John Kerry believes President Trump shattered global trust in the USA’s commitment to climate action. But Kerry claims “more and more” Republicans are starting to take the climate crisis seriously when Kerry appears on Fox News.
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How costly was the behavior of the Trump Administration regarding climate?
The damage that President Trump wreaked worldwide is not limited to climate. But on climate he did a whopper of a job of putting America’s credibility in a terrible place, destroying it fundamentally. I hear from country after country: How do we know we can count on America? How do we know that another President is not going to come along, someone like Trump, who does the same thing again? My answer is very simple, that I don’t believe any one politician can come along in the future and turn this tide, because all around the planet the private sector is moving rapidly to do what governments aren’t doing. There’s a major undertaking by banks, by asset managers, by corporations who are considering environmental, social, and governance criteria in their boardrooms, and who have made commitments to sustainable development goals. There are trillions of dollars now moving to invest in alternative, renewable energy, whether it’s solar or hydro. There’s just a phenomenal amount of economic activity being generated. I don’t think any politician would want to turn it around, frankly, but, also, I don’t think they could.
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Secretary Kerry, if I go to Fox News or anywhere in the right-wing media or social media, I see a lot of these efforts mocked. If I turn to the Senate, you look at the first of the Biden Administration’s big infrastructure bills––it was supposed to contain all sorts of climate measures, and that got gutted when Senate Republicans opposed it. How would you sell bold climate policy to Republicans?
There are more and more Republicans, I think, who are really now beginning to take this more seriously and who are trying to figure out what actions they are prepared to support. Even in the House of Representatives, there has been some movement. Mother Nature is messaging pretty forcibly right now, temperatures are going up, the storms are getting more intense, the fires are bigger and more expansive and more frequent. Increasingly, leaders are taking note of this. For instance, President Putin was very clear: they have a real challenge in the northern part of Russia and Siberia. The tundra and the permafrost are thawing. They have cities there that are becoming unstable. They’re deeply concerned about the methane that is being released after forty thousand years of containment in the earth. Mother Nature is kind of screaming at people, Hey, guys, you’ve got a problem.
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Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/john-kerry-on-the-unfathomable-stakes-of-the-next-un-climate-change-conference
Kerry I think you misunderstand climate skeptics and Republicans.
Some of us might not agree with your politics, but your personal contribution to global warming is absolutely awe inspiring – over a million air miles by 2016. How can any of us mere mortals compete with such a heroic commitment to providing life giving CO2 to the planet?
One day they’ll build statues to you, the man who personally drove back the ice age.
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Kerry is the worst American politician. He is always wrong, even when he has changed sides, he has managed to be wrong both times.
Please John Kerry just shut up and go away.
I’ve already seen Kerry statues. Easter Island has hundreds of them.
Chia Moai.
There is one consistent thing about John Kerry and his political and military history; whatever happens, it is not his fault.
John Kerry, the guy that was the willing face of a KGB “anti-war” front group back in the ’70’s and lied through his teeth spouting KGB propaganda to congress.
Oh, but it was much worse than that. The North was ready to sign a peace pact, and permanently divide the country, ending the war. Kerry went to the NV delegation in Paris and convinced them to hold off, as he said the US had tired of the war, and would give up soon. They did, we did, Millions of people died, and many others were sent to “reeducation” camps. The rest of the country ended up another Communist sh*t hole for decades,and is still a 3rd world mess even today.
Bad enough, until you realize that Kerry was still a officer in the Reserves at the time. Kerry makes Benedict Arnold look like a great American hero.
“Kerry makes Benedict Arnold look like a great American hero.”
Yes, Kerry ought to be tried for treason for his actions during the Vietnam war. Undermining the U.S. while our troops are on the battlefield. That’s John Kerry.
He did the same kind of interference in the Trump Iran nuclear deal, telling the Mad Mullahs not to make a deal, and to wait for the election.
He ought to be tried for treason for that, too.
John Kerry is a proven serial liar. No rational person would believe anything he says without substantial verification.
