By Marita Noon
Two of catastrophic climate change’s staunchest supporters have been out on the stump promoting their cause—with conflicting statements. On February 20, Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first speech as Secretary, at the University of Virginia where he offered a glimpse of how he sees tackling climate change as part of his job—as is "reducing nuclear threat," "fighting corruption in Nigeria," and breaking "the cycle of poverty, poor nutrition and hunger,"
On the same day, February 20, NASA’s James Hansen was speaking in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Lensic Theater, with a follow-up presentation the next day at the Santa Fe Institute where he proposed "a steep energy tax to curb global warming."
In Kerry’s introductory comments he says: "So our challenge is to … offer even the most remote place on earth the same choices that have made us strong and free." Later, he launches into his climate change litany and talks about developing and deploying "the clean technologies that will power a new world"—yet the inefficient, intermittent, and uneconomical "clean technologies" are not what made America "strong and free." America became a superpower on the basis of energy that was abundant, available, and affordable. Now, in the cause of climate change, we want to deny developing countries the same benefits we’ve had? ....To Read More...
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