At a Houston energy conference on Monday, President Joe Biden’s “climate envoy,” former senator and failed presidential candidate John Kerry, chose to use the burgeoning refugee crisis in Europe as a result of the war in Ukraine in an attempt to focus more attention on his pet project, climate change.
“If you think migration has been a problem in Europe from the Syrian war — or even from what we see now [in Ukraine] — wait until you see 100 million people for whom the entire food production capacity has collapsed,” Kerry told the Houston energy conference on Monday.
Climate hysterics such as Kerry don’t like when the world’s attention isn’t focused solely on them and their pronouncements of doom. Even at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Kerry made comments about his fears that the war might distract the combatants from their climate pledges.
“I’m concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk, in terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force,” Kerry said. “I thought we lived in a world that had said no to that kind of activity. And I hope diplomacy will win.”
Fair enough, but then Kerry shifted into his all-climate-all-the-time mode: “But it could have a profound negative impact on the climate, obviously. You have a war and obviously you’re going to have massive emissions consequences to the war.”
So, to Kerry it seems that the war is bad because of greenhouse gas-emissions released by bombs and military vehicles. Not only that, but when a pesky war occurs, it tends to shift focus off of climate change.
“But equally importantly, you’re going to lose people’s focus, you’re going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging impact,” Kerry blathered.
Then the failed 2004 presidential candidate warned that Vladimir Putin might lose focus on climate change, should he be busy with a war.
“So, you know, I think hopefully President Putin would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66 percent of the nation that was over frozen land,” Kerry fretted.
“Now it’s thawing, and his infrastructure is at risk and the people of Russia are at risk,” Kerry said. “And so I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”
The Daily Wire’s Ashe short called Kerry “the most clueless politician.”
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio also took Kerry to task for his utter tone deafness, tweeting, “Climate change religious zealot John Kerry is worried that the first major ground war in Europe in 80 years & #Putin’s threat of nuclear consequences is getting more attention than his climate agenda.”
Former George W. Bush Chief of Staff Karl Rove noted on Fox News: “Where is Mr. Kerry’s decency? People are dying in Ukraine and he is dismissing it saying if you think that’s bad, wait until it gets worse later because of climate. How dismissive and dishonorable and disrespectful that is.”
The tone deafness that Kerry displays isn’t an anomaly in the Biden administration. Consider Vice President Kamala Harris and Tranportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg holding an event on Monday promoting electric vehicles and Green New Deal policies while Americans struggle with the highest gasoline prices ever.
Or President Biden himself urging Americans to focus on energy independence, which he is actively standing in the way of with his attacks on the domestic oil industry and his insistence on so-called climate friendly policies.
