While President Donald Trump sends his lawyers hither-and-yon to try to overturn the election, President-elect Joe Biden has been busy filling Cabinet slots.<br />HuffPost reports Biden named John Kerry on Monday as his special envoy on climate.<br />He's tasked the former secretary of state with steering a 180-degree turn in US diplomacy on the issue.<br />Kerry will also be advising the incoming Biden administration on the security challenges a warming planet poses.<br />America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is.<br />Kerry will represent the US at a moment that scholars increasingly see as a period of American imperial decline amid unprecedented planetary changes.
