Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Former Republican governors John Kasich and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Secretary of State John Kerry have teamed up to create “World War Zero”, an initiative aimed at driving conservative interest in climate action.
It’s Time for American Leaders to Wake Up to the Threat of Climate Change for the Good of the Planet and Business
BY JOHN R. KASICH AUGUST 3, 2020 11:55 AM EDT
Kasich was the governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019.…
If we could have seen the pandemic coming and had the power to prevent it, of course, we would have. If we had that power but sat on our hands as millions became sick and died, that inaction would be unforgivable.
There is another problem that we know is coming, that we have the power to address, and yet which we continually do too little—or often nothing—to tackle. I’m talking about climate change.
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I joined with former Secretary of State John Kerry and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger behind an effort called “World War Zero” to help bring together a group of unlikely allies – Democrats, Republicans and independents, scientists, military leaders, business leaders, diplomats, entertainers, and ordinary people from all walks of life – to mobilize, speak up, and tackle climate change together. And to find new ways of helping people appreciate the need to address the problem.
Seeing the economic benefits of renewable energy investments at a time of a global recession might not be an angle that first comes to mind. But tough problems merit different approaches and demand that we take advantage of the opportunities when they arise—like now.
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Read more: https://time.com/5873394/take-climate-change-seriously-business/
“World War Zero” wants net zero emissions by 2050. I couldn’t see anything resembling a carefully costed plan to achieve net zero, the site focus mostly seems to consist of lots of positive thinking, and reminiscences about the spectacular debt fuelled growth of the 1940s wartime economy.
Kasich’s claims of economic benefits from renewables are questionable. If renewables provided any short term “economic benefits”, if they were a genuinely profitable opportunity, there would be no need for the government to step in and support renewables.
Regardless of the alleged long term benefits of renewables, in the short to medium term additional government support for renewables would be a drag on the economy.
The last thing the USA or anywhere else needs right now is even more short term economic pain.
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Kasich. As many of us in Central Ohio learned when he our Rep when Clinton’s “Assault Weapon Ban” came up for a vote in the House, “You can count on Kasich until it counts.”.
Kasich seems to have had some kind of psychotic break. At one point he was balancing the US budget, and the next thing you know he’s running for President, preaching that Jesus was a disciple of Karl Marx.
damp & Din: His first win as Gov came after he campaigned against high speed rail and he kept his promise. I loved him! By the time he was closing out his time as Gov, he was refusing to take down renewable targets (created years before, set out far enough to be harmless then) that are hurting Ohio economy. A huge bribery scandal is now playing out in OH that came to pass because Kasich didn’t have the guts to keep two absolutely necessary nuke plants operating. His vaunted principles melted when enviros brought any heat on him. I wanted him instead of Trump (I now hate to admit), and he could have stolen the immigration issue and sailed home if he’d had the nerve, but he was too “compassionate”. He has betrayed conservative principles so often, I think he’s trying for a seat on the Supreme Court.
A lot of Republican governors start out fairly well but fall apart in their second term. Kasich and Schwarzenegger are two of them. Republicans are born without spines and trying to stand upright takes a toll on the back muscles, so after a while they collapse into one huge invertebrate lump.
I think that he’s settled in on having no political future in the Republican Party ever four years after running for President in the party and the national party convention in his home state while he was governor. He’s holding out for someplace in a socialist cabinet. Hopefully the Republicans control the Senate in case that happens so they can cause problems to his nomination as a former Republican. Yes, in no way is he a Republican and certainly wasn’t while he was governor even if he acted the part. As President, he would’ve been worse than 41. I can’t predict what will happen in politics next year or four years after, but I do know that Kasich has no place in the party and won’t influence anything in the party going forward. These RINOs think they will, but they won’t.
“Kasich has no place in the party” Bingo. I live in Ohio. He sold us down the river.
Paul, I confess, as you have, that there was a time very early in the 2016 primary lead up period that Kasich sounded like one of the more reasonable voices among those tossing their hat into the ring.
But long before the end of that primary, he was an embarrassment.
A man who had zero chance to win anything, and was actually a clear detriment to his party.
Who can forget his refusal to stand by his vow to support whomever the ultimate nominee was?
