Hug your children today! The UN has struck a deal to end fossil fuels and save the planet!
Cop28 live: Landmark deal to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels agreed
Cop28 president says summit ‘should be proud of our historic achievements’https://t.co/3B2ZuM31Cn pic.twitter.com/yMQwwAXlNZ
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) December 13, 2023
Cop28 live: landmark deal to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels agreed – The delegate for Paraguay welcomes the agreement as “auspicous” but points out that “we need to see a big increase in climate financing”.
CNBC: COP28 climate summit ends with deal to transition away from fossil fuels
Scary times we live in.
Yes.
Because the UN is a gang of bullies parading around a school playground – but nobody quite realises that, while political correctness prevents anyone saying as much.
Most (certainly western) Governments are coerced into being gang members and there are myriad (imagined) benefits of being a member
But in order not to be ostracised by the rest of the gang, each member must now be seen to be inflicting (fossil fuel) hurt upon the population of whichever country they are governing.
Which is of course where MSM is an essential – to pick upon individuals who are not doing as they so publicly promised at the COP and broadcast those failings ‘home and away’
Chances are,that means the incumbent government loses its next election and a new government will be brought in that will inflict pain.
But they will be elected on the promises created out of junk science & computer models plus the spending of immense amounts of (inflation reducing) money in order to create jobs and ‘Save the World’
There-in lies the true unimaginable insanity of it all – Governments are not supposed to do that.
Its not just Science that is wrong nowadays, everything is
I’m scoping out all of the coal seams in the area.
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George Carlin – Saving the Planet
Rapturous applause from a New York audience for someone denigrating the holy order of climate science is incongruous in my mind. I wonder if he would be welcome in Washington DC or California.
He wouldn’t be welcome in New York either. Not this decade.
This classic routine was filmed about 20 years ago.
And he wasn’t on our side. He says “The people are f*****, but the planet will be fine.”
We’re all woke transing together-
Indigenous people and climate justice groups say Cop28 was ‘business as usual’ | Cop28 | The Guardian
although some are not happy with Al Jaber the Hutt
Congratulations! And to reward yourselves for such great work, after you fly back your private jets back to your mansions on the other side of the world, open an expensive bottle of champagne! Do it before heading off to your yacht in the Caribbean though, you really deserve a break!
. . . all those tiny bubbles in champagne, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Who knew!
Not to mention what’s spewed out those multiple jet engines.
Not to mention what’s exhaled with every human breath.
What could go wrong with a bunch of unelected bureaucrats deciding how the rest of us should live our lives?
Answer: Everything!
Regards,
Bob
And will Russia sign off on this?
Who cares about Russia. Guess what China, India and a host of impoverished nations in Africa say?
They can say whatever they like (and they probably will) it’s what they actually do that counts. My money is on them saying a lot, toeing the party line, and doing nothing.
To tell you the truth I’m surprised that China and India have been so forthright about NOT phasing out fossil fuels – they could easily make noises about doing this or that, set targets for so many GWs of wind or solar, and not actually phase out any coal or gas, especially since no cuts was expected of them in the next few decades.
Of the 8 billion people on this planet, China, India and the African countries represent 4.5 billion. A further 750 million people have no access to electricity.
Roughly, 70% of the population will not cooperate with COP28 fantasies.
How is this supposed to help with the CO2 bogeyman?
Africans have said they will not phase out reliable fuels in favour of intermittent electricity
But they still want money.
If richer countries are giving it away, why wouldn’t they?
True, yet somehow this agreement will result in vast sums of tax payer money finding its way into off-shore bank accounts of many of the participants.
It matters because Russia’s economy will collapse without ff sales, THAT’S WHY. So, I’m curious what they’re attitude is.
Their attitude is probably go ahead and destroy your military-industrial base, good idea!
