He’s making such a sacrifice for us all. This interview was in 2019 because Kerry FLEW TO ICELAND ON HIS PRIVATE JET, in order to ACCEPT AN AWARD.
HT/Sara and Willie Soon
John Kerry Confronted Over His Private Jet Use — His Response Says It All
- Thursday, March 12, 2026
Greta once crossed the atlantic in a boat. With no toilet, cooking facilities, or shower. She’s a misled child, but at least she’s consistent.
That’s what all the rest of these climate warriors need to do when travelling to their ’emergency meetings’ in order to remind themselves of the fate they are resigning a couple billion or so of the poorest citizens on earth to with their climate agenda.
The crew of the yacht made several flights across the Atlantic either to get to where the voyage started or to get back to Europe from the US. More CO2 was generated as a result of sailing across the Atlantic than had Greta flown over and back by herself. Or attended by video. All style over substance.
I was going to comment on this, but I don’t want to be placed on the reeducation camps list (Sarcasm))….
My pleasure, Charles. I nearly fell down laughing over it. Brightened my day when it showed up on a blog where I post articles.
Did you catch that little dig at Greta?
“I can’t just sail across the ocean.” How DARE you!
Let them eat carbon credits.
Surely Michael Moore can work with this rich opportunity. Just hanging out and filming at airports at climate meetings would be good for a few movies.
Just reading up on John ‘lip licker’ Kerry, he fly’s everywhere on his wife’s jet so that makes it okay since it is not his lives in a huge mansion, not his but hers, but that is okay since he is not responsible for the energy he uses. He says that he uses ‘carbon offsets’ that allows him to use extreme amounts of energy, isn’t that something only the wealthy can afford. When Zhao O’Biden and mister Kerry ‘save the world’, we who are not in the upper echelon of the world will not be able to afford the cost of our energy needs but that is okay as long as the rich can save us all! Just remember people, that so far the oceans have not covered Florida or the islands around the world as predicted, we still have snow even though we were told ‘that children will not know what snow is’ prediction made in 2000, that the arctic would be ice free, that if CO2 got above 350ppm we were doomed, it is now 412ppm. Take all this and research it yourselves, we are being lied to adnauseam. The poor will be the ones to suffer most as they are relegated to extreme poverty!
There are only so many “offsets” available. How many trees are they going to be able to plant.
So when John uses offsets for these vanity flights, there will be fewer “offsets” available for people who are trying to do real work.
This was the Democratic nominee for President in 2004.
Scary isn’t it.
What’s really scary is that the quality of the presidential candidates has fallen so far from the low mark set by Kerry.
How long till the usual trolls pop up to declare that this whole issue is nothing more than a distraction.
I personally see nothing wrong with owning and flying a private jet, as I do not believe in the cult of thermageddon as Monckton terms it.
However the hypocrisy of Kerry who says we all have to go without fossil fuels to save the planet – but flies his G-IV to Iceland for some speech or award – is an outstanding example of the “let them eat cake” mentality.
His plane is a 1995 Gulfstream G-IV, serial number 1261, tail number N57HJ.
https://prijet.com/owner/FLYING%20SQUIRREL%20LLC
On a flight from KBOS (Boston) to BIKF (Keflavik), the G-IV with 3,000 lbs of passengers and baggage, flying at FL390 (39,000 feet) burns right about 3,400 gallons of JET A fuel including taxi, climb, cruise and descent. (I am very familiar with the performance of the G-IV)
It is said each gallon of JET A produces 9.57 kg of CO2.
https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php
So his flight released 32,538 kg of CO2, one way.
The flight is very near 2,100 nautical miles, and the G-IV does it in just under 5 hours.
On a regular passenger aircraft for the same journey, one economy class passenger only releases 234 kg of CO2!
https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Carbonoffset/Pages/default.aspx.
So he released ~140 times more CO2 due to his privileged status as a climate change warrior!
But he has excellent taste – Gulfstream is THE premier business jet manufacturer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TVNaixlpQs
The newest Gulfstream models are truly amazing:
“However the hypocrisy of Kerry who says we all have to go without fossil fuels to save the planet”
And it looks like a lot of people are going to have to go without their jobs to save the planet.
Good plane but old. Note if he is now a cabinet secretary he will often fly on a US government aircraft, probably a relatively new version of B737 like the C-40 series, or perhaps the C-32 version of the B757.
(The Secretary of State is typically a primary user of the C-32. Recall decades ago a US cabinet secretary was killed going into a country in IIRC eastern Europe, due to a navigation error by pilots of the B737.)
And US government agencies including USAF operate some Gulfstream V business jets, designated C-37A. And of course there are at least two of the biggies – 747s.
Communications equipment is carried, much of it for POTUS flights as Commander In Chief.
Some may have ability to be refueled in the air.
