It was a smart move to hold the COP28 summit, the latest gathering of world leaders to ululate unmerited alarm about the climate and make unfulfillable promises on how to deal with it, in Dubai in December.
At least in the Gulf emirate, it is guaranteed to be hot. [emphasis, links added]
The forecast for this week is for sunshine and temperatures in the high 80s, enough heat to provide a suitable backdrop for their insistence that we are all going to fry soon—although it has been hot on the Arabian Peninsula since long before man set about his evil carbon-spewing ways.
If they had chosen to hold it in, let’s say, Europe, they would have been in for a distinctly awkward convergence of message and visual.
Meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere has barely started, and already more of the Continent is under snow cover as of the first week of December than in any year for more than a decade.
In the latest illustration that God has a wicked sense of humor, many members of the planetary emergency rescue elite on their way to the summit were stranded in Munich, where a snowstorm dumped 17 inches of the white stuff and canceled most outbound flights.
I haven’t checked in with the usual alarmist suspects on their explanation for this deep and crisp and even landscape, but I am sure they have a good story.
The climate propaganda is so well-rooted now in the West’s media that we are given to understand that everything is the result of global warming: So doubtless historic snowfall, like drought, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, migration patterns, the scarcity of certain foodstuffs, racial discrimination, seasonal temperatures with partly cloudy skies—all, in the fanatic’s taxonomy, the work of climate change.
This isn’t to suggest that a cold winter is enough to prove the mendacity of the climate change thesis and its proponents. I am well aware that global temperatures have on average risen, and that there’s a plausible case that man’s carbon dioxide emissions are a significant factor.
But the awkward persistence of normal weather continues to remind us of how at odds with realities the extremism of the global climate lobby is.
They are at it again in Dubai. None more so than that scientist, theologian, and philosopher King Charles III, who with his taste for public intervention is already retesting, barely a year after his sainted mother’s death, the wisdom of hereditary monarchy. The Earth faced “existential threats,” he said. “How dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world?”
To which the best answer probably is: We’ll elect governments to make those decisions, thank you, not submit to the half-baked scientific claims of a man whose heating bill for his half-dozen castles, palaces, and mansions is probably larger than the budgets of several small nation-states.
But to his credit, the king also reminded us of another reason why Dubai was a good choice for the summit—it’s as good a place as any to witness the hypocrisies these high priests of hysteria shower on the world.
The United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a member, is not only one of the most intensive producers of fossil fuel in the world; it is looking to increase its output.
The state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. said last year it planned to raise production capacity to five million barrels a day by 2027, a 25% increase from 2020.
The host of the summit is the Emirates oil supremo, which is a bit like putting Donald Trump’s sons in charge of the World Wildlife Fund’s annual meeting. The Emiratis are only doing on an industrial scale what all climate alarmists do—preaching one thing while doing another.
When they were eventually able to take off from snowbound Europe, the various chief executives, nonprofit officials, green lobbyists, bureaucrats, and others flew the several thousand miles in their private jets, churning more carbon into the air in a week than the average American, whom they like to lecture about his evil ways, does in a year.
They will thunder on like this for another week. John Kerry, the U.S. climate czar, will repeat the British monarch’s warnings, and talk up some grand new partnership with China that is starting to resemble one giant coal-fired power station, and they’ll all doubtless commit to some “ambitious” goal that they will tell us still won’t be enough to save the planet.
Then they’ll go back to their homes and escalate the rhetoric another notch, demanding new spending and taxes from their hard-pressed populations for some new great green public infrastructure project.
h/t Steve B.
Read rest at WSJ
From iaea.org:
“A first-of-its-kind nuclear energy summit will be held next year, it was announced at COP28 today. Leaders from around the world will gather in Brussels in March 2024 to highlight the role of nuclear energy in addressing the global challenges to reduce the use of fossil fuels, enhance energy security and boost economic development.”
Many in the climate change movement are anti-nuclear. Yet, reducing the use of fossil fuels can not be done without nuclear. When Germany closed their nuclear power plants the plan was to replace their capacity with wind and solar. As it turned out, Germany was forced to restart coal power plants to keep the lights on.
The trouble with including nuclear in the power mix is it is way too late for the time scale that the climate change movement has laid out.
Save the world from a fake threat its way past time to evict the UN/Globalists from America Coffee Cup Anan needs to Go