JOHN KERRY-HEINZ, MASTER STORYTELLER…

So I’m guessing John Kerry-Heinz must have not been paying attention to a recent Gallup poll which, as part of its annual Environmental survey, Gallup pointed out that the number of Americans who buy into the ‘climate change’ nonsense has taken another hit.  And while a pretty solid majority of Democrats continue to believe that ‘climate change’ is the next great calamity to be faced by human-kind, it’s only about 13 percent of Republicans who believe that that is in fact the case.  And it’s in spite of these numbers that, just yesterday, in Washington at something called the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, our inept buffoon of a Secretary of State, John Kerry-Heinz, told a gathering of U.S. ambassadors that one day soon they will be “coping” with “climate refugees” “if not now, in the not-too-distant future.”

In speaking about what he sees as being the State Department’s major priorities, Kerry-Heinz listed climate change, saying, “I know a lot of people were sort of surprised, but President Obama and I could not agree more that this [climate change] is a threat to the planet itself. It is a national security threat, it is a health threat, it’s an environmental threat, it’s an economic threat. We’re spending billions upon billions—$110 billion last year—on the damages that occurred because of the increased level of major weather events around the world; droughts that are 500-year droughts, not 100-year droughts; places that have less and less water; food that is less produced where it used to be. There’ll be climate refugees that all of you will be coping with at some point—if not now, in the not-too-distant future.”

And he continued, saying, “And the science? Ninety-seven percent of all the scientists for 20 years tell us unequivocally that this is happening, and happening now, and humans are causing it, and we have a responsibility to respond to it.”  Unequivocally? No, I think not!  Because where is it from that Kerry-Heinz gets that 97% figure which he likes to throw around so frequently in an effort to bolster his false claims?  Perhaps from his boss, Barry, or perhaps from NASA, which has posted on its website, "Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities."  Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made problem is nothing more than a work of fiction, fiction in its most absolute purest and most dangerous form.

This so-called ‘consensus’ to which Kerry-Heinz, and others, so frequently, and so enthusiastically, continue to make reference to, comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by that which is far more reliable research.  One frequently cited source for this ‘consensus’ is a 2004 opinion essay published in Science magazine by a ‘prominent’ environmentalist-wacko, Naomi Oreskes, who is referred to as being a science historian now at Harvard. She claimed to have examined abstracts of 928 articles published in numerous scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and found that 75% supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none, again according to Ms. Oreske, directly dissented.

Ms. Oreskes's examination left out scores of articles by prominent scientists such as Richard Lindzen, John Christy, Sherwood Idso and Patrick Michaels, who question the ‘consensus’.  A study published earlier this year in Nature noted that abstracts of academic papers often contain claims that aren't substantiated in the papers.  Another widely cited source for the ‘consensus’ view is a 2009 article in "Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union" by Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, a student at the University of Illinois, and her master's thesis adviser Peter Doran. It reported the results of a two-question online survey of selected scientists. Mr. Doran and Ms. Zimmerman claimed "97 percent of climate scientists agree" that global temperatures have risen and that humans are a significant contributing factor.

The survey's questions don't reveal much. Most scientists who are skeptical of catastrophic global warming nevertheless would answer "yes" to both questions. The survey was silent on whether the human impact is large enough to constitute a problem, urgent or otherwise.  Nor did it include solar scientists, space scientists, cosmologists, physicists, meteorologists or astronomers, who are the scientists most likely to be aware of natural causes of climate change.  The "97 percent" figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey—does not a ‘consensus’ make.

But in the world of left wing politics, as is so often the case, facts matter very little, if at all.  It’s all propaganda, all the time that, more often than not, rules the day.  Facts are only as good as is the Democrats’ ability to manipulate them, and in such a manner as to make it so they at least appear to support the propaganda being spewed.  There is very little that is being said today about ‘climate change’ or global warming that is actually based in any actual scientific fact.  And regardless of what we continue to hear from the likes of Barry “Almighty”, John Kerry-Heinz, or even Al Gore for that matter, ‘climate change’, at least that of the man-made variety, simply does not exist.  They have taken flawed data and faulty computer models and constructed that which is nothing more than a fairytale.