Sen. Kennedy vs. the climate kooks

 PJ Media:

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Kennedy kicked things off by highlighting an essay Keys wrote for the New York Times titled, “Climate Change Should Make You Rethink Homeownership.” Kennedy, in his signature deadpan style, asked, “Did you write that?” Keys confirmed he did. The Louisiana senator then went for the jugular.

“Pretty bold,” Kennedy observed. “You own a home?” 

“I do. In a flood zone,” Keys admitted.

Kennedy’s response was priceless: “Have you sold it?” 

Keys sheepishly admitted he had not, prompting Kennedy to drive the point home. “Oh, well, you’re telling everybody else to sell theirs.”

Kennedy had just exposed him for the classic climate change alarmist hypocrite. Some of the biggest climate change alarmists are the ones who travel by private planes and live on the water despite their apocalyptic predictions of rising sea levels. Barack Obama comes to mind as a notorious example of this.

In his guest essay, Keys wrote, “it’s time for some prospective buyers set on living in areas with high risk of hurricanes, floods, wildfires and tornadoes to reconsider homeownership as a financial goal.” He added that “renting is quickly becoming a better way for many people to enjoy these places with much less financial baggage.”

If you read his entire essay, it comes across as a veiled attempt to push people of modest means out of desirable areas, leaving them as playgrounds for the wealthy — all under the guise of a climate change agenda.

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When I was working for an investment firm that was financing developments in the Houston area of Texas we had to be careful to determine whether those new developments were in a flood plain.  The developers had to hire engineers to study whether that was the case and get opinions that the property was above the flood plain.  Previously some developments were in such flood plains endangering homeowners.  It had nothing to do with "climate change."  It had to do with whether the site was appropriate for residential use. 

Some of the best developers would take advantage of the problem by having engineers plot areas for making ponds and using the dirt to get the developed area above the floodplain.