Kerry admits zero emissions in US wouldn’t make difference in climate change

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, admitted Wednesday that the US reducing its emissions to zero wouldn’t make much of a difference in the global climate change fight — before pushing domestic manufacturing of electric cars and solar panels in favor of energy production. 

Kerry’s remarks were made ahead of Biden’s signing of a host of executive actions on Wednesday pushing his $2 trillion Green New Deal-inspired climate agenda. 

“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president. 

“Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,” Kerry conceded. 

The former secretary of state, now Biden’s climate envoy, acknowledged that it would be difficult to bring the world’s top polluters to the table, including China, which produces 30 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. 

But then he pivoted from that point, shifting his focus back to domestic electric car and solar panel production, saying the nation could not afford to be tight-fisted, even as the US grapples with a devastating recession and health crisis. 

“The science tells us we have to,” Kerry said when pressed by a reporter on the $2 trillion price tag on Biden’s plan. 

GRTWT.