Issues & Insights gives us a Davos wrap-up profiling two of the most insufferable, pompous pricks on the planet. Excerpts, with my comments, follow:
John Kerry, former senator, former secretary of state, and now chief climate alarmist for the Biden administration, said in so many words Tuesday during his World Economic Forum rant that it’s too late to save the planet from global warming. Yet he claimed climate programs still need more “money, money, money, money, money, money, money.” The only reason he’s not the worst person in the world is because he has so much competition at Davos.
What Kerry actually said was that he is “not convinced we’re going to get there in time to do what the scientists said, which is avoid the worst consequences of the crisis,” meaning that he doubts that the global temperature will stay under the cap of 
1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial temperature set by scientists (though it is actually a random figure with no scientific support).
Of course the cap of 1.5 degrees is arbitrary; it’s also rather arrogant to assume that we humans, who have been around for about 300,000 years (3 million or so if you count the totality of genus Homo) should know what the planet’s ‘correct’ temperature is. Throughout most of the planet’s 4.55 billion year history it has been warmer than it is now. As recently as the Miocene earth had little or no in the way of polar icecaps. And these assholes want you to eat bugs – I’m not kidding about that – for 1.5 degrees.
Yet he continues to crusade for a cause that hopes to strip Westerners of both their wealth – yes, according to the United Press International, he said “money” seven times – and freedom to move about.
With absolutely zero self-awareness, the man who flies in private jets, has multiple homes (which most of us would consider mansions) and more cars than most families, and up until a few years ago owned a yacht, preached about “the way we live,” and thundered against “the incredible sort of destructive process of growth the way we interpret it.” He called it “robber-baron growth.”
John Kerry can fuck right off. This insufferable prick jets around the world lecturing other people on their carbon footprint, and clearly has no intention of giving up his own Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous.
But his luxurious lifestyle and those of the other wealthy men and women fighting global warming must be OK, because he assured members of his fawning audience that they are all special, “a select group of human beings” who “are able to sit in a room and come together and, uh, actually talk about saving the planet.”
Yes, and we all are just plebs who need to be forced into 
line, for our own good.
No less nauseating was the performance of another failed presidential candidate, Al Gore, the mother of the global warming cult. He came off like the crazy uncle that the family tries to keep away from the outside world. Author and columnist Michael Walsh said that Gore is a man who appears to need help. During his tirade, Gore gesticulated “wildly, his face reddening, his voice rising,” said Walsh. “The former vice president of the United States became a man in the deadly grip of a panicked, violent, superstitious reaction to … the weather.”
The video of Gore confirms that Walsh was not exaggerating. Gore is a man whose pot is cracked. Once just a hypocrite, he’s now an all-out headbanger.
Now Al Gore is more than just an insufferable prick – although he is that. He is unhinged, and has been since losing the 2000 Presidential election by the 
skin of his teeth. Although he hasn’t been unhinged enough to prevent him amassing a fortune from preaching climate terror.
This kind of thinking, this kind of activism, this kind of condescending prickery, is precisely why I’ve been preaching for liberty all these years. Forget making government act more the way we want it to – the only way to handle this kind of thinking is to strip government of the power to make these kinds of decisions. As Barry Goldwater famously said, “I have no interest in making government more efficient; I mean to make it smaller.” Make it smaller and weaker, move most governance to as local as it can be, devolve power to the states, devolve state powers to counties or cities as much as possible, cut, cut, cut, make people responsible for the consequences of their own decisions and actions.
Then let people like John Kerry and Al Gore blather all they want. They have First Amendment rights too, after all. But if there is no government with the ability to implement their tyranny, we can rest a little bit more easily.
