Two former secretaries of state, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton took to microphones this past week to push their belief that climate change is a bigger threat than radical Muslim extremists, despite the fact that Americans disagree.
John Kerry turns to the Bible for guidance to push the threat of global climate change. (thefederalistpapers.org)
For Kerry, it was his second attempt to convince us. On Feb. 16, 2014, speaking primarily to an audience of students in Jakarta, Kerry said “climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” He went on to say that when he thinks of global threats – terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.”
In Hawaii last month, Kerry called climate change “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.”
On Sept. 2, 2014, at a ceremony to promote Shaarik Zafar, a Texas attorney, to be a special representative of the Muslim Communities, he said, “confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down the scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis.” Kerry believes our respect for God’s creation translates into a duty to protect and sustain His first creation, Earth. Why did Kerry choose this venue to make this pronouncement? He believes “Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable” when it comes to the impact of climate change.”
And this is our foreign policy negotiator.
Hillary Clinton told a Las Vegas audience that the threat of global climate change is real. (AP photo by John Locher)
Not to be upstaged by Kerry, President wanna be Hillary Clinton, speaking at the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, cast the threat of global climate change as real, and “the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges” faced by the nation and the world.
Meanwhile, Americans are more concerned about the threat of a nuclear N. Korea and Iran, Islamic terrorism, the economy and the power and influence of China over climate change as a major threat according to Pew Research.
“The White House has said its foreign policy rule is ‘don’t do stupid stuff,’ but putting climate change ahead of global threats fail that simple test, “ wrote Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) in a Aug. 28, 2014 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
