Posted on 01/17/2015 12:53:39 PM PST by Libloather
Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for "ambitious, concrete action" to combat climate change after a government agency released new data about global temperatures.
"Whats surprising is that anyone is surprised that 2014 was the hottest year on record. The science has been screaming at us for a long, long time," Kerry said Friday in a statement released by the State Department.
Kerry said historic temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weathers events like torrential rain and droughts "are having devastating economic, security and health impacts across the planet."
His comments were in response to a new report released by the National Climate Data Center that said, in part, that 2014 was the warmest year globally since temperatures on land and ocean surfaces were first recorded in 1880.
Kerry's statement came during the tail end of a two-day visit to Paris, which he scheduled after the Obama administration came under fire for not sending any high-level U.S. officials to the city's anti-terror unity rally over the weekend. At least 40 world leaders and more than a million people attended.
While the White House admitted early this week that it erred in not sending a higher-profile U.S. representative than the ambassador to Sunday's rally, which came after last week's deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, no top U.S. officials have apologized for their absence.
"I think we certainly got the substance right, but it would have been great to participate in the parade and we're delighted Secretary Kerry is there now," Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Obama, said Thursday morning on CNN.
Kerry, who has helped coordinate the Obama administration's response to challenges such as Ebola and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has repeatedly issued strong warnings on climate change, saying in September the three issues should be handled with the same "immediacy."
Kerry said the report is "just another sound in a steady drumbeat that is growing increasingly more urgent."
"The question is when and how the world will respond," Kerry said.
Anybody care to photoshop muppet Bert’s mug onto this swift boated man’s face?
Sing? You’re using that term loosely, I gather
The Climate: “KERRY SHUT THE HELL UP YOU IDIOT!”
They just pretend it never happened.
There is not, and never shall be, something called “settled science”.
By its very nature, science in NEVER settled. Dogma is settled, and therefore beyond any discussion, rational or otherwise. But the scientific method is structured in such a way that the inquiry into the mysteries of the Universe is always open ended, and no answer is final. A theory, a working hypothesis, may be drawn up, based on the known facts, and the observed way in which things seem to operate. But if too many facts begin popping up that seem not to be supported by the predicted behavior according to the theory or hypothesis, then the theory must be reconsidered, or even discarded.
oh yeah... its screaming all right... screaming fraud!
As translated by Maurice Strong, the socialist Canadian global government-promoting creator of the U.N.'s Climate Change policies. The corrupt U.N. International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is his brainchild as well.
This is far more than a welfare program for "science" study grants. It's part of a well-financed project designed to "fundamentally transform America" into an EU-style socialist state governed by unelected tyrants like Maurice Strong, George Soros, their current tool in the White House and their dictatorial cohort.
not exactly.
They always keep their original assumption that the warming is happening and that man is causing it. But simply look for where the warming is going, or what is interferring with the warming they KNOW is happening, ect.
So are we! And in a sane world, his passport would be revoked and he would forever be banished to France...........
By two hundredths of a degree, which is known as noise, and is a continuation of the non-warming plateau we’ve been on for two decades now.
Latching onto this latest report as proof of warming is dishonest and even the alarmists know it.
repeat the Big Lie.
You can watch Global Warming fraud happening in Real Time, using only an accurate thermometer and your smart phone.
Simply locate an accurate thermometer in an appropriate location, out of direct sunlight and away from any obvious sorces of heat, like black pavement, a chimney or air conditioning condensing unit.
Then open the weather app on your smart phone and compare it to the temperature on your thermometer. Chances are, the temperature on your phone will be 2-3 degrees F higher than the temperature on your thermometer. This will be true, day after day.
Then, as you go about your daily business, every time you see a thermometer, check the temperature of that location on your smart phone against the thermometer. You will see that the smart phone is again, 2-3 degrees F higher, in location after location.
The number on your smart phone is coming from an official weather station in your area, and this is the data used to “confirm” that global warming is happening. This data is wrong. It is consistently biased high.
The fraud is happening at the very lowest level.
The “climate science” is actually being used by large businesses to hurt their smaller competitors.
“Going green” is easier for bigger companies than smaller ones.
The crony capitalist business elite and the political elite are teaming up to hurt the small businesses and average people.
Doesn’t he have a sailing yacht? He should take that. Lead by example Johnny effin Kerry.
In 2014 the cost of energy went higher than it has ever been before and congress dropped the program. Could this be so that employers who cannot get tax discounts for saving energy will simply have to forgo hiring or expansion in order to stay profitable?
That would be my bet.
Very true and good point!
It’s screaming “You liberals have it all wrong!”
Come on, they said screaming. James Taylor can barely enunciate and carry a tune audibly to anyone. Still nasty, whatever it is.
Hmmm.. A government study group releases an ignorant and missrepresented finding that is used by a hypocritical government employee to suggest that we need more draconian government control. Nothing fishy about that. No siree.
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