When All Else in Your Foreign Policy Fails, Play the Climate Change Card

That's what Obama factotum John Kerry is doing:

Secretary of State John Kerry, deeming climate change a “top-tier diplomatic priority,” has decided to make the controversial topic the subject of his first policy initiative and is instructing U.S. emissaries worldwide to push the agenda.

“Protecting our environment and meeting the challenge of global climate change is a critical mission for me as our country's top diplomat,” Kerry wrote in his Policy Guidance, which was released Friday and marked his first since becoming secretary in February 2013. 

“It's also a critical mission for all of you: our brave men and women on the front lines of direct diplomacy,” he said.

Kerry is pressing his case despite widespread, scientific disagreement on the issue -- particularly the argument that burning fossil fuel for energy has sent global temperatures on a permanent, upward trend, increasing natural disasters like hurricanes and monsoons. ...

Kerry's exhortations are like the fog--thick, dense and wet.