Great Food Reset: John Kerry targets agriculture as part of climate crusade – Slashing farm emissions critical to fighting climate change, John Kerry says
Kerry: “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.” … Kerry added that “lives depend” on world leaders and scientists developing the tools necessary to lower agriculture emissions. … I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
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“Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term. Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience. We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge,” said John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
By: Admin – Climate Depot
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry warned Wednesday that the world can’t tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector’s emissions.
Kerry lamented that agriculture production alone creates 33% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that reducing those emissions must be “front and center” in the quest to defeat global warming, during remarks Wednesday morning at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit. The former secretary of state also touted so-called climate smart agriculture as a potential solution.
“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world,” he said during his keynote address. “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.”
“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way in which we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are projected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”
Kerry added that “lives depend” on world leaders and scientists developing the tools necessary to lower agriculture emissions.
Overall, the global food system – which includes land-use change, actual agricultural production, packaging and waste management – generates about 18 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 34% of total worldwide emissions, according to a March 2021 study published in the Nature Food journal.
In the U.S., though, agriculture alone generates about 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, federal data showed.
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“This sector needs innovation now more than ever,” Kerry continued Wednesday. “We’re facing record malnutrition at a time when agriculture, more than any other sector, is suffering from the impacts of the climate crisis. And I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
“We need economic, social and policy innovation in order to scale adaptation of these technical solutions and get them into the hands of folks in the fields of small farmers on a worldwide basis. This is the promise of AIM for Climate Summit.”
Slashing farm emissions critical to fighting climate change, John Kerry says
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production is essential to the global fight against climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday.
Agriculture generates 10% to 12% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The food system as a whole – including packaging, transportation, and waste management – generates a third of global emissions, according to a 2021 study published in the academic journal Nature Food.
“We can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution,” Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said at the AIM for Climate summit in Washington.
He said that without cutting agricultural emissions, the world may not reach its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – which scientists say must be achieved to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
President Joe Biden has pledged the U.S. will reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Rising global temperatures have severe implications for malnutrition and food security worldwide, Kerry said.
“A 2-degree future could result in another 600 million people not getting enough to eat,” said the former U.S. secretary of state. “You can’t continue to warm the planet while also expecting to feed it.”
AIM for Climate is a global initiative, co-led by the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates, to drive investment in farming practices that cut the sector’s emissions.
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Major Livestock Producing Countries Commit to Mitigate Methane in Agriculture
Santiago, Chile – Today, the Global Methane Hub announced that agriculture and environment ministers and ambassadors from 13 countries, including the United States, have issued a commitment to reduce methane emissions in agriculture. Last month, the Global Methane Hub collaborated with the Ministries of Agriculture of Chile and Spain to convene the first-ever global ministerial on agricultural practices to reduce methane emissions.
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“Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term. Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience. We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge,” said John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
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There are at least 57 varieties of idiots. Kerry is one.
Ditto. Here’s my 2-minute video honoring his achievements … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6J4l3g4ygc
Good one. Perhaps Kerry is worried that the mm rise will sink his yachts.
He must annoy you immensely to take the time to make a video about his hypocrisy and stupidity.
The sad part is that this horrible individual is making millions and enjoying a pampered lifestyle riding the wave of peddling climate misery for the hordes.
These videos are fun to make and my friends like them. It’s a win-win. And, John Kerry makes cameo appearances in some my other videos … like this 2-minute video … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZvYHt_3nt0
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Excellent
Zealots often treat others as idiots. While engaging in idiocy. But what he mainly is and always has been is a zealot.
Kerry is all 57. 🙂
Simon is another until he finds that Russia Colluuuusion
He called the Durham report “right-wing propaganda”—he still thinks its all real, how stupid is this?
Like most socialists, Simon is so impressed by his own intelligence that he can’t believe that anything he disagrees with can be correct.
He knows Trump is evil, therefore everything that is said against him is true. You don’t need to examine the actual data, it is true because it agrees with what Simon wants to believe.
