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The upcoming United Nations (UN) climate conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), known as COP28, appears likely to have a larger carbon footprint than any previous UN climate change summit.
More than 70,000 people are expected to show up to COP28, about 25,000 more people than last year’s summit, COP27. The conference, which runs from Nov. 30 through Dec. 12, will focus on global strategies to reduce emissions and accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels in favor of green energy.
About 40,000 people attended COP26 in 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. About 45,000 people attended the 2015 summit in Paris, France, where the Paris Climate Accords were signed. (RELATED: Dem Donor Runs PR Firm Hired To Spin Bad Press For Gulf State Ahead Of UN Climate Conference, Records Show)
CHART OF THE DAY: A **forecast** that blew my mind. More than 70,000 people are **expected** to show up at #COP28 in Dubai.
If confirmed (note **if**), that’s double the previous record, and shows COP is now a business on its own, as much as a climate change conference. pic.twitter.com/7sCqHapmHd
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) November 24, 2023
Conference attendees have drawn scrutiny in previous years for traveling to and from the event in private jets while lecturing on the importance of reducing emissions. Notably, a luxury concierge service has been offering to arrange private jet charters ahead of this year’s conference.
In addition to flying in and out of the UAE, many attendees will also stay in high-end hotels and have access to “environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, delicious and nutritious food and beverage,” according to COP28’s website.
One of the key issues to be discussed at COP28 is the shape of a so-called “loss and damages” fund, a de facto international climate reparations program. Special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry recently suggested that the U.S. will pay “millions” into the fund, a number that many activists and representatives of poorer countries find to be inadequate. China is unlikely to have any significant obligations to the fund because it is classified as a developing country, despite its status as the world’s top emitter and second-largest economy.
“With John Kerry and Joe Biden promising billions in U.S. taxpayer money and beefing up the treasuries of non-governmental organizations with tens of billions of dollars in 2024 get-out-the-vote activist money, this year’s climate gong show was bound to attract record numbers of camp-followers, celebrities, kleptocrats and other misfits,” Dan Kish, senior fellow for the Institute for Energy Research said. “It’s as though they’re ringing the dinner bell which always attracts people looking for a free lunch.”
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Unbelievable, except disgracefully it isn’t.
70,000 people…How Dare They!!!
Nothing says sincerity like holding an anti-fossil fuel gala in an oil sheikdom! But flying in an extra 25,000 partiers really puts a fine point on it. The last shindig was hosted somewhere in the Arctic with inadequate prostitute supplies and where sheep offal is a delicacy if memory serves, no wonder attendance is up!
Please don’t insult our haggis. That is one of the best things about Scotland, alongside deep fried Mars bars.
My apologies, Bill. I must confess that I have never had the opportunity to partake of the delicacy. Quite insensitive of me.
Abjectly, r.
We have recently been enjoying a couple of articles on “Beavers and Wolves” with mentions of other Predators. Isn’t this ‘confab’ going to encourage a lot more Beaver review, and will it spur a further article by Kip?
” ….. largest carbon footprint in event’s history.”
The plants will be delighted.
Just another excuse to party.
The upcoming United Nations (UN)
climate conferencecomedy festival in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) known as COP28 will feature amongst other notables the priceless John Kerry renown for his side-splitting deadpan comic delivery.I’m hoping Joey the Clown is there – his slapstick routine is hilarious, as are the 3 stooges (Trudeau, Sunak and Macron).
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Meeting the 2030 targets for electric vehicle mandates adopted by Western governments would require 388 new mines, says the Fraser Institute.
“The sheer scale of mining required to meet EV mandates raises serious questions about the timelines being imposed by governments,” Kenneth Green, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of a new study on the metals demand from EV mandates, said in a news release.
https://www.mining.com/web/global-ev-mandates-would-require-388-new-mines-fraser-institute/
The most perfect, bloated, hypocritical annual gala for parasite bureaucrats.
It used to be “follow the money”, now it’s “follow the private jets, champagne, and caviar”. Wake up America.
