From the Secretary of State of the United States of America (4th in line to take over the most powerful office in the world) came this globally broadcast dissertation on Earth’s atmosphere:

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

Not a completely erroneous characterization of the ozone layer, but sadly, the event at which Mr. Kerry was speaking was about carbon dioxide, not about ozone.

Equally sad was the introductory statement Kerry delivered before making his staggeringly misguided faux paux:

“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.”  

Before Hillary gave the job of Sec. of State to Kerry (immediately after the Benghazi debacle was revealed) he was a Senator.  Six years ago he declared that the arctic would be “ice-free” in five years. There is more ice in the arctic now, six years after he said that, than ever before. His credentials as a climatologist are not stellar.

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