The Wonderful World of John Kerry

[TheResearcher]

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/...orld-of-kerry/

"A recent survey of 1077 professional engineers and geoscientists reported by Investor’s Business Daily gives quite a different picture, however: “… it turns out that only 36% believe that human activities are causing Earth’s climate to warm.” Indeed, if you read this study you find that there has been a shift among scientists and engineers away from AGW. And this is leaving out whether warming is ultimately good or bad, that the polar ice cap has been growing by leaps and bounds and that polar bear population is exploding, etc., etc.

But unlike John Kerry, I have no idea what the truth is. I am not a scientist, nor do I play one on TV, nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night. I do not write of this to reopen the global warming discussion, on which I am not expert. What I am trying to do is underscore what a dangerous moment we are at in our society when politicians attempt to make policy based on technological and scientific issues for which they have no discernible preparation or understanding. (The exception may be the few doctors in Congress, cf. the recent speech by Ben Carson.):

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...underscore what a dangerous moment we are at in our society when politicians attempt to make policy based on technological and scientific issues for which they have no discernible preparation or understanding. ...

I'm old enough to know that your "dangerous moment" is well into its 3d decade; minimum. Neither is ill- & uninformed policymaking limited to politicians; this is really the bailiwick of political influence peddlers: the folks that have the wherewithal to offer up large sums of money in exchange for the guy w/ the vote turning their POV into policy.

By the time you see or hear anyone making a public pronouncement of any kind (even one you agree with), he or she's been thoroughly emasculated & deflowered by a small army of handlers, movers, shakers, hangers-on, fellow travelers, sycophants, & parasites: this is what passes for what you've called "preparation or understanding."

To others, your dangerous moment is an inalienable, God-given, even God-shat-out right, & woe betide you or anyone else that challenges that, even in jest.

[Jeebus]

Did the Russian foreign minister ever return his phone call?

Kerry obviously commands world respect.