JOHN KERRY-HEINZ AND HIS IDEOLOGICAL PREOCCUPATION WITH CLIMATE CHANGE…

I’m only guessing, but at some point before John Kerry-Heinz assumed his current position someone must have managed to alter, and pretty significantly so, that which I have always thought must be the job description for someone whose job it is to be our Secretary of State.  Because wouldn’t you think that under normal circumstances, when so many areas of the world are now essentially in flames, that job one for our Secretary of State would be to work very hard toward at trying to extinguish those flames by inserting, to the greatest extent possible, some much needed American leadership into these various trouble-spots.  But for whatever the reason, that seems to no longer be the case.  Instead, it would seem that issues now deemed by our State Department to be far more important are such things as gay marriage and climate change, with the latter being addressed as recently as just yesterday.

You see, it was during a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington, on Thursday of this week, that John Kerry-Heinz once again made it crystal clear that, when it comes to the cockamamie theory ‘climate change’, he is a true believer.  It was then that Kerry-Heinz let it be known that it is in his esteemed opinion that not only is climate change actually taking place but that we humans are the ones largely, if not solely, responsible for causing it to take place.  And he actually went so far as to say that that fact should be as universally accepted as the law of gravity.  Doing his best to imply that ‘climate change’ should now be viewed as ‘settles science, Kerry-Heinz said, “When an apple falls from a tree, it will drop toward the ground. We know that because of the basic laws of physics.”   He then went on to say, “Science tells us that gravity exists, and no one disputes that.”  That’s really an idiotic analogy.

It at this event that Kerry-Heinz put his fanaticism fully on display, to the point of coming across sounding a little nutty.  And in attempting to claim that ‘science’ tells us something that it very clearly is not, he said, “So when science tells us that our climate is changing and humans beings are largely causing that change, by what right do people stand up and just say, ‘Well, I dispute that’ or ‘I deny that elementary truth?’ ”  Any yet some do, Kerry-Heinz said, pointing, without naming the state, to recent reports claiming that state officials in Florida had banned the use of the term “climate change” in official documents.  Florida Gov. Rick Scott has since denied the claim.  But Kerry-Heinz said, “Literally a couple of days ago, I read about some state officials who are actually trying to ban the use of the term ‘climate change’ in public documents because they’re not willing to face the facts.”

Kerry-Heinz’s climate change/global warming fanaticism goes back decades, even predating his nearly three-decade ‘career’ in the Senate.  He told Thursday’s audience it went “back to Earth Day when I’d come back from Vietnam.”  Now keep in mind here that Kerry-Heinz returned from his relatively brief, yet personally rewarding, stint in Vietnam in 1969; meanwhile the inaugural Earth Day wasn’t until 1970.  So it would seem that old Kerry-Heinz has gotten his timeline a little out of order.  And then, it was as a senator that Kerry-Heinz participated in the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and he was a delegate to other major climate conferences, including those in Kyoto in 1997 and The Hague in 2000.  And so it would seem that he has now allowed that fanaticism to seriously cloud his judgment as Secretary of State.

And his disdain for those who dare to challenge climate change dogma was again evident in this speech.  He said, “Now folks, we literally do not have the time to waste debating whether we can say ‘climate change.’ We have to talk about how we solve climate change. Because no matter how much people want to bury their heads in the sand, it will not alter the fact that 97 percent of peer-reviewed climate studies confirm that climate change is happening and that human activity is largely responsible.”  Kerry-Heinz once again chooses to repeat, more times than I care to count, a claim that has been thoroughly debunked.  Those who believe in climate change are always quick to attempt to create a perception that science is clearly on their side by perpetuating the myth that an overwhelming number of scientific studies, that 97 percent number, support their side of the argument.  But it’s a lie. 

Kerry-Heinz went on to say, “Future generations will judge our effort not just as a policy failure but as a collective moral failure of historic consequence. And they will want to know how world leaders could possibly have been so blind or so ignorant or so ideological or so dysfunctional and, frankly, so stubborn that we failed to act on knowledge that was confirmed by so many scientists, in so many studies, over such a long period of time, and documented by so much evidence.”  Now if what Kerry-Heinz refers to here are future generations of brain-dead Democrats, well then, maybe he’s onto something.  But I have no doubt that anyone with a brain is more than able to see through all of the climate change bullshit that Kerry-Heinz, and others are peddling, and would rightly be pretty pissed off if our leaders proceeded to waste billions, if not trillions, of dollars on something that isn’t even taking place.  

And as he explained his views on climate change, Kerry-Heinz said later in his speech that he did not “mean to sound haughty.”  He said, “Last year was the warmest of all. And I think if you stop and think about it, it seems that almost every next year becomes one of the hottest on record. And with added heat comes an altered environment.”  But there is simply no scientific facts to back up anything that he says.  It’s all a work of fiction, one that consists of nothing more than manipulated data and faulty computer models.  And yet Kerry-Heinz has it within him to say, “It’s not particularly complicated – I don’t mean to sound haughty, but think about it for a minute.”  Kerry-Heinz might want to be careful in what he asks for.  Because when careful, and logical thought, is applied to that which Kerry-Heinz is working so hard to sell, the fallacy of his theory becomes all the more obvious.

Elsewhere in the speech Kerry-Heinz reprised familiar themes he has visited repeatedly in previous speeches as secretary of state and in the Senate, such as the view that climate change is at least as serious as other major current global threats.  He once again made the same idiot claim that he’s made on any number of previous occasions when he said, “Terrorism, extremism, epidemics, poverty, nuclear proliferation, all challenges that respect no borders – climate change belongs on that very same list.”  And he added, “It is, indeed, one of the biggest threats facing our planet today.”  Kerry-Heinz also repeated his argument that if climate change advocates are wrong, the world will still benefit from their efforts – in the creation of jobs, economic growth, better health and greater security – whereas if skeptics are wrong, the result will be “catastrophe.”

And then, in trying to sound as ominous as he could, he said, “What will happen if we do nothing and the climate skeptics are wrong and the delayers are wrong and the people who calculate cost without taking everything into account are wrong?” And then in sounding quite dramatic, he answered his own question saying, “The answer to that is pretty straightforward: utter catastrophe, life as we know it on Earth.”  But we already know that Kerry-Heinz & Friends are wrong.  Because all of their dire warnings about the coming apocalypse that they all are working so hard to sell, run completely counter to all that we see taking place right before our eyes.  Let’s face it, 2014 was a record low year for tornadoes, there hasn’t been a major hurricane to hit the east coast in 5 years, there is now an historic amount if ice at the poles and we’re just wrapping up a winter that, in some places, was the coldest on record.