Let Me Tell You Something I Know Nothing About

The world renowned climatologist, John Kerry, who is also Secretary of State of the United States, spoke about Climate Change on February 16, 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia:

I know sometimes I can remember from when I was in high school and college, some aspects of science or physics can be tough – chemistry. But this is not tough. This is simple. Kids at the earliest age can understand this. 

Try and picture a very thin layer of gases – a quarter-inch, half an inch, somewhere in that vicinity – that’s how thick it is. It’s in our atmosphere. It’s way up there at the edge of the atmosphere. And for millions of years – literally millions of years – we know that layer has acted like a thermal blanket for the planet – trapping the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the Earth to the ideal, life-sustaining temperature. Average temperature of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going.

Imagine the Secretary of State who struggles with “science or physics” is lecturing “kids” on the “simple” understanding of climate change by wrongly describing the thin layer of Ozone in the atmosphere as the thermal blanket of CO2.

Even the president of the United States, also a man who proclaims “not to be a scientist”, is down-right convinced of global warming by man-made activities, so much so, that he thinks this to be the greatest danger facing mankind – not terrorism, a nuclear equipped Iran, national debt approaching $20 trillion or $100 trillion of unfunded entitlement liabilities.  All these problems will not deter the president from his quest to “heal” the planet.

If there is man-made climate change then it has yet to be proven.  Science demands that its models have accurate predictions and, as yet, the predictions from the models have not been accurate, let alone that they conclude the cause of warming is due to man-made injections of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Whether it be climate change, net neutrality or Obamacare, all these have become reasons to rule vs. govern.  We are told that government needs to act in our best interests and, as in the Wizard of OZ, please ignore that man behind the curtain.

All these self-proclaimed intellects deem themselves above us all so it reminds me of an old-time Vaudeville sketch that sums their proclamations to us:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I come before you to stand behind you 

To tell you something I know nothing about.

Admissions is free 

Pay at the door.

Plenty of seats 

Sit on the floor.