Right- I was just wondering if Russia has formally commented at the event on this idea of stopping all ff – or just said nothing.
theyre too busy laughing to speak
My prediction: They’ll agree, but not actually act.
china and india are buying it and reselling to usa and europe etc at a tidy profit
Russia isnt worried
Yes, Russia won’t be cutting back on fossil fuel production any time soon.
The leaders of this COP28 gettogether claim success, but China and India and many other nations are not going to cut back on their fossil fuel production.
The Western World Net Zero plan will not change the fact that CO2 will continue to increase in the atmosphere because many nations are not abiding by these CO2 restrictions.
The Western World is spinning its wheels and getting nowhere in reducing global CO2, and will be ruining their economies in the process to no good effect.
We are living in an Western Idiocracy.
I think Russia’s ff production is way down- Joe Blogs’ YouTube channel tracks Russia’s economy- and there are others I occaisionally look at- they’re all saying Russia’s economy is plunging and will only get worse until they wise up that the West isn’t going to let them recreate the CCCP. Many Russian commentators say openly that that is their goal- it’s not about Ukrainians repressing Russian speakers in the Donbas. It’s been Putin’s goal since he got in power. He said back in the ’90s that the worse thing happening in the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet Union- the empire that we spent 75 years opposing and which was a big threat with its messianic communism. (even long before- Russia thought of itself as the 3rd Rome) From Putin’s point of view- it makes sense to him- but all empires that lost territory fought to get it back. Just look at Justinian and how he devastated Italy trying to add it back to the failed empire. Napoleon was defeated but made a failed comeback.
blah, blah, blah- politics and history- which everyone can debate and argue forever 🙂
“they’re all saying Russia’s economy is plunging and will only get worse until they wise up that the West isn’t going to let them recreate the CCCP.”
Yes, I read an article yesterday telling how bad the Russian economy is getting. I believe the article said Putin was spending 40 percent of Russia’s GDP on the war in Ukraine, to continue the war.
They say Putin is contemplating a general mobilzation for the war in Ukraine, but Putin doesn’t want to try to put it into effect until after he runs for reelection because he is afraid of the reaction of the Russian people to such a move.
Yeah, Putin is slowly running Russia into the ground with his obsession with Ukraine.
Putin runs his country into the ground over the war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Western nations run their countries into the ground over Net Zero.
Bad decisionmaking hurting the average person all over the world.
The Kerst bridge is going to be knocked down soon. That will wreck havoc with Putin’s plans.
true, but it means far less profit for Russia- compared to when they could just ship it and pipe it to nearby EU- so Russia isn’t happy about the current situation- their economy is suffering since ff is their main money making machine
All this is nice to hear, but chances are excellent that at the next COP conferences we’ll hear the same same doom&gloom assessments: we’re burning too much fossil fuel, the planet is warming too fast, we could even expect another ice age, renewables aren’t being adopted at a proper pace, expect rising seas, record droughts and floods, etc. And don’t forget to start to send all the money to help the developing world recover from the damage done by climate change.
Hmmmmmmm, young girl hugging polar bear AI generated….why no hugging Komodo Dragons?….why do the bears get all the hugging? Why discriminate against the Komodos?
That picture was taken 2 seconds before the girl was eaten.
Remember Panserbjørn?
In particular, Iorek Byrnison
The polar bear is thinking: “They promised me lunch after this photo session is over.”
COP 28 was, more than anything, the pseudo-scientific international counterpart of a Mazatlan spring break orgy. Every university aspiring to significance sent their own squad of CO 2 haters to Dubai for further indoctrination and “team” formation. The fact that nothing was really settled and that the Africans weren’t interested in the plan will be will be the subject of the next fiasco in Azerbaijan. This could go one until a different existential crisis appears.
The UN can take a hike and take COP28 with them. Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
My suggestion for the new UN headquarters is Gtiega, Burundi. It is sandwiched between Tanzania, Uganda and DRC. A place on Earth that really needs the love the UN can give.
Imagine the boost to the Burundi economy and the budget reductions. The new headquarters could be single storey with solar panels to power the whole show. No need for heating or cooling.
