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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It is amazing that many of these idiots even look like idiots. Kerry, Gore, Schiff, Pelosi, etc.
Notice that not one of these founders could hold up their end of an argument about global warming.
Wouldn’t be surprised to hear them say “We’re not dealing with global warming, we’re dealing with climate change.”
What is going on ?
Has the world gone mad, or are we living in some kind of two dimensional inverted tT axis hologram of a parallel universe ?
Why am I confused?
Quote – – – http://www.worldwarzer0.org/synopsis/
World War Zero is the brainchild of Simon G. Ionashku (the author). The seeds for the World War Zero (AKA: WW0) initiative were planted back in 2010 when I was attending the University of Memphis studying bio-medical engineering – an idea over 7 years in the making (time to take it to the next level).
in my intro to bio-medical engineering class. The assignment was simple. Pick a major world health problem and come up with a solution.
– – – end quote
The plan is power.
FROM the bottom of the rabbit hole dug with MODELS that have been proven to be wrong, over, and over, and over. SMDH
To John Kerry and his “Zeroes”:
1. Earth’s climate is not sensitive to increasing atmospheric CO2. The alleged catastrophic global warming crisis is a figment of your overheated imaginations.
2. Green energy is not green and produces little useful (dispatchable) energy. It doesn’t even significantly reduce CO2 emissions, because of its fatal flaws – intermittency and diffusivity..
3. Atmospheric CO2 is not alarmingly high, it is too low for optimal plant growth and alarmingly low for the survival of carbon-based terrestrial life.
We have known the above facts since ~forever.
We published the following ~17 years ago:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf
1. “Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
2. “The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply – the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply cannot replace fossil fuels.”
I published the following ~11 years ago:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/30/co2-temperatures-and-ice-ages/#comment-70691
(PLANT) FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Background:
1. “As CO2 is a critical component of growth, plants in environments with inadequate CO2 levels – below 200 ppm – will cease to grow or produce.”
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/xdpy/kb/implementing-co2.html
2. “The longest ice core record comes from East Antarctica, where ice has been sampled to an age of 800 kyr BP (Before Present). During this time, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has varied by volume between 180 – 210 ppm during ice ages, increasing to 280 – 300 ppm during warmer interglacials…
… On longer timescales, various proxy measurements have been used to attempt to determine atmospheric carbon dioxide levels millions of years in the past. These include boron and carbon isotope ratios in certain types of marine sediments, and the number of stomata observed on fossil plant leaves. While these measurements give much less precise estimates of carbon dioxide concentration than ice cores, there is evidence for very high CO2 volume concentrations between 200 and 150 myr BP of over 3,000 ppm and between 600 and 400 myr BP of over 6,000 ppm.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_the_Earth's_atmosphere
Questions and meanderings:
A. According to para.1 above:
During Ice ages, does almost all plant life die out as a result of some combination of lower temperatures and CO2 levels that fell below 200ppm (para. 2 above)? If not, why not?
Does this (possible) loss of plant life have anything to do with rebounding of atmospheric CO2 levels as the world exits the Ice Age (in combination with other factors such as ocean exsolution)? could this contribute to the observed asymmetry?
B. When all life on Earth comes to an end, will it be because CO2 permanently falls below 200ppm as it is permanently sequestered in carbonate rocks, hydrocarbons, coals, etc.?
Since life on Earth is likely to end due to a lack of CO2, should we be paying energy companies to burn fossil fuels to increase atmospheric CO2, instead of fining them due to the false belief that they cause global warming?
Could T.S. Eliot have been thinking about CO2 starvation when he wrote:
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Regards, Allan
Why would you gather a group of Hollow Wood
actors together for anything that’s supposed to be real? Maybe there is some subliminal irony here, given their expertise in make-believe and fantasy scripts. I loved Leonardo in the film about the great imposter. And World War Zero, as in ‘Nothing’, seems appropriate, too.
They won’t offer the plan now- but if a Dem wins the next presidential election, they’ll offer a plan. They’re just afraid of scaring off too many people now. And it’s clear that their plan will be very extreme because they believe the threat is extreme. This is worth watching and if anyone attends one of their local events- keep asking them about their plan.
I think you have it backwards. Their plan (One World socialist government, with them in charge) is so extreme they won’t let it become public until they a) find an alleged “catastrophe” extreme enough to cover for it or b) they have already achieved it.
Who would ever think that this relatively inert trace gas in our atmosphere would create so much humbug, and now, even the WW Zero… Poor Swante is surely turning in his grave.
I must admit: I sometime wish they were right and shut-up and we could enjoy real spring and fall and not six month of bloody winter, here, in Northern Ontario 🙁
“Their goal is to hold more than 10 million “climate conversations” in the coming year with Americans across the political spectrum.”