” data, facts, truth…
Words the simple one has never been able to comprehend.
This is the obvious solution to cognitive dissonance.
He’s a brain-dead one.
Or 57. 😉
John Kerry almost makes Al Gore seem reasonable. Emphasizing almost.
Both Kerry and Gore belong in the same Rubber Room.
That would be interesting to watch.
Gone fully ’round the bend now. These ppl are insane.
Insane would imply that they don’t understand what they are doing.
They aren’t insane, they are evil.
Gore and Kerry have found a way to live off the World population: free first class flights everywhere, free six-star hotels etc etc. They are living out their twilight years at our expense and will NEVER see the results or otherwise of their politics.
I wonder if John Ketchup Kerry cleared these crazy comments with Heinz before spouting off? Could be some repercussions on the home front? Maybe he gets another Purple Heart? Wait for it.
‘John Ketchup Kerry’
No reason to disparage a popular condiment. Might I suggest you use ‘John Serial Gigolo Kerry’ instead?
The man’s middle name is Forbes. If one wants to make a comment about him, forget the very weak non-link to the Kraft Heinz (Berkshire Hathaway Co) and look at the Forbes family, one of the components of the Boston Brahmins.
Remember Kerry’s military medals that he threw away in disgust as a younger man?
He somehow managed to find them, so that he could wear them to the recent coronation!
On top of that, it was more important for him to fly to a coronation ceremony than for several hundred poor peasants to grow enough crops this year to feed their families.
Certainly a man that I strive to emulate! /sarc off
I understand the real story was that Lurch went to a pawnshop and bought some medals. He these over the fence and kept his real ones.
“How to sacrice without actually giving anything up in 12 easy lessons”
By John “magic hat” Kerry
I don’t think Lovey would mind. Having already demonstrated her total lack of judgement and common sense by marrying Lurch.
Lovey, these PEOPLE are criticizing me flying private jets. Can’t they see that it’s the ONLY way for people like me to fly? Why I’ll wager they don’t even OWN a yacht.
As an amateur but serious student of the 1920s and 1930s, I have always found it amazing how so many highly intelligent and educated people could make so many lethal mistakes and subscribe to so many ridiculous theories. Unfortunately, it is becoming much clearer now from seeing examples on an almost daily basis across a wide range of issues.
They’re out there in full force unfortunately.
The book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” explains how it happens.
It’s happening again now.
Isn’t that the truth.
There are a lot of easily influenced people in this old world.
If the Influencer they are listening to has evil political intentions, then bad things are going to happen from believing the lies and distortions told by the Influencers.
And in those situations, many people who see the truth are afraid to speak up for one reason or another, so they allow the evil influencers to have their way.
Often intentions are good. The evil manifests in the higher purpose. “Climate Change” fits that perfectly. It provides an excuse for every failure and dumb decision. It provides the reason to subjugate and exploit. The higher purpose underpins the hypocrisy – you cannot do GOD’S work without due compensation.
Well, someone said that some ideas are so ludicrous that only an intellectual would believe them.
It’s that there isn’t an idea so stupid that academic intellectuals will not embrace it. These days, Sociology Departments are snake pits of that disease.
I live in Victoria, Australia where Dictator Dan reigns supreme. He continues to enjoy popular support.
It is educational to reflect on the pandemic response in Australia, particularly Victoria. Was educational for me as it made clearer how autocrats take hold.
Under the emergency powers that the governments have given their bureaucracy, human rights no longer exist. The police force become the thugs of the ruling regime.
There has been a recent incident where a 95 year old, in her walking frame and “welding” a knife was tasered by police called to calm the situation. She is now in hospital on life support after collapsing from her walking frame. It must have been quite serious to involve the police but what level of thuggery is required to taser a 95yo in a walking frame?
