Guest essay by Eric Worrall
He talks – yet nobody acts. Has John Kerry finally noticed that nobody cares what he says about climate change?
‘Mutual suicide’: US issues stark warning on climate change
‘Our heads in the sand at our own peril,’ US envoy for climate warns, as leaders discuss security implications of global warming.
The United States has warned inaction by world powers on climate change is tantamount to a “mutual suicide pact” after countries such as China, India, and Russia expressed scepticism on the global security threat it posed.
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“But even though climate change has been repeatedly called ‘an existential threat’, we honestly have yet as a world to respond with the urgency required,” said Kerry.
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‘Serious doubts’
Russia, India and China said climate change should be tackled in other global forums, not at the UN’s main grouping on imminent world threats.
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“We agree that climate change issues can exacerbate conflict. But are they really the root cause of these conflicts? There are serious doubts about this,” said Moscow’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/24/mutual-suicide-us-issues-stark-warning-on-climate-change
The breathtaking dysfunctionality of what is happening would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
China and India have real issues to discuss, but all Kerry wants to talk about is climate change.
In 2020, nuclear armed China and India only just averted an all out war, after clashes in the disputed Ladakh Highlands near the Indian border with Chinese Tibet led to military fatalities and lots of heated rhetoric.
Russia is trying to lead an effort to broker a lasting peace accord between China and India.
But the US envoy is not pulling his weight. I suspect that every time the other participants try to talk about possible resolutions for the Chinese / Indian border dispute, Kerry makes outlandish claims about how if they all made greater efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, everyone would be able to live in harmony.
Of course, other countries might show more interest in John Kerry’s climate grandstanding, if Biden passes his two trillion dollar taxpayer cash giveaway.
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I never understood why these so-concerned-with-AGW-people don’t remove themselves from the carbon emission equation by becoming net negative.
It would be interesting to
compare the average single home owning, blue collar workers carbon footprint against Kerry, who owns multiple large mansions, fleets of gas guzzling vehicles, aircraft and big boats. Is he worth 500 of us, maybe 1000 In terms of carbon emissions? I’m sure satan will greet him warmly in hell….
Yep, let’s do Mr Gates too
I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: Senate Democrats talk about climate threat, increase risk. Instapundit
Instead John Kerry, Bill Gates, Al Gore ask…Don’t they know who I am?!
You have to give Bill half marks for being half a heretic-
TerraPower: why Bill Gates thinks nuclear energy is the future (inverse.com)
The only prominent green advocate I’ve ever seen who lives like he believes is Ed Begley. The rest of them “justify” their lifestyle as “necessary” for spreading the word.
Because they don’t believe a word of what are saying, just propaganda.
I think it’s worse than that, perhaps it’s a strong delusion.
John Kerry on the Greenhouse Effect – YouTube
Ozone what a dict some one needs to explain about ice ages glaciations and inter glacials like the current Holocene .OMG this idiot is in charge
10’000 years ago the last great glacier of the Pleistocene Ice Age Epoch, the Laurentide Ice Sheet was an almost mile high glacier that covered most of Canada and extended into the US as far as Pennsylvania. It took about 2,000 years to melt creating the Canadian lake country, the Great Lakes, the Ogalaga Aquafier and other geological landmarks. Why did it melt? My guess is Indian campfires and buffalo farts,
Kerry seems to be even more clueless and scientifically illiterate than Al Gore. Note to Kerry and his friends: It’s not suicide when you cut off peoples heat and electricity and they freeze to death. It’s murder.
He’s a human zero. If he didn’t marry into the Heinz fortune, he’d probably been shilling for someone on late nite TZ
Wow. I din’t know the greenhowse gaz wuz a thin half-inch layer way up thar!! And it’s just like a reel greenhowse! Now I unnerstand.
Semantic games, conceptual corruption, conflation of logical domains, with true believers on top. Faith (i.e. trust), religion (i.e. moral philosophy), and ideology (i.e. realization) are separable but often complementary. Principles matter.
Worse. Climate change is a red herring for what they really want: Global communism with them and their kind ruling over the rest of us.
I disagree.
“Climate Change” is clearly the wolf in sheep’s clothing for most Progressives who almost by definition are Globalists. (The UN, BHO, Gates, et al.)
But the scary thing is that Kerry is an “aged Greta”; he really believes this Climate Alarm nonsense.
Biden also is different; he is absolutely “clueless” and will go in any direction his handlers and far Left promoters ask him to. He understands he is in his present role only because of them, and he’s not going to ruin a good thing.
