Posted on 12/21/2012 11:24:57 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
John Kerry has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post comparing the inaction in response to a heating planet to the inaction of President Bush before September 11th.
Kerry reaches deep into the bag of global warming hysterics to uncork this piece, saying that the fate of the nation hinges upon the passing of some sort of climate change legislation.
It's ridiculously over the top, but we suppose it might get a few supporters all riled up and ready to fight for the bill this fall. Of course, it's so over the top that it might just turn off a bunch of people:
On August 6, 2001, President George W. Bush famously received an intelligence briefing entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Thirty-six days later, al Qaeda terrorists did just that.
Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window -- if even that -- before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.
Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. Here are a few you need to know: Atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels have risen 38% in the industrial era, from 280 to 385 parts per million (ppm). Scientists have warned that anything above 450 ppm -- a warming of 2 degrees Celsius -- will result in an unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change.
The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.
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Boehner needs to build a pookah in the basement of the Capitol whither people found guilty of contempt of Congress can be ushered immediately, without release into the custody of one of the Executive Departments (which have to be assumed hostile to the rule of law here), there to take up semipermanent residence at the first sign of contumelious refusal to testify fully and with complete and convincingly sincere divulgence, on any topic whatsoever that Congress may inquire about.
My suspicion is that McCain, with maybe two years left in his current term, will choose to resign -- and will his seat to the charming Megan, always the loyal Republican -- in her father's image.
In any event, I imagine that McCain would do everything in his power to keep Palin from succeeding him.
So, I take it waterboarding would be okay then? Of course as long as there are no EPA violations with regard to navigable water-ways? LOL!
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