No-one has any licence to do off-topic rants and if they do the rest of us will either ignore them or take them up on it. There’s nothing political in it at all.
While I believe that CK’s science is top notch and that I have learned more about climate science from him than all other contributors combined, I can accept that not everyone will agree with me.
By the same token, if CK does go off topic, I have the choice to ignore him or to use the moment as an opportunity to learn. In this context, the statements by IB do not interest me, not because of my political persuasion, but simply because I distrust people who use emotive language to put their point across.
While I am still not clear as to how the Russian situation is closely related to US environmental policy (it was in fact related to the possibility of Democrats being elected) I would be pleased if you could elaborate further on this issue but understand that the other visitors to this blog may wonder what is going on.