Who can forget his frequent load mouthed promises not to even attend the 2016 RNC, that was taking place in his state, while he was the putative leader of the party in his state?
He was one of the louder-mouthed of the jackasses who proclaimed themselves to be political fortune tellers.
He also refused to endorse either Cruz or Trump, saying neither was “worthy of the office” they sought.
All while garnering an incredibly low level of national support.
He was one of the original Never Trumpers.
He was literally the last candidate to drop out of the race, despite garnering only a tiny level of national support.
He had won only about 1/10th as many delegates as Trump, barely more than 1/4th as many as Cruz, and over 1/3 of his delegates were from his own state!
It was not even like he was voicing the majority opinion of his constituency, either.
Kasich only won a plurality in the Ohio Republican primary, and the state was solidly behind Trump in the general election.
He did not even win a majority in his own state!
He was one of the most vocal of the “Trump will never be the nominee” jackasses.
Pompous, self-righteous, loudmouthed, backstabbing, tone-deaf stuffed suit.
That is Kasich.
Republican?
Hah!
“That is Kasich.
Republican?
Hah!”
Kasich certainly isn’t a conservative. Otherwise, he would be in love with Trump. Trump has done more to advance conservatism than just about anyone.
All three of these guys are “former Republicans” more than they are “former governors.”
Nicholas: Thanks for reply. I must admit, I forgot several of those items re: the mailman’s son; my excuse is that his campaign was really forgettable. He was done before our primary, stayed in long after the fork was stuck. What I remember is, I was rooting for the Kasich of the 1990’s, he never showed up.
I think all three politicans are so bad, that only the Chinese govt will pay them
Getting beat by Trump messed him up bad – not that he was particularly solid to start with.
I too live in Central Ohio. I have meet Kasich up close and personal. You cannot have a conversation with the man. He is a complete nut job.
But did you know that his father was a post man?
Having a father who was a post man: is that something shameful?
How can you? He always has food stuck to his face.
That’ the Three Amigos….I mean the Three Cuckoos.
And I want them to provide even a single IPCC model that has skillfully predicted recent or any climate before using them to define public policy.
You nailed it. Not a single prediction made based on IPCC climate models has come true. Polar bears are going extinct. We are not frying in our own juices. Himalayan glaciers are far from melting. We are not seeing significantly increased numbers of death from heat stroke. We are not seeing widespread crop failures.
In fact, we have seen the exact opposite of each of these predictions.
If we are seeing the exact opposite of the predictions then just how good are the models they are based on?
As good as the consensus science at the IPCC admits they are:
“In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. The most we can expect to achieve is the prediction of the probability distribution of the system’s future possible states by the generation of ensembles of model solutions. This reduces climate change to the discernment of significant differences in the statistics of such ensembles. The generation of such model ensembles will require the dedication of greatly increased computer resources and the application of new methods of model diagnosis. Addressing adequately the statistical nature of climate is computationally intensive, but such statistical information is essential.”
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/TAR-14.pdf
Section 14.2.2.2, p. 774
But what the heck, we will go ahead and make the policy recommendations that suite our social agenda anyway!
How is it that running large ensembles of flawed calculations produces an accurate final probability distribution? Multiple non-linear flaws don’t cancel each other out.
I assume that’s a rhetorical question Tom?
See https://edberry.com/blog/climate/climate-physics/replace-climate-alarmism-with-climate-sanity/ for the reason the predictions are wrong. The core theory of the IPCC position is false so none of the work that relies on it can be any good.
Just another attempt to increase support for the false AGW narrative and as long as they have the media behind them this won’t end. We slept while the Left bought the media and stacked our courts in the USA. Now we are paying for our complacency.
This is wonderful! The combined personal magnetism of John Kasich and John Kerry could bring this whole tiresome campaign to an end once and for all.
Kasich became “progressively” more liberal with each year as governor. I’m surprised he has not come out as a Democrat yet.
Good riddance to him.
