John Kerry couldn’t have been more unequivocal. “No,” Joe Biden’s special climate envoy told the House Foreign Affairs Oversight Committee last Thursday. “Under no circumstances” will the United States disburse taxpayer funds to the nations that suffer national disasters attributed by some to the influence of climate change.
The envoy’s steadfastness is reassuring, but it’s hardly a sufficient guarantee given the source. If the former Massachusetts senator is willing to dissemble before Congress about who precisely owns that private jet in which he maintains a seven-figure stake, we can deduce that he’s not overly concerned about the verdict that history will render in relation to America’s commitment to providing the developing world with “climate reparations.”
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