Kerry is a globalist shill and a traitorous DOPE. Other than that, he’s great.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_globalwarmingpseudo.htm
He’s also an idiot.
Kerry and his minions all promoted climate science misinformation and climate change disinformation, and they all should be called on it.
It is simply misinformation/disinformation.
Why do people listen to this village idiot?
And why do the good people here on WUWT spend time discussing his shortcomings?
Perhaps it is that evil prospers when good men do nothing.
So, John Kerry walks into a bar, and the bartender asks “Hey, pal, why the long face?”
So, John Kerry walks into a bar, and the bartender says “get the F out of here you smug lying overconfident sanctimonious shit bag. If you ever show your ugly face in here again I’ll cut your guts out right here.”
So, John Kerry is walking down the sidewalk and he walks into a bar … so he says ‘”ouch, F’n Trump, Ouch.”
Is Kerry tipping his hand? If other nations don’t “trust” the US to meet their “climate action commitments” because of Trump, then Kerry can simply buy-off the other nations with $US while claiming “Trump made me do it.”
I can’t believe that I would agree with anything Kerry says but the comment about the role of the private sector in pushing the Climate alarmist agenda is very true. The infiltration of boards by greenies ,and activities by activist shareholders , together with the influence of social and mainstream media have combined to make Corporations worldwide very compliant on this issue. They have been intimidated by and pandered to these activists by acquiescing to their demands. The anti coal stance of many of our large oil and gas companies and their diversification into renewables will ultimately come back to bite them. Not only will their actions not satisfy the voracious destructive appetite of the activists but as governments start to realise that all renewables are doing is making electricity more expensive and unreliable and cut all subsidies these companies will become less and less profitable.
Unfortunately the early participants in the global warming indoctrination are now at an age where they are running huge companies and investment funds and they feel some higher power to adopt the indoctrination principals into their businesses.
It’s also a training ground to go after plastics, foods, farming, transport, leisure, and thought itself. Good luck out there.
Good post Zigmaster, but they’re actually faking it. They have whole departments faking it. We have a whole government faking it, as does the UK.
Yup – so are the activists. They may be willing to accept a certain amount of corporate appeasement for now, but make no mistake about it – these activists believe that ALL corporations are evil, corrupt, polluting despoilers of nature. It’s a fringe nutcase ideology that seems to have infected the thinking of masses of the left.
He’s never had the power go out for a week in bad weather, has he? Naw, that would be a burden on him, unlike what it must have been for my relatives down in Dallas last winter.
What a marone!! He hasn’t been in touch with reality for a very long time.
The real question is why didn’t Kerry insist that Obama lock in this agreement as a treaty by submitting it to the Senate.
Of course, we all know why, it was a definite loser.
Ironically, CO2 emissions fell in the USA during the Trump years. On the other hand, emissions rose in China and will continue to rise for at least another decade, more than offsetting the reductions made elsewhere and yet Kerry is strangely quiet about this as he jets around the globe.
I believe what you are referring to is termed “inconvenient truth”.
480 millions years ago carbon dioxide levels were 15 times than they are today, with a mean global temperature of 80 degrees F. Mother earth then was a vast tropical forest of towering broad green-leafed trees that produced 1.5 times the oxygen levels of today. Does Kerry know anything about photosynthesis and of the importance of Carbon Dioxide as a starting molecule for producing life on earth and an oxygen rich planet? Today we are at only 400 parts per million of CO2, just 200 parts per million above starvation levels for plants to sustain a healthy level of atmospheric oxygen. Has Kerry every analyzed the Vostock data that clearly indicates rise in temperature during warm interglacial periods was the result of Milonkovitch cycles that sycnchronize every 100 thousand years that increases solar irradiance and a higher earth temperature. Does he know from his high school physics class that increase in temperature causes gases to come out of solution? Perhaps he should read Gerhard Gerlich’s Falsification of Greenouse Effects within the Frame of Physics, that ManMade global warming defies the second law of thermodynamics, that “Man made global warming is a fictitious method that describes a fake heat pump that is driven by an environment that is radiatively equlibriated to the atmospheric system that such a planetary system could not exist as it defies the second law of thermodynamics.
