As Secretary of State, John Kerry “will likely raise climate change to a top-tier priority”

I think this would be a disaster for the United States.

As Secretary of State, John Kerry “will likely raise climate change to a top-tier priority,” says this article in the National Journal. He “would bring his passion for the issue of climate change” to the position.

“No senator since Al Gore knows as much about the science and diplomacy of climate change as Kerry,” said David Goldwyn, who served as Clinton’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs. “He would not only put climate change in the top five issues he raises with every country, but he would probably rethink our entire diplomatic approach to the issue.”

“Rethink our entire diplomatic approach.” Great! I can just see him giving away our power and our sovereignty.

“Kerry has been engaged with climate policy since he attended the first major U.N. climate summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992,” says Coral Davenport, author of the National Journal article.

Davenport makes that sound like a good thing. The way I see it, this means that Kerry has been trying to destroy our freedoms since at least 1992.

“(Kerry) was coauthor…of sweeping legislation that would have capped U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, although the bill fell apart before making it to the Senate floor. In 2007 he and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, coauthored a book, This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future.

If you think we’re in a recession now, just imagine what will happen to our economy if Kerry gets his way and successfully shoves cap-and-trade down our throats.

And in an impassioned Senate floor speech in August, Kerry compared the threat of climate change to the threat of war. “I believe that the situation we face [with climate change] is as dangerous as any of the sort of real crises that we talk about” in Iran, Syria, and other world trouble spots, he said.

He was the only U.S. senator to attend key U.N. climate-change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, and Poznan, Poland, in 2008. At a major climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009, Kerry arrived before President Obama and Secretary Clinton and spent time in back-room meetings with ministers from China, India, and several European countries to help pave the way for final negotiations.

If you think we’re in a recession now, just imagine what will happen to our economy if Kerry caves to – no, actively pursues – the U.N’s efforts to transfer (steal) money from the United States.

“Kerry’s been one of the most active champions on the Arctic. He’s out there saying, ‘The Arctic ice is melting, we’ve got to do something,’ the article continues.

When asked if Kerry would make climate change a top priority in a Cabinet post, Charles Ebinger, director of the Foreign Policy and Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution replied, “There’s no doubt—100 percent. He is impassioned on the issue and would bring it front and center.”

I fear that Kerry’s passion could be our downfall.

See entire article:
http://weather.yahoo.com/secretary-john-kerry-elevate-climate-issues-120936647–politics.html