No, Mr Theresa Heinz believes in whatever keeps his ass in luxury and flitting about the world in private jets hobnobbing with the rich and famous.
it feels pretty good to be the
guy in charge of saving the planet
Nine Year Kerry and Billy Gates and others need to put up or shut up. They can spend billions on carbon sequestration to show how it’s done – no givernment required – just plant trees….convert coal plants to NG…etc. – just requires money – I hear the sounds of silence.
You nailed it, T.C.
If it’s such an existential emergency, wouldn’t Kerry and Gates and other GEBs (Greedy Evil Bastards) spend 90% to 95% of their fortune – and still be quite wealthy – on bird Cuisinarts, solar installations of various sorts, buying e-buses for cities, unicorn ranches, caaahbon sequestration, and other greenie whatnots?
OH!, but non, mon ami… they need OTHER people to spend their money on that stuff. They never know when they might need some scratch to snatch up a bargain on a super-estate or mega-yacht. It’s for the children, their children, doncha know.
SPIT!
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Idle thought; does John Kerry even like ketchup? I’m seeing him as more of a French fries with truffle sauce kind of guy. Pretentious just because he can be.
He loves ketchup (or is it catsup?), but only by marriage.
https://youtu.be/P2-1basQhX8
Interestingly, this was the exact reference I had in mind.
Yes, a suicide pact should not be shared, but a personal experience. Self-abort, cannibalize his profitable parts, and sequester his carbon pollutants. Forward!
I wonder if Secretary Kerry knows that the human contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere has only been one tenth of one ppm per year for the past forty years?
You know it’s bad when Putin is the only reasonable leader in the room. That is the global crisis!!
How about
A friendly game of pond hockey…horse face! Plenty of ice here!
‘Horse-face’? More of a donkey:
Wrong side!🤣
It’s AOC, pre hair removal.
Actually, Putin is remarkably rational, practical, and even moral in his character. Baby steps, I suppose.
You mean “Putin the poisoner?”
One baby step closer to “vlad the impaler”.
You actually believed that… wooooow.
Nut case John Kerry is clearly in it for the power and money. Common sense is irrelevant.
“We’ll never get a big enough buffoon to go out in public and say this stuff, day after day”.
“Let’s give the job to Kerry. We’ll make up some important sounding title”.
“”Perfect! He’ll be all over it. You’re a genius”.
“Nut case” doesn’t even begin to describe Kerry seeing as he’s so close to the levers of real power.
I’m more worried that what he wants done would be a suicide pact. To paraphrase Carl Sagan: “A perfectly natural event, and humanities response? Suicide.” He was speaking of asteroid impact, but it still applies to any natural event, triggering an over reaction.
A few million years ago, CO2 levels were 10 to 20 times higher than they are today and life not only did not end, it thrived.
Since then we evolved crazy ant leaders.
The reason is CO2 IR energy is too weak to penetrate the skin of the planet’s surface which is needed to produce warming. The energy stays in the biosphere where it can be used by life. Every night it is radiated away. Doesn’t matter what the concentration is.
Somebody get word to Putin that he should agree to work closely with the Saudis on oil supply cuts but with the added stipulation to foment chaos in energy markets with price shocks whenever Kerry steps on a jet to play his verbal game. “Hitting ’em where they ain’t” as they said in the Pacific campaign but in this case it’s their missing mental status.
The US economy has been severely compromised, yet the conversation revolves around fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Great picture of John Heinz Kerry, he is doing the “hockey player” stare, where you incline your head down and look up at the intended audience. He is 100% certain that none of the nonsense he is peddeling will affect his lifestyle in any way, and besides it’s fun to run around the world and be wined and dined by like-minded bureaucrats.
Nine Year Kerry is the kinda guy who looks for a parade and then quickly jumps in front and pretends to lead. This country could be great again….if only we can rid ourselves of Biden-Kerry-Piglosi-Schumer – demrats.
You must give them more time to make it obvious to more voters first–and markets.
It would appear that the climate will make things obvious to voters in the next year. They will need all their waffle to explain why the entire Northern Hemisphere is cold when they are trying to stop ‘warming’.
IF we are lucky things are sufficiently far from the ‘glacial attractor’ that in a decade or so things may recover back. But it is more than likely that the climate could go permanently glacial as we end the Holocene.
Do not sell your coats
Here it’s -30C this morning. It’s been down here every night for the last 2 weeks. First real winter in a decade! February is usually a little less cold than end Dec-early Jan. Not this year.
