This is also proof of the Deep State , John Kerry never stopped working for the "Government" even when he wasn't part of the Trump Administration

“Obviously climate change isn’t real because the rich people who say it is own things. Checkmate liberals!”

No, it means that the ruling class aren’t willing to give up their lavish amenities or reduce their mass overconsumption to stop climate change.

...and that he knows he peddles prevarication polarizing people purposefully panicking populations.

Politicians! Huh?

Precisely.

Pernicious panderers!

He doesn't believe it, he just sees it as a way to line his pockets.