“Climate Change” is now the higher purpose. It is the reason to subjugate and exploit the masses. It has been manufactured by the REALLY EVIL forces present within the UN. The UN is infested with failed politicians all seeking revenge on the stupid populace who did not recognise their brilliance. John Kerry is in that mould but directly funded through the US rather than UN. Kevin Rudd was UN envoy before becoming Australia’s US envoy.
You may well be aware that almost 50% of German doctors joined the Nazi party.
https://evolutionnews.org/2021/07/following-the-science-doctors-joined-the-nazis-in-droves/
David Tallboys
“If only you proles would listen to me, l’m a Special Presidential Envoy!”.
So Lurch admits he wants to starve people to death. When is he going to stop eating?
Lurch first!
Let them eat ketchup!
He is seriously mis informed but he simply goes with the lies to advance his reputation for nonsense.
We are happy to confirm he is fully on message and his mission is going along as planned.
The ground staff looking after his personal jet have authorised a sign be printed and displayed when Kerry is using the plane.
Caution hazardous content on board….
“Lurch” Kerry rises from the crypt of mostly dead bs artists and grifters every time there is a need to have more hot air espoused re: just about anything.
Kerry seems to have landed in a position of power and influence, funded by taxpayers, without any accountability.
IOW, a bureaucrat.
Your comment does make me wonder how much this is costing. An audit would be interesting. Not just for Kerry, but for the whole entourage. He and attendants will have salaries, offices, and expenses. Not to mention the world spanning flights and related costs.
Regardless, “The Climate” doesn’t care.
If it continues – it is going to: Cost The Earth
These people are perfectly suicidally insane.
Not sure about suicidal, perhaps genocidal, democidal or omnicidal. They do not intend to die, even to “save the planet”. They expect YOU (and me) to die to “save the planet” for them to enjoy in the absence of the thronging masses. They expect to live as Gods (homo deus) amongst the cowering remnants of humanity.
George Carlin: The world doesn’t need any help; it the humans that are fu$ked.
Kerry should go back and retake 7th grade science class. He obviously does not know anything about the scientific method.
The whole methane thing is scientifically absurd. Yes, in the lab in a standard dry atmosphere methane is a potent GHG. But in the real world, water vapor averages about 2% of the atmosphere (blue planet, 71% ocean, clouds and rain…). And the methane IR absorption bands are completely overlapped by the much more abundant water vapor IR absorption bands. So methane has no actual GHE whatsoever. Kerry is an idiot espousing a false narrative.
But he has a podium and a megaphone. Which obviously is a dangerous combination.
Yes. And Kerry has had this dangerous combination for too many years on too many subjects.
Yes Rud, but you have to allow space for idiots. Kerry by name crazy by nature. His ability to plumb greater and greater depths of lunacy is why Joe finds him so useful. He is one of the few that can make Joe seem almost rational….
What a pair. Dementia Biden with his climate czar Lunatic Kerry.
And the water vapor is increased by warmer oceans. And it increasingly looks like what has been warming the oceans is linked to an increase in seismic activity at the bottom of the sea. IE: Lava. So, in fact, what has been slightly warming the world is a bottom-up and not top-down dynamic. But the joke is funnier when you realize the warmer oceans increase water vapor in the atmosphere, which lessens the effects CO2 and Methane can have.
A liar like Kerry can jet set around the world while Truth is just getting its pants on in the morning. But those pants do eventually get worn by Truth. Kerry does not wear the pants in his situation. And with painful slowness more and more people are starting to see though him and his pals. More and more people roll their eyes when he speaks. He must be noticing all the eyes rolling. It must be a very uncomfortable situation, and I’d feel sorrier for him if he didn’t so deeply deserve it.
Rud, it must be more complicated than overlapping absorption bands; perhaps the methane is in a layer above the water vapour layer (??) . Even papers that suggest that the impact of cutting methane emissions maybe less than was ‘initially thought’ are not suggesting that the LW forcing is less. Eg:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01144-z
I have no idea why the forcing is so high (given the overlapping bands) but there must be a counterintuitive reason.