It would be solid proof that the UN staffers were all selfless individuals serving mankind rather than entitled numpties feathering their nest.
Definitely Burundi. The poorest country on earth, the perfect example of the benefits of decolonization championed for so long by the UN. The Burundian Economic Model — coming soon to your neighborhood!
That sounds good to me, just get them out of the US. The US needs to stop being the sugar daddy to this miserable organization.
None of thes supposed deals make the slightest difference. First there was Agenda 21, Then there was the Kyoto Protocol, then there was the Bali Roadmap. Followed by the Kyoto Extension Agreement and the Paris Accords of 2015.
Not one of these agreements has actually produced any detectible reduction in CO2 emissions. There has been no reduction in extreme weather events. There has been no reduction in world temperatures. There has been no reduction in global sea levels. So the question is: how long is this farce going to go on before it’s finally recognized that the whole exercise has been, and is, an abject failure?
Your are looking at the wrong images. None of those are what this is really about.
Failure? The COP participants have enjoyed another cushy conference with nothing but the best in accommodations and meals, and ‘entertainment’. And they have already planned where to have the next party, I mean existential and critically important scientific conference – political science counts, right?
And so, next year in Azerbaijan. Another petro-state, that in September drove out 120,000 Armenian Christians that had lived in Nagorno Karabahk for around 1,700 years. The UN and almost everyone else was absolutely fine about that.
Me? I hope the Azeris will drive the 100,000 COP29 participants into the Caspian sea. Do us all a favour.
So what? No one will actually do anything and without consequence. This is just another COP fantasy parade. There’s still time for the heavy virtue signalers to recover from their self imposed energy suicide so just wait …. no country will withdraw from the use of fossil fuels until they are all gone.
Unfortunately that isn’t true – while you’re right about say, China, India, Indonesia and any other country with governments that actually care about their country and it’s inhabitants – the same can not be said about the “West” where I’m assuming most of the WUWT visitors inhabit.
I hope to retire in Bali with my island girl, not because I’m rich, but because I’ll be warm and be able to afford the electricity to run the fans, and the gas to put in the Kijang.
I think the key word is “transition”. It implies they will shift away from fossil as alternatives are found. It’s all just words so they can pat each other on the back and say a job well done. It will come to nothing because reality is a bitch who will not be denied. A shame about the money and opportunities that will be lost. Who to blame? Look no farther than thee.
No! It is all just so the real programs, such as
https://notrickszone.com/2023/12/12/former-federal-german-minister-under-merkel-warns-germany-heading-to-a-climate-tyranny/
will proceed without significant scrutiny .
“Job well done” . They could have saved themselves a lot of time and money, never mind all the CO2 involved with 90,000 people jetting to and from the UAE by just reading the recent IEA World Energy Outlook 2023.
Whilst the media, and no doubt the delegates, trumpeted its prediction peak oil would move to 2030 instead of the previously forecast ‘mid 2030s’ they did not read on to the bit that said “oil demand for petrochemicals, aviation and shipping would continue to grow through to 2050” and that the decline in oil demand “is a slow one all the way to 2050”
My response to COP
F— Off.
Whew! Good thing that there is no such thing as fossil fuels, only mineralized or non-mineralized biofuels.
Event nuclear “fuel” isn’t “fossil” fuel, but highly refined mineral product; impossible to obtain without an investment of coal, oil, and natural gas.
No “renewable” electricity source was ever made using only “renewable” resources, if we first transition from usng mineralized bio fuels for the least productive applications, then we need to stop producing fake renewables using coal oil and gas, immediately!
“a big increase in climate financing” seems to mean that the Paraguans, at least, believe that money is a renewable resource – probably indicative of the real value of their currency as hardly greater than the thermal value of the paper it is printed on. Too bad that the money the Paraguayan rep was talking about belongs to someone else.
I like it, and I think we can easily convert these mineralized biofuels to plant food.
