It wasn’t technically the keynote address, but John Kerry’s gas eruption pretty well summed up the substance of COP-28, the United Nations’ latest climate conference.
President Biden’s “climate envoy” was plummily ranting on — “I find myself getting more and more militant because I do not understand how adults who are in a position of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis” — when the distinctive sound erupted and a fellow panelist politely shielded her nose.
That flatulence carried more meaning than all his alarmist verbal emissions on global warming, and all the other noise at the confab— or, for that matter, any UN climate conference.
Consider: He was ranting about nations that refuse to shut down all their coal plants now, when he knows perfectly well that China is still building two new coal plants a week.
But his interlocutors in Beijing nod politely when he blathers on, vow they’ll do better in the future (as long as the United States makes a few concessions, demands Kerry dutifully toots to the prez) — and hold their laughter ’til he’s out of the room.
He might as well be farting as talking: The Chinese would still nod politely and ignore him.
Lock Up Kerry for the IRAN Scheme !!!!!!