It took him a dozen more years to be elected to the Senate from Massachusetts, but he eventually became the chair of that same Foreign Relations Committee, and then the Democratic Presidential nominee, in 2004, and then Hillary Clinton’s successor as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State. Among other accomplishments in that role, he signed the landmark Paris climate accord for the United States, in 2016, which stipulated a global effort aimed at limiting temperature increases to 1.
And I think the President understands that, but there was a feeling among some that you’ve got to manage this economically, so you don’t wind up with the shortages that drive prices up, and then everybody goes nuts, and you wind up with the wrong person being President. So there has to be some economic reality to how we transition. We have six years to meet the goal of a forty-three-per-cent reduction, which was recommended by the scientists in the 2018 report.