Letters about climate change appear regularly in this newspaper, some in denial of the subject, other in support of the scientists who alert us to what is happening.
John Kerry is the United States Secretary of State.
He said (Feb 18) that climate change is unequivocal, that everyone and every country must take responsibility for the problem and act immediately.
"We simply do not have the time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation", he said, referring to oil and coal concerns in particular.
He tore into climate change skeptics, accusing them of using shoddy science and saying that those who refused to believe in man-made climate change were "simply burying their heads in the sand".
John Kerry, it seems, has had enough of the dangerous nonsense that's been coming from the climate change deniers.
We get a few of those writing to The Southland Times, calling climate change "a green fantasy".
John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, would have no time for such foolishness.
:-)
6 comments:
Interesting you rate a politician over this brilliant scientist: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_climate_establishment/2151/
Most notably: "I simply find that a lot of these claims that experts are making are absurd. Not that I know better, but I know a few things. My objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have."
From someone that was involved in climate study at the start and 'hobnobbed' with the likes of Einstein this should at least give you some pause.
I recommend you read this as he has a take on soil and biology that I'm pretty sure you will agree with wholeheartedly .
I don't rate Kerry. I'm pointing out that his declaration will have a powerful effect on the public mind and that it has left the deniers in a much-weakened position. The Kerry article was carried in every major newspaper and has weight in the mind of the reader (I believe it does, from what I saw) and any denier coming out now making whatever claim they like, is caught in the big shadow of the statement from Kerry. In the instance of my letter, I struck it lucky - the Dwyer Opinion piece on Britain's dreadful weather was on the same page. Today, another intelligent Southland letter-writer has also cited Kerry in his denier-mocking letter, so we are on a roll here. Our resident denier-letter writer made a tactical error by rabbitting-on about details he believes prove his case but that's not what public forums are for, in my view. Keep it short and memorable's the way, in my view.
"Kerry has left the deniers in a much weakened position" - only if he has any credibility. Sadly for your cause RG he hasn't.
The public are much more perceptive than you give them credit for. They can recognise a politician grasping for power and an opportunity to grab taxation when they see one. The triumph of the left in AGW or man induced climate change (or whatever it's called this week) is over. The public have moved on. We'll see more and more desperate pleas from the left, just like Kerry's, until they realise - no-one is listening anymore.
As an aside did you see the first episode of House of Cards - the US version? I'm hooked. It looks like a hugely cynical, although I'm sure representative, look at power in US politics.
Your comments reads as delusional, Paranormal. You will not be surprised that I perceive it that way, just as I know full-well that my position sounds delusional to you. Really, there's little to be gained from our on-going sparring - I'm influencing you not one whit, nor you, me. It's tempting to tease, as I've done in the past, but that's kinda old now. I can't even say, "When the situation gets so bad that you can't continue to deny reality, you'll admit to being wrong, but I know that you'll still be flat-out justifying your stance, even as the rest of us are battening-down.
C'est la vie!
Oh, and I've not seen House of Cards, not being a television watcher, but I'll see what I can track down on the net
Well here you go RG, a founder of Greenpeace is just (as you would say) as delusional as I am: http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=415b9cde-e664-4628-8fb5-ae3951197d03
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