I am supposed to believe it’s getting warmer all the time?
With 40 below zero temperatures in upper New York State each winter, AGW doesn’t seem to be making my area any hotter, but I wish it would real soon. I’m getting too old to chop wood.
We need to start asking how they will deal with colder winters.
They’ve bloviated — that global warming caused climate change which causes colder winters.
Ignore the rest. Ask the politicians how we will deal with the coming colder winters. Hold their feet to the snow…..
Lurch is a buffoon.
You are being too kind.
Chicken Little hyperbole in service to a doomsday fad is intellectual suicide; i.e. nobody sane takes this nonsense seriously.
Then we’re in real trouble because most of the world is either crazy, stoopid, or crazy-stoopid
Does seem to be.
Putin should agree with Kerry in the short run with oil supply cuts as Russia’s contribution and then use $120 oil to rake in more investors to Arctic oil development and more pipelines to China. Stupid is as stupid does in this Administration.
And its all built on the quicksand of these inane UN climate “models”.
““But even though climate change has been repeatedly called ‘an existential threat’, we honestly have yet as a world to respond with the urgency required,” said Kerry.”
So, according to this mental midget, the fact that someone has called it an existential threat, and done so over and over again, means that urgent action is required?
That everyone needs to accept that whoever said that is speaking from some position of deep insight and knowledge of the future?
Even when the urgent action deemed to be required by people of Kerry’s ilk can be shown to solve nothing, even when supposing for the sake of argument that the alarmist view is correct?
Their so-called solutions exclude the only known means to actually produce the energy we need without emitting any CO2!
Countries which have gone whole hog for renewables have done little more than throw their populations into a state of abject energy poverty!
And as if that was not ridiculous enough, Kerry and his oh-so excitable alarmist brethren have the distinction of being the very individuals on the planet whose lifestyle makes them the very worst offenders of the “climate crimes” they themselves have delineated.
If actions speak louder than words, and they do, no one should believe a word of the things these people say or agree to do one single thing, or consent to spending one red cent, up to and until people like John Kerry start acting like they believe the things they say.
Those who seek to control us would be very happy to leave the rest of us freezing and shivering while we starve in the dark.
The obvious problems in countries that have gone “climate crazy” are explained away the same as for countries that have gone “socialism crazy:” We’ll get it right this time!
John Kerry is our Prince Charles!
Absolute zero scientific background. Private jets, limousines and yachts for me but not for thee.
Nice!! +50
“John Kerry is our Prince Charles!”
I can let you have the real one for a very reasonable price !
In fact if you promise to keep them all you can take the whole inbred family for free, buyer collects (Ts & Cs apply)
carry the lad that was born to be king
over the sea to – Any goddamn place but here
No returns or refunds!
We already have one member too many. Please come get Harry. You can have Me-again for free.
Kerry: “even though climate change has been repeatedly called ‘an existential threat’”
Called by whom? It’s certainly not in the impact papers. The economic synthesis of those projects that the much richer world of the future will be slightly less rich as a result of global warming. There is *no* plausible scientific argument for climate change being an “existential threat” to humans, and that self-proclaimed climate scientists don’t slap this nonsense down every chance they get shows exactly how pro-science they really are.
But then, I suppose embracing adaptation as the logical climate change policy might prove an “existential threat” to an awful lot of climate science funding.
Agreed. So if he is so obviously wrong we should ask : Does he believe his own words or is he pursuing another agenda? I really can’t tell. If he is lying he is good at it and persistent so he must think it is important to fool us. If he is sincere he has successfully ignored the evidence and been duped himself by the consensus cries. I wonder if he has any idea who Richard Lindzen or John Christy are. Neither possibility says anything positive about him.
Says the guy with the private jet.
John Kerry warned, “We only have about a 10-year window left to try to get this right.” That was in January, 2008.
https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/startup-for-an-ailing-planet/
So these junkets continue while the rest of us use online meetings on a daily basis?
It’s hard for me to believe that I am actually agreeing with Russia, China, and India this time. But the pasty-faced, sclerotic-looking and aged John Kerry repeating bromides from an earlier era, trying to revive a “crisis” that nobody else cares about, is a pathetic figure. He and Biden complement each other – two old fools who don’t understand that energy, especially electricity as well as fuel, are vital to the prosperity of this country. We need to get energy from as many different sources as possible, not force one subset (renewables) of a power mix upon the rest of us. Especially in the name of a so-called “solution” – carbon reduction – in need of a problem.
