Category: John Kerry

What’s Happening at the WEF’s Annual Meeting of Globalist Elites?

Is Klaus Schwab getting pushed aside at the organization he founded? Are Americans turning against ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance)? Can the Ukrainian president secure more support from world leaders? Is the world still listening to Al Gore’s warnings about global warming? And did John Kerry really really mean to say that “Davos Man”…


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Is Klaus Schwab getting pushed aside at the organization he founded? Are Americans turning against ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance)? Can the Ukrainian president secure more support from world leaders? Is the world still listening to Al Gore’s warnings about global warming? And did John Kerry really really mean to say that “Davos Man”…


John Kerry: ‘We Absolutely Don’t’ Need to Drill for Oil Despite Soaring Gas Prices

The Biden administration’s climate czar, John Kerry, proclaimed Tuesday that despite record-high gas prices, the United States doesn’t need to drill for more oil or natural gas. Speaking during a forum, Kerry said that some analysts have suggested that “we need more drilling” and “we need to go back to coal.” He then argued: “No,…


The Green Immoralists

Commentary Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine. In response, the Biden administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet-owning John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming. “You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. “You’re going to lose big-country…


Instead of Virtue Signalling, We Should Be Addressing Real Issues That Can Be Solved

Commentary Apparently it’s not a good day to be a squid. And while you may say no day sounds promising, or wonder why I’m talking molluscs given the Ukraine, climate, and inflation crises, a minor news item about overfishing highlights two major current problems. Or three, if you count paying attention to the wrong stuff….


US Coal Stockpiles Near Historic Lows

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector reached 93.7 million short tons as of December 2021—an increase since September when stockpiles hit a historic low not seen since the Carter administration. Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American…


US, China Issue Joint Plan to Boost Cooperation on Climate Change

The world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide on Nov. 10 pledged to work together in tackling climate change as global leaders wrap up the two-week COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The framework, unveiled by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua two days before the conferences comes to a close,…


Psaki: Biden Was Aware of French Being Upset

During Wednesday’s press briefing, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden had been aware of France’s anger over the Australian’s submarine deal with the United States and the UK, indicating that a previous statement made by Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry was not correct. In an interview with French BFMTV that…


Republican Lawmakers Press Biden Administration to Get Tougher on China

Republican lawmakers are calling for the Biden administration to harden its policy toward Beijing, saying that recent remarks from senior officials revealed a failure to “grasp the true threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.” U.S. climate envoy John Kerry recently responded to a question about the plight of Uyghurs in China’s western Xinjiang region…


Betraying Human Rights for Climate Change

Commentary “Well, life is always full of tough choices in the relationship between nations,” said John Kerry, responding to Bloomberg’s David Weston on Sept. 22. Weston had asked him, “What is the process by which one trades off climate against human rights?” What is wrong with Kerry’s response? For one thing, such a trade-off violates the Genocide Convention…