Special Climate Envoy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a> apparently sold his wife&#8217;s family jet last summer after much scrutiny over his gas-guzzling habits. The sale doesn&#8217;t quite make sense, because the plane is still in existence and flying around the world. That raises the question, why didn&#8217;t he destroy it like it was one of those &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; cars from the Obama era?
That opening should not be taken as a dig at Kerry&#8217;s gold-digging ways. He may be a millionaire many times over because he wifed-up his ex-Senate colleague John Heinz&#8217;s widow, but it was his spokesperson who made it known that the controversial aircraft in question had been traded for some sweet moolah from an unknown buyer actually wasn&#8217;t in Kerry&#8217;s name.
&#8220;Secretary Kerry travels commercially in his role as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate,&#8221; Whitney Smith, Kerry&#8217;s spokeswoman, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-family-private-jet-sold-shortly-after-accusations-climate-hypocrisy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;I can confirm the plane previously owned by his wife’s family was sold last summer.&#8221;
The plane was reportedly sold to a New York-based hedge fund.
As Fox News first reported over the summer, Kerry&#8217;s jet had emitted more than 715,800 pounds of CO2 over 48 trips since he became the Special Climate Envoy.
Kerry has defended his expeditions in the past by saying the private jet was the only way somebody like him could travel around the globe. He ditched it a month after being criticized, Fox News noted.
However, it seems that the jet is still being used by somebody — which means that Kerry&#8217;s decision to sell it really does not matter. It is still out there cranking out CO2.
Had Kerry actually cared about reducing emissions, he would have destroyed it and used the parts for a wind turbine or maybe a modern art exhibit to be sold alongside Hunter Biden&#8217;s artwork.
Come to think of it, why doesn&#8217;t Kerry restart an elite version of &#8220;Cash for Clunkers?&#8221; Readers of a certain age may have benefited from that program designed to take thousands of cars off the road in exchange for money from the government. According to one report, nearly 700,000 cars were traded in under that program. It cost roughly $3 billion and, as described by James Gilboy of TheDrive, was pretty useless in the fight against climate change.
&#8220;[Cash for Clunkers]&#8217;s effect on U.S. fleet fuel consumption was further diluted by subsequent years of record car sales: since 2010, over 185 million new cars have been sold in the U.S. according to <a href="https://axlewise.com/car-sales-stats/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Axelwise</a>,&#8221; as of August 2022, Gilboy observed.
So the reality on the ground — and in the sky for that matter — is that leftist policies to reduce emissions have always failed.
Yet we know Kerry does not see it that way because he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flew to Davos</a> to pat himself and his millionaire pals on the back. He gushed to his colleagues at the World Economic Forum that they should view themselves as real-world Supermen.
“When you stop and think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — a select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,” Kerry gushed at the WEF. “I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’”
Kerry added, “If you said that to most people, most people would think you’re just a crazy, tree-hugging, leftie, liberal do-gooder … but really that’s where we are.”
Based on his actions, Kerry seems to not care about reducing carbon emissions. He cares about money. He&#8217;s smart enough to know that the rest of the world cares about cold hard cash as well, because he told that same group that what is needed for green energy to take hold around the globe is, &#8220;money, money, money, money, money.&#8221;
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“Money money money money” &#8211; John Kerry <a href="https://t.co/DIfRbGMZqJ">pic.twitter.com/DIfRbGMZqJ</a>
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Who woulda-thunk that the key to making the world move is money? Move toward what? A green energy utopia that will never come while regular citizens who can&#8217;t afford outrageous energy costs and electric vehicles suffer — but he always seems to leave that part out.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

John Kerry

John Kerry Sold His Wife’s Family Jet. He Should Have Destroyed It Like A ‘Cash For Clunkers’ Car.

John Kerry Sold His Wife's Family Jet. He Should Have Destroyed It Like A 'Cash For Clunkers' Car. 

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For nearly a year now, this author has documented the climate change chicanery that White House Special Climate Envoy John Kerry engages in as part of his mysterious taxpayer-funded position.
Nobody knows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-are-taxpayers-paying-climate-czar-john-kerry-he-wont-say-but-one-gop-senator-is-demanding-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how much he is paid</a>, his staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">keeps certain things out of emails</a>, and he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetsetter-john-kerry-asks-worlds-poorest-to-cut-back-on-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bullies third-world</a> countries into ditching fossil fuels all while the Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-devastating-blow-to-john-kerrys-green-energy-utopia-china-to-start-increasing-coal-production" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Communist Party</a> eats his lunch.
Well, now, the House GOP is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerrys-secret-ccp-negotiations-probed-gop-oversight-chairman?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching an investigation</a> into what exactly Kerry is doing as he gallivants around the globe, emitting CO2, while fretting about global warming and slapping himself on the back.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent the Heinz-ketchup-heiress hubby a letter on Thursday, demanding that he fork over information and documents regarding his office in general, and with a keen focus on his dealings with the CCP, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerrys-secret-ccp-negotiations-probed-gop-oversight-chairman?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News.
&#8220;We are left with an insufficient understanding of your office’s activities, spending, and staffing,&#8221; Comer claimed in the letter, while adding that more information was needed in order to &#8220;enable long overdue oversight of your office.&#8221;
Kerry has long dismissed any concerns about China&#8217;s human rights record, instead placating them in hopes of getting the U.S. adversary to come to the table.
In the past, when Kerry has been asked about such issues, he has claimed that climate change takes the higher priority.
“Yes we have issues, a number of different issues, but first and foremost, this planet must be protected,” Kerry <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/john-kerry-justifies-climate-change-urgency-over-human-rights-abuses-in-china-life-full-of-tough-choices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after being asked about the problem in September 2021.
In turn, China ramped up coal production, began ignoring Kerry&#8217;s emails, and didn&#8217;t even have the courtesy to meet with him face-to-face. When they did meet in the fall of 2022, their talks were cut short and Biden&#8217;s &#8220;dear friend&#8221; blamed his failure on COVID.
As Comer poignantly noted, Kerry has downplayed the CCP&#8217;s tyranny &#8220;while promoting climate negotiations that the CCP does not even appear interested in entering.&#8221;
Through it all, Kerry has displayed a sunny disposition toward China, and now the GOP is saying his actions as Special Climate Envoy are potentially harming America.
&#8220;As a member of the President’s cabinet, you should be representing the United States’ interests. Your statements, however, consistently show disregard for American national security and taxpayer dollars,&#8221; Comer also stated in the letter.
Fox also pointed out that China is responsible for 27% of carbon emissions around the globe.
Unfortunately for taxpayers, Kerry&#8217;s office will likely be about as willing to comply with Congress as the CCP is in dealing with Kerry: Which is to say, not at all. At least it&#8217;s a start for accountability — ideally, the position gets defunded altogether.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

