Guest essay by Eric Worrall
John Kerry has repeated his claim the upcoming COP26 talks have to produce results. Remarkably Kerry also criticised China’s efforts. It will be interesting to see how public criticism of China works out at this year’s climate talks.
US rejoins Paris climate accord with warning: this year’s talks are ‘last, best hope’
John Kerry made remark as US officially returned to climate agreement on Friday, 107 days after it left under Donald Trump
Oliver Milman
@olliemilman
Sat 20 Feb 2021 03.46 AEDTThe US has marked its return to the Paris agreement by urging countries to do more to confront the climate crisis, with America’s climate envoy, John Kerry, warning that international talks this year are the “last, best hope” of avoiding catastrophic global heating.
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“This is a significant day, a day that never had to happen,” Kerry said to Al Gore, the former US vice-president, in a conversation filmed on the eve of the re-entry. “It’s so sad that our previous president without any scientific basis or any legitimate economic rationale decided to pull America out. It hurt us and it hurt the world.”
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Kerry said that none of the world’s major emitters, including China, India and the EU, are doing enough and that key UN climate talks later this year in Glasgow, Scotland, provide the “last, best hope we have” to get the world on track to avoid runaway climate change.
“The meeting in Glasgow rises in its importance,” said Kerry, a former US secretary of state. “We are at this most critical moment where we have the capacity to define the decade of the 20s which will make or break us to get to net zero carbon in 2050.” Kerry said that countries will have to “define in real terms their roadmap for the next 10 years, the next 30 years. We are talking about a reality we haven’t been able to assemble in these meetings so far.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/19/us-paris-climate-agreement-john-kerry
With his repeated last chance claims, John Kerry has added his name to the hilarious and very long list of last chances to save the world from climate change. The list stretches all the way back to the 1980s, so clearly some of the last chance claims were a little exaggerated.
For someone who claims to worry about climate change, John Kerry certainly made a credible effort to single handedly cause climate change under President Obama.
In his last year in office under Obama, John Kerry admitted he had travelled 1.06 million miles over the course of three years, flying around, trying to save the world from the carbon monster.
Perhaps someone should introduce Kerry to the concept of teleconferencing, before he personally wrecks the planet with his diplomatic excesses.
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Anyone mentioned this to him?
“Righto up the Paris targets. Mt Etna’s gone off – the equivalent of 37 billion Vespa step-through years of CO2. ”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/02/righto-up-the-paris-targets-mt-etnas-gone-off-the-equivalent-of-37-billion-vespa-step-through-years-.html
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God, don’t you just want to slap him hard…
No – I would rather kick him in the you-know-where…
The best last chance is always the next jet in knees-up for the sheltered workshop flunkies and there’s plenty more where that comes from as far as they’re concerned.
“Doomsday” is a perennial bestseller, and will likely remain so for millions of years. False prophets and humbugs will continue to profit, and cringing acolytes will continue to quiver and adore. . . and fork over their loot.
How about “last best hope that they will dry up and blow away”?
A little morning humor!
Lol, yes, that *could* be embarrassing!
Possible response to ET’s, “we’re a little indisposed right now, could you come back next millennium?”
https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/john-kerry/assets?cid=N00000245&year=2013
30+ years of panic ,30+ years of LAST CHANCES!. 30+years of trying to control the western nations. ZERO years of PROOF!. Zero years of any brains from virtually any politician (except Trump). Wonder who getting the payoffs to leave China at the top. The rest of us at the bottom.
Imagine how many geese Kerry would have gotten if he mounted a couple of 30mm cannons on his “flying squirrel”!
https://nypost.com/2004/10/22/a-wild-goose-chase-kerrys-gun-photo-op/
Liberals don’t need proof. Their way, it is the magnitude of the accusation that counts. If they needed proof it would be through enormous claims.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-gears-up-for-war-with-his-own-party-rinos-beware/
From the link: “According to three people familiar with the planning, Trump will soon begin vetting candidates at Mar-a-Lago who are eager to fulfill his promise to exact vengeance upon incumbent Republicans who’ve scorned him, and to ensure every open GOP seat in the 2022 midterms has a MAGA-approved contender vying for it.”
That’s a good start. It’s going to be interesting. Imagine what’s going through the minds of the radical Democrats and their allies the Leftwing Media! They are scared to death of Trump!
The radical Left is not physically scared of Trump, they are scared that he is going to get back in a position where he can continue dismantling the Democrats socialist agenda, and/or that he will inspire like-minded conservatives to join in the quest to wipe out socialism in the United States.
The RINO’s are outnumbered. Half a dozen in the U.S. Senate and about a dozen in the U.S. House.
Maybe Trump will run for the House of Representatives in 2022. Then he could be elected Speaker of the House if the Republicans win the majority there and the Republicans are real close now, and Biden acting like an incompetent dictator will help the Republicans case.
Then Trump can initiate impeachment proceedings against both President Biden (Treason) and Vice President Harris (Inciting Insurrection). Yeah, I know, that’s just wishful thinking. But it’s not impossible. If Trump successfully removed both of them from office, then Trump would be president again, as the Speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency.
And if all that impeachment stuff didn’t work out, Trump could always run for president in 2024, and could add his service in the House to his resume.
Anyway, we’ll know more next Sunday when Trump is scheduled to speak at the CPAC convention.
Governor Huckabee said when Trump takes the stage Sunday, the first words out of his mouth to the assembled conservative crowd should be: “Did you miss me”?
