Posted on 02/03/2021 11:03:18 AM PST by MountainWalker
President Biden's recently appointed climate czar, John Kerry, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle award for climate leadership, Fox News has learned.
Kerry defended his high-pollution ride at the time, calling it "the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle" in an interview obtained by Fox News. The incident had not been previously reported in the American press.
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Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson confronted Kerry at the event over his choice of transportation, asking: "I understand that you came here with a private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel?"
Kerry responded by claiming that it was the only way. "If you offset your carbon -- it's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle," Kerry said.
"I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States," he added, referring to the multilateral climate agreement signed while he was secretary of state under President Obama.
"I've been involved with this fight for years. I negotiated with [Chinese] President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris. And, I believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done," Kerry said, sidestepping the fact that he chose a private jet over a commercial flight.
"But, what I'm doing, almost full time," he continued, "is working to win the battle on climate change, and in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive."
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Exactly. Notify me when they all sell their properties. Then i’ll think about Climate Change
Kerry gonna do what he wanna do and there ain’t nothin’ you can do!
According to him, anyways...
Setting another precedent for self-entitled elites worldwide.
The famous Kerry Mariner family that took drugs to China for the Opium wars cannot find a boat? Crazy world!
They ought to get him, Mitt Romney and James Earl Jones to have a three way debate about something so that we can fully appreciate stentorian tones.
“Somebody like me”. Oh, brother. “I’m special”. Yeah, Johnnyboy, we know.
Lerch Kerry might be correct, if he were on a commercial flight, there might be a real insurrection and he could be bound and gagged by any real patriots on the plane...
Having him fly alone in a private jet might be the only alternative for his personal safety..
'I' references - 9
'Me' references - 4
So I really got screwed.
I paid to go to Antarctica AND paid taxes the year Kerry went for free.
“The people want me to have a mansion.”
Did he take James Taylor with him??
“Somebody like me” -—> World’s most renowned gigolo.
John F’n Kerry, who served in Vietnam
Did he also say “Do you know who I am?”
I hope I out live this POS.....
This a hole is absolutely the most tone deaf clueless snob on the planet.
Whatever happened to the Kerry/Kasich climate partnership? Seems like someone got a reach around, lol. John Kasich, definition of useful idiot once again.
Always good to be special. Not so good to be a serf...
When the green game is played out, who will be reduced to riding bicycles, or walking?
A few will still have lights and all the perks.
Too bad it didn’t crash. But I wouldn’t want the pilot to die. So maybe he’d crash his bicycle into a glacier. I’m sorry folks. I can’t help but wish the worst for these Aholes.
Why are you peasants questioning your “betters”?
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