{"id":2195043,"date":"2024-03-07T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-ridiculed-after-suggesting-russia-cut-down-on-carbon-emissions-to-earn-back-favor-during-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:47:06","slug":"john-kerry-ridiculed-after-suggesting-russia-cut-down-on-carbon-emissions-to-earn-back-favor-during-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-ridiculed-after-suggesting-russia-cut-down-on-carbon-emissions-to-earn-back-favor-during-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry mocked for proposing Russia reduce carbon emissions to regain favor in Ukraine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kerry-ridiculed-after-suggesting-russia-cut-down-on-carbon-emissions-to-earn-back-favor-during-ukraine-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2195043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The US special envoy for climate John Kerry attends a summit on \u200cdecarbonisation with Norway\u2019s \u200dPrime \u2063Minister (unseen) and Norwegian business\u2064 leaders, on Fabruary 15, 2024 in Oslo. (Photo by \u00d8rn E. Borgen \/ NTB \/ AFP)\u200c \/ Norway OUT (Photo by RN E.\u200b BORGEN\/NTB\/AFP via Getty\u200b Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>4:44 PM \u2013\u200b Thursday, March \u20647,\u2063 2024<\/p>\n<h2>John Kerry Mocked \u200cfor Implying Russia&#8217;s Carbon Emissions Could Improve Relations<\/h2>\n<p>John Kerry, President Joe Biden\u2019s departing climate czar and one of the \u2062most trusted men in Washington, D.C., was ridiculed this week after suggesting that if Russia reduced its \u2063carbon emissions,\u2064 it could positively impact the country&#8217;s ongoing conflict with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cRussia is one of the largest emitters in the\u200c world. If Russia wanted to show good faith, they\u2062 could go out and announce what their reductions are going\u2064 to be and make a greater effort to\u2062 reduce emissions,\u201d 80-year-old Kerry\u2062 said during a press briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cMaybe that\u200b would open up the door for people to feel better about what \u2063Russia is choosing to do at this \u2062point\u200b in time,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2021, Biden established the Cabinet-level post of climate envoy for Kerry, the\u200b 2004 Democrat presidential nominee and former secretary of\u2062 state under\u2063 former Democrat President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>However, detractors have ridiculed the former senator \u2064from Massachusetts for consistently boarding a \u2062private jet while traveling to international climate events and meetings with foreign leaders. <\/p>\n<p>After less than a\u2064 year on the job, Kerry\u2019s wife\u2019s Gulfstream GIV-SP plane is said to have made\u200d 48 trips and released over \u201c300 metric \u2063tons of carbon dioxide\u201d into the atmosphere, as opposed to the 4.6 \u2062metric tons released by a regular passenger aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry\u200d has also ignored accusations of\u200d holding climate-related meetings with controversial\u200d leaders, \u200beven refusing to refer\u2062 to Chinese President Xi Jinping as \u200ca \u201cdictator\u201d during a \u200dSenate hearing in July.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, there was only a \u200c1% increase in global carbon dioxide\u200c emissions, and it \u200dwas mostly due to pollution from China and\u200c India.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI believe that Russia has the ability to be able\u200d to make enormous changes in what they really want to do. \u200bI mean, if \u2062Russia has the\u2064 ability to wage a war illegally\u200d and invade\u2062 another country, they ought to find \u2062the effort \u2064to be responsible on\u2064 the climate \u2062issue,\u201d\u00a0Kerry\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At this point, the Biden admin is like a continuous SNL skit.\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WyvmxkfqpI\">https:\/\/t.co\/WyvmxkfqpI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1765472230014697773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had \u200cto listen to this three times\u2062 to make sure Kerry really said\u2064 this. And he did.\u200c Embarrassing beyond words, and quite frankly, utterly offensive! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nAZQGcwFTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/nAZQGcwFTP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsen Ostrovsky \ud83c\udf97\ufe0f (@Ostrov_A) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ostrov_A\/status\/1765518941223334144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6,\u200c 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive \u2062breaking news blasts directly to your inbox\u200c for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with\u2064 Kimberly Fletcher<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Karoline Leavitt<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with \u2063Bill Wells<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Rep.