(L-R) US Vice President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State John Kerry make a toast during a State Luncheon for China hosted by Kerry on September 25, 2015 at the Department of State in Washington, DC.

Finally: Congress Is Investigating Kerry’s Chinese Communist Climate Change Chicanery

Finally: Congress Is Investigating Kerry's Chinese Communist Climate Change Chicanery

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Joe Biden

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klaus-schwab-tells-world-economic-forum-that-global-challenges-are-catalysts-for-economic-transformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> has finally jumped the shark, presumably while skiing across Al Gore’s “boiling ocean” behind a leaky tub steered by the radical Left’s Captain Queeg.
As the annual globalist confab staggered to a conclusion in Davos, the forum&#8217;s 52-year arc was also mercifully nearing an end. It began in 1971 as a wildly ambitious kook cult led by a 30-year-old economist who was equal parts Bond villain and L. Ron Hubbard. No one paid much attention for decades, but eventually rich, famous, and powerful people started showing up. That’s when conservatives raised the alarm and warned the world that Klaus Schwab and his vacant-eyed acolytes appeared bent on world domination. As usual, the leftist media’s response was something like, &#8220;You guys are crazy conspiracy theorists, and anyway, it’s a good thing.&#8221;
In 2023, with much of the world engulfed by debt, inflation, crisis-level immigration, and the looming threat of World War III, no one wants to hear what these pompous quarter-wits in propeller beanies have to say about how the rest of us should live. Even Europe’s unofficial energy czar, Greta Thunberg, only showed up this year <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/davos-2023-keep-it-in-the-ground-greta-thunberg-tells-protest-at-end-of-wef/ar-AA16ytTz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to heckle</a> the swells.
Emissions from this year’s collection of aging C-list gasbags included the usual dire warnings about a dying planet and the neo-spiritual demand for repentance from the developed world. With a dystopian hellscape just around the corner, the answer, as always, is for successful countries to return to the Stone Age while handing all their money over to unelected globalists who promise to distribute it to the noble savages.
If you eat meat, own a car, believe in borders, don’t want to be tracked, or simply want to be left alone, you’re the problem. The message was not new, but now it suddenly sounds more tired than scary. Maybe it’s because what passed for star power at this year’s meeting looked more like a reboot of “Cocoon,” or “Grumpy Old Men.”
Al Gore, 74, his voice rising in that affected and decidedly discomfiting style, once again claimed the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boiling-the-oceans-al-gore-goes-on-unhinged-climate-rant-condemns-detainment-of-greta-thunberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oceans are boiling</a>.” There must be a giant gas stove under the seabed. Why, it seems like only yesterday that Gore was fending off a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/two-more-women-accuse-al-gore-of-assault-2010-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slew of complaints from masseuses</a>, yet miraculously managed to sidestep MeToo cancellation and make <a href="https://moneyinc.com/al-gore-net-worth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of millions of dollars</a> off his “save the planet” grift.
Fellow failed Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, 79, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pronounced himself an “extraterrestrial&#8221;</a> who had been “touched” by someone or something which conferred upon him the power to save the planet. Synonymous with insufferable, Kerry once famously said that flying by private jet “is the only choice for somebody like me.” You too can own your own Gulfstream, if you marry the rich widow of your former Senate colleague.
Tony Blair, 69, the former British prime minister who is rumored to be Schwab’s potential successor, was heard calling for a “digital infrastructure” so “we can know who is vaccinated and who is not.” Memo to Blair: Not even those annoying people with “In this house …” yard signs and “Co-Exist” bumper stickers want this anymore.
The WEF&#8217;s twin sugar daddies didn’t even bother to attend this year. <a href="https://radaronline.com/p/bill-gates-dodges-questions-jeffrey-epstein-meetings-online-qa-session/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein’s old wingman, Bill Gates</a>, was a no-show, and George Soros was either unwilling or unable to leave the crypt to come bask in the genuflections of adoring minions.
There are even signs a mutiny could be building against Schwab. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/18/mutiny-erupts-among-wef-staff-over-role-of-mr-davos-klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to The Guardian</a>, a group of current and former forum members signed on to a report calling the founder “completely unaccountable to anyone inside and outside the organization.”
“Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years,” the group charged. “When he was born, 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not even exist.”
Far more useful advice for protecting mankind and the planet came from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-british-satirists-scathing-indictment-of-woke-culture-global-warming-hysteria-viewed-5m-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British comedian Konstantin Kisin</a>, whose address at a recent Oxford Union debate went viral and reached far more eyes and ears than any dopey Davos decree. The gist: Innovation, not authoritarianism, is humanity’s only hope. People in the world’s poorest and most populous countries are not going to stop trying to stay warm and feed their children just to win over a delusional pack of patronizing progressives.
“You are not going to get these people to stay poor,” Kisin said. “You’re not even going to get them to not want to be richer. And so I put it to you ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change, and that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean, but also cheaper.”
If Kisin wants to start a club and hold annual meetings in the Swiss Alps to discuss how to take over the world, I’m in. Who knows? It might become a real thing in 50 years.

