My list of assclowns that need to be bitch slapped whenever they show their faces in public just keeps getting longer and longer.
Posted on 06/19/2012 10:16:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry slams ‘disgraceful’ climate denial By Ben Geman - 06/19/12 12:29 PM ET
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said there’s a “calculated campaign of disinformation” on climate change that has stalled action on the issue and endangered the country.
“We are living through a story of disgraceful denial, back-pedaling and delay that has brought us perilously close to a climate change catastrophe,” Kerry said.
The Massachusetts senator’s lengthy floor speech called for the public to be “pounding on the doors of Congress” to act, and cataloged global perils such as drought, floods, wildfires, threatened coastlines, disease risks and more, noting “the danger we face could not be more real.”
“In the United States, a calculated campaign of disinformation has steadily beaten back the consensus momentum for action on climate change and replaced it with timidity by proponents in the face of millions of dollars of phony, contrived ‘talking points,’ illogical and wholly unscientific propositions and a general scorn for the truth wrapped in false threats about job loss and tax increases,” Kerry said.
Kerry’s push for a sweeping climate and energy bill collapsed in 2010. His speech comes as climate legislation remains moribund on Capitol Hill and Republicans are seeking to nix the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate emissions from power plants and factories.
It arrives on the eve of the big United Nations sustainable development summit in Brazil that will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit that then-President George H.W. Bush attended.
He said now the climate debate is in a “strange and dangerous place” that the former president would not recognize.
Kerry didn’t call out President Obama’s GOP rival by name, but Mitt Romney has appeared to waver in his belief in human-induced global warming (his campaign says he believes in the human role but doesn’t know its extent). The presumptive GOP nominee supports stripping EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, and opposes cap-and-trade proposals.
“The media hardly murmurs when a candidate for President of the United States in 2012 can walk away from previously held positions and blithely announce that the evidence is not yet there about the impact of greenhouse gases on climate,” Kerry said.
His speech says there’s a strong economic case for tackling climate change and boosting green energy and argued that what’s needed is a “transformative moment in our politics.”
“Our challenge is fundamentally political. It’s not about budgets. It’s not about regulations. It’s about leaders in the country who are unwilling to deal with the truth about climate change, and who have cowed the silent majority into submission with their contrived and concerted attacks without facts,” Kerry said.
“Future generations are counting on us,” he said.
Exactly - although i don't think he means what I mean.
This part is true. All the evidence supporting human-caused global warming has been shown to be fraudulent.
The UN IPCC hockey stick application creates an upward moving hockey stick even when the data is decreasing.
The NOAA data from the '90's was not adjusted for measuring techniques. A simple mistake in procedure? I doubt it.
The predictions that ocean levels would rise by 2 feet by the year 2000, never happened.
Melting polar caps. Satellite data shows the winter of 2011-2012 had the largest mass of ice in the north pole since satellite measurements began.
Even polar bear populations have been growing steadily since governments began tracking them in the '70's.
How about some evidence Kerry? Then make your case.
Why can’t he be both?
That’s pretty much always the answer here,
but a control freak doesn’t usually have the deep-seated need for false righteousness.
Massive killing of people doesn’t make one a “good person”,
and this claim is the primary desire of the bleating sheeperal.
My list of assclowns that need to be bitch slapped whenever they show their faces in public just keeps getting longer and longer.
Someone needs to tell this liberal idiot the people have caught on to this scam and it is dead on arrival!!
I think their prediction of mass starvation may come true after all,
but it’s going to be caused by global liberalism and have nothing to do with the climate.
Global Warming on Free Republic
There should be a law where billionaires who don’t pay their taxes should have their tongues cut out.
To see a man that upset and hear him speak so strongly on the issue tells me one thing.
He invested a lot of money in one of Barack Obama’s Green Schemes and lost it all.
That should read C R U
Actually, 'GRU' (Soviet Red Army intelligence) might make sense regarding J F'n K: it wouldn't surprise me a bit if he was once on their payroll.
All your other points were good and true. This one above is not. Last winter's ice peak was about normal for the satellite era, but now the ice is back to the low end of the range
That point can be expanded. Polar bears were on the road to extinction even with normal ice in the 70's due to excessive hunting. Then a worldwide treaty went into effect and now their numbers are steadily growing independent of the ice. That it true despite that some populations are still being hunted at a rate of 10% per year.
It is a monolithic leftist cult. The school teachers are still indoctrinating the little minds about the invincible anthropogenic global warming / climate change dispite the need to add in “climate change” because the global warming issue became so cycle related.
If they can just get people to be a little dumber, they will get all the control they need.
It is a monolithic leftist cult. The school teachers are still indoctrinating the little minds about the invincible anthropogenic global warming / climate change dispite the need to add in “climate change” because the global warming issue became so cycle related.
If they can just get people to be a little dumber, they will get all the control they need.
ROTFL! Dead ringer!
Bravo, but you forget to say that he “earned” a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts. He's a bonafidy hero!
If the science is too complicated, I know I can always rely on Al Gore and John Kerry to explain it to me.
If Algore had a little brother, how could he NOT have BS on his breath?
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