Hot Air, by BY
ED MORRISSEY, February 20, 2014
Last week, John Kerry burned 12 tons of carbon to travel to Indonesia and
declare global warming as the biggest WMD of all. In what has become
the general model of climate-change alarmism, he told his audience that Jakarta would soon be half-submerged thanks to the rising of the oceans
that the election of his boss supposedly stopped. The Chicken Little spectacle
was so embarrassing that Newt Gingrich suggested that Kerry should retire out of
embarrassment, if not national security. “A delusional secretary of state,” Gingrich tweeted, “is dangerous to our safety.”
In the same speech, Kerry referred to climate skeptics as
“Flat Earth Society” holdouts. That caught the attention of the Wall Street Journal and two fellows of the American
Meteorological Society, Professors of Atmospheric Science Richard McNider and
John Christy. Dr. Christy served at one time on the IPCC, the UN body that
pushes anthropogenic climate change as the bogeyman of our time, and shared in
its Nobel Prize along with Al Gore. Christy and McNider, however, teach a
history lesson to Kerry before addressing his shrieking hysteria on global
warming. It was the Flat Earthers who clung to “consensus,” and the skeptics
who turned out to be right:
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