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This really is MUST SEE TV. Deluded GOPer thought his talk radio parrot act would best Kerry on the environment. Kerry, the statesman who marshaled together the entire world in Paris to
adopt a global plan to address climate change.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/04/09/john-kerry-fires-back-at-climate-change-degree-question-sot-vpx.cnn?fbclid=IwAR3I-fs0i9iWdk25ij5PSTWIH1PPM35Ga4_zHmOiWRRzbiIENqitTrTkZO0
Skinner
(63,645 posts)blm
(112,919 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)their stupidity in public.
It would have been better if this GOP Congressmember had remained silent.
karynnj
(59,474 posts)to understand climate change. He clearly has problems acting human. It is completely idiotic that he even asked Secretary Kerry what his college degree was - as if he could not possibly have gained any expertise on a policy level in the 50 years since he graduated. Especially as he has worked on this issue since at least 1992 and worked (and is still working with) Ernie Moniz on getting the China deal and the Paris Accord.
Someone needs to demand this congressman not vote on any financial issue because he does not have an economic or accounting degree. That would be comparable.
On climate change, he pushed many RW themes that have been debunked years ago. Kerry was very polite dealing with this idiot. (I assume the idiot will use this on RW places claiming he called Kerry out.)
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)in his field of expertise.
But, as you noted, he is pushing the GOP/fossil fuel companies line no matter the damage done to the environment that we all must live in.
And that suicidal short-sightedness, that ability to value the next quarter's profit over the long term survival of the human race, is the real problem with the GOP.
karynnj
(59,474 posts)claims - like looking at the prehuman period on earth to argue that the levels are not as troubling as Kerry and the scientists who actually spend their careers studying this say -- are far fetched.
mopinko
(69,804 posts)jeeeebus these people.
yes, he was trying to kid you. and he looked like an idiot doing it.
Lars39
(26,093 posts)Kerry deserves huge props for handling that nitwit.
karynnj
(59,474 posts)time to make the points he came to make. He knows that he does not have to defend his own expertise and education.
MH1
(17,537 posts)That anyone would vote for GOP twits like that ...SMDH.
We. Are. Doomed.
Submariner
(12,483 posts)and not the GOP goober.
karynnj
(59,474 posts)Summary - Kerry and Hagel gave solid, competent answers to many dumb Republican Congressmen. The Democrats asked many helpful questions.
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-need-for-leadership-to-combat-climate-change-and-protect-national-security
It seems so long ago that these two decent, brilliant men represented us in the world trying to make a better world.