John Kerry, Klaus Schwab, and Al Gore

Grumpy Old Men: Kerry, Gore Help The World Tune Out Klaus Schwab’s Aging Cult Of Delusional Kooks

Grumpy Old Men: Kerry, Gore Help The World Tune Out Klaus Schwab's Aging Cult Of Delusional Kooks

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This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
John Kerry Praises ‘Select Group Of People’ For ‘Saving The Planet’
White House Special Climate Envoy John Kerry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addressed</a> attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, praising the group for their efforts to combat climate change. The remarks drew ridicule from some critics who called Kerry out of touch and elitist.
&#8220;When you stop and think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we — a select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,” Kerry gushed on Tuesday. “I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’”
Kerry added, “If you said that to most people, most people would think you’re just a crazy, tree-hugging, leftie, liberal do-gooder … but really that’s where we are.”
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United States climate envoy John Kerry tells the World Economic Forum that the &quot;select group of human beings&quot; in Davos are talking about &quot;saving the planet,&quot; even if that sounds &quot;crazy, tree-hugging, leftie, liberal do-gooder.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mfWDwDxQGA">pic.twitter.com/mfWDwDxQGA</a>
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Man Armed With Knife, Wired Vest Shot By Federal Security Guard In Philadelphia 
Outside a federal courthouse in Philadelphia, a <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/person-weapon-shot-security-outside-federal-court-building-philadelphia-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">security guard shot</a> a man “multiple times” on Tuesday after officials say he approached the building armed with a knife and wearing a vest with wires. The man was transported to a nearby hospital and is in critical condition. A motive has not been released.
China&#8217;s Economy Slows, Population Shrinks
China’s economy increased only 3% last year, the worst amount seen in decades. Experts blame the country’s strict COVID lockdowns and expect growth in the year ahead as those restrictions ease.
According to official numbers released today, China’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinas-population-drops-for-the-first-time-in-six-decades" target="_blank" rel="noopener">population shrank</a> for the first time in decades this year. The decline, which many experts believe has actually been going on for several years, is linked to the one-child policy which was launched in 1980 and officially ended in 2016.
CNN Turning To Comedy?
CNN is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-putting-comic-primetime-cringe-worthy-network-nothing-lose-experts-insiders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> considering adding a comedian to host some of its late-night lineup, as part of CEO Chris Licht’s latest attempt to shake up the network. The network saw a significant drop in viewers last year.
Public Memorial For Lisa Marie Presley Scheduled
The Graceland estate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lisa-marie-presleys-memorial-plans-announced-as-graceland-confirms-who-will-get-elvis-former-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that a memorial for the late Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley who passed away last week, will take place on January 22 at 9:00 am at the Memphis mansion and will be open to the public.
Twitter Auction Begins
Twitter began its long-anticipated <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/twitter-office-furniture-auction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online</a> auction on Tuesday for more than 600 office items, including objects such as high-end espresso machines, boardroom tables, and Twitter paraphernalia like neon signs and bird statues. Per the website hosting the auction, items were going for as high as $10,000. Bidding will close on Wednesday, January 18.
Congressman Jink Banks Running For Senate
Republican Indiana Congressman Jim Banks announced on Tuesday that he would be running for Senate in 2024. The seat is currently held by GOP Senator Mike Braun, who has already announced he won’t seek re-election at the end of his term.
To listen to the audio version of this podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.

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Tuesday Afternoon Update: John Kerry Pats Himself On The Back, CNN Could Be Turning To Comedy, And More

