Posted on 02/26/2019 3:25:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
John Kerry: Disband your climate denial panel, Mr. President
By John F. Kerry February 25 at 3:48 PM
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.
Begin with the kind of facts that John Adams called “stubborn things.” In 1991, President George H.W. Bush’s administration assessed in its National Security Strategy that threats such as climate change, which “respect no international boundaries,” were “already contributing to political conflict.” Each of Bush’s successors included climate change in their National Security Strategies. Even after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush’s administration made room in the 2002 National Security Strategy to warn of “dangerous human interference with the global climate.”
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shut up, Lurch
Go Away JK
Shut up, Kerry. You don’t know anything about the subject. You’re just spewing political crap, talking points, because that’s all you democraps do: put out talking points.
The more they squeal the more I know the President is on target. Notice not one article from any dem on infanticide. They are evil.
Investigating climate change data to confirm threats to national security is brilliant. If the data and conclusions are found to be inaccurate and exaggerated, then a counter narrative is established. America will not trash its economy and way of life on dubious data and junk science.
The Donald is a genius.
Investigating climate change data to confirm threats to national security is brilliant. If the data and conclusions are found to be inaccurate and exaggerated, then a counter narrative is established. America will not trash its economy and way of life on dubious data and junk science.
The Donald is a genius.
In a FAIR world, Kerry would have served TIME in PRISON!
John, don’t you have another rich lady to marry?
He should spend time in prison for treason, if nothing else.
Oh, yes. Get “rid of farting cows and airplanes”, Raze all our homes and have high speed rail to Hawaii. Yeah, right Kerry. Good political position.
He needs to be in jail, how much of that Iran deal went into his private personal accounts
AMEN!
I needed some comic relief. Thanks.
Brie-breath is just lashing out between sips of cognac at his French coastal estate where he unwinds between trips to Brussels to meet with his handlers because Trump’s got their number.
“No panel 10 years from now can put the ice sheets back together or hold back rising tides.”
I wonder how much he gets paid to spew the same crap for the last 20 years? He’s lucky the ice sheets haven’t melted like he said they would, or he’d have to have somebody write a new speech for him.
Their is a movie on XFinity (and elsewhere I believe) called “Ride the Thunder”. I heard of it on FR. About Vietnam after we left.
True story. Several shots have the TV on with John Kerry, Jane Fonda, etc. telling their lies. Pretty amazing to hear it “first hand”.
“American POW’s during any war have never been treated better.....” (Hanoi Jane).
Kerry’s having flashbacks when he read Trump is meeting Kim in Vietnam. Kerry remembers when he was a TRAITOR helping the N. Vietnamese during the war.
Observe the first amendement, and keep your religion to yourself Kerry.
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