Okay have conversation with me. Try to present a coherent argument if you can. Use real data instead of made up data. Try to prove your case, which you have never done. Just remember a conversation requires that you also listen to and consider my counter arguments.
365 days in a year. Let’s assume 10 hours a day holding “conversations”, with say 100 members equals 365,000 man hours divided by 10 million conversations equals 0.0365 man hours per conversation.
2.19 minutes per conversation, not exactly in depth.
Year zero eh?
We need to “form a group which demands a military style mobilization of global resources to combat” ………. GLOBALISTS !
John Kerry is a liar.
John Kerry accused his fellow American troops of committing war crimes in testimony before Congress, yet he never witnessed any war crimes himself.
John Kerry, during an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in front of the White House was seen to throw military medals over the fence onto the White House grounds, and Kerry claimed they were his medals for Vietnam service. Later, we found out those were not Kerry’s medals, they were someone else’s medals, and Kerry’s medals were safely at home in his display case. This is a good demonstration of just how big a hypocrit Kerry is.
John Kerry did everything he could publicly to undermine the American effort in South Vietnam.
John Kerry conspired with the North Vietnamese to undermine the United States during the peace talks between the U.S., South Vietnam and North Vietnam in Paris. That’s what I would call Treason.
John Kerry was Secretary of State during the time that the Democrats and Hillary and Obama and the Russians and the Ukrainians conspired together to try to destroy Trump’s presidential bid. John Kerry may be up before the U.S. Senate testifying before Senator Graham about his involvement one of these days. There may be a lot of Obama officials testifying before it’s all over.
I wouldn’t trust John Kerry as far as I could throw him, and you shouldn’t either. You should be suspicious of anything he is involved in.
I wonder if he will enlist his old war buddy “Jengiss” Khan in WW0?
This is very similar to the stated aims of the global Climate Emergency group. They say the climate catastrophy facing the population is so critical that urgent action needs to be taken immediately through mobilisation of people and governments.
But in the CE case they have a plan: Governments must immediately abandon all laws and regulations, and adopt emergency provisions to control CO2 emissions. And CE in their handbooks and guides have provided a list of new laws to be followed.
Some of the municipal bodies who have declared “Climate Emergency” are starting to implement these new regulations, such as the City of Berkeley.
Its about seizing power by revolution, which is why the radical socialists and communists love it. All very dangerous.
A huge Wind Farm within seeing distance of anyone of these dickhead’s home will cure everything!
World Win Zero
To note the global benefit from all of the climate crusaders and their stupidity, insanity & deceit. Steve
Well if there is truth to what I’ve read China is experiencing serious financial difficulties . Smaller banks are going south, and the difficulties with Hong Kong make it worse.. House of Cards. Now were are you going
get your :batteries, wind turbines, solar panels-cheap…
Consider me mobilised with zero plans and if anyone’s got any I’ll consider them divisive and we don’t want any hurt feelings in this day and age.
Taking Climate Advice from any Hollywood actor is never a good idea.
Ready, fire, aim!
No wait, don’t aim. Just run around firing.
+50
Why do you need to mobilise if you are not going to do anything?
If the solutions are not yet clear, at the very least you should be devising critical tests to distinguish between alternative actions (including DO NOTHING), so that action can be taken once clear justifcations emerge.
This sounds like wanting publicity for no good reason….
Isn’t World War Z a novel and TV show/movie about a zombie apocalypse? And now, Kerry wants to invoke the imagery of World War Zero? What level of stupidity and tone-deafness must you have to make this your symbolism? We all know who you think the enemy in your world war will be, don’t we? We know who you will see as the zombies.
John, I say we don’t need a new political movement to take over the world. We don’t want or need a new charismatic leader like you. I mean, this has already gone too far. We’ve already got the new Greenshirts. And you’ve already got your new Jews, er, I mean your D Nye rs. Greta is already the first new member of the Climate Youth, her parents already the new Leni Riefenstahls. No doubt that Oreskes and McKibbon will be fighting to become the new Goebbels, and the NYT, BBC, Graun, PBS and NPR the new propaganda ministry. You clearly want to create a new economic Wiemar Republic with this Green New Deal crapola. Maybe you should write a book and call it “My Struggle” and before Bloomberg writes it, lest he should become the new great leader before you do. Maybe you’ll need to fight him in the Beer Hall?
Seriously, these frackin’ climate alarmists are going insane, right before our eyes.
Instructions to the paid protest team: Okay, okay just look busy and don’t get near me or my boats with that glue. My wife is fair game though.
How do you respond to Dr. Tim Ball & Tony Heller, among others, that show evidence that your findings are not valid? If you can’t defend your findings I won’t be able to defend you.