The UN’s latest climate summit in Katowice, Poland has ended in failure as usual. Also, as usual, the 60,000-plus delegates are putting a brave face on it, claiming that a last-minute deal has been reached after tough negotiations and that important progress has been made.
If you believe the Guardian:
“This is a good agreement,” the European commissioner Miguel Cañete told the Guardian. “We have more to do but we can move forward now.”
Nicholas Stern, author of the seminal review of the economics of climate change, said: “This has been another summit of tough negotiations, but it has ultimately succeeded in its crucial primary task of agreeing on the so-called rulebook for the Paris agreement.”
But a rather more honest take can be found in this annually updated report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Every UN Climate Summit, it notes, follows exactly the same formula.
The Hopes:
‘Three years after the Paris Agreement was adopted, the EU hopes that all parties in Katowice will show the commitment and determination necessary to secure an ambitious and comprehensive work programme.”
The Last Chance:
‘Katowice offers last chance to limit warming to 1.5◦C; countries must revise national plans at the upcoming climate conference’.
Time Is Running Out:
‘We’re running out of chances to save the planet from climate change.’
The Circus:
‘Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has long campaigned against climate change, is expected to draw crowds, while there are reports that other Hollywood celebrities will make an appearance as well.’
The Deadlock:
‘First day of ministerial meetings fails to resolve deadlock.’ (Indian Express)
The Breakthrough at Five Minutes to Midnight:
‘Climate negotiators reach an overtime deal to keep Paris pact alive.’
The Cold Light of Day:
‘UN climate accord ‘inadequate’ and lacks urgency, experts warn.’ (Guardian)
None of the facts on climate has changed since last year’s failed summit in Bonn, Germany. It remains as uncertain as ever that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are making any significant contribution to “climate change”.
So, to compensate for the ongoing failure of their doomsday models to predict ‘climate change’, the UN’s activist scientists, watermelon economists, and celebrity hangers-on have simply ramped up the rhetoric.
Whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging Malthusian Sir David Attenborough opened the show by warning that the world was coming close to its end:
“If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Not to be outdone, Al Gore did his best ever Prophet Jeremiah impersonation, by warning of “hell on earth” and a new “dark age” if the planet’s leaders failed to take the necessary action including “ubiquitous” draconian population control of the kind that has caused such misery in India and China.
Gore rehearsed the usual litany of climate doom claims – as well as introducing a new one, specially tailored for his local Polish audience.
As the New American reports:
For instance, he blamed global warming for the civil war in Syria. He blamed “air pollution” for making Polish children dumber, dishonestly seeking to connect CO2, also known as the gas of life, to actual pollution. He even claimed global warming would make allergies worse. “98% of European cities could experience worse droughts by 2050,” Gore claimed. “Half of all the animals in all the world have gone since the 1970s!” he fumed. “Is that OK?” Gore showed scary images of ice melting in Greenland in the spring, as if there were something unusual about that. He also played a clip of a nuclear bomb exploding for emphasis. And pointing to the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico, Gore blamed alleged man-made warming, and said the response was an example of “environmental racism.”
But the world is moving on from the great climate scare story. As we reported last week, a new climate realist bloc – led by President Trump’s USA with fire support from Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait – is refusing even to pay lip service to the UN’s scaremongering.
This resulted in the embarrassment whereby the UN summit was unable to adopt its own scaremongering report produced for it by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Meanwhile, the world’s largest polluter, China, is building 200 new airports by 2035 – confirming its sincere commitment to the UN’s climate change narrative…
Read more at The New American
Pretty crappy green money-making scheme, all designed to reward the largest polluters. It is not even designed to succeed, but rather to perpetuate the cash flow into globally unelected government coffers, based on the narrative of a fear of the future. The biggest, most successful human motivator and dark tactic is to always keep people in a perpetual state of fear. Revelations anyone? ;o
So it’s “carbon dioxiders” versus “sun spotters”. With a little bit of a assist from Mother Nature in the near future, I’m betting on the “sun spotters”. Then – the United Nations will transform to the United Planets and start figuring out how to modify the sun. I would suggest that the entire body make an in-person’ inspection…..
Fire them at the sun? Why pollute the sun?
Send them to Tiananmen Square.
Actually I call this COP yet another success since yet again nothing has been accomplished to actually destroy our economies. And I expect the same will happen following COP25.
I gather that you’re not Canadian, Steve. Have you seen the Canadian dollar chart?
Hundreds of billions have been spent developing Alberta’s oil sands. Trudeau and his wrecking have stopped pipeline construction south, east, and west. He doesn’t care about the lost jobs and lost tax revenue, the broken promises that drive investors out. He’s 100% behind the climate activists
You are right I’m not Canadian (live in Colorado) but know too well what has been going on in Alberta with the oil selling for a fraction of what the Brent and West Texas prices are. And all due to the strangulation of methods to get the oil to market.
My point tho was that yet another year of promises at a COP was going to pass without any real commitments by the West to send billions to 3rd world countries or any county actually reducing their CO2 admissions. Unfortunately that doesn’t stop individual countries from screwing over their own citizens as we’ve seen with Canada, Germany, France, UK, …
I have been following the COP meetings since 2003 and the steps outlined in this article are pretty much common for all COP meetings. In 2003 it was our “Last Chance” and “Time Was Running Out”.
There are a few other common elements to the COP meetings. Even if they are a failure from the view point of the environmental left, they are initially declared a success. As time goes the reality of what progress was or was not made comes out.
COP 24 did have one true success. They agreed on a “rule book”, which is basically a common means to be used by all to measure emissions. However, they also failed to achieve the objective of getting nations to take on greater reductions. This is pretty common for most COP meetings.
It required tens of thousands of “little piggies” two weeks to hash out a rule book.
I bet they spent more time on the menu’s. Oink. Extra fuel on those (heavier) private jets for the trip home.