John Kerry Says the Global Warming Clock's Ticking: Be Bullish

On the matter of global warming, President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry recently asserted that the theory (global warming) is about to collide with reality. In other words, we need to act. There’s a bullish story to be found inside Kerry’s alarmism.

To find it, it’s worthwhile to travel back in time to the 20^th century. With all the remarkable progress that took place, it’s perhaps easy to forget just what a disastrous century preceded the one we’re in now.

For a useful recap of all the horrors that revealed themselves in the century’s first half alone, we can quote Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle in his excellent new book, The Book of Charlie. As Von Drehle describes it, the 20^th was marked by “unprecedented violence and dislocation – the Great War giving way to the Russian Revolution and the Armenian genocide, followed by the Great Depression, the communist purges, the starving of Ukraine, and the Rape of Nanjing, bleeding in World War II, the Holocaust, and violent struggles for colonial independence.”