\u200c Tim Burchett<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Investors have piled into Nvidia-focused ETFs this year on the frenzy around AI.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>LinkedIn for the first \u2064time \u2064disclosed sales for its premium subscription business as the company sees an uptick in\u2062 adoption of \u200cnew AI tools.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Over\u200d the past several years, social media companies have developed the practice of curbing the free \u2062speech of users who\u200d don\u2019t fall in line with Silicon Valley\u2019s narratives.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Apple has terminated \u2062Epic\u200d Games\u2019 developer account, the Fortnite video game maker said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> \u200dHow\u2064 have Kerry&#8217;s own environmental practices and diplomatic double standards affected perceptions of his\u2063 credibility as a climate envoy<\/h2>\n<p><span>  John Kerry, President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate czar, faced ridicule this past \u200bweek after suggesting that Russia&#8217;s carbon emissions \u2062could have a\u2062 positive impact on the country&#8217;s conflict with Ukraine. Kerry&#8217;s statement, made during a press briefing \u200don Tuesday, was met with criticism and mockery from detractors.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the largest emitters in the world, Russia&#8217;s carbon emissions have long been a cause for concern. Kerry proposed that if Russia were to \u200dannounce significant reductions in \u200demissions and make a greater effort\u200b to reduce its carbon footprint, it could potentially improve relations between the two countries. However, many argue that this suggestion is \u200cunrealistic and insufficient to address the complex geopolitical issues\u200d at play.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of Kerry have also highlighted\u200b his own questionable environmental practices. Despite his\u200b role as a climate envoy, Kerry\u200d has been known to frequently travel by private jet, which \u2062has drawn criticism for its significant \u200ccarbon emissions. Reports indicate that his wife&#8217;s private plane, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, has made 48 trips, releasing over \u2064300 \u200cmetric tons of\u200d carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In comparison,\u2062 a regular passenger aircraft releases \u200conly\u2064 4.6 metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Kerry \u200dhas been accused of holding climate-related meetings with controversial \u2062leaders, including Chinese President Xi\u200b Jinping, without addressing their human rights abuses or referring to Xi\u200b as a &#8220;dictator.&#8221; This has raised \u200dconcerns \u200dabout the integrity and effectiveness of Kerry&#8217;s climate diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>It is important \u2063to note that overall global carbon dioxide emissions saw \u2064only a 1% increase last year, primarily driven by pollution from \u200bChina and India. While Kerry emphasizes the need for Russia to take responsibility for its emissions, it \u200cis crucial to address the larger contributors to global carbon emissions as well.<\/p>\n<p>Criticism\u2064 of Kerry&#8217;s remarks has been widespread, with many questioning\u2062 the feasibility and\u200d effectiveness of his proposed solution. Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that the Biden\u200b administration is like \u200ca continuous SNL\u2062 skit, implying that \u2064Kerry&#8217;s statement \u2063was outlandish and disconnected from reality.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, John Kerry&#8217;s suggestion\u200c that Russia&#8217;s carbon emissions could improve relations with Ukraine has been \u200bmet with ridicule and criticism. His own \u2064environmental\u2063 practices, coupled with accusations of diplomatic double standards, have raised doubts about his \u2064credibility as a climate envoy. The global community must address\u200b carbon emissions\u2064 on a larger \u2062scale, taking into account the actions of major emitters beyond just\u2064 Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US climate envoy, John Kerry, joins Norway&#8217;s Prime Minister and business leaders in Oslo for a decarbonization summit on February 15, 2024. (Photo: \u00d8rn E. Borgen \/ NTB \/ AFP) \/ Norway OUT (Photo: RN E. 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