Posted on 09/10/2009 12:17:54 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) kicked off the new campaign on Thursday to create a national security push to pass climate change legislation. Climate change, Kerry argued, will likely trigger some of the most critical threats to national security in the future, and should be addressed with aggressive action this year.
His speech was the keynote address at a conference that the American Security Project, a bipartisan national security think tank, hosted at The George Washington University. The event was titled, not so subtly, “The Day Before,” and marks the eve of the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is working with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to coauthor a Senate climate bill this year.
“Eight years ago today, on September 10th, 2001, America experienced one last moment of complacency before plunging into crisis,” said Kerry. “That day, the world was already being transformed, but too few knew or understood the new era we were about to enter.”
“Once again the world is being upended, and too few are taking action,” he continued. “The latest science warns that we have a ten-year window — at most — to prevent catastrophic, irreversible climate change. That means we are once again living in a ‘day before’ moment that cries out for action.”
Kerry outlined the threats that climate change poses to national security, from increased drought, severe storms and rising sea levels in the United States to strains on resources, population displacement and increased international conflict abroad. The impacts will strain the United States’ military and humanitarian capacities, he said.
Proving once again that stupidity is a dangerous thing.
Wait, they reset the ‘x years to unstoppable damage’ clock?
Was this that guy that was in VietNam? That hero? What an idiot. He must be happy now that he is the senior senator from Mass. Climate change is a natural event. It has happened for billions of years. Ice ages and warming cycles. I wonder why there are warming trends on other planets in our solar system. I suppose it is from us.
Liberals love to take words with popular conservative meaning and morph them into crazy liberal agendas. Climate change has nothing to do with national security. Choice has nothing to do with abortion.
Everyone is trying to change the meaning of 9/11.
Mr. Barbra Streisand (James Brolin): “Right. Oh yeah. Oh, Happy 9/11!”
Ping.
Hey Kerry..where’s your military record...we’re still waiting?
911 is not about climate change or social engineering or community building or any of that crap.
It's about remembering those who died and remembering why we need to kill those who commit or support islamic terrorism.
Shove that in your feedback and chomp on it.
But the climate was beautiful the day those planes flew into the towers.
Heartbreakingly true....
On 9/11, didn’t he sit there paralyzed in his chair for 40 minutes before doing anything?
Or am I thinking of someone else?
Horse-faced elitist fool.
Proving once again what a complete useless idiot he is. The biggest threat to our national security is the open border, of which this marxist administration has no intention of securing. Global warming is so last century.
As a Californian, I get satisfaction in wishing massachusetts and all its denizens would become a giant sinkhole. Spare us your carbon, MA.
He did, he absolutely did and wasn’t even ashamed to say so. He is worse than useless.
from cambodia on the Presidents orders. LOL
I sure hope I don’t die in a terrorist attack. I would hate to have my death used as a justification for leftist claptrap.
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