I’m tied of the way we refer CO2 as “carbon” as in “Carbon Footprint”. Carbon is not a gas and has no atmospheric warming effect. It’s the molecular structure of CO2 that’s the issue.
It’s equivalent to calling salt chlorine or water hydrogen.
Many forms of carbon are black…dark….make it a villain….Green is good….paint the White House green…make it the Green House….green is good, no?
A pale, very yucky sort of slimy oozing green. To match the current occupant.
snot, pus, gangrene 🙂
Like flies to ……
…a rotting, stinking carcase that climate change has become.
Climatemania 28 – be there….pretend to care….pretend to be aware…just get the money, baby.
And remember folks.. it’s all made possible, directly or indirectly, by your tax dollars. No attendees pay for this out of their own pockets.
I am so proud to be supporting such a worthwhile cause. /s
Now now! Be fair!
You don’t expect the usual contingent of 400 Climate Scientist Genii from Equatorial Guinea (and several other States renowned for their scientific prowess) to pay their way, do you?
It is bad enough that they have to interrupt their busy schedules to make the case for Billions in “Reparations” in between doing their shopping in the luxury malls in UAE.
Imagine a planet on 2/3 of which, ice falls from the sky at some point during the year and 17% is covered by frozen water all year….yet 70,000 supposedly intelligent beings meet because they think a couple of degrees warmer will be bad.
Well, they are the ones in the “Farmhouse”. The “Windmill” got them there. Why would they abandon the windmill and move out of the farmhouse when it’s worked so well for “The Cause”?
(A couple of “Animal Farm” references.)
This just in…fat little Portuguese sausage boiling in Antarctica
https://apnews.com/article/cop-guterres-antarctica-climate-change-efb31afe790523e2a79aff49a4f78d9c
Don’t let him leave!
Seems like the melting point of ice, has been scientifically lowered.
Politically lowered I’d say, bpj
😀
The main item of the COP28 is to decide where the parties will be in 2024.
I’ve got a few suggestions for them. How about Somalia, Afghanistan, Burundi, or Venezuela? Time to honor the world’s low-carbon ideal societies.
A Master Class in Hypocrisy. (John Kerry will be saving you this evening.)
Tiny Fraction Of Global Elites Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds Of Humanity | ZeroHedge
It’s so bad for the Narrative that I bet the BBC won’t give it TV coverage as usual, 70,000 crazies all doing what? Outcome? Like one to twenty seven or zero.
COP is an annual eNGO trade fair. Virtue signalling politicians egos milk taxpayers sweat and labour, while wealthy people buy status using tax efficient foundations to join the club, all the while keeping
eNGOs funds topped up, they continue their high carbon lifestyle. To paraphrase George Carlin, It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
FLOP 28. The 28th boondoggle that has achieved nothing for the normal person.
I demand that all delegates for COP28 attend via Zoom, and lead by example. This way they can all eat Vegan meals at home because every delegate must be filmed and recorded sitting in front of the webcam showing their attendance and what they are eating. If all that is good enough for me and my fellow citizen then it’s damn well good enough for these self righteous spongers.
“More than 70,000 people are expected to show up to COP28″
Wow, kinda like Woodstock!
“In addition to flying in and out of the UAE, many attendees will also stay in high-end hotels and have access to “environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, delicious and nutritious food and beverage,” according to COP28’s website.”
No air conditioning of course, as that contributes to the climate emergency. /sarc
And the madness continues.
What more proof is required that Cop 28 and its participants subscribe to Totalitarianism?
C’mon people! Your outrage at a meager 70k people attending a high end conference, mostly arriving by private jets or turboprops and staying in high end hotels – is extremely misguided. Let me splain:
Consider for a moment Formula 1 racing events, which I am sure many of the climate cult conference attendees also frequent…. Consider the one last weekend in Las Vegas. 315,000 people attended the race. (all staying in high end hotels)
8 and I repeat EIGHT wide body cargo jets delivered the race cars and support hardware for the race! Each traveling at least 4,000 miles burning about 144,000 lbs of jet fuel each for a total of 1,153,000 lbs of jet fuel just to deliver the race cars and materiel.