The Democrats wouldn’t want him, an old white dude, and without Bloomberg’s money. So he’s useless to them, and the DNC has moved so far Left he’d wonder what the hell he got into. RINO’s like him and Schwarzenegger need to quit the Republican Party and form the Ostrich Party.
no they wouldn’t want him…he’s much more effective pretending to be a republican
Democrats are all in lock step…..republicans are all over the place…divided and diluted…with fake republicans
Democrats are hardly in lock step. They are a bunch of small special interest groups which are fighting all the time. The fighting is getting more fierce with the unions and the communists about to go head to head. I see the party fragmenting after their next loss. You will have the Pelosi wing and the AOC wing, both inept.
I don’t think they have their heads in benign sands, Joel. These two RINOs are practitioners of self-proctology…. which explains their crappy views. The idea that they could sway conservatives to their progressively bad climate change ideas is a futile exercise in myopic thinking, and reflective of a very elevated state of chutzpah to boot!
J Mac,
But didn’t Ahnold get a hybrid Hummer to prove his climate bona fides? Curses, the old rectal cranial inversion strikes again!
Ditto for the governator. He started out center to center-right, and moved left as quickly as he could.
He is married to a Kennedy after all.
John Kerry was always pretty solidly left wing.
“Left: John R. Kasich, [Left]: John Kerry, [Left]: Arnold Schwarzenegger. By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link”
There, fixed it.
I think Kasich tried to come out as a Dem, but all the Dems had already left by then. They’ve fallen out of what is considered to be the political spectrum. My arguments with family and friends on the left has changed. I tell them the ‘party’ they support isn’t the one they think it is. It has outsourced its constituents to EU/UNSSR globalists. All they’ve kept is the name. What’s scary is some very smart people are totally duped.
Unless the fraudulent mail-in vote campaign is successful, Trump’s new-type of Republican Party (cleft from the denizens of the swamp core) will be running things for a generation or two until somebody not born yet re-invents the Dems.
I have hopes that a muppet show starring Kasich, Kerry and Schwartzenegger will have the opposite to intended effect.
All three are Non-Compos-Mentis on steroids.
non compos mentis nŏn kŏm″pəs mĕn′tĭs
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adj.
Not of sound mind and hence not legally competent.n.
One who is not legally competent.
n.
Not capable, mentally, of managing one’s own affairs; not of sound mind; not having the normal use of reason. Often abbreviated non compos and non comp. See insane.
Also known as $h/t for brains.
A lot of Republican governors start out fairly well but fall apart in their second term. Kasich and Schwarzenegger are two of them. Republicans are born without spines and trying to stand upright takes a toll on the back muscles, so after a while they collapse into one huge invertebrate lump.
Meyer
Can you make a comment without insulting at least half the people here?
Kasich and Arnold Schwarzenegger are RINO’s and hypocritical, virtue-signaling idiots right up there with
“Lurch” Kerry. Schwarzenegger’s carbon footprint is probably larger than some small countries.
Kerry married into the fortune of the Heinz family and now lives the billionaire life-style of mega yachts, large sailboats, private jets and multiple mansions and estates around the world. So he’s just a hypocritical limousine liberal with a large carbon footpriunt lifestyle too. Both Schwarzenegger and Lurch certainly have a professional staff of armed 24/7 security wherever they go, and that ain’t cheap.
If any of these 3 virtue-signaling idiots actually were faced with living the lifestyle they want to impose on the general public, they’d be singing a different tune.
John Kerry, not the swiftest boat in the water….
Aww, gee.
Pretty sure John Kerry was never a Republican.
Thanks Joel, “… limousine liberal …” the best new phrase of the season!
Kerry once said that the western world could stop emitting all CO2 and it would still not be enough to kill global warming. So why bother?
Let’s have an event! Let’s present the arguments, pro and con, for spending money to reduce CO2. The ultra libs won’t show up, but at least we can get a larger audience exposure to the con side. Maybe some of the kids will listen and be calmed from their hysteria (Gretta?). Any publicity is good for…
Temperatures rising slower than modeled
Global prosperity is the way out of ecological problems
Global greening from higher CO2
High density energy (Nuclear) is better for the environment
“Maybe some of the kids will listen and be calmed from their hysteria…”
NOT gonna happen:
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/?fbclid=IwAR1f_UYlRzPJtmoeyl1l3EACkli52nm5ZqNP-VK6IEc9bQh2oN9cvU1X3Rc
“…an initiative aimed at driving conservative interest in climate action.”
