{"id":297685,"date":"2024-01-21T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297685"},"modified":"2024-01-21T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:04:16","slug":"right-wall-street-journal-john-kerry-did-fail-to-persuade-china-to-give-up-reliable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297685","title":{"rendered":"Right, Wall Street Journal, John Kerry Did Fail to Persuade China to Give Up Reliable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)<\/a> ran an article noting that despite John Kerry\u2019s failure as President Joe Biden\u2019s climate envoy to get China to curb its coal use in order to save the world from climate change, Kerry is now being brought over to Biden\u2019s reelection campaign. If Kerry does as good a job with Biden\u2019s campaign as he did in changing the course of the world\u2019s fossil fuel use, Biden\u2019s reelection efforts are in trouble. The WSJ is right, Kerry failed in his biggest mission as the U.S. climate czar, curbing greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries, especially China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing Kerry\u2019s lack of success, the WSJ wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For three years Mr. Kerry has been preoccupied with getting China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. But excluding emissions from land use and forestry, China\u2019s emissions rose 13% between 2015 and 2023, according to Climate Action Tracker estimates. U.S. emissions fell by some 9% over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t say Mr. Kerry hasn\u2019t tried to persuade China, including the use of green flattery. \u201cChina has produced more renewable energy, more solar and wind than any other country,\u201d he said last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But China\u2019s CO2 emissions have still soared as demand for electricity surged. In 2022 China accounted for 53% of the world\u2019s coal generation, the Ember think tank says, and new permits for coal power plants in 2022 reached \u201cthe highest level since 2015.\u201d That\u2019s the year Beijing signed the Paris climate accord Mr. Kerry negotiated, promising to reduce its emissions starting in 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China also expanded it coal mining, despite Kerry\u2019s efforts, setting a new record for production in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2023, Kerry\u2019s counterpart, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said, \u201cIt is unrealistic<\/em> to completely phase out fossil fuel energy,\u201d echoing statement made by China\u2019s President Xi Jinping 2022 that the country\u2019s carbon dioxide policies, \u201ccan\u2019t be detached from reality<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at some of those realities<\/em>, one can see that regardless of what one believes about humanity\u2019s role (or lack thereof) in climate change. Kerry\u2019s climate outreach to China and elsewhere was largely an expensive fool\u2019s errand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article on Turning Point USA<\/a> points out that the salary for Kerry\u2019s small staff cost U.S. taxpayers $4.3 million each year, with all but one of the 27 employees with the office of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate making more than $100,000 per year. This doesn\u2019t include the costs of office space and equipment, travel, and other associated costs with running Kerry\u2019s independent office. I say independent because Kerry\u2019s position was created by President Biden, reporting only to him. Despite being charged with negotiating international climate agreements, Kerry\u2019s office was outside the normal chain of command. It was not part of the State Department, and Kerry did not report to the Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that money bought no climate progress. During Kerry\u2019s time as Special Climate Envoy, coal use set new records. In 2023, the International Energy Agency reported:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe demand for coal is seen rising 1.4 percent in 2023, surpassing 8.5 billion tonnes for the first time as usage in India is expected to grow 8 percent and that in China up 5 percent due to rising electricity demand and weak hydropower output, IEA said in a report released on Friday,\u201d writes Al Jazeera, reporting io the IEA\u2019s findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, data from Statista<\/a> shows that the capacity of the coal plants announced, permitted, and under construction have risen each year since Kerry was on the job, reversing a declining trend global trend in coal power construction that existed under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair, John Kerry does not run China, India, or any of the other developing countries where coal use for electric power generation and industrial uses is rising, but his main job was to persuade the leaders of those countries to shift to alternative, less reliable, more expensive forms of energy, as Western Europe and the United States are largely doing. In that task, he abjectly failed. And the reason for the failure is clear, the Biden administration with Kerry as its point man, put climate pipe dreams above economic realities<\/em> of the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was aptly summed up by the WSJ, writing, \u201cMr. Kerry\u2019s problem has been a failure to recognize reality<\/em>, which is typical of America\u2019s climate lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0Right, Wall Street Journal, John Kerry Did Fail to Persuade China to Give Up Reliable Energy<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0ClimateRealism<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0Wall Street Journal (WSJ)\u00a0ran an article noting that despite John Kerry\u2019s failure as President Joe Biden\u2019s climate envoy to get China to curb its coal use in order to save the world from climate change, Kerry is now being brought over to Biden\u2019s reelection campaign. If Kerry does as good a job with Biden\u2019s campaign as he did in changing the course of the world\u2019s fossil fuel use, Biden\u2019s reelection efforts are in trouble. 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