in the meantime, hugely increasing the number of coal fired power stations because like every developing country, china has massive energy needs and all of that heat they are getting means people need more power for air conditioning. john kerry will be looking to see whether the chinese can reassure him and also looking for more action methane, in many ways a more dangerous climate gas. china is by far the world s largest emitter of methane. before this trip, us republicans criticised john kerry for being a bit too soft on china when it comes to climate change. why was that? it is an inevitable accusation whenever you re dealing with china, how tough you get. tthe biden administration has been pretty tough in a lot of areas. in particular, national security and decoupling. this is about climate. big countries have to co operate. the real problem for the us is not so much the republicans on the backs of envoys going there, it is that china takes the view that although climate is vitall
fire power plants. are we keeping up with the develops in the nation. it s so offbase as china s military is preparing with more active rhetoric and war games around the capture of taiwan to consolidate more supply chains like microchips and the types of things taiwan has. we re running over there, saying stop emitting to the biggest emitter who has no incentive to do that. it s so off-base. it s unbelievable. kayleigh: john kerry, $18.7 million is the budget for his staff. we don t know what they do. 45 proposed staff members apparently. your taxpayer dollars paying for the paychecks of these people who are doing absolutely nothing. here is john kerry talking about his efforts in china on capitol hill on thursday. is he in fact effectively a dictator. i m not going to get into but he does wield the power of he wields enormous power as the leader of china. absolutely. do you wish the president had used another word?
after 2024 and why we were asking those questions today. the reason is because they don t want the american people to know what climate extremists coming from radical think tanks are working in their office going out there and conducting these secret operations around the globe in china and other places. bill: 45 staff members, 14 million annual budget. not chump change. office in the state department. roll this sound bite here. call for one on john kerry going to beijing a bit later this month. china, as the world s second largest economy, and as the world s largest emitter, it would be mal practice of the worst order. bill: he might be right about that when it comes to whatever policy they re trying to develop. the fact that you don t know what his intent is or what he has been doing just doesn t seem right in a democracy. it goes beyond that. we have email traffic, letters from both state department and
and maintain crop yields. but the un has also warned of a dystopian future without immediate action with possible civil unrest. dr zitouni ould dada is an expert in climate and other environmental issues at the food and agriculture organisation of the un. i asked him to explain the relationship between extremely high temperatures and food production. well, there is a big relationship obviously, because climate change affects food production, agriculture in general, and agriculture also affects climate change, because agriculture is an important emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, it uses around 70% of withdrawn water and around 70% of withdrawn water and around 30% of global energy, so it is a very tight relationship between what s happening to the climate and agriculture. this is particularly important for the global food security because what we have seen