Kerry is just the committed idiot. The real culprits are his facilitators — the scientists and scientific societies that lend credibility to malignant nonsense.
On their heads go the blame — the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, NOAA.
People in these places are well-trained enough to figure out there’s no scientific standing to the AGW claim. But they actively collude in the deception. They knowingly justify the partisan extreme.
The crime is well beyond incompetence or even malfeasance. These people and those groups are complicit in mass murder.
He is committed because his EGO depends on it (with apologies to Upton Sinclair, a committed Communist.)
And also that the methane produced by ruminant livestock would otherwise be produced by bacteria in the soil as the grass decomposes. Grass which grew by absorbing CO2 mere months earlier. The push to destroy livestock farming ignores one side of the equation and only focuses on the supposed negatives and only those produced by the productive human endeavour. The people behind this are against life itself.
The climate alarmists state that methane absorbs 20 times more IR radiation per unit mass than CO2. But methane concentrations in the air are only about 1.8 ppm, as compared to 410 ppm for CO2. Also, methane has a molecular weight of 16, as compared to 44 for CO2, so that the total IR radiation absorbed by methane would be 20 * 16 * 1.8 / (44 * 410) = 0.032 times (3.2%) that of CO2.
With regard to “global warming”, CO2 absorbs over 30 times more IR radiation than methane, and CO2 itself is a minor contributor compared to water vapor.
If John Kerry really wants to eliminate “global warming”, he should figure out a way to prevent water from evaporating from the oceans. Good luck with that!
CO2 IS A LIFE GAS; NO CO2 = NO FLORA AND NO FAUNA
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-co2-no-life
Increased CO2 is a Boon for Biomass Growth Worth Many $Billions
The CO2 radiative driving force, with 412 ppm is about 2.0 W/m2. It varies up and down very little.
The radiative driving force for clouds and water vapor is about 120 W/m2. It varies up and down very much.
CO2 is just a tiny actor regarding global warming.
Even, if CO2 ppm were to double, which would use up all fossil fuel, the additional driving force would be minimal, as shown in below graph at the bottom of Appendix 4
CO2 has increased crop yields, and plant growth and helped feed the world
It has thickened the forests, increased mangroves, and reduced desertification (Goklany, 2015)
There are 18 million more square kilometers of greenery in the world (Zaichun, 2016).
If temperatures increase two degrees, and CO2 hits 700 ppm, corn is estimated to grow 25% faster and soy beans will boom by 31%. (Qiao et al 2019)
Let’s burn coal, oil and gas and feed the world.
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The more CO2 in greenhouses and the environment, the more biomass growth
Carbon dioxide fertilization (in ppm, horizontal axes) of C3 crop and C4 weed
Source: von Caemmerer, et al. (2012).
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About 90% of 700 Pacific and Indian ocean are growing more than shrinking (Duvat…, and the 11% that are shrinking are too small to have human inhabitants.
Third World folks are happy with cars, trucks, electricity, antibiotics, gas and planes.
They like the West’s fertilizer, polyester-cotton, concrete, sealed roads and smart phones.
The game of retrospective “loss and damage” can be played by both sides.
As Jacob Rees-Mogg says:
“There is no need to pay reparations.
Our leadership of the industrial revolution brought prosperity to the world and led to increased life expectancy and better living conditions.”
As CO2 increased, the population of Africa expanded from 155 million one hundred years ago, to 1,500 million now. A billion more African lives…
King Kerry agrees with King Charles – it is a code red emergency crisis and the military should be called upon…..and push the naysayers outta the way!
From the article: “Kerry added that “lives depend” on world leaders and scientists developing the tools necessary to lower agriculture emissions.”
No, lives depend on *never* carrying out the Carbon Dioxide/Methane reduction plans of fools like John Kerry.
John Kerry is out of control and delusional as hell.
There is no climate crisis. John Kerry is afraid of/or cynically using, something that doesn’t exist. John Kerry couldn’t prove Carbon Dioxide/Methane will cause a climate crisis if his life depended on doing so, but he wants you to believe what he says, because he says it so forcefully.
