John Kerry Disappointed Australia Wants to Keep Exporting Coal

The fact that the Democratic Party ran him for President is appalling. Kerry almost makes Gore seem reasonable and well informed.

as rising CO2 fertilises their crops

CO2 is more than fertilizer. It is an essential component for life on Earth. Every carbon atom in your body was once CO2 in the atmosphere. It really can’t be stressed enough.

Come down, come down from your ivory tower executive jet emissions machine.

who’s paying these politicians to ignore China?…what’s the deal

Will be interesting if Biden tells Australia that they either stop digging up coal or he stops sending the US Navy to protect them from China.

“Australia disappoints”

~John Kerry
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Your whole life has been one big disappointment, John Kerry. Sure, you’ve got money up the wazooo, but your life is just one big disappointment. Yahboo. Sucks to be you.

How does it feel to go through life perpetually angry, ignorant, confused, stupid, fist up your paid-for sock puppet butt… and rich?

Me? I’m a happy guy despite not having a lot of money. I sleep well.

C’mon man. That’s why he has such a long face.

Perhaps Kerry could offer to pay Australia to keep it in the ground.

Less developed countries are in it for handouts. Europe is in it because of their population density they needed to reduce power plant and tailpipe emissions anyway.
Countries like Australia, Canada, and USA are in it because we let idiots like Kerry run our countries.

Dear John,

Exporting coal feeds our people through jobs and income. Perhaps you could set a good example by giving all bar one of your houses to the poor. I suggest some of the oil workers you have just made unemployed in the US. Scrap the private jet and use only public transport Or just walk everywhere. The US could also stop exporting wood to England to burn in their Drax power stations. You could also put some reasonable pressure on China.In the meantime Australia appears to be the only country that ever met the Kyoto commitments.So until the US cleans up its own house, sod off John Kerry, you bloody great hypocrite!!

Presumably Kerry is not referring to metallurgical or coking coal because the US is second to Australia as an exporter in terms of volume (AUS 55% world supply vs. US 15%).
In 2020 two thirds of Australian coal exported in $ terms was coking coal for steel manufacture, the main importers: 1.India 2.China(?) 3.Japan.
The one third in $ terms relatively high quality thermal coal (20% of world supply) main export markets: 1.Japan 2.China(?) 3.India.

It is time to get proactive:https://edberry.com/blog/climate/climate-politics/a-climate-resolution-for-your-group/

The higher the quality of coal China burns, the less it pollutes. Therefore buying high quality coal from the US or Australia will do more to reduce both C02 and particulate emissions than anything else we can do.

Those of us who weren’t fortunate enough to marry a rich widow, have to work for a living.
Something Kerry has never done in his life.

The Democrats just can’t help themselves. They have become drunk with political power and are turning the screws on their political opponents at home, and are feeling their oats enough to be threatening our friends abroad.

They don’t threaten our enemies, just our friends. They are afraid of our enemies, or subject to blackmail by them, so they get a pass.

Totalitarian Democrats are in charge in Washington DC. Totalitarians are going to try to get everyone in the world to conform to the way the totalitarians look at the world. Otherwise, you are guilty of wrongthink and are subject to punishment.

Texas needs to get that grid fixed. They may have a lot of new residents if the Totalitarians get too pushy.

Its sort of like having a five year old sulking because someone took away his dummy and expected him to transition from wearing nappies.

In countries less affluent than the USA, replacing fossil fuels with new renewable electricity sources like wind and solar power is hard because most people desperately want much more power at lower cost, not fickle power at high cost.

When will gigolo Johnny give up his private jet?

As we say in Australia, he can get rooted.

John if you want to regain credibility how about submitting the Paris treaty to the Senate for ratification. Until then don’t bother me.

Ok John give us up front $6 billion AUD indexed to inflation times 50 years and we will stop tomorrow. Otherwise as another Aussie commenter said”go and get rooted”.

Once again this is linked to the radical neo-Marxist need to have a villain.
Developing countries want and need coal, but somehow the villain is the seller.

People who deny the poor their liberation through coal must be labelled as RACIST. And depending upon where they live, perhaps a jail sentence for hate crime.

If John Kerry tells developing countries to build nuclear power stations, we Australians will stop selling them coal.

There is a quote attributed to Frederick Bastiat “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”.
The Chinese government is probably aware that its energy and raw materials supplies can be cut off at the straits of Malacca choke point, they have an incentive to maintain diplomacy. The Australian government will also have to be wary of becoming used as a proxy by the US federal government in their trade war with China. Cut off energy supplies to China and their military will take a more direct approach for much the same reasons Japan did in the decade prior to Pearl harbour.

