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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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.
The noble mission for politicians and the big money for entrepreneurs and the virtuous ideology for seekers is the main reason for the “major undertakings”. Not the existence of an actual “climate crisis”. I just call it “Industrialization 2.0”.
Putin concerned by burning perma frost ? im skeptical . in Maine farmers burn the blueberry barrens ( the closest thing we have to perma frost barrens ) every spring to improve the soil , kill pests and improve crops .
In more comedy gold from the UN they want developed nations to have a hold on booster shots for covid and donate the shots to 3rd world countries … they are calling it vaccine equality.
The reality is any politician stupid enough to put his countries population at risk would have his head stuck on a large pike or put against the wall for treason. The bleeding hearts of the UN can bleat equality all they like it isn’t going to happen and it will play out exactly the same way with emission control. I think at times these lefty fools live on another planet.
Whatever happened to Hillary? Why doesn’t she get on the climate alarmism bandwagon anymore?
With those ankles, Hillary isn’t climbing onto to many bandwagons these days.
When is the last time anyone has seen her or heard from her? Was she abducted by space aliens?
Hillary is still alive and lying. How do I know she is lying? Because she is always lying.
There is a simple solution to the, “How do we know the US won’t change positions again”. That is try to make the climate change accords a TREATY! The Constitution provides the path. Hint: The Senate has to ratify it and it can’t be changed without further action by the Senate.
Of course this has never been submitted to the Senate for ratification because the lef can’t do much, but they can count votes.
Those other nations need to study a little bit of U.S. law. They would know where they stand a little better after doing so.
From the article: “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?”
Well, you don’t know, and if the person is a Republican he will certainly reverse the stupid decisions of the Biden administration. And there’s a good chance that Republican *will* be Trump.
There is no agreement needed for “climate change”.
They work together on agreements on real pollution which of course does not include the plant growth supporting CO2.
Kerry also believes Obama was a great president. Obviously he believes in fiction. Thank God for Trump.