December 9, 2015 - a date that will live in infamy.
I
hope you'll pardon my satirical quote of FDR, but something just
happened in Paris, France that could be just as devastating to one of
the pet causes of the left-wing extremists as the bombs dropped by the
Japanese at Pearl Harbor were to the U.S. Navy.
It only took 40 seconds, but it essentially ended 40 years of political activism.
Speaking
at the Conference of Parties (COP 21) in Paris, Secretary of State John
Kerry admitted what so-called deniers have known for years: Emissions
cuts by the U.S. and other industrialized nations will make no difference to global climate.
"...
The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work,
carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we
each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic
greenhouse gas emissions, guess what -- that still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
If
all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions -- remember what
I just said, all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions --
it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65% of the world's carbon
pollution comes from the developing world."
This
is the first time such a senior government official has admitted that
cutting American carbon emissions is little more than an exercise in
futility, but he's not the first.
A
few years ago, Sen. Jim Inhofe was successful in getting former EPA
administrator Lisa Jackson to admit that U.S. emissions cuts would do
little to address the global climate. Current EPA administrator Gina
McCarthy has admitted that the new EPA carbon dioxide rules targeting
utility power plants were created to show global leadership.
Clearly
Kerry's admission will have political consequences, but if the
spineless RINOs had any brains---wait a minute, what am I saying?---this
admission should have legal consequences as well, based on the 2007
Supreme Court decision that gave the EPA authority to regulate so-called
greenhouse gases. In that case, the Supremes carefully noted that,
although the EPA couldn't solve the global warming by itself, it was
allowed to proceed with incremental progress on the problem. However,
Kerry's admission provides clear evidence that the U.S. government knew
all along that such incremental progress was impossible.
Based
on Kerry's admission, the brainless Republicans on Capitol Hill should
make sure this information finds its way into the continuing litigation
levied against the Feds. If they do, just like Pearl Harbor, it should
blow 'em up!
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