John Kerry: Global Warming Is The Next 9/11Whew!
By Jay Yarow, Business Insider
John Kerry has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post comparing the inaction in response to a heating planet to the inaction of President Bush before September 11th. Kerry reaches deep into the bag of global warming hysterics to uncork this piece, saying that the fate of the nation hinges upon the passing of some sort of climate change legislation.
It's ridiculously over the top, but we suppose it might get a few supporters all riled up and ready to fight for the bill this fall. Of course, it's so over the top that it might just turn off a bunch of people:
"On August 6, 2001, President George W. Bush famously received an intelligence briefing entitled, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' Thirty-six days later, al Qaeda terrorists did just that.
"Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window -- if even that -- before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.
"The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.
"Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and -- yes -- even to American national security.
"Climate change injects a major new source of chaos, tension, and human insecurity into an already volatile world. It threatens to bring more famine and drought, worse pandemics, more natural disasters, more resource scarcity, and human displacement on a staggering scale. We risk fanning the flames of failed-statism, and offering glaring opportunities to the worst actors in our international system. In an interconnected world, that endangers all of us." [link]
Somone needs to break the news to this doofus that the planet isn't warm ...
Oh, never mind.
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