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secretary-state-kerry-lashes-out-at-climate-change-skepticsFox News:

JAKARTA, Indonesia – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world's "most fearsome" destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat.

 

In a speech to Indonesian students, civic leaders and government officials, Kerry tore into climate change skeptics. He accused them of using shoddy science and scientists to delay steps needed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at the risk of imperiling the planet.

 

A day earlier, the U.S. and China announced an agreement to cooperate more closely on combating climate change. American officials hope that will help encourage others, including developing countries like Indonesia and India, to follow suit.

 

China and the United States are the biggest sources of emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that cause the atmosphere to trap solar heat and alter the climate. Scientists say such changes are leading to drought, wildfires, rising sea levels, melting polar ice, plant and animal extinctions and other extreme conditions.

 

Also in the Jakarta speech, Kerry said everyone and every country must take responsibility for the problem and act immediately.

 

"We simply don't have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation," he said, referring to what he called "big companies" that "don't want to change and spend a lot of money" to act to reduce the risks.

 

Kerry later singled out major oil and coal concerns as the primary offenders.

 

"We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts," Kerry told the audience at a U.S. Embassy-run American Center in a shopping mall.

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The climate changers have plenty of shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues of their own for that...

 


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Scott Johnson
2/17/14

For those who lack a rooting interest in the United States, American foreign policy has become a joke. We are fools who appear to lack the most elementary ability to distinguish friend from enemy. Functionally speaking, we’ve gone over to the other side — “the other side” being the side of our enemies. Those who wish us ill — both at home and abroad — have a friend in John Kerry, speaking yesterday in Jakarta.

 

The Year of Living Dangerously was set in Jakarta, was it not? That works too. From the detached point of view, however, we’re living comically in the Age of Obama. Kerry chose Jakarta as the scene for one of the Obama administration’s classic routines (text here). The AP reports:

 

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“In a sense,” anything can now be considered anything. You’d think the Secretary of State would be tuned into the forces that seriously vie for consideration as the world’s most fearsome weapons of mass destruction. Only in the realm of comedy is “climate change” considered the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.

 

So how did Kerry’s routine go over in Jakarta? Inquiring minds want to know. The AP report doesn’t say, though it does offer this concluding note: “Before the climate change speech, Kerry toured Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, one of the largest in the world, to pay his respects to Indonesia’s Muslim majority population” (concerning which, more here).

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"We simply don't have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation," Kerry said.

 

What a skuzzbucket

 

 

"We simply don't have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the New World," King George III said.

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Butt.....he seriously knows his science!

 

No, not climate change.....

 

......redistribution of assets.

 

He's the bumbling Walter White of the Oblunder team....selling his blue green drug

 

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