The Earth could stand to have more of this trace gas that is the bases for all terrestrial life on Earth. Obviously any one so brainwashed regarding this devil in the sky that they have invented CO₂ to be the agent of doom for the Earth would not acknowledge that dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago knew a world with five times more carbon dioxide than is present on Earth today. That is 417 ppm X 5 = 2,085 ppm. The Earth and the dinosaurs lived in harmony with those levels of CO₂ until the asteroid hit the Earth in the Yucatan Peninsula and pretty well changed things and people need to know that the 2,085 ppm of CO₂ didn’t have one damn thing to do with the end of the dinosaurs.
David, they weren’t true trees. They were seeded ferns that grew to the size of tress we know about now. No biggy, but they didn’t have woody stems/trunks, which provide a means of moving water upward.
True trees developed later, about 380 million years ago. But they ALL turned into coal, which allows us mere mortals to produce high quality steel (if the ecohippies will just leave it all alone.)
In answer to your questions about Kerry, no, he has not done anything at all. He’s just a mouthpiece for his own weak ego.
Kerry was in a Boston bar about thirty or so years ago and was trying to hit on some hotties. He says to them – ‘do you know who I am?’ One of the chicks fires back – ‘Yeah – you’re Bob Lobel’ (local sports anchor). I bet that left a mark.
John Kerry – Dumbest Man in DC.
Now there’s a big statement. He may not even be in the top hundred.
Bottom hundred?
You’re being far too kind. He’s also a compulsive liar, especially about his service in Vietnam, and ever vet knows it and despises him for it.
As the popular green movement races inexorably to the great green omnishambles I’m reminded of Napoleon’s words “never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake”.
I wonder what all those hundreds of thousands green people are going to do for a living when this scam finally dies? What will they put on their resumes???
They’ll move seamlessly to the next scam.
It’s a move they are already quite proficient in.
John Kerry is a person that, for various reasons, I have much trouble to stomach, in any way, shape or form, and this below is a big part of that reason is because he defines what a hypocrite is.
Definition of hypocrisy
1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel.
“John Kerry, the recently appointed climate czar for President Joe Biden’s administration, in 2019 flew in a private jet to Iceland, where he received the Arctic Circle award for his climate work, Fox News reports.
Kerry defended himself at the time by saying that taking a jet was “the only choice for somebody like me” after the event, during which he was criticized by the leader of the Arctic Circle Roundtable for his mode of transport.
“I understand that you came here with a private jet,” Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson said to Kerry after the event, according to an interview obtained by Fox. “Is that an environmental way to travel?”
The former secretary of state responded: “If you offset your carbon — it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
Kerry added, “I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States,” and said, “I’ve been involved with this fight for years. I negotiated with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris. And, I believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can’t sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people, and get things done.”
He went on to say, “But what I’m doing, almost full time, is working to win the battle on climate change, and in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I’m not going to be put on the defensive.”
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/john-kerry-private-jet-iceland-climate-activism/2021/02/03/id/1008493/
Oh yes, he’s privileged; he knows it and he wants everyone else to know it as well.
After we recall that Secretary of State John F. Kerry had said this when he was spouting his pathetic hypocritical lies in Indonesia; “One person in one place can make a difference – by talking about how they manage a building, how they heat a school, what kind of things you do for recycling, transportation you use. What you don’t – I think what you don’t hear enough about today, unfortunately, and I’ve saved it for the end, because I want you to leave here feeling, wow, we can get something done. There’s a big set of opportunities in front of us.”
I assume to be about the only person in a C-17 transport plane on a flight from Geneva to Boston is really getting “something done” about solving the alarmist contrived hoax about global warming.
