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Separating Fact From Fiction: What Nearly 30 Years Of COP Meetings Has Gotten Us

by Tilak Doshi
October 17, 2023, 7:26 AM
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goreAnother year will soon pass, and another ‘Conference of the Parties’ to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“COP”) will convene.

This time the 28th COP will meet in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 12 December.

Doubtless, the legacy media will soon be inundating us with wall-to-wall coverage of yet another attempt at the UN concert of nations to ‘save the planet’. [emphasis, links added]

Now that we are three years short of three decades of COP negotiations to handle an asserted “climate emergency” allegedly caused by human-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, what progress have we made?

Demons and Saviors at COP meetings

The “settled science” narrative put out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the layperson and the mass media is contained in a government-approved “summary for policymakers.”

These SPMs are based on Assessment Reports (the 6th synthesis report was published in March 2023) compiled by scientists who are themselves often appointed by governments.

Following each of these summary reports, countless mainstream media stories offer a steady drumbeat of alarmist news of rising temperatures, surging sea levels, disappearing ice, and increasing frequency of extreme weather with floods, storms, drought, and wildfires.

The underlying message is constant: man-made GHG emissions are the culprit and unless modern energy systems are radically transformed, the Earth is doomed.

Since the first COP was convened in 1995 in Berlin (and held annually since, except for 2020), the rhetoric against fossil fuels has ramped up.

The demonization of the oil and gas industry at COP26 held in Glasgow in 2021 was palpable. Oil and gas industry executives were ‘not invited’ (coal, of course, being beyond the pale).

Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO stated that the company would be absent from the climate talks after being told it would not be welcome.

Teenage climate icon Greta Thunberg, whose tirades always go viral on social media, tweeted: “I don’t know about you, but I sure am not comfortable with having some of the world’s biggest villains influencing & dictating the fate of the world.”

As COP27 wound up last year, Reuters ran a story citing anonymous ‘government officials’ who said that “fossil fuel producers benefited from sympathetic treatment in Egypt…bringing their influence to bear in rushed final negotiations and frustrating those who hoped for a more ambitious outcome.”

Over 600 [oil and gas] industry participants “were able to enter” the COP27 meetings in Egypt.”

Imagine the horror of it – polluters being allowed into the hallowed halls of intrepid climate warriors fighting climate change. The Reuters story opined that Egypt, a significant natural gas exporter in its own right and long dependent on financing from Gulf oil producers, was “partly responsible, although the war in Ukraine and the subsequent European energy crisis also had an impact”.

In August 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres slammed the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies and their financial backers.

“It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on the backs of the poorest people and communities, at a massive cost to the climate.”

And again, last month, Mr. Guterres – no stranger to hyperbolic rants, from “code red for humanity” to “an era of global boiling” — warned that humanity had ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting the ‘climate crisis’ worsen.

In a ‘lacerating attack’, he blamed “the naked greed of entrenched interests raking in billions from fossil fuels” which are “embarked upon a ‘shameful’ attempt to stymie the [energy] transition.”

Where Aspirations Meet Realities…

What could go wrong? Well, COP28 President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber is also chief executive of ADNOC, the national oil and gas company of Abu Dhabi.

In a long article published last week on Dr. Al Jaber’s appointment to lead COP28, Fiona Harvey of The Guardian asks how can the man — an oil and gas guy, and hence the root cause of the problem — even attempt to deliver humanity’s salvation from the climate crisis?

Furthermore, Dr. Al Jaber’s company, the world’s 11th largest oil and gas producer, announced late last year that it plans to invest $150 billion through 2027 to expand the emirate’s oil and gas production capacity.

The gall of it! The world’s attempts to save itself from an impending climate Armageddon caused by human-caused GHG emissions are in the hands of an oil and gas company executive.

In a letter addressed to the UN secretary general, the European Commission President, and the President of the United States, 133 MEPs (members of the European Parliament), senators, and representatives expressed their “profound concern that current rules governing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) permit private sector polluters to exert undue influence on UNFCCC processes.”