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Have you ever sat at work while drinking a burnt cup of coffee-turned-lukewarm and wondered what exactly you&#8217;re working so hard for in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> economy?
Well, if you are blessed with employment in this <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation nation</a>, you know that a giant chunk of change is taken out of your paycheck each week to support items such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meads-joe-bidens-energy-policy-is-the-embodiment-of-america-last" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ol&#8217; Uncle Joe&#8217;s vision of a green energy utopia</a> that will never come. The chief promoter of that new world order is a certain John Kerry — a Boston Brahmin wannabe who is<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-are-taxpayers-paying-climate-czar-john-kerry-he-wont-say-but-one-gop-senator-is-demanding-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> paid an unknown amount of money</a> by U.S. taxpayers each year so he can luxuriously travel the globe to push that agenda.
He has defended his use of private jets because he sees it as essential to carrying out his mission and hopes to offset his <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/05/john-kerrys-private-family-jet-took-16-trips-this-year-alone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbon emissions </a>via his activism. The Left wants you to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-in-december-banning-gas-stoves-entirely-its-a-real-possibility-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">give up your gas stove</a>, but they need their airplanes because their lives are more important than yours.
Per his latest appearance in Davos at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-economic-forum-meets-in-davos-this-week-heres-what-to-expect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a>, his work is so crucial — and so misunderstood — that he had to pat himself and his elite colleagues on the back for &#8220;saving the world&#8221; from climate change because nobody else will do it for them.
Not a joke!
&#8220;When you stop and think about it, it&#8217;s pretty extraordinary that we — a select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,&#8221; Kerry gushed on Tuesday. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’&#8221; 
Kerry added, &#8220;If you said that to most people, most people would think you&#8217;re just a crazy, tree-hugging, leftie, liberal do-gooder &#8230; but really that&#8217;s where we are.&#8221;
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United States climate envoy John Kerry tells the World Economic Forum that the &quot;select group of human beings&quot; in Davos are talking about &quot;saving the planet,&quot; even if that sounds &quot;crazy, tree-hugging, leftie, liberal do-gooder.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mfWDwDxQGA">pic.twitter.com/mfWDwDxQGA</a>
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Of course, well done is better than well said, which is to say that the husband of the heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune has done a miserable job.
For example, Kerry hasn&#8217;t had any luck <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-blames-recent-covid-bout-for-failed-climate-change-talks-with-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrangling the Red Dragon of the Chinese Communist Part</a>y, so instead, he bullies third-world countries.
Consider that last year, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetsetter-john-kerry-asks-worlds-poorest-to-cut-back-on-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked the Democratic Republic of Congo</a> to withdraw from auctioning off certain blocks of oil and gas to combat climate change. He also told other poorer nations to pick their choice of fossil fuel by making a sacrifice for the so-called greater good of the world.
“We are not saying no gas,” Kerry <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-czar-john-kerry-warns-africa-natural-gas-bring-power-millions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a conference in Dakar, Senegal, in 2022. “What we are saying is, over the next few years, gas replaces coal or replaces oil.&#8221;
China, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/business/china-coal-output-in-dec-slips-on-covid-rises-to-record-in-2022-100814883/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barreled</a> ahead to produce a record amount of coal in 2022. In turn, it seems that Kerry&#8217;s CCP counterpart has barely answered his emails. America&#8217;s climate czar also blamed a bout of COVID in November for another round of failed talks with China.
So, it isn&#8217;t going great. What could help? Another form of &#8220;green.&#8221;
Kerry&#8217;s solution to getting more countries on board to save the planet is to throw more money at the problem. Well, actually to quote him precisely, it&#8217;s &#8220;money, money, money, money, money, money, money.&#8221;
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“Money money money money” &#8211; John Kerry <a href="https://t.co/DIfRbGMZqJ">pic.twitter.com/DIfRbGMZqJ</a>
&mdash; David Whitehead 🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@TruthWarriorDad) <a href="https://twitter.com/TruthWarriorDad/status/1615399705621712898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, as you ponder whether or not you should dump out that coffee mentioned earlier for a fresh cup, you can rest assured that your efforts to provide a better life for your family have not gone in vain — if you are to believe Kerry.
You are going to be taxed out of the wazoo so you can help Kerry give away &#8220;money, money, money&#8221; to all his Davos pals, courtesy of your federal government, to stop the planet from maybe getting warmer sometime down the road.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

At Davos, John Kerry Praises ‘Select Group Of People’ For ‘Saving The Planet’ But Says They Need ‘Money, Money, Money…’

At Davos, John Kerry Praises 'Select Group Of People' For 'Saving The Planet' But Says They Need 'Money, Money, Money...'

Global Warming

Have you ever seen a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bunch of freeloaders</a> eat a meal? They tend to wolf it down so quickly that you have to wonder whether they even taste the food.
If you&#8217;re confused, then you&#8217;re probably a mooch yourself. Or, you just might be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/am-i-a-b-pelosi-asks-explicit-question-after-phone-call-with-mike-pence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) and<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY).
The two recently sat down for lunch at the &#8220;Hunan Dynasty&#8221; Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C. for their &#8220;first-ever&#8221; joint interview together. It&#8217;s unclear who exactly paid for the lunch — perhaps they went Dutch or Pelosi footed the bill — but it is safe to say that the pair has bilked the taxpayers for plenty of dough since they entered politics.
This hard-hitting piece of journalism appeared on CNN — perhaps no surprise to our readers.
Pelosi and Schumer had Peking duck, hot and sour soup, shrimp dumplings, and more. Here&#8217;s a brief recap of the gruesome twosome&#8217;s meal at the restaurant located near Capitol Hill:
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We know Pelosi loves Chinese food because back in February 2020, she was encouraging all Americans to go down to <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/22420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown and eat dim sum</a> to prove they weren&#8217;t racist.
COVID was just beginning and at that point, the Left&#8217;s biggest concern was that fears of the virus — which was just starting to explode in Wuhan, China — would lead to anti-Chinese racism in Trump&#8217;s America.
Then the left realized they could politicize the issue and use the pandemic to amass government power and bash the 45th president, so they forgot about their virtue signaling on that front.
Anyway, now that the pandemic is over — or maybe it isn&#8217;t depending on whether you ask President Joe Biden or the folks actually running the show — Pelosi and Schumer are back to eating Chinese food.
At one point during the meal, Schumer said, &#8220;I&#8217;m eating too much,&#8221; which is a bit of an understatement.
The speaker took a break in between courses to voice her support for Biden&#8217;s potential 2024 run. She says he has done an &#8220;excellent&#8221; job.
The conversation featured the typical bashing of President Donald J. Trump that you can expect from the Dems.
At this point in the column, readers may be wondering about the photo choice for the story. What do current climate czar John Kerry and the deceased portly Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) have to do with any of this?
Well, the simple answer is that the photo of the cackling men was taken at Schumer&#8217;s book party thrown by then-Senator Hilary Clinton (D-NY- in 2007 at Hunan Dynasty — the same restaurant where the CNN interview took place.
Kerry and Kennedy joined Schumer to celebrate his book &#8220;Positively American.&#8221;
At the time, Schumer <a href="https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/27376/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;I felt a real yearning &#8230; I felt a real yearning and a passion to get my ideas out to help my country.&#8221;
Perhaps he was inspired by a &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; re-run the night before the big bash:
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The other explanation of the photo selection is that Kerry and Kennedy are included to remind readers what sort of scoundrels the U.S. has been dealing with for decades now.
Kennedy <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/07/16/chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-caused-death-mary-jo-kopechne-50-years-ago/1742106001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed a woman in a drunken stupor</a> in Chappaquiddick and <a href="https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-rennie-dodd-kennedy-waitress-sandwich-1119-20171115-column.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even allegedly violently sexually assaulted</a> a waitress across town at a French restaurant.
Still, Kennedy is lauded by the Democratic Party to this very day.
Speaking of Chinese for lunch, Kerry has been having <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-blames-recent-covid-bout-for-failed-climate-change-talks-with-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his lunch eaten by the Chinese</a> as of late. The man has totally failed in getting the communist country on board his green energy gambit.
To close, you have to wonder why politicians ever agree to eat food on camera.
Between the clanging of the forks and knives as well as the shoveling of food in their faces, it is never a great look.
If you are interested in the rendezvous, watch here:
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Pelosi, Schumer

