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.
All he has ever done is released a copy from which he has removed his dishonorable discharge for wearing his uniform to anti-war demonstrations and Jimmy Carter's pardon for same.
A TRUE testament to how far OUT of TOUCH Kerry really is.
Kerry is a gaping rectum... some things never change!
Actually I agree with him 100% on that much...
That non scientifically trained politician probably calls it (baritone voice) "SCIENCE"
The whole scene is ludicrously reminiscent of Henny Penny and her falling sky panic after a crabapple fell on her head.
One climate change I would like to see is John Kerry removed from the Congressional climate.
Somebody needs to ask idiots like Kerry what would they have done to prevent the last ice age from occurring.
FUJFK
Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” • New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson
Well, he’s right about one thing: ‘“Future generations are counting on us,” he said.’ It’s why we’re working so hard on kicking Kerry and his fundamentally anti-American ilk out of elective office (and why we need to purge them from the civil service too).
There is a calculated campaign of mis-information. It’s spelled J A M E S H A N S E N or in short form G R U.
That should read C R U.
Yea, I have followed Kerry’s rise to fame, disparaging honest soldiers and patriots to make his way to fame and fortune, mostly by marrying women of wealth and sticking his nose up teddy’s butt.
I just flat do not believe anything that man could say. I wouldn’t believe him if he said he stepped on a dog turd and then wiped it all over his face. Even if I saw it myself. There would be a catch somewhere.
Blessings, Bobo
Yea, I have followed Kerry’s rise to fame, disparaging honest soldiers and patriots to make his way to fame and fortune, mostly by marrying women of wealth and sticking his nose up teddy’s butt.
I just flat do not believe anything that man could say. I wouldn’t believe him if he said he stepped on a dog turd and then wiped it all over his face. Even if I saw it myself. There would be a catch somewhere.
Blessings, Bobo
Poor terrified libtard. So terrified of technology and economic progress like all the other capitalism hating environmentalists that he can’t think straight.
Ha, let’s talk about a “calculated campaign”. Even the grandkids can’t avoid it: “The Penguins of Madagascar” cartoon on April 22, Earth Day, did a well-publicized, full half-hour episode, and a very heavy-handed one at that, that could have been written by Al Gore.
It had every talking point — “2000 pages of hard data” (in this case) was irrefutable; anybody who didn’t play along (Skipper, in this case) was both portrayed as, and explicitly described as, crazy; man (excuse me, penguins) caused it, and only expensive science could fix it.
Politicians don’t like it when a source of money is threatened.
Kerry’s one of those that are “on the edge” with me...
is he really a stupid jackass who needs a feeling of righteousness so much that he’s clinging to this green religion,
or is he one of the evil people that want massive population reduction, massive reduction of lifestyle for the masses, and total control by the elite...
He could fall either way.
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