From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Courtesy of Josh and Net Zero Watch, a trip back down memory lane, from COP13 to COP28, the “breakthroughs” followed by the “cold light of day!:
Bali, 2007
`A compromise deal for a new international
climate change agenda was
agreed at the UN summit in Bali today.
The move was hailed by environment
secretary, Hilary Benn, as “an historic
breakthrough”.’ – Dec 25th 2007
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`Bali…may make things worse’ – James Lovelock, March 22nd, 2008
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Poznan, 2008
Poznan talks `step on way to new climate
regime – Swiss Environment Ministry – Dec 13th 2008
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`…we were disappointed with the
lack of progress made at the UN climate
negotiations…’ – Greenpeace. Jan 5th 2009
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Copenhagen 2009
`…the United States, China and several
other countries reached an “unprecedented
breakthrough“ Friday to curb
greenhouse gas emissions…‘ – CBS, Dec 18th 2009
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` Copenhagen was a spectacular failure on many levels. The UN process was stretched to breaking-point, with no consensus on any pressing issues.’ – Bryony Worthington – Dec 22nd 2009
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Cancun, 2010
`Cancun climate breakthrough: It’s
not perfect, but it’s a deal’ – Grist, Dec 12th 2010
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`Last year’s talks in Cancun, Mexico,
left open the most difficult issue of
whether to extend emissions limits
in Kyoto or start afresh with a new
treaty.’ – Bloomberg, Nov 25th 2011
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Durban, 2011
‘Durban climate change conference:
breakthrough reached on course for
future accord’ – Huffington Post, Dec 10th 2011
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`The UN climate talks in Durban followed
a familiar script of inaction’ – Red Pepper, Jan 29th 2012
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Doha, 2012
`Doha climate talks throw lifeline to
Kyoto Protocol’ – Reuters, Dec 8th 2012
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`…for all the blustering commendations
from politicians accompanying
the 11th-hour “Doha Climate
Gateway“, the outcome was
disappointing.’ – Independent, Jan 14th 2013
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Warsaw, 2013
`Warsaw climate talks end with foundation
for a global agreement! – Center for American Progress, Dec 4th 2013
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`Experts say the failure of November’s
UN climate change conference in Warsawh
to agree on measures that would
lead to a sustained market price increase
for CDM credits is likely to discourage…‘ – Reuters, Jan 4th 2014
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Lima, 2014
`Lima climate change talks reach global
warming agreement. Deal would
for first time commit all countries — including
developing nations — to cutting
emissions’ – Guardian, Dec 14th 2014
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`The Peru meeting was nothing much,
it disappointed me. I think there was a
lack of courage. They stopped at a certain
point’ – Pope Francis, Jan 15th 2015
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Paris, 2015
‘Paris climate summit breakthrough
delivers legally-binding global
agreement’ – Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Dec 15th 2015
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‘The COP21 climate talks in Paris were
not the success that governments
claim, but a disastrous failure’ – Guardian Dec 12th 2015
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Marrakesh, 2016
`In a historic breakthrough, 48 climate
vulnerable countries clear the way towards
a safe and prosperous future for
everyone and commit to 100% renewable
energy by mid-century’ – UNFCCC, Nov 18th 2016
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`Campaigners have expressed “extreme
disappointment” at the outcome
of the United Nations climate
change summit in Marrakesh’ – Independent, Nov 19th 2016
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Bonn, 2017
`After years of gridlock, negotiators
make breakthrough on agriculture related
climate issues’ – WRI, Nov 20th 2017
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`Unfortunately, we haven’t really seen
the kind of progress that’s needed’ – Council of Canadians, Nov 18th
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Katowice, 2018
‘Climate negotiators reach an overtime
deal to keep Paris pact alive’ – New York Times, Dec 15th 2018
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‘UN climate accord “inadequate“ and
lacks urgency, experts warn’ – Guardian, Dec 16th 2018
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Madrid, 2019
COP25: Longest climate talks end
with compromise deal’ – BBC, Dec 15th 2019
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`There is a terrible empty feeling following
the outcome of the UN climate
talks in Madrid’ – Irish Times, Dec 16th 2019
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Glasgow, 2021
‘COP26 seals breakthrough climate
deal after major compromises’ – Bloomberg, Nov 13th 2021
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‘“Blah blah blah!“ Greta launches
scathing attack on world leaders after
COP26.‘ – Greta Thunberg, Nov 14th 2021
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Sharm, 2022
‘A breakthrough in the talks came on
Thursday evening when the European
Union said it was willing to create [a
loss and damage fund], but on the
condition that wealthier developing
countries…contribute’ – Irish Times, Nov 17th 2022
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‘There was no progress on stopping
climate breakdown. COP27 is another
terrible failure’ – George Monbiot
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Dubai, 2023
Almost 200 nations have agreed a
ground breaking milestone at the
COP28 summit in Dubai’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT_psWaMraw
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Climate activist Al Gore blasts COP28
outcome as biggest failure in history—
it ‘reads as if OPEC dictated it
word for word’ – Al Gore, Dec 12th 2023
Things that didn’t happen for $500, Alex. What are promises fulfilled from a COP meeting?
