Records show that U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s family owns a private jet, which has prompted accusations of climate change hypocrisy on social media.
The Federal Aviation Administration registry shows that a Gulfstream Aerospace jet is owned by Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s private charter jet company with a registration certificate that lasts until 2023.
Kerry, who has established himself as one of the faces in the push to combat climate change, has been widely criticized on social media for his use of private jets, which emit up to 40 times more carbon per passenger compared to flying commercial.
“Must be easy to tell oil and gas workers to just ‘learn to code’ when you’re flying on your private jet and living the life of an elitist,” journalist Sara A. Carter tweeted.
Report: U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s family still owns a private jet
Must be easy to tell oil and gas workers to just “learn to code” when you’re flying on your private jet and living the life of an elitist…https://t.co/T46azs97c8
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) January 28, 2021
“John Kerry, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars (thanks to his wife) wants oil workers to know that he really feels the pain of their job losses and thinks of them often in between private jet flights and sojourns on his 76 foot yacht,” political commentator Buck Sexton tweeted along with a clip from a White House press briefing Wednesday where Kerry suggested laid off fossil fuel industry workers should go build solar panels.
John Kerry, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars (thanks to his wife) wants oil workers to know that he really feels the pain of their job losses and thinks of them often in between private jet flights and sojourns on his 76 foot yacht https://t.co/KeYejhP9QN
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 27, 2021
“Will John Kerry sacrifice his private jet in the name of ‘climate justice?’” Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted. “Of course not — sacrifice is only for working Americans.”
Will John Kerry sacrifice his private jet in the name of “climate justice”?
Of course not—sacrifice is only for working Americans. pic.twitter.com/QhK2FVykxU
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 27, 2021
Kerry said during the press conference Wednesday that he is working within the Biden administration to ensure that the green energy policies they enact will not be able to be overruled by politicians in the future.
“I think we can achieve things in the course of the next four years that will move the marketplace, the private sector, global finance, innovation, and research that in fact no one, no political person in the future, will be able to undo what the planet is going to be organizing over these next months and years,” Kerry told reporters. “This is the start of something new.”