What in heaven’s name do those three, or their bigger government plans to roll back the tides have to do with “conservative”?!
Nothing conservative about any of them, nor any of their warmed over FDR schemes to embroil the government in the economy.
Where’s the Republican???
This looks like one of those “I’m not a Robot”….where you click on
stop signs or crosswalks. Sometimes, if there is none…hit skip.
That’s me this time.
Apropos nothing much – my son has a theory that there is a speeding Tesla somewhere relying on you getting those clicks right…
This will be their (our) undoing. It is starting to come into focus that the combined spending efforts of New Deal 2, Great Society BLM 2, and Green New Deal will steer us into a new inflationary era matching Jimmy Carter’s but without OPEC to blame. No wonder gold prices are starting to respond.
While many blamed OPEC for the inflation, rising oil prices were the result of monetary inflation, not the cause of it.
Inflation is caused when the money supply expands faster than the supply of goods in the underlying economy.
As long as the government can convince suckers to buy government bonds, they can avoid printing money.
As long as other governments are willing to US dollars to back their currency, they end up taking dollars out of circulation which allows the government to painlessly print more dollars.
End either of those, and things get bad quickly.
BOSTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Investor David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital is betting that prices will rise and told investors on Tuesday that Einhorn has added new positions in inflation swaps, a gold miners ETF, as well as in Teck Resources and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings to be well-positioned for an eventual uptick.
“We believe that market groupthink that profitless growth stocks that trade at astronomical valuations, in part on the basis that interest rates are low, will be disrupted by rising inflation expectations,” Einhorn wrote in a letter seen by Reuters.
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Gold is hitting new highs — these are the stocks to consider buying now
MarketWatch
Michael Brush
,MarketWatch•August 4, 2020
With the kind of deficits Washington is running both now and for the foreseeable future. Predicting more inflation is pretty much a no brainer.
Renewable energy is only renewable ELECTRICITY, and intermittent electricity at best.
Neither wind nor solar can manufacture the petroleum derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products in our daily lives.
The book is an “aha moment” that every green advocate should experience. The inventions of the automobile, airplane, and the use of petroleum in the early 1900’s led us into the Industrial Revolution and victories in World Wars I and II. The healthier and wealthier countries of today now have more than 6,000 products manufactured from petroleum derivatives that did not exist before 1900.
Three “Republican” duds in my book. Ohio got snookered, as did California and Utah. Let your true colors come shining through, gents. What a waste!! Never again.
Kasich, Schwartzenegger and Kerry, aka the Three Climate Stooges. Three zeros on a “mission”.
The Three Amigos redux.
WW 0
We Were Zeros.
Just as Burn Loot Murder is the only logical conclusion of people calling themselves B.L.M acting as they do.
(As they are obviously not the Bureau of land management.)
World War Zero by a bunch of failed politicians can only translate as We Were Zeros as they obviously failed to convince the voters.
And what a bunch of nothings.
Funny how General Flynn got the gears for NOT doing what Kerry openly does..
This trio of yesterdays false promise are well exposed as the hypocrites and fools they really are.
For were they not such fools,they would have the sense to go away.
Shut up and stop interfering in the taxpayers lives..
But they never did have that kind of sense,now did they?
Who’s yacht did they meet on this time?
I wonder, when I look at that trio, which one has the use of the brain-cell today. If there was a WW I would hate to have to rely on any of them to get us to victory. (Man-made) climate change is not a war; it is not an ’emergency’ and it doesn’t need poseurs to claim to be heroes: A nine-termer; a Useless SoS; and a muscle-bound has-been (I’m feeling generous). Apart from the fact that none of them will be around to see if their ‘solutions’ will save the planet, they all seem to have a God complex. Useless trio!
Eventually the name “World War Zero” is very true. The original concept behind the Paris Agreement was to establish a global world goverment with own tax income (carbon tax). If a country (or more countries) would not comply with the Paris Agreement (and would not buy guaranteed “climate compatible” (of course very expensive) products from the main powers), some miltary motivation (even war on a world scale) was planned. For example as a first step the visit of a US carrier group to support the “local democrats”, and so on. Now the US will leave the Paris Agreement, and the other “progressive liberal and very democratic” (aka green liberonazi) countries can “convince” without the support of the US army maybe only countries in the category of Libya. However, other countries (China, India, Russia, etc.) will be only amused. So a new world war (“zero”) was and unfortunately is a real threat.