Takes no special effort, just breathe.
Of course, this does not require that any advocate of net zero, stopping oil, no nuclear power, COP #? or the IPCC should continue to breathe. Deep water free-diving is recommended for those, as a self sacrificial method of carbon capture.
Ho hum, another COP
Good example!
Part of the reason why human produced CO2 has no significant effect on climate is that CO2 has no significant effect on climate. https://energyredirect3.blogspot.com
I’m doing my part to phase out fossil fuels. There will be no candles on my Christmas table this year. Gonna use some of those little battery candles instead. That’l reduce my emissions, right?
In 2020 when COVID spread worldwide, human emissions of CO2 dropped by 6% according to the International Energy Agency, yet the rate of increase of CO2 didn’t change a bit.
That is a natural experiment that shows human emissions of CO2 aren’t causing the continuing rise in CO2.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020/global-energy-and-co2-emissions-in-2020
https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2
My favorite part of any COP is the majestic sight of a thousand electric, solar and nuclear airplanes migrating back to their nations of origin laden with legally-binding virtue tokens.
What a perfect image at the header! I do not believe it’s a real photograph, however it perfectly illustrates what the naive useful idiots believing in the climate scam are doing. They are intellectual children embracing an apparently cuddly polar bear. Little do they realize that bear is not cuddly, nor tolerance of hugs – it will maul and then eat the poor little girl in a heartbeat.
A perfect analogy to the Climate Cult adherents vs mother nature if we really abandon hydrocarbon fuels and all the products made from oil. She will devour the stupid talking monkeys that are humans in short order. Nature is a cruel mistress – viewed from afar, like the polar bear is beautiful and majestic, but up close and personal is deadly as are all of the policies put forward by the green nutbars.
It’s actually a famous photo. The world’s biggest 5-year-old girl posed with the world’s first pygmy polar bear. They were embracing after she beat it in a fair fight.
the one vaccine we need
for STUPID,
doesnt exist
Yes, there is an epidemic of stupid going around.
It’s an unusual disease. Instead of herd immunity, it elicits a phenomenon called herd susceptibility.
And the worst part is, you never really get over it. Doctors are still coming to grips with the devastating syndrome they’re calling ‘long stupid.’
That’s because STUPID is not biology based . . . it has to be earned, either by a choice to avoid education in the first place or by willingly accepting that others will “think” for oneself so that there is no need to engage brain before engaging mouth.
From the article: “ADOPTED: With an unprecedented reference to transitioning away from all fossil fuels, The UAE Consensus is delivering a paradigm shift that has the potential to redefine our economies.”
You can say that again! There will be a big shift in our economies, only it won’t be in a good way, but just the opposite.
Can you believe these ignorant bastards are running this world?!
We need Trump to deflate the delusional balloons of these idiots!
“Drill, baby, drill!”, Trump says.
I just turned 78. One of the things I am thankful for, in addition to being on the right side of the grass, is that these schemes will likely take more time to come to fruition than I have left.
I fear my generation will be the last one to experience a lifetime of civilization.
IOW, the GREAT RESET is not going to be what most people imagine and talk about . . . instead it will be the point of inflection from evolution to devolution.
TYS I think we’ve already passed that point, it will just be a downward-pointed hockey stick turning point
It is this simple: I was never asked to vote for any member of the UN; therefore, no UN member speaks for me, let alone “cuts deals” for me.
Consequently, as for them telling me what I can and cannot do in my personal life, they can go eff themselves.
That’s a good attitude! The proper one to have. 🙂
Sure. And Santa agreed to by methane credits for his eight tiny reindeer this Christmas.
I hate this kind of imagery. Polar bears are one of three species on the North American continent that actively track and hunt humans (grizzly and cougars are the other two). This kind of ‘Brother Bear’ sh!t gets people killed.
Wolves have a reputation but they tend to avoid people first whereas the large bears just don’t care.
“The politicians say More taxes will solve everything! And the band played on…”