climatebrad | Former Climate Hawk John McCain Ridicules Kerry for Being a Climate Hawk @climatebrad | Uploaded February 2014 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
2/18/2014: Appearing on Phoenix radio station KFYI's Mike Broomhead Show, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ridiculed Secretary of State John Kerry for treating climate change as a serious foreign policy issue and national security threat, as he once did himself.
MCCAIN: Why should he talk about climate change when we've got 130,000 people in Syria killed, and, as I predicted on this show many times, when the Geneva thing is a fiasco, and the US-Iran talks are obviously a joke, and the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations haven't even begun? John Kerry and the president, they could be hitting the trifecta here, gross failure in all three. So he has to go over to Asia and talk about climate change and say it's the most important issue? Hello? On what planet does he reside?
2/18/2014: Appearing on Phoenix radio station KFYI's Mike Broomhead Show, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ridiculed Secretary of State John Kerry for treating climate change as a serious foreign policy issue and national security threat, as he once did himself.
MCCAIN: Why should he talk about climate change when we've got 130,000 people in Syria killed, and, as I predicted on this show many times, when the Geneva thing is a fiasco, and the US-Iran talks are obviously a joke, and the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations haven't even begun? John Kerry and the president, they could be hitting the trifecta here, gross failure in all three. So he has to go over to Asia and talk about climate change and say it's the most important issue? Hello? On what planet does he reside?
![Romney v. Sandy [extended]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YOBrrVMRFlE/hqdefault.jpg "Romney v. Sandy [extended]
10/31/12: Climate Silence ad produced by Forecast the Facts juxtaposing GOP Republican candidate Mitt Romneys mockery of global warming with Superstorm Sandy hitting the East Coast of the United States. Extended version released for the Web.
Press release:
Millions of Americans are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, a horrific, fossil-fueled storm. Climate scientists agree that global warming pollution was a key factor in its destructive power, so Mitt Romney must hope we forgot that he mocked climate change at the Republican National Convention, to the raucous cheers and applause of the GOP delegates. We didn’t forget.
We’re putting out this video to remind every voter struck by Sandy that Mitt Romney thinks the poisoning of our weather is a joke. Climate Silence members have been leading the charge against climate silence for months. But in the final week of this election, the most powerful climate messenger turned out to be the harrowing reality of a freakish Frankenstorm.
Sandy is without question the October Surprise of 2012, and it has pushed climate change to the forefront of a campaign where it was previously almost entirely absent.
As families recover and voters head to the polls, we want the American public to remember this cold fact: less than two months before sea level rise devastated New York City with more powerful storm surges, Governor Romney laughed at the very notion of rising seas.
Our next President must be someone who is prepared to forthrightly address climate change disasters like Sandy. The tragedy of Hurricane Sandy has made it crystal clear: it’s time to end the climate silence.
Brad Johnson, Campaign Manager, Forecast the Facts")