Thanks To CNN, You Can Watch Pelosi And Schumer Scarf Down Chinese Food And Slurp Some Soup

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate czar <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30j69i60l3j69i64l3.2392j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a> is having a tough time wrangling his Chinese counterparts to come to the table on climate change hysteria.
On Thursday, Kerry — a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetsetter-john-kerry-asks-worlds-poorest-to-cut-back-on-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known jet setter</a> and Biden&#8217;s &#8220;dear friend&#8221; — blamed his recent inability to have any concrete conversation with the communist country on a recent bout of COVID.
Kerry told The Washington Post&#8217;s Sally Buzbee that it would be &#8220;great&#8221; if U.S. taxpayers could help foot the bill as a major &#8220;contributor&#8221; to climate change reparations for Third World countries. He also said that we need to &#8220;demand&#8221; nations such as China start negotiations.
When Buzbee asked whether or not China would oblige, Kerry tossed that dream up on a wing and a prayer.
&#8220;I would hope,&#8221; the typically dour-faced failed presidential candidate responded. &#8220;I would hope.&#8221;
Buzbee simply responded, &#8220;Okay.&#8221;
Perhaps Kerry realized that hope isn&#8217;t a strategy and instead offered up an excuse.
&#8220;I mean that&#8217;s — we will, you know, we&#8217;re — we picked up the conversation with China in Sharm,&#8221; Kerry said about a recent diplomatic mission to the COP27 meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November.
Yet those communications were foiled by the Chinese Virus — as it is known outside the Beltway.
&#8220;Unfortunately, you know, I got COVID in the last few days, and we had to — we couldn&#8217;t quite finish those conversations,&#8221; he explained.
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Buzbee said.
&#8220;But we will continue,&#8221; he claimed.
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Well, The Washington Post&#8217;s audience might not realize it — but Kerry&#8217;s latest alibi is more of the same.
China has eaten his lunch ever since he stepped into his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-are-taxpayers-paying-climate-czar-john-kerry-he-wont-say-but-one-gop-senator-is-demanding-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mysterious, tax-dollar-funded office</a>.
Consider that in September 2021, Kerry flew to China to discuss potential deals regarding the climate.
As <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_us-politics_us-climate-envoy-kerry-gets-cold-shoulder-china/6219223.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> by Anders Corr, a longtime China observer and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, “the Taliban got a better reception” from the Chinese Communist party than Kerry did.
A delegation from the Islamic terrorist group met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in person during the summer of 2021.
Kerry had to meet with a CCP underling via video chat.
Corr <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_us-politics_us-climate-envoy-kerry-gets-cold-shoulder-china/6219223.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> it a &#8220;diplomatic snub&#8221; and a &#8220;joke&#8221; at the U.S.&#8217;s expense.
The comedy tour continued as China <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-approves-15-gw-new-coal-fired-power-h1-research-2022-09-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramped up</a> its coal production capacity in 2022  — even as Kerry begged the world to heed his warnings.
Kerry&#8217;s CCP equivalent, Xie Zhenhua, doesn&#8217;t seem all that interested in Kerry&#8217;s courtship.
Here&#8217;s a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/john-kerry-xie-zhenhua-cop27.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutal assessment</a> from The New York Times of how the pair&#8217;s relationship has fared since springtime: &#8220;Mr. Kerry, who has known Mr. Xie for 20 years, has said he spent the summer and fall emailing Mr. Xie without much response.&#8221;
They did meet briefly three times while in El-Sharm, but alas, it seems that pesky COVID ruined an otherwise embarrassing display of America&#8217;s dwindling soft power over our enemies.
In the end, all America&#8217;s unelected climate envoy can do is &#8220;hope&#8221; and fret about &#8220;the survival of the planet&#8221; while lecturing the entire globe that the world &#8220;desperately needs to come together&#8221; on this issue.
Maybe if his remarks wind up shared on the Chinese-backed app TikTok, he can finally get the message across to the country he says we &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/25/john-kerry-china-return-climate-talks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">need to get</a>&#8221; on board with the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meads-joe-bidens-energy-policy-is-the-embodiment-of-america-last" target="_blank" rel="noopener">green energy utopia</a> that will never come.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

