Sky News host Cory Bernardi says the new US Climate Envoy John Kerry is completely out of touch with the common man because he is “blinded by ideology”.

Mr Kerry has come under fire after reports emerged he took his own private jet to Iceland in 2019 to accept the Arctic Circle award for his involvement in brokering the Paris Climate Agreement.

The former Democratic presidential candidate – who famously owns a private jet, six houses, two yachts and a dozen cars – has long been an activist on the issue of climate change.

Mr Bernardi said the climate envoy knows he has to put the go along with “the zeitgeist” on climate change to be accepted on the world stage.

“Which means putting your thumb on the little man, crushing the miners, crushing the things that generate prosperity in favour of a giant illusion.”