His entire career is based on 1. saying what people want to hear, then 2. stabbing them in the back. This is nothing new whatsoever. Everyone laments step 2 so much that people forget about step 1.

Simplest explanation is they’re plants.

Second simplest explanation is blackmail.

The Arctic is an important topic?

Referring to glacier melt or something else?

Because that’s not an Arctic-specific phenomenon, that’s global.