“Some men are alive just because it is against the law to kill them.” E.W. Howe, 1911, Writer and Newspaper Editor
February 1, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Some people just aren’t cut out for public service. Al Gore and John Kerry immediately come to mind.
These two fellas represented the United States at the January 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos.
We don’t know why, but they did.
Whatever the reason, they both performed as they always do, virtue signaling to beat the band.
Kerry, travelling by private jet along with 150 other attendees, was his usual narcissistic self.
“When you start to think about it,” Kerry said coyly, “it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.”
Yes. It is. And when you think of John Kerry, he never changes.
In 2019 he said virtually the same thing. And travelled the same way. By private jet.
Kerry went to Iceland to receive an Arctic Circle Climate Leadership award. When a reporter asked why he flew private, Kerry was offended.
“It’s the only choice for somebody like me who is travelling the world to win this battle,” he sniffed. “I can’t sail across the ocean. I have to fly. Meet with people. Get things done.”
Private jets are said to emit five to fourteen times more pollution than commercial planes. But Kerry and Gore, didn’t talk about that at the World Economic Forum.
They were too busy saving the planet to talk about facts.
Elitists like Gore and Kerry believe some things should be controlled or owned by the richest or best educated people.
That would be them, not you.
And that they don’t have to answer to anyone.
The most distressing sight at the WEF was Al Gore.
No one would call Al “Eye Candy.” No. He looked bloated and unhealthy as he railed against those who were destroying the environment.
That would be you. Not him.
Al thinks of himself as an environmental Nostradamus.
In 2006 he predicted, “Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.”
In 2009, he predicted, “The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.”
And in his 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, he warned there was “an increasing planetary emergency,” due to global warming.
But in 2007, a British High Court judge, evaluating the film for distribution in British schools, accused Gore of “alarmism,” and “exaggeration.”
Judge Barton called the film “one-sided,” and cited nine scientific errors, one of which was that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of ice sheets.
In the near future.
Elitists are annoying. And, when it comes to the environment, they can be dangerous.
Take New Jersey Gov. Murphy. Please.
Like John Kerry, Murphy is a Harvard man. (Gore went to Yale.) But, despite their pedigree, they all operate in the same, imperfect way.
Like the selfish hypocrites they are.
Even as whales wash up on the Jersey shore, Gov. Murphy says undersea prep for offshore wind farms will continue.
Wind farm construction involves undersea sound from high-resolution geophysical surveys.
Whales use sound and calls to communicate, locate food, and identify potential predators. But Murphy doesn’t care.
His experts say there is no connection between wind farm construction and dead whales. But that doesn’t smell right.
Especially since New Jersey stands to make a pretty penny from the wind farms.
Which means, whales can bloody well look out for themselves. Murphy sure won't.
And, as Rep. Ilhan Omar said, but said she forgot she said, about Jews, “It’s all about the Benjamins.”
Hold the line, America.
Happy Groundhog Day!
Stay strong, Patriots.