‘China and Japan, for all their faults, are doing what the West refused to do – building thousands of new coal plants’

I think you need an update on Japanese coal plant building…

Japan has now just 8 GW of new coal capacity in the pipeline … but! by 2030 plans to retire 30 GW of inefficient plant… and the Japanese govt has started limiting Japanese investment in overseas coal.

And the news elsewhere in Asia shows a trend away from coal…

In Bangladesh the government was planning to “review” all but three of the country’s under-development coal plants, capping coal power capacity at 5GW. Planned coal plants totalling 23GW are in doubt. 

Vietnam’s draft Power Development Plan, which is due to come into force in 2022, proposed cancelling seven coal plants and postponing six others until the 2030s, by which point it is highly unlikely they will go ahead. The 13 plants represent almost half of Vietnam’s planned coal power development.

the Philippines’ Department of Energy has proposed a moratorium on new coal power plants which could lead to 9.6GW of cancellations. And, in December 2020, Pakistan’s Imran Khan announced that the country would not construct any new coal power plants, though the real-world impact of this grandiose announcement has been questioned.

According to Global Energy Monitor (GEM) the coal power pipeline in South and Southeast Asia’s four major emerging economies may have dropped by as much as 62GW in 2020. That leaves just 25GW under development, an 80% decline from just five years ago. Exact figures for cancelled and remaining plants will depend on how last year’s announcements is manifested in specific policies.

John Kerry Disappointed Australia Wants to Keep Importing Money

Lib govt here is teetering due to Craig Kelly going independent yesterday
Labour n greens are cheering as they push idiotic rape claims(2yrs to file with police) as a means to try n gain ground.
Kelly is browned off at freedom of speech issues re HQ and ivermectin safety
the mindless cancel culturists super vax mobs are out for blood on any who naysay their agenda.
funny sad story?
some idiot GP managed to give 2 elderly 80+ and 92 yr olds waaay over the 1ml vax dose today
hysterics ensue.

John Kerry is a dink. He’s never been anything else. And he’s about as useful as hair on a frog. That is all.

And I’m dissappointed that Washington DC wants to continue exporting hogwash.

BINGO !

Three idiots on the same page:

TED Talks:
About the speakers
John Kerry
Al Gore
Christiana Figueres

Kerry is another JFK and wants to get us into another Vietnam of sorts.

The only thing John Kerry is not disappointed with, but should be, is John Kerry.

Wait, Kerry is guilty of some extraordinary Climate Chutpah here. We’ve essentially been AWOL from the Paris Klimate Klub the past four years. I think there’s supposed to be a period of hazing, and of proving that we’re worthy. Get ready for some serious punishment of the US at the next climate shindig in Glasgow. We’re bad.

“give up one of our main export industries on the timeframe of Kerry’s choosing.” Australia has its own timeframe for that?

Online sources are not sure who said this. Some say it was Lincoln. Others say Mark Twain. Others say it originated from The Bible….

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

Kerry doesn’t know it, but the above quote could easily apply to him when he opens his mouth about climate.

What is it with the Obama/Biden Administrations? They seem bound and determined to insult and defame our allies and cozy up to our enemies. Are progressives all self-loathing masochists?

Who knew that the lowly chocolate bar would produce such nonsense.

I see he didn’t say anything about Cdn and USA coal exports out of BC. BC exports tons of USA coal (as well as its own) to mostly Asian markets. BC has the biggest coal exporting port in North America. But, the Biden administration and Trudeau are bum buddies, so, yea, pick on the Aussies.

“John Kerry — throwing America under the bus for personal gain and advancement since 1971.”
And now trying to add Australia.

An interesting situation caused by China’s refusal to buy Australian coal recently is that China is buying it from the US. https://www.thegwpf.com/chinas-us-coal-imports-jump-748-amid-australian-trade-dispute/. I bet Kerry is really disapointed about that.

John Kerry is not nearly ashamed at Australia as Australia is ashamed at John Kerry.

What a bloody dill you are, Kerry. Suggest you learn something about Australia before you open your big mouth.

PS While you are there learn something about science too.

Using Australian coal in China benefits the planet as a whole in that Chinese coal is largely high-sulphur, leading to smog, acid rain, and similar unpleasantness, but Australian coal is low-sulphur leading to reduced health problems and cleaner atmosphere. Regardless of the US climate religion, China will continue to burn coal. Is it better that they try to reduce the unpleasant results ?

If the “Diggers” didn’t do it, then someone else would come along and take over the work.

I suspect that John Kerry left his “page” on a Swift Boat in Viet Nam along with his integrity, honor and contact with the truth.