Stop Pulling the Wagon

John Kerry photo – Slick Times

President Elect Joe Biden has announced that he will be putting John Kerry in the position of “Special Envoy on Climate Change”.  An interesting choice.

In the past John Kerry has been unkindly likened to the butler “Lurch” in the old Addams Family series (1964-66).  I say unkindly but in many ways the part of Lurch, played by actor Ted Cassidy, demonstrated more charm and wit than former Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry seems to possess.

In my own mind John Kerry appears more like a humorless and inept caricature of Cosmo Kramer from the Seinfeld Series (1989-98).

An unremarkable Senator and never more than a “Yes-Man Bobblehead”  for the inept foreign policy of the Obama Administration.  He bumbled and stumbled and fumbled his way from one assignment to another serving as Secretary of State (2013-17).

“Jan 15, 2020 The Boston Herald · John Kerry, sucking up to the Iranians, is ending his long political career the way he began it, and that is by befriending the country’s enemies.” 

Again – Jan 15, 2020 The Boston Herald – “If the mullahs in Tehran want to get on President Trump’s good side, they could start by returning the billions they extorted from a willing Barack Obama.” 

Thank you John Kerry for doing your part.

Other than what he has been spoon fed as “Pablum” Climate Change propaganda from “Man Made Global Climate Change” so called “experts”,  I suspect he has little to no knowledge on the subject.

“Experts”,  for example like our former Vice President and self made charlatan Al Gore who predicted the end of civilization as we know it by the year 2000 unless we did exactly as he told us to do.  We didn’t and it didn’t.  In the process he made himself a multi-millionaire and bought a beach front mansion with his get rich quick charade which he still peddles to this day to his Kool Aid drinking sycophants.

I seriously doubt that John Kerry can set a temperature on his own heating and cooling system without help.

“Does climate change? Of course. If we had been alive 10,000 years ago, the majority of us would have been up to our butts in year round glaciers, ice and snow. Today, large areas of the upper United States are flat lands created by glacial action. Thankfully, climate has changed and continues to change with warmer and cooler periods.” (see “Junk Science Ala Carte” – SPTW November 23, 2019).

The fact is our planet is 70% covered in oceans and of the remaining 30% man occupies a tiny fraction of 1% of the land area and lacks the ability to effect the climate by more than an almost immeasurable amount.  Natural Solar cycles and volcanic action contribute much, much more to climate change.

But if, repeat if, John Kerry really thinks he can make a difference then let him take on the real polluters, China and India who have been all but exempted from the Paris Climate Accords till the mid 2030’s.  If he can’t do that then what can he hope to do other than eliminate a lot of jobs here in the United States.

Fact is, the United States does not have now, and will not have even 75% of the ability to provide our electrical and energy needs from solar and wind sources until at least 2050.

Have any of these “Green New Deal” zealots told us how, if you put everybody into electric cars, those cars and their batteries will have electricity pumped into them at the end of each day and from what source?

Of course, a Biden choice like John Kerry seems to be the “norm” for the coming Biden/Harris presidency which appears to be trying to re-create the Obama Administration.  Is former President Obama going to have a desk in the Biden Whitehouse?

Shall we be looking forward to Obama 3.0?  Ambassador Hillary Clinton?  Secretary of State Michelle Obama?

Bob Bandy – December 2020