It’s funny how you get all these rich and powerful folks whose carbon footprints are massive attempting to tell Other People how to live their lives. Well, not really tell so much as get government to apply force. This is one of the major points that changed me from a warmist to a Skeptic
John Kerry Recruits Bill Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio for New Climate Coalition
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday announced the launch “World War Zero,†a star-studded coalition of former heads of state and Hollywood figures dedicated to advocating for solutions to climate change.
The forthcoming organization’s website states their chief objective is to mobilize resources to tackle global warming in a way akin to the Western allies in World War II.
The New York Times reports that John Kerry, who served as a senator in Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, has recruited former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and former Republican governors John Kasich and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A-listers such as actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, and rocker Sting are also on board. Over 60 figures are said to have signed up for the coalition.
“We’re going to try to reach millions of people, Americans and people in other parts of the world, in order to mobilize an army of people who are going to demand action now on climate change sufficient to meet the challenge,†Kerry said in an interview with the Times.
That squeeing NY Times article is interesting in that “reporter” Lisa Friedman fails to ask any substantive questions directly to Kerry or in wondering as to whether all these folks, including Kerry, will be giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their own lives carbon neutral. She notes in the second paragraph
The name, World War Zero, is supposed to evoke both the national security threat posed by the earth’s warming and the type of wartime mobilization that Mr. Kerry argued would be needed to stop the rise in carbon emissions before 2050. The star-studded group is supposed to win over those skeptical of the policies that would be needed to accomplish that.
Right, right, this is totally going to convince us. Especially when they all take unnecessary fossil fueled trips on private jets to the UN IPCC meeting in Spain.
With a starting budget of $500,000, Mr. Kerry said, he and other coalition members intend to hold town meetings across the country starting in January. Members will head to battleground states key to the 2020 election, but also to military bases where climate discussions are rare and to economically depressed areas that members say could benefit from clean energy jobs.
So, fossil fueled trips, eh? Will they be willing to listen to Skeptics, or will it just be a once sided diatribe? And, seriously, do they think Skeptics are going to listen to Democrats, squishy Republicans, and Hollywood celebs? All of whom are massive hypocrites?
Oh, and keep Bill Clinton away from the young ladies.
