Sec. Kerry challenges climate skeptics at House hearing: If skeptics are wrong and nothing is done, ‘life on the Earth can literally end’
Washington D.C. – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry challenged global warming skeptics on Thursday at a Congressional hearing: Kerry, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, explained that if skeptics are wrong and nothing is done, “life on the Earth can literally end.” Kerry has been championed a new UN climate change treaty. Kerry has called on U.S. envoys to make climate change a “top priority.” The New York Times reported that Kerry “hopes to use his position as secretary of state to achieve a legacy on global warming that has long eluded him.”
Climate Depot Reality Check on Kerry’s claim:
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano responded to Kerry’s claim that government action of some type would act as an insurance policy against global warming
Morano: “Why not get a climate insurance policy? Why would you buy an insurance policy on your home that costs more than your home is worth and would pay out virtually nothing if your home burned down? You wouldn’t, that would be insurance fraud, but that is what they are selling. The UN’s Kyoto protocol, even if fully implemented and ratified — which it never was — wouldn’t even have had a noticeable impact on global temperatures in 50 to 100 years [according to warmists’ own estimates.] In the U.S., with cap-and-trade and carbon taxes — not only would they not impact global temperatures, but they would not even impact global CO2 levels.
The idea that somehow we can do an insurance policy with anything the United Nations is currently proposing is pure madness. It is silliness to think that treaties and acts of Congress or the EU can control the weather in any way that would be noticeable.
The question is: If you are right, we basically have to accept a climate catastrophe because there is no solution according to you guys, other than just restricting economies and emissions.”
End Morano statement.
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Marc Morano on Democrats ‘all-nighter’ to fight global warming: “If Congress is wasting their time on an all-nighter on global warming, the old motto of first do no harm comes in to play. They can’t be doing any other damage, they can’t be raising the national debt. What is confusing here is high definition TVs have been the bane of global warming. We were warned about watching too much TV. The Japanese government told their citizens to go to bed an hour early to fight global warming. Their environmental minister urged this in 2010. But now we are being told to stay up all night to fight global warming.
“It has been 17 and half years with no global warming according to the latest satellite data. The global warming activists have a serious PR problem. Every kid in high school has never experienced global warning. They have a serious task to stay up all night and do this.”
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Flashback 2010: Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut CO2 emissions: Japanese households are being urged to go to bed one hour earlier than normal in order to help tackle climate change. “Many Japanese people waste electric power at night time, for example by watching TV until very late,” a ministry spokesperson told The Daily Telegraph. “But going to bed early and getting up early can avoid wasting electrical power which causes carbon dioxide emissions. If people change their lifestyle, we can save energy and reduce emissions.” It is the latest initiative tackling climate change by the Japanese environment ministry, which is faced with the challenge of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 25 per cent from 1990 levels within the next decade.
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