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John Kerry Starts 'Global Warming' Book Tour
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts kicked off a 10-city global warming book tour on Monday, promoting a cause whose most high-profile advocate, Democrat Al Gore, also lost a presidential race to George. W. Bush. "This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future" by Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be released on March 26. "As a society, we are sliding dangerously backwards in almost every sector of environmental concern," Kerry said in a statement about the book. "Even caring about the environment has been marginalized in recent years by a calculated assault from special interests. "Teresa and I are writing this book because we share a sense of urgency about the need to reinvigorate grassroots action which takes these concerns into the ballot box," he said. "This book shows what a lot of individuals are doing in common sense, practical and yet visionary ways, in the hope that their example can once again galvanize Americans into action."
Story Continues Below Kerry in 2004 lost a presidential election to Bush. Four years earlier, Vice President Al Gore found himself in the same position following the closest and arguably most controversial contests in American history. Gore has remained in the spotlight since 2000 largely due to his campaigning on climate change, and last month, his documentary on global warming - "An Inconvenient Truth" - won an Academy Award. For Brian Darling, director of U.S. Senate relations at the conservative Heritage Foundation, both Kerry and Gore are "alarmists" when it comes to predictions about climate change and its potential effects. "[Kerry] talks about the environment and has done so in his Senate campaigns and a little bit during his presidential election battle, but obviously, this is an issue that's very controversial, and Al Gore and John Kerry seem to be on the alarmist side of the global warming debate," Darling told Cybercast News Service. "They are basically giving the American people the impression that if nothing is done, our world will have cataclysmic climate change, which I don't believe the science proves that theory out," he said.
"If you look at the science and a whole lot of what's been said about global warming is that it will have a minor to [minimal] effect on global climate change. "Even if it has some sort of an effect, there's not much governments can do to change that," Darling added. "There is only so much human beings can do because human beings only have a certain amount of effect on why there is incremental climate change." He questioned Kerry's motives in writing the book. "Maybe he's going in a different direction because he sees he's not going to have a chance to be president anytime in the near future," Darling said. "He had his shot, and maybe he's going to do something similar to Al Gore and work on one issue and trumpet one issue that he cares about. "Maybe this is an attempt for him to get some high-level position in the next Democratic administration, considering he's not running for higher office," he added.
For his part, Gore praised the Massachusetts senator's book. "John Kerry and Teresa Heinz have written a book that is a profound challenge to all of us but contains, in the examples of the men and women who are fighting the great fight for a better future for our environment, the clear hope that if we can embrace their resourcefulness, determination and essential patriotism, we will prevail," he said in a statement. "Both John and Teresa have been long-time leaders in the battle to save the Earth's environment," Gore stated. "Way back when it was not all fashionable, indeed when very few people in the world were even paying attention to it, both John and Teresa were providing outstanding and courageous leadership." Darling found it "ironic that our last two failed presidential candidates are teaming up on the same issue of global warming." "If we end up in a situation where - because of Al Gore's discussions about global warming and because of John Kerry's discussions about global warming - we get in a situation where we implement solutions that destroy our economy, I would think the American people would not be very happy about that," he said.
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