If you had to fight a WW where you only could use ZeroC fuels and armaments against an enemy who couldn’t care less, who would win (especially while you were refuelling your electrons)?
Yes, and anyone who thinks that Russia and China will stop using fossil fuels while Western Democracies rely on green virtue signaling doesn’t know how to think. Besides, if the idiocracy has their way, the price of oil will plummet leaving the virtue signalers at an even greater disadvantage.
The Russians know it’s all a bunch of BS and the Chinese don’t care one way or another. Both are more than happy to see that Western Democracies seem so willing to destroy themselves as the result of a bogus greater good argument.
co2isnotevil,
I think the Chinese care a great deal about what they are doing! They are bribing US politicians and corporations to keep us from having a rational national energy plan with lots of nuclear power AND fossil fuels! They are exploiting the weaknesses of our system to coopt many of our leaders and keep us in a constant state of turmoil.
It’s too bad that the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax has probably poisoned any chance of building an alliance with Putin as I am sure he would much rather work with us to avoid being gobbled up by the Chinese dragon. He may be a crook but then so are most of our politicians!
My point was that the Chinese don’t care one way or another about the significance of CO2 emissions on the climate. Yes, they definitely do know what they’re doing and do care about the controversy, but only because it’s something they can leverage to their advantage. They give lip service to green because it’s something Biden has a hard on for and they would much rather work with Biden then Trump since they still have a billion dollars of leverage from their purchase of influence through Hunter Biden. The Democrats may have forgotten about this, but the Chinese haven’t.
“Seeing the economic benefits of renewable energy investments at a time of a global recession might not be an angle that first comes to mind.”
I don’t have a link, but there is a report from Spain that every “renewable energy” job creation kills 1.6 jobs elsewhere.
Yes, all zeroes in that group. How much more detached from reality can they get…at the beach and on the yacht?
I guessKerry has his yacht back in Massachusetts now that his attempt to dodge ad valorem taxation has failed.
I guess that explains the long face.
Still waiting for one of these wizards to tell us what they wish the climate to be once the climate crisis has finally been averted.
It must be global cooling, because if the planet isn’t warming, it’s cooling. The planet never has and never will have a constant average temperature from year to year, much less century to century.
Anyone who desires, promotes, or endorses a World War has to be a nutter from Nutville. Has Crazy Kasich flunked history as well as every other subject? The Left is so violent, so angry, so over-the-top insane with blood lust that it defies belief.
I have no idea how to calm these people down, how to drag them back the Earth, how to prevent their rhetoric from exploding into total destruction. That’s what seems to be happening all over — despite rational discourse from realists.
The world is teetering on the brink all right but not from climate change. The threat of total mass destruction is brewing in the sick minds of wannabe tyrants and their “useful” idiot minions.
“Everything Trump touches dies”
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Trump-Touches-Dies-Republican/dp/1982103124
True in a way.
Just not the way this “Republican Strategist” (such a brillant “strategist” with so much to show) meant it. Trump “touched” Kasich like he “touched” Rick Wilson.
Mike,
Hard, physical labor and a lack of drugs might improve the outlook of many. Getting kids out of the city and into the real world of hard work and clean living couldn’t hurt. A work program like the old CCC or the Conservation Corp would be apropos for any arrested for minor crimes in the Burn, Loot, Murder riots plaguing our cities now!
World War Zero? A war from conception.
Kasich, like McCain before him, was always one of the Democrats favorite Republicans.
One who can be counted on to trash other Republicans whenever the Democrats ask him to.
Arnold! WTF! ……..telling us all how to behave from his 9 bedroomed, 9 bathroomed Mediterranean-style 10,000-square-foot villa, not to mention the Porsche 911 Turbo, the Hummer H1, the Dodge Challenger, the Bentley Continental Super sports, the Mercedes-Benz Unimog, and the little run around Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
I presume he’s still got his Gulfstream III private jet ……. these people are unbelievable, go f@ck yourselves.