There is no climate crisis.
“Youuuuuuu raaaaaang?”
Beanz meanz having nothing and that’s it
Meanwhile some will have 6 houses 12 cars 2 yachts and the essential private jet
All needed to save the planet, or what Nick Stokes called “climate health”, this morning
If Nick Stokes said that, he should be worrying about a different sort of health.
He did indeed used this very phrase:
“For climate welfare, wood is preferred to fossil fuels. But it is smoky.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/20/germanys-growing-list-of-bans-next-up-wood-stoves-and-heating-with-wood/#comment-3724162
“ climate welfare,”
WTF ! ….. ROFLMAO…
I wonder if he realises what a gormless twerp he is showing himself to be. !
Hard to say; if he’s a professional shill for the IPCC, then he likely doesn’t care how he appears.
Old mate Nicholas lives in Melbourne Australia, or at least in the state of Victoria. My total guess is old mate is a EV driving member of the upper green climate zealot elite of Melbourne.
Victoria is generally regarded as the most “progressive left-wing woke” state in Australia. It is “ruled” by a socialist-left nut job by the name of Daniel Andrews. He spends a lot of time in China, and he presided over the longest COVID lockdown of any major city in the world.
Perfect place for old mate to reside.
Nick’s mental health has been sitting astride a bard wire fence for a long time. !
Useful idiot of the highest order.
No.
A “useful idiot” is someone committed to an ideology that will never benefit him or her self.
On the other hand, where would JK be if the faux crisis evaporated?
Perhaps we should call for a sliding scale for contibutions starting with 99% of the wealth of the richest down to 49% of those with a wealth of $1 million – without adding this to the cost of their products/services? I suspect this would kill Kerry’s solution.
The man with the $700 haircuts.
His whole life is based on VANITY and EGO.
Yet he still manages to look like a complete goose. !
“Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience.”
In other words, the peons must stop eating meat. Not himself of course, he needs a high powered diet so he can jet around the world to save it.
“…in the quest to defeat global warming…”
Sure, make a war of it- like the failed war on cancer, the failed war on crime, and the luckily failed war on marijuana. Just beat the drums of war. Global warming becomes a monster that will cook us and boil the oceans. A new Satan. Time for an Inquisition against meat eaters.
The deranged rants of this guy are becoming dangerous.
“becoming”?!?
This is the guy who admitted China’s increase would dwarf our reductions if we followed his recommendations, but it is still the “right” thing to do!
(For virtue points in Heaven?)
Those peons don’t need to eat.
There probably is a crisis we hear about species facing extinction and catastrophic decline of insects. To me its not credible that this has been caused by the mild warming but agriculture certainly needs thinking about
Fertilizers, co2 and machinery means farming has become so efficient that farmland is returned to the wild as it’s not needed.
If we go renewable with wind solar and biofuels that will destroy all that is left and cause the 6th extinction.
“Food and agriculture can contribute to a low-methane future by improving farmer productivity and resilience.”
I see this sort of idiocy all the time regarding forestry- yet, they can never really say how to improve productivity- what they mean is stop agriculture and forestry. Electric tractors and harvesting machines? Sure, I guess they don’t know that when its necessary, some farmers will drive those machines many more hours than batteries could power them- right through the night. So, just cut back on that work? And they claim to worry about people starving in the future?
Petroleum based fertilizers and genetic modified grains have already vastly improved farmer productivity. So have large scale fossil fueled farm equipment.
Guess which of the above 3 are opposed by the Climate Alarmists? (Only 3 guesses)
As my mother used to say, “3 guesses, and the last 2 don’t count.”
The answer is, all 3.
I just watched a YouTube video about how the UK’s military is virtually crippled. It drastically slashed its defense spending when the Soviet Union collapsed. But instead of rebuilding it- it’s going to spend a fortune for “clean and green” energy.