Posted on 01/17/2015 12:53:39 PM PST by Libloather
Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for "ambitious, concrete action" to combat climate change after a government agency released new data about global temperatures.
"What’s surprising is that anyone is surprised that 2014 was the hottest year on record. The science has been screaming at us for a long, long time," Kerry said Friday in a statement released by the State Department.
Kerry said historic temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weathers events like torrential rain and droughts "are having devastating economic, security and health impacts across the planet."
His comments were in response to a new report released by the National Climate Data Center that said, in part, that 2014 was the warmest year globally since temperatures on land and ocean surfaces were first recorded in 1880.
Kerry's statement came during the tail end of a two-day visit to Paris, which he scheduled after the Obama administration came under fire for not sending any high-level U.S. officials to the city's anti-terror unity rally over the weekend. At least 40 world leaders and more than a million people attended.
While the White House admitted early this week that it erred in not sending a higher-profile U.S. representative than the ambassador to Sunday's rally, which came after last week's deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, no top U.S. officials have apologized for their absence.
"I think we certainly got the substance right, but it would have been great to participate in the parade and we're delighted Secretary Kerry is there now," Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Obama, said Thursday morning on CNN.
Kerry, who has helped coordinate the Obama administration's response to challenges such as Ebola and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has repeatedly issued strong warnings on climate change, saying in September the three issues should be handled with the same "immediacy."
Kerry said the report is "just another sound in a steady drumbeat that is growing increasingly more urgent."
"The question is when and how the world will respond," Kerry said.
But first a stop in Austria for his annual neck bolt tightening.
Has John Kerry ever been right about any issue, ever?
(Rhetorical question only - of course he hasn’t)
The evil gigolo and his junk science.
John Kerry of course wants to make energy more expensive and price every day life out of the reach of most people in the name of the climate change hoax.
Never mind that the issue didn’t even register with voters in last November’s mid-term election. Nothing quite succeeds like a failed policy and Kerry is doubling down on it.
And his insane belief in it will only hurt America.
Yes, it's saying "Don't Listen to those fools!!!!!"
Doubtless, she brought it back to "life" with a few gin-soaked raisins.
Yes, it’s screaming “global warming is a fraud and a hoax.”
Poor bastards ... they all think they're so damn important, but they're all just a bunch of wankers.
/cynical rant off :)
MM
Give it a rest, Frenchie. No one is listening to your "climate science" screams.
The question I would like answered by the Climate Change crowd is what is the optimum temperature of the Earth. Should it be colder, or maybe being warmer is a good thing. Was the Earth at is best in 1897, or 1955, or 1066, or 1,000,000 BC. So when was the climate at its best. Most people probably do not know, but technically the Earth is still in the latest Ice Age. So logic tells me that it will end, like the four that proceeded this one, thus the world will get warmer. The truth is that the Earth’s climate has been changing since there has been an Earth, since Man’s time on this ball has been a spec in time (If the Earth’s history was a clock, we arrived at 11:55 PM) Climate Change alarmism is a manifestation of Man’s hubris and ego.
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