Posted on 03/11/2009 6:38:16 PM PDT by mowowie
A leading US senator warned on Wednesday that deferring potentially costly actions to combat climate change because of the global economic slump amounted to "a mutual suicide pact." "Climate change is not governed by a recession, it's governed by scientific facts about what's happening to Earth. And you either accept the realities of the science or you don't," said Democratic Senator John Kerry. He spoke after some of his colleagues argued that the United States should not impose a cap-and-trade system for so-called greenhouse gases blamed for global warming because it amounts to a painful tax during a deep downturn.
"You don't enter a mutual suicide pact because the economy is having a hard time right now," Kerry said after meeting with UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon seven months before global climate change talks in Denmark's capital.
"You certainly have room to negotiate at what the rate and schedule is within that, but it doesn't mean you can sit around and do nothing," said Kerry.
But the Massachusetts lawmaker and onetime presidential hopeful seemed to douse hopes that the United States would arrive in Copenhagen with the US Congress having already passed sweeping legislation to curb emissions.
He said the House of Representatives would likely pass its measure in June and that key Senate committees could act "before the summer" on legislation but warned that the whole Senate would have "a hard time getting that done." ''''''
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Listening to Kerry is a death wish.
Kerry is evidently trying to position himself as a taller, more cadaverous version of Al Gore.
It’s all he has left...
Or throw it over a wall...
John Kerry, former North Vietnamese Ambassador to France.
Kerry doesn’t have the brains God gave a ballpeen hammer!
We are currently facing a minimum of 30 years of cooling.
Starting things off with a bang we are heading into a World Wide Drought and Famine of Biblical proportions.
It will probably be followed by a steep drop into Ice Age conditions (we are at the precipice by all accounting).
Folks who persist in yammering about Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases are doing us all a terrible disservice.
Should they survive the famine we will be hunting them down to have them over for dinner eh!
I am ashamed he is wearing a UWM shirt.
How very international and cosmopolitan.
and, many purple hearts
Great. It’s below freezing here with 35 MPH winds and flood warnings just to the North of me. I could use some global warming.
I thought he as a Doolittle raider or something.
Vietnam you say....
It would really be nice to really know which of these guys are:
1. fellow travelers who know they are using environmentalism to attack the economy because Marxism is out of fashion after the fall of the Soviet Union
2. useful idiots or dupe who have fallen for the hoax and really believe this.
Of course given all the recent evidenc you must really be a in idiot to still believe in global warming, so I am guessing more and more we are seeing people in category 1 speaking out. On the other hand Kerry is really really really simple, so does he belong in category 1 or category 2?
The debate is over.
Looks like the hottest days were when the poor bastards didn’t have AC.
I couldn’t imagine.
Dual Water bottles?
That shows serious forward thinking.
I might just be starting to lean towards this cool looking guy....
He’s quite nuanced....
If somebody already have reasons for not trusting them,
These people(people? i wonder) Transmit that reason(s) at 800 megawatts......and nodody cares.
I find this very strange and still researching Montana.
Anyone want to join me?
Just as important as Andy Martin is to the Internet.
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