Nothing but a giant virtue signaling party. All you have to look at is the continual, almost linear, increase in fossil fuel use. They are accomplishing nothing other than spreading a fearmongering mantra.
And spreading racism – there’s warmed over anti-Arab crap, moldy leftovers from the 70’s, when the government was blaming them, instead of themselves for failing to nurture enough domestic oil supply.
And whatever “ism” it is, promoting hatred of oil companies – real hatred, asking for ‘heads on pikes’ level of hatred for the crime of providing a necessary resource at market prices. Again, it’s socialist-thinking governments trying to focus the blame on anyone else but themselves when their centrally planned utopia turns into a dumpster fire and sh!tshow.
My favorite was the Copenhagen COP 15 Snowman Protest
A Classic!
Gore won’t be around in 2050 but by now it must finally be sinking into the nut of even the nuttiest ‘NetZero’ nerd that the likelihood of fossil fuels being eliminated in the vast majority of countries in the foreseeable future is around zero.
I’m curious as to where they go from here: do they postpone their ‘NetZero’ deadline to some later date say 2100 or claim that ‘NetZero’ did not literally mean ‘net zero’, or that the dreaded catastrophe has been averted by some unanticipated natural factor, or do they simply become denialists by deny reality and continue their futile but damaging activities.
The Grand Solar Minimum has started, there is no telling what the sun in “hibernation” for 30 years will cause.
Have you got a link for that? It would be interesting to read.
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
A 6% change for a couple of months won’t make a visible difference in the roughly 2ppm per year rate of increase in CO2.
Are you a bot that just randomly posts nonsense in every article?
???? Most of the world was locked down for more than ” just a couple of months” – I’m still working from home, thank God!
“working” ………. from home??
HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW, no skeptics is stopping their comical failure-based agreements thus the blame is on themselves.
All of their actions are a classic NET ZERO based paradigm that stretches the last 25 years.
Smirk!
They can lie until the cows come home, it won’t change reality.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome. (Einstein)
The COP meetings are a perfect working example of that definition.
The one thing, the ongoing COP annual mass gathering of the pathetic has achieved, is to show to the world what a load of grifters can do with endless amounts of public money.
They can throw an ever bigger party.
All very Haw-Haw, but I think the poster misses the salient point of his own ridicule; No matter how far down the river these “climate agreements” take us, it will never be enough for the libtards.
So, instead of quoting the libtards complaining about the lack of ‘progress’, we should rather direct our ridicule at the complainers themselves.
Collect their collective ass-ertments, publish them here for everyone to rip to shreds, send each of the stupid crunts a copy. Demand they respond, or we republish their stupidity as an admission of said stupidity.
(Of course, they are not really stupid, and very devious, but they don’t actually understand the consequences that come with ” …do as thou will…”)
On their website, UN COP28, you can see the pinnacle of human narcissism in all it’s glory.
They actually say this about themselves,
“we united, we acted, we delivered”
more like,
“we partied, we lied, we did nothing”.
Shh, they’re only talking about the hookers, not the talks.
Starting with Bali is perfect. It’s really when the COPs became working vacations paid for by government, NGOs, companies. Elites taking lots and lots of private jets, most of which had to be deadheaded to other islands because there was no room on the main island. I think it was Michelle Malkin who coined calling it “the exotic vacation spot of Bali”. Most COPs have been held in very nice places, where the rich and powerful can hobknob.
Your tax money at work, Ladies and Gentlemen!
The fourth figure is a chart. At the bottom of the chart it says to divide by 100 to get degrees C.
Then is says to multiply by 1.8 (9/5) to get degrees F.
Don’t you have to also add 32 when converting from C to F?
G’Day Mark,
“… when converting from C to F.”
The figures in the chart are not temperatures. They represent ‘changes’ in temperature, expressed in hundredths of a degree C, multiplied by 100 to avoid a bunch of decimals and zeros.
I don’t think the word “breakthrough” means what they think it means.
Great post😁. Thank you.
Actually the commentators should make their statements about failures before the conferences because it’s been a virtual guarantee that their predictions will be accurate.
“Climate activist Al Gore blasts COP28
outcome as biggest failure in history”
Well, if Gore is an expert in anything, it’s failure on a massive scale.
Speaking of Gore, when is he going to eliminate all fossil fuel sourced or derived goods in his life?
One believes Gore’s answer is never. Failure must be good then.