John Kerry is yet another in a long line of big carbon footprint liberals who want Other People to be forced to pay taxes and fees and lose liberty and choice, but refuses to make changes in his own life. He’s also unhappy that an actual debate would occur
John Kerry: Disband your climate denial panel, Mr. President
Many have become immune or anesthetized to the daily assault on truth that is the Trump presidency, an alternative reality where North Korea has denuclearized and Russia might not have attacked our elections in 2016. It would be laughable were it not dangerous. Presidents are supposed to hold consensus together, not invent fictions to fray it.
But the administration’s most dangerous collision with facts has been its effort to paralyze U.S. efforts to join the nations of the world in confronting climate change. The White House plans to convene “experts†to “determine†whether climate change is a national security threat. We know what the outcome will be: President Trump’s council of doubters and deniers will convene to undo a 26-year-old factual consensus that climate change is a national-security threat multiplier.
As we careen toward irreversible environmental tipping points, we have no time to waste debating alternative facts only to invest years more reestablishing trust in the real ones. No panel 10 years from now can put the ice sheets back together or hold back rising tides.
Careen! Kerry attempts to make the argument that because some people Believe in man-caused climate change, some of whom are military (remember, the high ranking military members are, by necessity, political animals, and will toe the line in what their superiors want), that we shouldn’t actually debate this whole thing. Why are Warmists always afraid to debate? He calls the panel a “kangaroo court”. Why the fear of a debate, Mr. Kerry? And when are you giving up your own big carbon footprint?
And let’s not forget that Kerry fought hard against the Cape Wind Project, because the wind turbines would have messed up the view for his rich buddies.
And it doesn’t end with military impacts. While climate change didn’t lead to the rise of the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, the country’s severe drought and the government’s inability to cope with it helped create the volatility that militants exploited to seize villages, butcher teachers and kidnap hundreds of innocent girls.
He’s literally blaming everything on Other People’s use of fossil fuels.
We can spend the next two years debating whether two plus two equals five. But it would mean someday a young American in uniform will likely be put in harm’s way because truth lost out to talking heads. Debate how to address the climate national security threat, not whether it’s real. Mr. President, listen to our military leaders and disband your climate denial panel.
Once you trot out the denial stuff, you’ve abandoned reason and fled into smearing. And people who failed to take the national security threats seriously in the wake of 9/11, which Kerry mentions offhandedly, just because George W. Bush was president, people who were soft on Islamic terrorists, shouldn’t be talking about national security.
