Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge

As world leaders meet for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a major floor speech urging U.S. action to combat the threat of global climate change.

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[Roland Siller]

Arrest this Communist traitor for Conspiring with the UN to steal our sovereignty.

This is treason and a High Crime and misdemeanor against the people and the

Constitution of the United States.

Dirty Dick

[Karen Bracken]

They are using the hoax of man made climate change in order to implement global communism. Agenda 21 is what this is all about. If you believe humans are causing global warming then how do you explain the fact that we had warmer temps and higher rates of CO2 in the environment when dinosaurs roamed the earth than we do now. WAKE UP. You are being duped by those that want to destroy the US. But if you believe then why not commit suicide and help the cause.

[Joel Frese]

This is about science and the real universe, not some fairytale religious shenanagins. I'm not sure how to connect Garden of Gethsemane with climate change. Can you explain it?

[Joel Frese]

Don't most Republicans have a short attention span? I think this speech would be better if it were 10-15 minutes. I like the appeal to emotion because I think that's something Republicans generally understand. What would Jesus do? lol! I hope from now on we can get past a lot of ignorance and start moving forward. GOP: I'm going with the scientists on this one. Remember when GOP praised scientists because they were the ones who knew how to blow stuff up? Yep. Old school GOP.

[Juli Viel]

Actions or betrayal. Words of denial. Reminds me of actions and words from the Garden of Gethsemane. I am sick to my stomach.

[ge556]

"CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause. "

Google: the-conversion-of-a-climate-ch­ange-skeptic.html

[ge556]

Yes, they have different climates, and I don't see why you think I don't know that, or why you keep repeating it.

No, I wasn't talking about averaging when I talked about "wide area data", and I don't know why you thought that, except that you have an obsession about averaging. I made it clear that I was talking about the wide area that feeds into the climate/weather of St. Louis.

[anonymous915]

Using wide area data for weather forecasting is quite a different story.

[anonymous915]

You don't need "wide area data" to understand climate (and when you talk about that you ARE using them to support "averaging"). You missed the point: St. Louis and San Francisco have totally different climates.