Actual temps can fall outside the low range of model projections year after year and that’s called pretty good agreement. Temperatures rose in the early 20th century when CO2 was not greatly impacted by human activity and fell for decades as fossil fuel use accelerated, yet this is not recognized as disproving the AGW hypothesis.
It is going to take a substantial cooling coupled with continued CO2 emissions to beat the propagandists. And that is entirely unpredictable. It could happen, but we might also be going through a period destined to be 500 years of natural warming with more than half of that still ahead of us.
In a sane world, the prospect of another couple of centuries of benevolent weather would be seen as great good fortune. If it were imagined that our fossil fuel use was paying a dividend in slightly warmer weather and substantially higher agricultural output, that would be accounted as a very good thing. The “externality” of benefits accruing to those not using the fossil fuels but enjoying enhanced crop yields would be considered a gift from the developed world to the underdeveloped world.
In this world that we actually inhabit, we’re left hoping for a reversal of our good fortune, so that our “leaders” lose their excuse to strip us of our freedoms. The benefits of fossil fuel use are not credited to us but far from that, it is demanded that we compensate those who have not yet developed their economies. It’s a mad world that we inhabit.
This mass delusion should end in the next few years.
AOC said 12 years.
Prince Charles said 18 months,
but he already said this some years ago, so I don’t know who is correct.
The sooner the better.
This one is sponsored by the Chinese and won’t be going anywhere soon.
“We’re not going to be divided going down a rabbit hole for one plan or another”
I don’t see why not. Kerry and his kohorts already live in a fantasy-world where what they believe is so, is in fact the opposite.
In a world with measurable common sense, the words “John Kerry” would immediately end any serious discussion.
Arnold ceased to be a Republican when he became governator of California and bowed to the Leftist Extremist legislature and supported AB32 goals whole heartedly. He doesn’t even begin to be a RINO he is so left.
Ahnold was at best a RINO. He married a Kennedy and was best pals with the lyon of the Senate. And I meant lyon.
World War Zero is a most appropriate name. All they have is a list of zeros who all have something to say… they just don’t know what that something is.
so….his acolytes are gonna get medals for scratches and then go to paris to denounce that war????
sounds good to me….
He was the son of a wealthy powerful family. According to Wikipedia his maternal grandparents were part of the Forbes/Winthrop families.
10,000,000 conversations in the coming year from 60 members? Gonna be mighty brief conversations.
Fish, given that their ‘conversations’ are one way, they don’t need to speak to ‘all’ of them. They trust that those that do speak to will be so impressed by them that they will faithfully parrot what they told them.
Or maybe they will take a short cut and train actual parrots!
Send Money…lots and lots of money. We will develop plans later.
I guess he missed the lime light.
A mobilization without a plan? Sounds like one of the simulated mobilizations I went through in the military. Everyone would report in, they’d take roll and then everyone would go home.
How big is the carbon footprint for all the ten million conversations going to be?
Didn’t Hollywierd make a movie about this already? WWZ? Maybe Kerry will be the hero and save us from the Zombie Apocalypse or will he be the cause of the Apocalypse?
The ultimate virtue signal. A coalition to hold everyone else accountable accept yourself. Can’t fail.