[piasa]

John Kerry’s last minute Antarctic trip - which was nothing more than cover for John Kerry visiting with New Zealand counterparts [and possibly others] to get their votes to shaft the Israelis on the UN resolution against settlements so the US could abstain... the press reported the trip to be about global warming and tabloids hinted it was about some mysterious ET find, etc... but it was just Kerry being Kerry, backstabbing the good guys.

[bitt]

"John Kerry's Antarctica Visit Highlights a Continent, and Climate ... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/.../antarctica-john-kerry-global-warming.html Nov 15, 2016 - In that moment, the frozen landscape seemed timeless, but it is ... Yet the visit, at the end of last week, was shadowed by anxiety. ... During Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Antarctica, he - in the ... The trip began a day before the election, and Mr. Kerry had confidently predicted a Hillary Clinton victory."