Posted on 11/15/2016 10:49:37 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Secretary of State John Kerry wouldn't guess where the next administration would go with environmental measures, but said the American public would continue to demand action to combat climate change.
At a Sunday press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, Kerry said he didn't want to "speculate on what President- elect Trump's presidency is going to mean with respect" to the Paris climate agreement.
Trump said on the campaign trail that he wants U.S. participation in the agreement scrapped.
"I think that everybody knows that there are sometimes -- there is sometimes a divide between a campaign and the governing, and I think the administration, the next administration, needs to define itself on that subject," Kerry said.
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Kerry added that "most kids in high school or even middle school are pretty good at getting a sense that something is happening if that's what's going on decade after decade."
"And when the scientists overwhelmingly in the world reinforce that's what's happening, and we see the evidence of it every single day -- last year in the United States we spent $8 billion cleaning up after storms that were far more intense than any we've had before," he said. "So I believe the evidence is clear, and the question now that we, this administration, are going to continue to address is how we will implement the Paris Agreement."
The secretary of State stressed that "until January 20th when this administration is over, we intend to do everything possible to meet our responsibility to future generations to be able to address this threat to life itself on the planet."
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Thank goodness, the days till Jan 20th is dwindling. Then we can permanently ignore John Fn Kerry.
Which explains why we elected a guy who was saying for close to two years he would trash it.
Idiot!!
No, Kerry...you are. The American people are telling you to FO!
...until January 20, 2017. And it is the government, not people committed.
LOL! If anyone should be “committed”, it should be the pushers of this YUGE scam-a-lama. Insanity run amuck.
NO JOHN they aren’t!!! Can’t you remember when we flushed you, and now here you are, all covered in crap!!!
We are like HELL, Lurch !
So glad when this buffoon is gone.
I’m guessing Trump’s pick to head the EPA will have a lot of heads exploding.
We are?
I love the smell of napalm.
No we aren’t.
John Kerry doesn’t know about the election yet?
The “American People” have no clue what’s in the Paris Climate Accord.
I’m for committing Kerry. Lock him away and give him a double dose of thorazine.
Le réchauffement climatique est un canular!
No, we are not. YOU may be committed to it, but sane people are not.
This is a total fraud by the Obama administration. Congress made it clear with the first agreement that ALL subsequent agreements setting forth any commitments had to be approved as a treaty to have any effect. The U.S. refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Obama did not even attempt to bring this “agreement” to Congress. He just signed it and they are pretending it is binding even though it is totally meaningless.
“Kerry added that “most kids in high school or even middle school are pretty good at getting a sense that something is happening if that’s what’s going on decade after decade.” “
That, Mr. Secretary, is called indoctrination.
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