Posted on 09/02/2013 5:37:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate science alarming, irrefutable: Kerry
AFP 3 hours ago
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts.
"The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming," Kerry told a climate conference in Majuro in the Marshall Islands in a video address from Washington.
"If we continue down our current path, the impacts of climate change will only get worse."
Kerry said without strong, immediate action, the world would experience threats to critical infrastructure, regional stability, public health, economic vitality, and the long-term viability of some states.
Washington's top diplomat was addressing climate experts meeting on the eve of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in the Marshall Islands, a low-lying nation where rising seas threaten to swamp many atolls.
"I stand with you in the fight against climate change," he pledged, adding the issue was a global crisis that was beyond one country to fix and needed urgent global action.
"If we act together, there is still time to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change," he said. "But the people of the Pacific Islands know as well as anyone that we also need to prepare communities for the impacts that are already being felt."
Kerry is not attending the PIF, with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell representing the United States instead.
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That syria stuff is old news.
The figure I heard was $600 mil net worth.
The hypocrisy of Kerry, Gore and other liberals who spout they believe in (Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Cooling whatever they choose to call it this year)is that you don’t see them giving up their personal carbon footprint. That is only for the masses. The pigs are entitled to their amenities.
I agree with you, but even if we were going through climate change to the extent that it would have these effects, there is no clear proof that this is caused specifically by human activity. Further, if we had the capacity to markedly lower CO2 levels, tomorrow, would it be smart to do that? Do we really know enough about climate science that we could be assured we wouldn’t screw ourselves by intervening?
Kerry was a C student in college http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/benedetto/2005-06-10-benedetto_x.htm , and despite his ‘progressive intellectual’ demeanor, has no credibility to be weighing in definitively about climate science.
I must say that I’ve been alarmed over climate science. There is something seriously wrong with it, like it isn’t science at all, but weather alchemy, trying to convert fear into heat. Now maybe that’s not what Kerry meant, but he’s an idiot.
Were his lips moving when he said this?
No serious person still believes the climate change hoax.
I’m just glad he’s not in the senate anymore and I’m sure that’s why they voted for him.
John Kerry owns very little. He is little more than a tenant in those properties staying there at the pleasure of his wife.
If he and Gorebull downsized to a rickshaw and a hut, I still wouldn’t pay attention to this crazy talk.
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