Will the leadership of the UAE be castigated by the legacy media similarly after COP28? Will it care? After all, one might ask, what have almost three decades of negotiations in the UNFCCC forum over the “climate crisis” actually achieved?

Not much if one were hardnosed about what the data to date reveals. The CO2 content of the atmosphere, measured at the Mauna Kea observatory since 1957, has risen steadily every year and the 27 COPs have had no measurable effect on total global emissions.

In October last year, Jeff Currie, Goldman Sachs’ Head of Commodities Research, pointed out in an interview that at the end of 2021, fossil fuels accounted for 81% of global energy consumption, down from 82% a decade previously. The estimated cost for this marginal change is an astounding $3.8 trillion [in renewables]!

Not surprisingly, COP26 in Glasgow concluded with the successful last-minute insistence by China and India among other developing countries to change the communique language from “phase out” to “phase down” the use of fossil fuels (including coal).

Neither China nor India, nor most other large developing countries, have espoused the need to “phase out” fossil fuels if this compromises their legitimate aspirations for better standards of living which depend on reliable and affordable fossil fuel supplies.

According to a Politico report, preparatory talks for the COP28 climate summit in Bonn in June were “consumed by a power struggle”.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the talks that countries must start phasing out oil, coal, and gas and demanded that fossil fuel companies “cease-and-desist” measures that aim to hobble progress on the issue.

The group of Like-Minded Developing Countries — comprising major developing countries as well as fossil fuel producers like China, India, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia — countered by threatening to block progress unless rich countries also accepted a new agenda item about climate finance.

According to an anonymous EU diplomat cited by Politico, “That was a point of principle…They want no outside pressure to reduce emissions. China doesn’t want us to be the guiding force.” …snip…

COP28: Another High Carbon Footprint Farce?

According to the UAE government, COP28 in Dubai will welcome “over 140 heads of state, senior government leaders, over 70,000 participants, and more than 5,000 media professionals.”

One can imagine the carbon footprint of the international travel of the delegates involved, although Britain’s UCL has made available a handy calculator for this.

Will the grand jamboree prove to be a farce, as many of the delegates from the West now report to new governments that are backpedaling from their own previous net zero commitments?

With what conviction can the chief German representative at the conference instruct his counterparts from around the world to pursue “net zero” policies as his or her own government approved earlier this month putting lignite-fired power plants back online for German households to keep warm this winter?

Will the Netherlands and New Zealand delegates hold up their anti-agriculture climate policies for emulation by the world’s nations, now that such policies have likely been consigned to the dung heap of history by their citizens?

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once remarked, “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.”

It is likely that apart from grand-sounding communiques, breast-beating by the climate NGOs, and alarmist headlines by the legacy media, nothing much of practical significance will come out of the 28th Conference of the Parties in Dubai.

And Dr Sultan Al Jaber, President Designate of COP28 and CEO of ADNOC, will do just fine.

h/t RO

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Comments 6

  1. Curious says:
    2 years ago

    Luckily there is no crisis just cyclical change hyped up by those intent on world domination and lining their pockets

    Reply
  2. Graham McDonald says:
    2 years ago

    I would think that UAE is probably Muslim, and hence ‘dry’. Oh the self-sacrifice of the delegates, and the ‘hangers-on’, no alcohol for over a week. Such courage, such bravery. They should be commended, or condemned…..

    Reply
    • Steve Bunten says:
      2 years ago

      It is a Muslim country but is open to allowing the drinking of alcohol as well as relaxed clothing for women. So unfortunately those attending will not have to go dry.

      Reply
      • Graham McDonald says:
        2 years ago

        DRAT!! They should have to suffer…..

        Reply
  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    2 years ago

    And they all came in Private Jets and Limos no one came on a Flying Carpet just how large was their total Carbon Footprints?

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  4. Steve Bunten says:
    2 years ago

    So after 28 years of these COP(out) meetings, all of which emit untold amount of CO2 into the atmosphere with the private jets and limos, the planet is still doing just fine. Here we are at the end of another hurricane season in which only one major hurricane struck Florida and most petered out over the Atlantic ocean. Clear sign that CO2 is causing hurricane season to be… what? Less severe? Or it’s just weather.

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