John Kerry Blames Recent COVID Bout For Failed Climate Change Talks With China

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Who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> meeting with when he ventures to Delaware on a near-weekly basis?
Doctors? Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barack-obama-unloads-on-buzzkill-democrats-and-cancel-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Barack Obama</a>? Hunter&#8217;s Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-joe-biden-granted-west-wing-meeting-to-hunter-associate-while-he-was-vp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">business partners</a>? The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ice cream man</a>?
Nobody knows. The government apparently doesn&#8217;t keep Delaware visitor logs — despite the fact that he has spent more than one-fourth of his presidency there thus far.
According to an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/joe-biden-presidency-delaware-work-from-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> by CNN, &#8220;Biden has made 55 visits to Delaware, totaling some or all of 174 days as of Sunday.&#8221;  Often, the president&#8217;s schedule shows no public events during those days.
For its part, The New York Post has <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/05/biden-delaware-visitors-shrouded-in-mystery-by-secret-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to track down the aforementioned record of who is meeting with the president in The First State. Yet, the Secret Service claims such documentation does not exist.
Most recently, after back and forth under the Freedom of Information Act guidelines, Secret Service Deputy Director Faron Paramore told The Post that “the agency conducted an additional search of relevant program offices for potentially responsive records.”
“This search also produced no responsive records,” Paramore added.
However, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/05/biden-delaware-visitors-shrouded-in-mystery-by-secret-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the paper</a> that the idea that the records are not available is &#8220;a bunch of malarkey.&#8221;
“Americans deserve to know who President Biden is meeting with, especially since we know that he routinely met with [first son] Hunter’s business associates during his time as vice president,” Comer added.
We could soon find out. The Kentucky congressman is in line to take over the House Oversight Committee should the GOP win the midterms — which looks increasingly likely.
Biden, of course, came bounding into the White House promising a new age of honesty. Decency was on the ballot, after all. The White House promised to be forthright with the press.
“There will be moments when we disagree, and there will certainly be days where we disagree for extensive parts of the briefing even, perhaps,” former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-briefing/biden-white-house-pledges-data-transparency-respect-for-free-press-idUSKBN29Q08S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in January 2021. “But we have a common goal, which is sharing accurate information with the American people.&#8221;
Biden is not the only member of his administration keeping elements out of the public eye.
In August, Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, according to emails obtained by a FOIA request, senior officials in the Special Presidential Envoy For Climate (SPEC) avoided putting certain language in writing.
While discussing the budget for the fiscal year 2022 and 2023, one official whose name was redacted told his colleagues on March 9, “I would also suggest a call or meeting soon with jk to update him on FY22 and 23, focusing on all the elements we can’t put on paper.”
Fox News noted that the subject of the email was titled “updated memo for JK on FY23 budget settlement.”
The &#8220;JK&#8221; presumably refers to the man who heads up that office  — failed-presidential candidate and <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/teresa-heinz-kerry-hospitalized/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ketchup hubby</a> John Kerry. Biden has described Kerry as one of his &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-takes-air-force-one-up-the-coast-for-a-quick-speech-about-the-dangers-of-fossil-fuels-climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dearest friends</a>.&#8221;
In that case, maybe Kerry is meeting with Biden each weekend for a game of bridge. The world may never know.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Who Is Biden Meeting With? President Has Spent 25% Of Term In Delaware, Visitor Logs Don’t Seem To Exist

Who Is Biden Meeting With? President Has Spent 25% Of Term In Delaware, Visitor Logs Don't Seem To Exist

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s special climate envoy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-kerry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a> is asking the world&#8217;s poorest to cut back on oil and other fossil fuels for the sake of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planet</a>.
Kerry, whose family&#8217;s private jet has reportedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerrys-family-private-jet-emitted-300-metric-tons-carbon-biden-took-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emitted</a> more than 300 metric tons of carbon since Biden took office, recently encouraged the Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw from auctioning off certain blocks of oil and gas to protect rainforests.
&#8220;We know it&#8217;s urgent. I spoke yesterday with the Deputy Prime Minister and I will speak this afternoon with the President, but it is his decision,&#8221; Kerry <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-congo-summit-idAFL8N3153BA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Tuesday.
According to Reuters, the U.S. claims that opening up the land in question could unleash environmental ruin by releasing large amounts of heat-trapping gas into the air.
&#8220;We have clearly described our interest in protecting the forests,&#8221; Kerry <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-congo-summit-idAFL8N3153BA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;We have asked for some blocks to be removed from the auction.&#8221;
The Congo is <a href="https://www.lendahand.com/en-EU/blog/755-poverty-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the poorest nations</a> in the world. It is riddled with poverty and corruption. Its government says that it needs to tap into the country&#8217;s abundant natural resources for its people and economy. Congolese environmental minister Eve Bazaiba was emphatic that children would starve if the Congo wasn&#8217;t allowed to auction off the oil blocks.
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&#8220;As much as we need oxygen, we also need bread,&#8221; she <a href="https://nation.africa/africa/news/us-climate-envoy-john-kerry-asks-dr-congo-to-ditch-some-oil-blocks-3973134" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before the United Nations on Monday.
This isn&#8217;t the first time Kerry has asked third-world countries to sacrifice for the greater global good in recent weeks.
In early September, the Heinz heiress&#8217;s husband warned poorer nations in Africa that they would have to choose which sort of fossil fuel they wanted to power the continent.
“We are not saying no gas,” Kerry <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-czar-john-kerry-warns-africa-natural-gas-bring-power-millions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a conference in Dakar, Senegal.
“What we are saying is, over the next few years, gas replaces coal or replaces oil,” he added while promoting a transition to green energy.
For all his hot air about hot air, Kerry is not very good at his job.
American taxpayers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-are-taxpayers-paying-climate-czar-john-kerry-he-wont-say-but-one-gop-senator-is-demanding-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">do not know how much money</a> he makes, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we know that his staff</a> has discussed hiding &#8220;elements&#8221; from emails.
We also know that powerful countries like China have completely ignored his warnings. In September 2021, Kerry told Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng that there is &#8220;no way&#8221; for the globe to defeat climate change without the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s &#8220;full engagement and commitment,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033557246/u-s-envoy-kerry-says-china-is-crucial-to-handling-the-climate-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NPR.
Since then, China has emitted record amounts of carbon, opened more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-devastating-blow-to-john-kerrys-green-energy-utopia-china-to-start-increasing-coal-production" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coal plants</a>, and paused communications with Kerry.
Now, the failed-presidential candidate is reduced to sending unanswered emails to his CCP counterpart Xie Zhenhua.
“I have emailed,” Kerry recently <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/kerry-sees-prospect-for-thaw-in-frozen-us-china-climate-talks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. “He’s not allowed to answer me, and it’s very complicated &#8230; And he hasn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Through it all, Kerry remains optimistic that he can wrangle the Red Dragon that is currently eating his lunch.
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&#8220;They suspended &#8212; they didn’t terminate,” Kerry said of U.S.-China climate change diplomacy. “I really hope China will decide sometime in the next days it is worth coming back to this because we owe it to humankind.”
Hope is not a strategy, so instead, Kerry will bully African nations to pick up China&#8217;s slack while his boss <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/biden-wants-record-11-billion-in-climate-aid-to-poor-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promises</a> them billions in taxpayer dollars if they forgo economic progress.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Jetsetter John Kerry Asks World’s Poorest To Cut Back On Oil

