John Kerry, the Biden Administration's special presidential envoy for climate, claims that the problem with the war in Ukraine is that it’s releasing greenhouse gasses that are causing climate change.
Kerry made the claim in a MSNBC interview in England on Monday while discussing climate change:
“Lots of parts of the world are exacerbating the problem right now. But, when you have bombs going off, and you have damage to septic tanks or to power centers, etc., you have an enormous release of greenhouse gas, of methane, you know, all of the family of greenhouse gases.”
However, this doesn’t mean that we should stop the war in Ukraine, Kerry said.
“I’m not, you know, believe me, that’s ehhhh, the fight in Ukraine is a fight that we have to make, that the world has to make. The values at stake are enormously important to all of us,” Kerry said, before employing a triple-negative in a confusing attempt to clarify his point:
“So, I’m not suggesting in any fashion that this is not a fight we shouldn’t be involved in. But, I am saying that there are ancillary impacts, as a result of it.”
Many climate experts fear that, if the war continues to escalate, the main climate threat would not be greenhouse gasses from bombs, but the climate crisis that would be caused by a nuclear war.
Recent research has shown that the impact of a nuclear war on climate would be far worse than any “climate change” that may be occurring. Nuclear war would devastate the ozone layer, which would be extremely dangerous to human health and the food supply. And, the effects would also begin almost immediately.