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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMotherJones: Sec of State Kerry would be a 'climate hawk'
<Kerry is among the most fierce advocates for climate action in the Senate. Here he is in a floor speech from August talking about why climate change is "as significant a level of importance" as Syria and Iran:
"Well, this issue actually is of as significant a level of importance, because it affects life itself on the planet. Because it affects ecosystems on which the oceans and the land depend for the relationship of the warmth of our earth and the amount of moisture that there is and all of the interactions that occur as a consequence of our climate."
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/12/john-kerry-would-be-climate-hawk-state
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MotherJones: Sec of State Kerry would be a 'climate hawk' (Original Post)
blm
Dec 2012
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Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)1. Yep....
With the XL pipeline falling within the purview of the State Department, one has to wonder just how sincere is republican support for his
appointment. Meanwhile Susan Rice has investments in the fossil fuel industry, including that damned tar sands industry.
blm
(112,873 posts)3. I never trusted the GOPs dog and pony show re Rice. It was way over the top, and
seemed more a ploy to goad Obama into naming her.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)5. You may be
absolutely correct. I think they honestly believed "the Black man" wouldn't be able to resist the dare. Fools, racist fools.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)2. Pardon my cynicism....
However...
Yeah, just pardon the cynicism.
blm
(112,873 posts)6. Well, he'd be the most pro-environment, pro-science nominee for Sec of State.
That's already ON the record.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)4. Yeah, my objections to Kerry have never been based on the idea that he'd be bad
at the job, because I think he'd be fantastic.
My only regret is losing him in the Senate.