Climate czar John Kerry is full of gas.

He says he’s getting “more militant” about coal burning and that triggered an impromptu emission mid-rant.

Kerry said the U.S. is committed to kicking the coal habit, as previously reported. He became so fired up about it he lit up a panel in Dubai on Sunday with his own methane. (See the NY Post video below and see, er hear, it for yourself.)

It appears Becky Anderson, managing editor of CNN Abu Dhabi, caught wind of the ill-timed flatulence. She kept her cool, though. It’s no secret Kerry’s politics keep CNN’s last remaining viewers satisfied, so she bit her tongue and held her nose.

Kerry blasted through it all, ignoring the 800-pound gorilla — or stink cloud — in the room. But ignoring the obvious is Kerry’s strength.

File this under embarrassing moments for politicians — Jimmy Carter’s crazed rabbit attack, George H.W. Bush vomiting at a banquet in Japan, his son having a shoe thrown at his head in Baghdad — he ducked that with style, something Kerry could never do — and the various tumbles and trips by presidents.

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