Guest essay by Eric Worrall
My question – how many world leaders will actually stare at a VR screen for the entire two days, vs providing a fake feed of sitting by their computer paying attention?
President Biden Invites 40 World Leaders to Leaders Summit on Climate
MARCH 26, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on April 22 and 23. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live streamed for public viewing.
President Biden took action his first day in office to return the United States to the Paris Agreement. Days later, on January 27, he announced that he would soon convene a leaders summit to galvanize efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis.
The Leaders Summit on Climate will underscore the urgency – and the economic benefits – of stronger climate action. It will be a key milestone on the road to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this November in Glasgow.
In recent years, scientists have underscored the need to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. A key goal of both the Leaders Summit and COP26 will be to catalyze efforts that keep that 1.5-degree goal within reach. The Summit will also highlight examples of how enhanced climate ambition will create good paying jobs, advance innovative technologies, and help vulnerable countries adapt to climate impacts.
By the time of the Summit, the United States will announce an ambitious 2030 emissions target as its new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement. In his invitation, the President urged leaders to use the Summit as an opportunity to outline how their countries also will contribute to stronger climate ambition.
The Summit will reconvene the U.S.-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries responsible for approximately 80 percent of global emissions and global GDP. The President also invited the heads of other countries that are demonstrating strong climate leadership, are especially vulnerable to climate impacts, or are charting innovative pathways to a net-zero economy. A small number of business and civil society leaders will also participate in the Summit.
Key themes of the Summit will include:
- Galvanizing efforts by the world’s major economies to reduce emissions during this critical decade to keep a limit to warming of 1.5 degree Celsius within reach.
- Mobilizing public and private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to help vulnerable countries cope with climate impacts.
- The economic benefits of climate action, with a strong emphasis on job creation, and the importance of ensuring all communities and workers benefit from the transition to a new clean energy economy.
- Spurring transformational technologies that can help reduce emissions and adapt to climate change, while also creating enormous new economic opportunities and building the industries of the future.
- Showcasing subnational and non-state actors that are committed to green recovery and an equitable vision for limiting warming to 1.5 degree Celsius, and are working closely with national governments to advance ambition and resilience.
- Discussing opportunities to strengthen capacity to protect lives and livelihoods from the impacts of climate change, address the global security challenges posed by climate change and the impact on readiness, and address the role of nature-based solutions in achieving net zero by 2050 goals.
Further details on the Summit agenda, additional participants, media access, and public viewing will be provided in the coming weeks.
The President invited the following leaders to participate in the Summit:
- Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Antigua and Barbuda
- President Alberto Fernandez, Argentina
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Australia
- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh
- Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, Bhutan
- President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada
- President Sebastián Piñera, Chile
- President Xi Jinping, People’s Republic of China
- President Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia
- President Félix Tshisekedi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Denmark
- President Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission
- President Charles Michel, European Council
- President Emmanuel Macron, France
- President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Gabon
- Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India
- President Joko Widodo, Indonesia
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel
- Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Italy
- Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Jamaica
- Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Japan
- President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya
- President David Kabua, Republic of the Marshall Islands
- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand
- President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria
- Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Norway
- President Andrzej Duda, Poland
- President Moon Jae-in, Republic of Korea
- President Vladimir Putin, The Russian Federation
- King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
- President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spain
- President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
- President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab Emirates
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson, United Kingdom
- President Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnam
Biden is not wrong – this virtual climate conference could lead to some serious technology advances.
Nations will be judged on their ability to produce fake feed video software which convincingly mimics sincerity.
“Today, President Biden invited 40 world leaders…”
Do they know about the “invitation”?
The real point is; does he? Hell, Biden can’t even remember the names of his own cabinet. His secretary of defense is … “that guy who runs it.”
He’s somewhere between Stage 3 and Stage 4.
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“…..[H]e announced that he would soon convene a leaders summit to galvanize efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis…”
Major economies? Are all the countries on the list supposed to be “major economies”?
Antigua and Barbuda? Bhutan? The Congo? Gabon? Jamaica? Marshall Islands?
I am at a loss trying to understand what is going on in the minds of alarmists.
Most if not all of these “major economies” are broke.
I am fascinated by the constant repetition of this nonsensical statement: “the need to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change”.
Under AGW, limiting warming to say 4 degrees would still stave off the worst impacts, as would 5 degrees, because there are worse impacts beyond that. At the opposite end, 1.5 degrees is a foolish attempt to stave off virtually ALL impacts. In fact the IPCC 1.5 degrees report quantified the (according to AGW) difference between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees and they were small. The “worst impacts” only occur with tremendous warming.