Governor Huckabee seemed to think that would cause an affirmative uproar in the audience. I think it would, too. 🙂
What he is really trying to say is that HE is the world’s last hope. He has been thinking that ever since he discovered that his initials are the same as JFK’s.
Off topic- sorry, but: “To maximize emission cuts, this Boston campus gets its power from the Midwest”
https://energynews.us/2021/02/18/northeast/to-maximize-emission-cuts-this-boston-campus-gets-its-power-from-the-midwest/
Isn’t it stupid to think there is something brilliant about a place in Boston buying power from a wind farm in the Midwest? How does that even happen? Isn’t there extreme inefficiency in this? Or is it some kind of accounting trick?
It’s an accounting trick.
John Kerry is totally out of it.
He’ll say anything for effect.
He has near-zero understanding about energy or environment.
In-the-basement, virtual, teleprompter, absent-minded, China-lover Biden hired him as an ornament to the Dem/Prog follies
He is the Chicken Little that Cried Wolf wearing the Emperors New Clothes.
The world has seen many like him, but they usually are humored and ignored.
Globalist hate that people have free agency in some countries, and removing freedom is number one on their agenda.
If they can take down the US, they will have the oligarch aristocracy they are dreaming of. The power to reward supporters and punish dissenters is the greatest desire for the globalist cabal.
Sorry, but here’s another off topic item- hey, I spend much of my days reading about climate!
“Nine Years After Filing a Lawsuit, Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wants a Court to Affirm the Truth of His Science”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07022021/michael-mann-defamation-lawsuit-competitive-enterprise-institute-national-review/
Since when does any court have the legitimacy to affirm anybody’s science? It’s absurd from the get go.
can you imagine how good it must feel to be the guy saving our planet ? he”s got all the yachts , private planes and houses he can possibly use . ( talk about white privilege ?) but what could possibly top being the planets savior ? he married into the oligarch class .he wanted to be president . what’s left other than being a Superhero ?. pretty hard to reason with an ego and a motivation like that . the rationale that they are saving the planet justifies all excesses in skewering critics and promoting whatever they believe . as a congenital liberal and schellenberger/curry/ Lindzen/lomborg lukewarmer the blinding self righteousness of the alarmists is what I find most alarming . anybody else notice how flooded the internet is with alarmist propaganda .? alarmists don’t see it I guess because they agree with the message, but the sheer preponderance of anti co2 vids on YouTube is pretty amazing . sometimes I wonder where all the money comes from to produce that kind of volume ? ironically the effect of so much unassailable messaging and the totalitarianism that goes with it is invisible to those idealistically becoming professional “climate communicators “. unless and until we can climb down from our current culture of extreme polarization it will just keep getting worse . I think its likely that co2 will continue to rise with increasing population and increasing living standards in developing countries whatever else is done . so what happens if temps don’t rise appreciably .? or even fall by 2050;? if that is even possible given our temperature gatekeepers at NASA ? now that every natural disaster ( volcanos earthquakes , tsunamis } is blamed on CC , maybe if the arctic ice is still there in 2050 and sea level continues its less than meteoric 2 or 3 mm yearly rise that will cause the masses to re-think ? stick with the science and avoid the politics . its hard to imagine what the world might look like and how it might function in 20 years without the power source that has evolved since humans first learned to domesticate combustion . maybe we can start a campaign to popularize the fact that organic means carbon based . ?
Why would anyone believe the serial lies of an intellectually limited gigolo?
Once again Kerry makes a sack of rocks look smart.
Kerry is asking the other major economies to over spend like the U.S. as though they all had a reserve currency to burn through. He is asking this during a pandemic with uncertain outcomes, stressed industries (airlines and tourism), and duplicate spending on grids and protected sectors like autos. Either that or it’s another stage play for appearance sake like most diplomatic misdirection plays.
Why are we acting as if this is actually based in reality? Debating with actual data? Using objective emission measurements of (insert fear inducing acronym)? Please understand that no amount of actual data objectively gathered, measured, and interpreted will convince climatologists, academic elites, the fart sniffing media, or politicians. Why? Because there is no global warming, climate change, disappearing ozone layer, or man made ice age (1970s).
The Feral Leftist Democrats are an unmatched doomsday cult with a how-to-book on
creating world ending crises. The world has never seen such a sadistic cult so popular, so successful, so confident, and with absolute certainty that every thing they say is the absolute truth yet be wrong every time. If anyone of a reasonable mind truly believed the world is ending in the next decade based on carbon energy consumption. This person, their friends, their families, their colleges, their supporters, the scientists, and believers would certainly stop using private jets.
This was never about saving the world; it was always about power. If you don’t believe me; simply tell any Feral Democrat that you don’t believe in global warming. They will kill you and everything you love to prove it and it’s for your own good.
Just re-label the Chinese coal plants as carbon capture and Nordstream 2 as the Great Peace Pipe for Putin. Kerry needs a big win so he can wave the signed agreement in the air for all to see with a big smile, like another diplomat in the 1930s.
Things that must not be said are Russian oil development in the Arctic, South American oil, Indian coal, and a few thousand other things kept under the rug.
Be sure and make fun of Texans while outside the country.
These hypocrites are doing it for us right???
Mr. Kerry, the problem of being one-track minded is this….
A Sea of Garbage: Ocean Floor Landfills (scitechdaily.com)
Translation:
“Trump pushed for the Covid vaccine and succeeded in record time. We can’t keep milking Covid to gain and maintain authority. It’s time to go back to CAGW (or whatever they call it now). But to make it seem even more urgent, let’s say we only have 9 years left instead of 12.”
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look arrogant and come home.