That was my thought. I’m with China, India, and Russia on this.
Electricity in Russia, even with the ancient infrastructure is much cheaper than in England & Germany, and almost all their trains have been powered by it for decades, so it logically must be more reliable than “advanced economies” like the UK and “Texas”.
Funnily enough the solar and wind powered percentage of the grid is practically non existent.
It was WW1 and 2 together that made the case for an income tax on the middle class and sales tax for the states to pay for all the spending and debt. The next two world wars are COVID19 spending and faux climate crisis to justify the next run at them–for the children. You have a target on your back and you don’t even know it.
How ugly, dumb, insensitive, cruel, hypocritical & mendacious, scientifically illiterate, socially inept, stupid, ignorant and inhuman is it possible for one single person to be…
Incomprehensibly so.
Ok, someone voted me down, so I think I want to point out that I was answering the question, how dumb etc etc can they be.
My answer to this rhetorical question was, incomprehensibly dumb.
Meaning so damn dumb it is impossible to understand how anyone could even possibly be so idiotic.
For the record.
DOH!
My first downvote, and I bet it was all a misunderstandin’.
Someone who shoots at a pile of rice and the rice wins – meets your description perfectly.
did he get a medal for that one? if so, he got the sympathy win & the rice got nuthn.
Having this moronic walking turd making puerile and disingenuous statements about climate…
…. will wake a lot of people up to the LIES and DECEIT behind the climate agenda.
Globally they are spending 5000 billion dollars annually to halt CO2/climate change (5 trillion) which is advertised as the best way to help people and the environment, to be doubled to 10,000 $billion by 2030. Kerry says this will pay for itself by halting severe weather. This public money is funnelled into mysterious climate investment funds run by banks and capital investment companies with unelected boards. Much of the cash eventually flows to companies like GE, Siemens, their shareholders, and private energy companies. Much of it spent in colonial style monopolisation of energy markets in the developing world. They then have the audacity to turn around and charge consumers more for operations and delivery. Meanwhile healthcare, social safety, education, infrastructure investment, and environmental protection are woefully underfunded and undervalued.
Kerry says this will pay for itself by halting severe weather.
Are we to believe there were no hurricanes, tornados, floods and forest fires in 1800?
That’s what he does. He quotes the price tag for cleaning up after a storm and says this will be avoided if we pour all resources into returning CO2 to 0.03% instead of the terrifying 0.04%. His statements are against all evidence yet he claims to trust science – it’s laughable.
We’re spending 99% of our effort and money on 1% of the AGW problem. Figure out the logic of that and you can understand why Biden got elected.
Actually, during the 1700’s the French duke of Orleans, who first settled what is now New Orleans, wrote back to the French king that he didn’t want to build a city there, due to frequent floods and tropical storms. Not much has changed since!
Best point of the discussion and totally refutes his argument. Not that he would notice.
But the reality is that, based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype , there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale t support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. It is all a matter of science. But even if we could somehow stop the Earth’s climate form changing, extreme weather events and sea level rise would continue unabated because they are part of the current climate. Mankind does not know what the optimum global climate actually is let alone how to achieve it. Fighting climate change is a wasted effort.
Not sure humans aren’t partly responsible. Increases in ocean salinity are possibly one of the factors leading to recent warming. Just how much humans affect it with our multitude of uses for salt is unknown.
I can’t stop my mouse!
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This is who I see, Addams family rather than Munsters.
Yeah, but the original Lurch can do this
And this:
Most people do not know it, but before Kerry got involved with politics, he flirted with an acting career.
He famously auditioned for the part in Pulp Fiction that eventually went to John Travolta, but which was originally supposed to have been acted by Michael Madsen.
Madsen was Vic Vega…his brother.
In case you doubt it, and do not laugh, he is very sensitive:
(6) Addams Family Pulp Fiction Dance – YouTube
Thank you! I can REALLY APPRECIATE THAT! 😉
Al least Herman was honest and a straight shooter! He even admitted his mistakes…
Meanwhile, back in REALITY LAND
…. the Earth continues to get greener
https://notrickszone.com/2021/02/24/nasa-vegetation-index-globe-continues-rapid-greening-trend-sahara-alone-shrinks-700000-sq-km/
Why do morons like HATE LIFE SO MUCH !
All that vegetation requires energy to maintain. I wonder where the climate cabal thinks that energy comes from? One might think an intelligent designer would build in some energy trapping right to the growth facilitator.