The average business jet burns 24,000 lbs for flights of the same distance as the wide body cargo planes. So just for the cargo planes delivering the racing materiel, you could fly 48 business jets for 4,000 miles each.
Now both Las Vegas airports had a huge traffic problem for the F1 week, and increased landing fees tremendously and prohibited disembarking passengers or parking if you had not pre arranged your landing weeks in advance. (they let you refuel and take off, but could not unload anything or anyone if you had not booked a spot in advance)
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2023/november/02/las-vegas-airports-limit-access-ahead-of-f1-race
Then have a look at this one, a plane spotting video. This is merely a fraction of the total movements of private jets landing in KLAS, but this 25 minute video shows 2 landings per minute (in the edited video, landing spacing is much longer duration), so 50 private jets were shown. there were in fact hundreds upon hundreds, some parking and many dropping off passengers and taking off to park elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnlJaw5Z3g (Private Jet Mayhem During The Formula 1 Weekend in Fabulous Las Vegas (4K))
Heck the top tier of the F1 drivers each have their own private jet, so there were at least 15 private jets just for these drivers and their entourages….
Needless to say, unless you cannot add, Formula 1 weekends this year, of which there were 23, were 98 times more “carbon” emissions based on 300k attendees for each race and comparable numbers of cargo and business jets flying to each one – as compared to the meager 70k elites attending a single Climate Cult Confab.
Are the idiots at these COP conferences hypocrites – you betcha, but if you call them out then you have to call out all the elites who attend F1 races, or World Cup soccer, or the Olympics, etc, etc. Or the hundreds of private jets that fly into Aspen Colorado several times a year just to ski… This schist happens all the time and is rather routine – huge expenditure of resources to do elite things in lavish transport, accommodation, and venues.
This vilifying of the ubiquitous use of private jet transport is ridiculous from the standpoint of the fact it goes on all the time, everywhere, and a COP conference is a teensy blip on the global screen of private jet travel; and from the point of view CO2 is not a pollutant, and not responsible for climate change catastrophe narratives.
That said, I do agree that anyone flying on a private jet who claims we need to eliminate hydrocarbon fuels needs to have their head examined or at the very least a slap upside the head. But their private jet travel is a teaspoon’s worth in a huge, deep lake.
In 2019 there were almost 22,000 business jets worldwide, flying, and it grows by several hundred new ones each year. In 2022 5.5 million private jet flights occurred worldwide. A few hundred flights to a COP conference is 0.002% of the global business jet travel.
https://www.stratosjets.com/blog/private-jet-statistics/
if you call them out then you have to call out all the elites who attend F1 races
Why? How many of them are screaming about how fossil fuels are bad and we need to stop using them?
As you observe just prior to that statement, it’s not the actions in and of themselves, it’s the hypocrisy.
Having lived in the UAE for five years I am not at all surprised at the odd contrast between the COP’s goals of promoting a spartan fossil-fuel-free existence for the masses while allowing wealthy elites to bath in luxury and hedonistic extravagance. As a non-Muslim, I was allowed to purchase a liquor license while living in an alcohol-shunning Islamic state, so that I might purchase the odd bottle of wine or case of beer for personal consumption. I had no choice as to the amount of alcohol I might buy on my license and the higher the amount, the higher the license fee. The license I purchased would have allowed me to run a small pub. Though my alcohol purchases were modest the state collected enough license fees to suggest I should have entered a permanent coma from liver failure within a few months.
Fortunately the state’s attitude to flying was more conventional. I was able to fly in and out of the country on commercial airlines without having to pay the typical costs of a private jet. Perhaps this is typical of the entire global warming/climate change franchise. Maybe it’s all about the money rather than the environment. Just maybe the rules are really just guidelines that can be adjusted for individual preferences based on the exchange of a few greenbacks.