Posted on 09/17/2019 9:40:41 AM PDT by simpson96
Former U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, argued at a conference in Melbourne that economic and environmental benefits stem from investments in renewable energy, but climate crisis deniers in power risk running humanity off a cliff, as the Guardian reported.
In his keynote address to the Global Table today — a food and agriculture conference — Kerry took indirect umbrage with the Australian government's inertia on a climate and energy policy while also weighing in on the government's support for the Adani coal mine in Queensland.
"We just can't sit on our asses and leave the political process to neanderthals who don't want to believe in the future," Kerry told the audience, as the Guardian reported. "We have a dearth of leadership, but this will turn."
Kerry cited numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to highlight the growth of the renewable energy sector.
"Nobody's talking about making people unemployed, we're talking about transitioning to better jobs. (The) fastest growing job in the United States of America today - solar power technician. Second fastest growing job in America today - wind power turbine technician," he said, as the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
He also took a swipe at Australia's outsized production of greenhouse gas emissions from its fossil fuel sector and its decision to invest further in the Adani coal mine, which will export a massive amount of fossil fuels to India.
"I got to tell you, we should not be moving to coal, we should not be encouraging coal, we should not be building infrastructure around coal," he said to applause from the audience, according to the Guardian.
After his speech, he told the Sydney Morning Herald that Australia should not invest in major coal infrastructure projects.
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What was his carbon footprint to go all the way to the land down under,
Jackass (not you simpson96 but Jf’nK).
I just got home from a trip to the podiatrist and while waiting I read (scanned) a few issues of AD — Architectural Digest — one pull quote was:
‘By 2050 London will have the same climate as Barcelona*.’
While I REALLY DOUBT London’s climate will warm that much, if at all, what in actuality was stated is:
By 2050 London and Barcelona will have the SAME climate (which just isn’t going to happen)...
AD is ‘revered’ as a penultimate magazine for cutting edge architecture, art, design and writing...
* should have added: ‘has today.’
I had to laugh and put away the magazine...
He didn’t have troops. He had shipmates.
“Wind power technician”. Is that a methane related activity?
Perhaps a little James Taylor music could cure the “climate catastrophe”. A concert in Vietnam perhaps.
One thing I do know is I never spent Christmas in Cambodia with my happy hat.
Kerry, another tool who needs to have a massive stroke.
Neanderthal.
It can’t be me.
He must be talking to you :)
Though i’ve been called much worse by much better.
Driven 100% by government mandate, dictat, fiat and tax give-away incentives. Without that, the "renewable energy" sector would simply not exist. It only makes sense if you live at the end of a ten mile dirt road and the utility quoted you $500,000 to bring in power lines.
“One thing I do know is I never spent Christmas in Cambodia...”
Is that seared in your brain?
“...environmental benefits stem from investments in renewable energy..”
We are now hearing that much of the technology needed to create “renewable energy” depend on rare material...material that China seems to have a lot of. A question for Mr. Kerry do you sir receive any funds from China?
Solar and wind do not have to post bonds to clean up their messes 20 or 30 years down the road the way coal mines have to. There is increasing awareness of just how dirty solar and wind are going to be when we have to dispose of their crap. Today, there is 250,000 tons of solar plant deployed going up to 50 million tons in a couple of decades. There were articles last week questioning how we are going to dispose of that amount of toxic waste. There were articles about the disposal problem for worn-out windmill blades which are not amenable to recycling.
The notion that, just because there is no fuel cost, solar and wind are superior is just plain bullshit.
Coal mining is FAR MORE environmentally responsible because coal mining companies by law have to post huge bonds for reclamation projects to restore the mines to their former natural condition. If such environmental bonds were required of wind and solar equipment companies, none would survive a year. The revenues from such diffuse energy sources simply will not pay for such bonds.
These toys are all scams, pure and simple.
And cavemen, too!
Indeed. I stand corrected.
The original thought stands, however.
India, Africa and China alone use more carbon than the rest of the world combine. And they use twice what they did a decade ago. We can sit here in the US burning old tires for heat and we will never come close to the pollution they make, nor will we put a dent in airborne CO2. The US has been using less fossil fuels than we did in 1992. So, we are not the problem if the problem exists at all.
We are facing a crisis, but it has nothing to do with climate.
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