Jetsetter John Kerry Asks World's Poorest To Cut Back On Oil

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White House Chief of Staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-klain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Klain</a>&#8216;s wife, Monica Medina, has been <a href="https://www.state.gov/monica-p-medina-named-special-envoy-for-biodiversity-and-water-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selected</a> as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s newly-created Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources.
To steal a tongue-in-cheek phrase from New England radio legend Howie Carr, Medina was &#8220;chosen after a nationwide search,&#8221; I&#8217;m sure. We actually don&#8217;t know because the State Department refused to say.
When asked point blank if there was a nationwide search process, a State Department spokesperson skirted the question and instead claimed this wasn&#8217;t a new position at all.
&#8220;The Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources is not a new position but rather a new designation by the Secretary of State of an existing <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00387.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00387.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1664569228411000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AT3uQAjq9jNIBXY7oOlJH">Senate-confirmed appointee</a> to lead on these issues,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;Assistant Secretary Medina was designated for this role given the overlap with her work as head of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.&#8221; 
As for what exactly she&#8217;ll do under this &#8220;new designation&#8221;? According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/first-us-appoints-diplomat-plants-animals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, she is now the first ever diplomat for plants and animals.
&#8220;As temperatures rise and habitats shrink, hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species around the world are at risk of vanishing,&#8221; The Post asserted. &#8220;For the first time, the United States is designating a special diplomat to advocate for global biodiversity amid what policymakers here and overseas increasingly recognize as an extinction crisis.&#8221;
Medina does have experience in this area, yet one minor detail was kept out of The Post&#8217;s original reporting. The paper whose tagline is &#8220;Democracy Dies In Darkness&#8221; at first kept the fact that Medina is Klain&#8217;s wife in the dark.
The favored paper of The Swamp neglected to report that the Biden administration tapped his right-hand man&#8217;s significant other so that she can gallivant around the world talking about the dwindling population of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and the endangered Texas poppy mallow, or something. After <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1575545309723512834?s=20&amp;t=ZrNu3BZdlCE_G0dYl-vAyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apparent</a> Twitter criticism, the outlet updated its story.
The State Department, the agency overseeing this office, provided more details about why this role was needed in the first place.
Before getting into the details of it, would you be shocked to learn that promoting equity and inclusion is a key part of her responsibilities? Of course not, but those two planks of the new American Imperialism are used as justification by the Biden administration for the necessity of the &#8220;designation.&#8221;
&#8220;Decades of evidence shows that water security is essential to global efforts to increase equity and economic growth, build inclusive and resilient societies, bolster health and food security, decrease the risk of conflict or instability, and tackle the climate crisis,&#8221; the federal agency <a href="https://www.state.gov/monica-p-medina-named-special-envoy-for-biodiversity-and-water-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;Meanwhile, environmental stressors, like the climate crisis, nature crime – including illegal logging, mining, land conversion, and wildlife trafficking – have deep and detrimental impacts on the biodiversity of our planet and the availability of clean and safe water for human use.&#8221;
&#8220;The two crises are inextricably linked, and the State Department and Special Envoy Medina are committed to addressing the crises holistically,&#8221; the agency added.
She will also be working closely with the United Nations. It is unclear if Medina will hold one of the worst offenders for all those problems — the Chinese Communist Party — accountable for such actions.
If the new gig is anything like Special Envoy For Climate John Kerry&#8217;s office, there will likely be much opacity in the months ahead as to what exactly Medina is doing.
Readers will remember that Kerry&#8217;s office was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked to hand over certain communications</a> by the Boston Herald, only to be told the requested materials wouldn&#8217;t be available until next year at the earliest. Of the communications released to the media so far, Americans have learned that Kerry&#8217;s office is keeping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">certain bits of information out of emails</a>, presumably so that it cannot be handed over under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Maybe the State Department really had an extensive recruiting process. Or maybe, and more likely, Biden is repaying Klain for so many years of fealty and servitude.
This column has been updated to reflect the State Department&#8217;s response.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/new-zealand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Zealand</a> journalist could not contain her laughter while the teenage climate activist she was interviewing admitted to recently visiting the very place she said others should avoid due to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a>, and now the activist’s mother claims that her daughter was “bullied.”
Izzy Cook, a 16-year-old from New Zealand involved with the School Strike 4 Climate movement in her country, joined radio host Heather du Plessis-Allan on NewstalkZB to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-is-pretty-ironic-radio-interview-with-teen-climate-activist-goes-sideways-in-3-2-1">discuss</a> her activism. “Am I allowed to go to Fiji? Is that necessary?” the radio host asked. “In the current climate crisis, I don’t think that’s necessary travel,” Cook responded.
“When was the last time you were on a plane?” du Plessis-Allan pressed.
“I’m not sure. Maybe a few months ago, to be honest,” Cook hesitantly replied.
“Where’d you go?” du Plessis-Allan asked again.
After a moment, Cook admitted: “Fiji.”
“Izzy!” the host shouted amid uncontrollable laughter. “Izzy! Don’t you care about the climate, Izzy?”
When asked why she went to the South Pacific island paradise, Cook said that her parents brought her on vacation.
“Are you embarrassed your parents did that to the planet and then forced you to do it as well?” du Plessis-Allan questioned.
“Of course I am not embarrassed,” Cook replied.
“Did you have a terrible time?” du Plessis-Allan pressed.
“Not really,” Cook said before the host cut her off with more guffawing.
Despite the point raised by du Plessis-Allan, Rose Cook — the mother of Izzy Cook — penned an <a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/25-09-2022/heather-du-plessis-allan-should-be-ashamed-of-how-she-bullied-my-daughter">opinion piece</a> for New Zealand news outlet The Spinoff contending that her daughter was “bullied.”
“Commentators like du Plessis-Allan don’t give a s*** about climate change,” wrote the mother, who admitted that she and her daughter flew to Fiji in July. “They don’t care that Arctic ice is melting at four times the expected rate, or that we are seeing more and more extreme weather events killing and displacing people across the globe… These sorts of commentators use ad hominem arguments and ‘gotcha’ moments for point-scoring and discrediting their opponents.”
Rose Cook also praised her daughter’s conscientious lifestyle. “She’s vegetarian, uses public transport, and buys second-hand… The conversation needs to be about radically reimagining the way we live, building sustainable communities, and producing and consuming locally, not gotchas and petty point-scoring.”
Fiji is roughly 1,600 miles away from Wellington, the capital of New Zealand — approximately the same distance from New York City to Austin, Texas. An airplane produces roughly 53 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile, according to an <a href="https://blueskymodel.org/air-mile#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20a%20plane%20produces,(CO2)%20per%20mile.">estimate</a> from the open-source emissions project BlueSkyModel.
The interview occurred as the European Union, which has adopted the official <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2050-long-term-strategy_en">policy</a> of becoming “a climate-neutral society” by 2050, struggles to secure reliable oil and gas supplies amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While many European nations resort to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/europeans-resort-to-burning-wood-amid-desperate-search-for-energy-now-greta-thunberg-wants-to-limit-that-too">burning wood</a> chips, adolescent Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg sharply rebuked the move.
“Forest biomass takes minutes to burn, whereas it takes anywhere from decades to centuries for the climate and environmentally harmful tree plantations to resequester the carbon emitted,” the 19-year-old wrote in an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/burning-forests-energy-renewable-eu-wood-climate">article</a> for The Guardian. “This equals decades of carbon debts that we do not have time for.”
Izzy Cook is far from the only climate activist accused of unnecessary plane travel. John Kerry, the climate czar for President Joe Biden, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-family-jet-has-emitted-30-times-more-carbon-in-2021-than-average-vehicle-does-in-year-report">widely criticized</a> last year after a report showed that his family’s private jet was used for at least 20 trips in the first two-thirds of 2021, with each trip emitting 30 times more carbon than the typical passenger vehicle.