“Military plane transports John Kerry back to Boston after leg break
A C-17 transport plane brought Secretary of State John F. Kerry to Boston from Geneva for medical treatment for a broken leg he sustained while cycling a portion of the Tour de France route. (Reuters)”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/military-plane-to-transport-john-kerry-back-to-the-united-state/2015/06/01/6cbf19fc-0865-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html
Most alarmist do not know how big the C-17 transport plane is & I wonder if is this the plane that should have returned, John F. Kerry, back to the United States? As a side note; the cost-per-flight hour of the C-17 is $23,811.
This is the aircraft that broken assed John Kerry used to get back to Boston in after he fell off of a bicycle and broke his leg. He said in Indonesia, without any meaning to him, obviously, that; “Finally, if we truly want to prevent the worst consequences of climate change from happening, we do not have time to have a debate about whose responsibility this is. The answer is pretty simple: It’s everyone’s responsibility.”
“The C-17 measures approximately 174 feet long with a 170-foot wingspan. The aircraft is powered by four fully reversible Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 engines (the commercial version is currently used on the Boeing 757). Each engine is rated at 40,900 pounds of thrust. The thrust reversers direct the flow of air upward and forward to avoid ingestion of dust and debris. […]Power Plant Manufacturer Four Pratt & Whitney F117-PW- 100 turbofan engines[…]
The aircraft is operated by a crew of three (pilot, copilot and loadmaster). Cargo is loaded onto the C-17 through a large aft door that accommodates military vehicles and palletized cargo. The C-17 can carry virtually all of the Army’s air-transportable, outsized combat equipment. The C-17 is also able to airdrop paratroopers and cargo.
Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds, and its maximum gross takeoff weight is 585,000 pounds. With a payload of 130,000 pounds and an initial cruise altitude of 28,000 feet, the C-17 has an unrefueled range of approximately 5,200 nautical miles. Its cruise speed is approximately 450 knots (.77 Mach)”
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-17.htm
Hey! That cast weighed a LOT!
This yacht, built in New Zealand, I know has engines that use fuel and like most sail boats that I saw in the inland passage of South East Alaska, they never use the sails but use the engines when going anywhere. Just some more of the far left hypocrisy that the liberals thrive on.
“Anyway, John Kerry has this boat that he takes to Nantucket in the summer. That’s a real luxury boat. His boat cost $7 million, and it was built in New Zealand, even though one of the main industries in his home region off the Atlantic Coast is shipbuilding. Which is an industry that has been suffering and they could have probably used the work. Building a boat that size, according to some estimates, could employ an entire town for 6 to 12 months.
“But Kerry decided to give that work to New Zealand. But he docks it also in Rhode Island instead of Massachusetts because then he can avoid $500,000 or so in excise taxes that he’d have to pay to his home state of Tax-achusetts.
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/emily-richards/hannity-kerrys-7-million-yacht-3x-longer-rubios-fishing-boat
“Wade noted the vessel was designed by Rhode Island boat designer Ted Fontaine and purchased in the state. It was built in New Zealand by Friendship Yachts.[…]The 76-foot sloop has two cabins, a pilot house fitted with a wet bar and cold wine storage, according to the Boston Herald, which first reported its Rhode Island berthing.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/john-kerry-saves-500000-b_n_656985.html
I once met someone who builds boats for Russian oligarchs. Funny thing is the oligarchs don’t seem to like people in Russia working on their boats.
Maybe other countries all realize that there is no climate crisis and that mankind does not have the power to affect climate change. The reality is that mankind does not even know what the optimum global climate actually is let alone how to achieve it. It may be that some countries are opposed to just wasting their money.
Please buy the Kerry Corker fart stopper, because if it will save one polar bear it will be worth it. One size fits all. Works on people, too!
Bundle it up with a ball gag and I’ll send them to Kerry. More than anyone else in the world, he needs them.
Kerry is correct on one thing. The banks, investment houses and finance in general is moving towards using “sustainability” metrics in their assessment of business, who in turn will be made to go to great lengths to provide audits before these financiers will advance capital.
I now understand what Mark Carney meant when he said “businesses that lag behind will go bankrupt, without question.” This is the new “stake holder capitalism” that people like Carney and Schwab have been going on about. You can bet that the stake holders will not include the ordinary guy.