BTW, FTR, ‘Air Force One’ and ‘Marine One’ are flight numbers used when POTUS is on board USAF and Marine aircraft whatever the model. Those terms are used to distinguish from airline flights, years ago there was a case of confusion in the air. There are lesser flight desgnations used for other VIPS including the First Lady who I expect would use a government B737.
In Kanada our PM would say that poor people and the rich “experience it differently”. Hypocrites all!
It is fortunate for Mr Kerry that Hunter Biden is available to make him look, by comparison, quite virtuous.
Just laughable . . . first Kerry responds with the phrase “If you offset . . .” then he later states “If I offset . . .”, but then he never states what he’s doing to offset his personal “carbon footprint” from using his private jet.
Instead, his sleight-of-hand bureaucrat-speak is to say the use of his private jet is critical to him negotiating world-wide in order for the US to “win the battle of climate change”, whatever that actually means and despite lack of any evidence that that is even possible.
As if it’s not possible to travel anywhere in the world using commercial aircraft and commercial ground transportation at a much, much smaller individual “carbon footprint”.
Just laughable.
Kerry must be a Catholic. If he says enough Hail Marys (donating to his church to offset CO2) he can continue to commit sin (use a private jet) for the greater good of doing God’s will (to win the battle of climate change). The irony is, of course, that “climate change” does not need to be, and can’t be, fought against – it is the natural way climate works, The climate is also more than grateful for any extra CO2 it can get. Kerry should be encouraged to fly more. Apart from that, Kerry is an arrogant hypocrite.
This is the guy that testified before congress in military fatigues wearing medals claiming US soldiers were war criminals. He also threw medals over the fence to the White House but not his medals.
It is cheap for him to now say he is doing all his efforts for us because of a crisis he cannot, supported by facts, prove.
A perfect illustration of how the global elite see themselves. One rule for thee and none for me.
You could accuse Kerry of being a hypocrite and having double standards. But leftists have no standards.
Indeed, Marxism teaches that contradictions are good – ‘dialectic logic. It also operates to an ‘end justifies means’ maxim. And worse, recall Stalin starved the USSR’s most productive farmers of ideological reasons even though the country was short of food.n
If Kerry appeared in Dumb and Dumber they’d have to rename it Dumb and Dumber and Dumbest.
What a plonker!
Why didn’t Greta sail there to present the Award?
This same John Kerry?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/what-john-kerry-really-did-in-vietnam/
The internet never forgets. (Actually it can, I printed that one out.)
Spooky action at a distance takes on a new meaning with John Kerry.
Well actually, a boat would not have worked with all the security team, luggage, staff, and servants. It would have taken a cruise liner or jeep carrier to get him there.
If he actually believed the BS that the world is coming to an end, he would not fly in a private jet. Think about it; if you actually believed that CO2 is causing the end of civilization, you would not fly in a private jet, period. You would not live in several mansions and drive big cars, fly in private jets. Truth is, they dont even believe their own BS. It is just a way to control you. Same old story; all they want is power, money and control over you. This is just another way to control you and your families and future. Same old story from acient times; power, money and control.
Well, when you think about his reply…he’s not wrong. His type, indeed.
As Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds says, “I’ll believe there is a climate crisis when those telling me there is a climate crisis act like there is a climate crisis”.
Yup, hypocrisy is standard practice.
BC Premier John Horgan promised to eliminate funding of political parties but continued it after being elected. He railed against cronyism but props up the dangerous driving and fraudulent advertising of the taxi cartel. Ec.
Recently, I’ve started to wonder if these politicians, billionaires and celebrities are really running a massive gaslight operation to purposely sabotage the climate change agenda they otherwise promote. Of course, any genuinely serious effort at eliminating CO2 from the economy would be decimating to their wealth, political power and lifestyles which they obviously would not want to sacrifice. So they transparently participate in this hypocritical behavior that makes it difficult to impossible for any thinking individual to take them and their rhetoric the least bit seriously.
Why? It’s win-win for them. They know that the controversy that they themselves generate with this transparently hypocritical behavior will sabotage the agenda so that they won’t ever have to sacrifice their wealth, influence or lifestyles. But they will get to keep their virtue signalling points with their peers and the useful idiots who do continue to take them seriously. It’s even better for those who get to profit from the agenda through political power, subsidies or enforced monopolies.
As long as “climate change” remains a religion to a gullible critical mass, the scam will continue.
Then-Senator Kerry had come out against a wind farm near Nantucket because it would spoil the view from his Windsurfer. Next time he needs to go to Iceland (or anywhere else in Europe), let him use his Windsurfer!
Sounds like fun in a North Atlantic blizzard, but it would benefit the rest of the world. It would take several weeks each way, so that Kerry would have less time to do damage to America.
Kerry’s “Screw you peasants” has less compassion than Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake”.
The only choice for somebody like me is a long-bed Ford F-150 with an 8 cylinder IC engine. Running all over the county trying to get things done, there really is no alternative.
Unless you can afford an F-350 crew cab long-bed dually with V-10. :-o)
Sorry, couldn’t resist.