Paradise Cove, Yasawa Islands, Fiji

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> officials have considered trying to get World Bank President David Malpass fired for not pursuing <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a> policies with sufficient zeal, according to a Friday <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/23/world-bank-malpass-climate-biden">report</a> from Axios.
Malpass, who formerly served as under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs under former President Donald Trump, was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/world-banks-malpass-faces-calls-resign-after-climate-change-doubts-2022-09-21/">asked</a> on Tuesday whether he affirms that the &#8220;manmade burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet.&#8221; Malpass reportedly said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know. I&#8217;m not a scientist.&#8221;
People familiar with the matter told Axios that the Biden administration has long viewed Malpass with suspicion and confirmed that officials have considered replacing him — although the process for triggering a leadership change at the international financial institution would likely be complicated.
The United States is the largest shareholder in the World Bank, which provides loans and grants to the governments of developing nations for capital projects, and the president typically nominates the organization’s leader. Malpass, who was nominated by Trump in 2019, is slated to complete his five-year term in 2024.
Biden could nominate former Vice President Al Gore or Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. A spokesperson for Gore told Axios that he “strongly believes that there needs to be new leadership at the World Bank, but has no intention of pursuing the role himself and would not accept it if offered.&#8221;
Malpass reacted to the notion that he is a climate change “denier” — a charge levied by Gore and other officials — by rejecting the label outright. “I don’t know the political motivations behind that,” he said during an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/world/world-bank-david-malpass-climate-change-intl-hnk/index.html">interview</a> with CNN. “It’s clear that greenhouse gas emissions are coming from manmade sources, including fossil fuels, methane, agricultural uses and industrial uses. And so we’re working hard to change that.”
Biden has pushed green energy policies while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-severely-cuts-back-on-oil-and-gas-leases">leasing less federal land</a> for oil drilling than any of his predecessors since the end of World War II. At the beginning of his tenure, Biden also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/keystone-pipeline-dead-killed-by-biden-thousands-of-jobs-lost">nixed expansions</a> to the Keystone XL pipeline project over environmental concerns. Last month, he signed the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $369 billion in programs meant to accelerate a transition to renewable energy.
A <a href="https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/just-back-from-dc-schumer-outlines-historic-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act-and-its-impact-on-upstate-new-york-from-reducing-rx-costs-for-over-37m-ny-ers-lowering-utility-bills-closing-tax-loopholes-for-big-corps-fighting-climate-crisis-creating-new-jobs-rebuilding-american-manufacturing_more--">fact sheet</a> from the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed that the law will create 9 million jobs across the United States while bringing “manufacturing of clean technology like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and much more back to America.” Among other items, the law funds $160 billion in clean electricity tax credits, $43 billion in production tax credits, and $40 billion in tax credits to make buildings more energy efficient.
Top administration officials, including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/energy-secretary-lays-out-the-only-way-to-avoid-high-gas-prices-and-its-not-producing-more-oil">argued</a> that “the only way” out of “boom-and-bust cycles” in energy prices is “deploying clean energy.”
“The real truth is that as long as our nation remains overly reliant on oil and fossil fuels, we will feel these price shocks again,” Granholm said at a June press briefing. “This is not going to be the last time. The next time there’s a war, the next time there’s a pandemic or another hurricane, these extreme weather events we are experiencing — they will impact the access that we have to fossil fuels.”

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