Clearly the endless journalists who use this nonsensical locution know little about the English language, or AGW.
It’s is the Climate religion equivalent of saying the Apostles’ Creed followed by a dozen Hail Marys. It shows the proper reverence to the Climate Religion and the believed sins of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
Fundamentally nonsensical, without foundation assuming a simple chain of cause and effect on a chaotic system.
I’ve found the “Good Paying Jobs”
We did knew/know where they were/are already, t’was just a matter of seeing it in writing.
Quote:””One joiner told me he had witnessed an installer carry out work worth £3,000 at most, then deliver an invoice for £5,000″”
scheme to insulate houses axed
Countless times I’ve seen on the little UK renewable energy forum I watch, contributors have complained about insulation installs, solar panels and heat pumps that have gone wrong just a few years after installation. An endless stream.
Yes, the Government forced the installers to provide warranties but what use are they when the installers have quite simply vanished
Doncha feel sorry for the poor (haha not) installers, did they actually ‘die laughing’ on their way to the bank
Or the next piece of (from the linked article) ‘Staggering ineptitude’##
Not when it comes to creating a nation of selfish cheats and crooks
## Sums up all UK Governments we’ve seen since Mrs Thatcher
Day 1, Hour 1 Minute 1: Biden: C’mon man, you KNOW the thing.
Day 1 Hour 1 Minute 2 thru close: 40 world leaders scratching their heads, wondering if they DO know the thing, asking if they can talk with Kamala Harris instead.
Someone needs to tell the woke, diversity crazy Biden-Harris White House they left off two important leaders:
From the above-quoted March 26 PR out of the White House:
“In recent years, scientists have underscored the need to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.”
Now, notice how differently (more accurately, but less alarmingly) this statement would read when properly corrected by the two simple words that I added in bold:
“In recent years, relatively few scientists have underscored the need to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.”
What if nobody comes. Just dementia Joe, Kerry, and a bunch of climate lackeys. Glad this will be available to watch; notches up the embarassment factor. Kind of like the southern US border.
I think we can be quite certain those in line for UN Climate Aid money will be there, hands out.
But curiously, the WH left off the Vatican and the Pope. It is its own country within Italy.
There is insufficient energy to supply the means to produce green energy. In the 19th and early 20th century farmers required 40% of their production to feed their sources of energy, draft animals. That was when much of the world operated on green energy. Before the 18th century the world operated on pure green energy. Today’s world can not be maintained without fossil fuel unless some type of nuclear energy is provided.
Excellent precedent. All future climapaloozas should now be virtual too. It’d save huge amounts of jet fuel.
The Three Stooges picture is with the wrong article. It should be with this one.
Since CAGW is a virtual problem brought on by Man’s virtual reality climate models, why not host a virtual solution?
I’ve often found that rebooting or unplugging and then plugging my computer back in resolves a host of virtual problems.
(Clears out the crap.)
I’m still waiting for that “national debate on global warming” that was promised years ago…
Having read most of the comments, I have one question that has not been asked. In what time zone will this conference be held? There will have to be a chairman or moderator of some kind. What time zone will he or she be in?
Let’s say the conference emanates from Washington D.C. Typical conference hours are: 9am to noon, a two hour break for lunch, then more conference from 2pm to 5pm.
It may be daytime in D.C., but it’s the middle of the night in Japan, Korea and Australia.
So, yes, it will be recorded speeches, and lots of CG.
It can’t be past Dementia Joe’s bedtime of 7pm EDT or before his Depend cleaning at 8am.
Will be interesting to see the count of people watching this.
they have set themselves up for a total disaster.
C’mon man.
This is a gathering of climate carpetbaggers.
You think they don’t know how to fudge numbers?
If you’re having a big party, you normally announce who is going to be present. Not who you have invited.
So which nation gets forced to log on at 2am?
Farce.
Joe was already doing this back in the 80s:
Climate Action on parade. Joe is not gonna sit around and not save the world. Of course, Joe is promising to change the weather, because climate is weather averaged over time. If you’re going to change the climate, then you have to change the weather first. Cause and effect.
So think about this. Joe Biden is the first President of the United States ever that claims he will control the weather.
What no aeroplane rides, 5 star sleep overs along with free booze and dining out. I am sure that idea will go down like a lead balloon.
hilarious
and the time zone issues alone?
bidets bedtime means he would miss an awful lot of it
with some luck a nice hacker somewhere will have some real fun with their links n feeds etc
Starting another “war”. Read Toffler’s predictions.