In the latest episode of what could be mistaken for a satirical comedy, Dr. Peter Kalmus, a self-proclaimed climate activist and NASA scientist, has expressed his dismay over the recent COP28 summit. His opinion piece, “COP Out: Wrapping Up a Useless Climate Summit That Should Fool Nobody,” reads like a script from a dystopian drama where the villains are fossil fuels, and the heroes are, well, apparently not the attendees of COP28.
Kalmus paints a picture of COP28 as a grand assembly of the world’s elite, jetting in on their private planes to a petrostate, to discuss the perils of the very industry that fueled their arrival. The irony is so thick here that one could cut it with a knife. The summit, according to Kalmus, was nothing more than a stage for the fossil fuel industry to make “dirty side deals”.
Some wealthy humans flew on private jets to the United Arab Emirates, a petrostate, for a two-week meeting. Many of these humans work for the fossil fuel industry. The petrostate leveraged its host status for dirty side deals to expand fossil fuels. There was a session on sustainable megayacht ownership.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cop-out-wrapping-up-a-useless-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion/ar-AA1lHi6U?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ad9c0e089b12489a875e5a576bcb4cf5&ei=24
The appointment of Sultan al-Jaber, a fossil fuel CEO, as the presiding official of a climate summit is akin to putting a fox in charge of the henhouse, suggests Kalmus. His portrayal of al-Jaber’s promises to continue investing in oil and expanding fossil fuels post-summit paints a picture of a mustache-twirling villain, gleefully plotting the world’s demise.
The presiding official was a fossil fuel CEO, Sultan al-Jaber, who, days earlier, had said some anti-science, denialist garbage-words. Two days after the meeting ended, he promised that his oil corporation will continue investing in oil and expanding fossil fuels. OPEC, in a joint statement with the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, congratulated the UAE on the “positive outcome” for the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cop-out-wrapping-up-a-useless-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion/ar-AA1lHi6U?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ad9c0e089b12489a875e5a576bcb4cf5&ei=24
Kalmus doesn’t hold back in his apocalyptic vision of a world ravaged by global heating, with floods, fires, and broken systems. The fossil fuel industry and industrial animal agriculture are the chief architects of this impending doom. One might expect a superhero to swoop in any moment now to save the day, but alas, this is the real world, and Kalmus seems to believe we’re fresh out of caped crusaders.
We are all in grave danger from global heating, which appears to be accelerating, is irreversible, and is driving all the flooding and heat and fires. It’s caused almost entirely by the fossil fuel industry, with industrial animal agriculture in second place.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cop-out-wrapping-up-a-useless-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion/ar-AA1lHi6U?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ad9c0e089b12489a875e5a576bcb4cf5&ei=24
The COP28’s 21-page “global stocktake” is ridiculed as too little, too late. Kalmus is appalled that it took thirty years just to mention fossil fuels in a COP decision text. The stocktake’s call for transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems is dismissed as nonbinding, unquantitative, and insincere. It’s as if Kalmus expected a binding global treaty to be signed then and there, magically solving all climate issues.
The wealthy fossil-fuel-industry-influenced humans at COP28 produced 21 pages called the “global stocktake.” The stocktake mentions “fossil fuels” once, on page 4. People who wish to argue that COP28 wasn’t a complete failure have been calling this “historic.” And technically it is, because fossil fuels have never been mentioned in a COP decision text.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cop-out-wrapping-up-a-useless-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion/ar-AA1lHi6U?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ad9c0e089b12489a875e5a576bcb4cf5&ei=24
The loss and damage pledges from rich nations, amounting to $700 million, are scoffed at as grossly inadequate. Kalmus compares the United States’ pledge of less than $20 million to the budget of an average high school, highlighting the disparity between the scale of the problem and the response.
In Kalmus’s eyes, COP28 was nothing short of a spectacular failure, a charade that serves only to perpetuate the status quo. He calls for a new international summit and fossil fuel treaty system, free from the influence of the fossil fuel industry. His solution? A stronger climate movement and a ban on the fossil fuel industry from negotiations.
We need to start by agreeing that COP28, like other COPs, was a complete failure. Claiming that it was somehow not a failure, clinging to bits of false hope, generates a powerful illusion that business as usual can continue. We’ve been doing this for 30 years now. The possibility of keeping heating to under 1.5 degrees C has been squandered. If we cling to false hope that it’s working, we will keep doing it, year after year, making no progress. This is what the fossil fuel industry wants; this is how we lose a planet.
We then need to establish an international summit and fossil fuel treaty system that isn’t broken under the weight of fossil fuel industry corruption. To do this, we need to ban the fossil fuel industry from the negotiations, and doing this will require a stronger climate movement. Every single one of us can work, in our own way, to make the movement stronger. Be a climate activist: join with other climate activists—we’re not hard to find—and take risks. It’s up to us.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cop-out-wrapping-up-a-useless-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion/ar-AA1lHi6U?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ad9c0e089b12489a875e5a576bcb4cf5&ei=24
Kalmus is projecting like a drive in movie. “Renewables” are much more of a conspiracy to be imposed contrary to economics or practicality.
And he can end his own emissions.
“End his own emissions” – careful!!! He is highly unstable, not in touch with reality and so if he offs himself in a blaze of inglouriousness like a protesting buddist monk we don’t want to be seen to have encouraged that.
He really is a sad, tragic Chicken Little figure, encouraged by the media who doesn’t care.
Kalmus is in dire need of a better diet. We could end climate anxiety at one stroke just by getting everybody off a vegan or vegetarian diet – it’s not healthy or ethical, it’s causing harm.
It’s caused almost entirely by the fossil fuel industry, with industrial animal agriculture in second place.
His vegan goofiness led him toward taking a shot at ranching. But in doing so he takes away a lot options to complain.
‘Almost entirely ….’ I’ll define that as more than 95%. So, after ranching, all of the other activities are ‘almost entirely’ harmless.
Farming is fine. Fertilizer is fine. Logging is fine. Mining is fine. All other activities are (almost) absolutely insignificant.
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Skeptics aren’t hard to find either, it’s just that they aren’t organized by
a major political party and don ‘t have a platform to spread the word.
The one thing that True Climate Activists should do, but aren’t, is to simply Stop Using FF energy and FF derived products…PERIOD! Stop being hypocrites!
Sever from Grid Sourced Electricity.
Have Gas Service cut off at the Main.
Stop driving on Rubber Tires.
Install small scale Wind on their property (Non FF manufactured)
Install Solar on their rooftops (Non FF manufactured)
Install sufficient Battery Back-up for their daily (nightly) use
…and sufficient renewable generation to fully recharge daily (without government subsidies)
EV (ok but no grid charging and no rubber tires)
(Probably end up walking everywhere)
(No steel or silicon manufactured using Coal)
(No plastics or composites manufactured using petrochemicals)
(No plastic insulated wiring)
No prescriptions requiring petrochemicals
No make-up
No ink
No toner
No to any of the 6000+ petrochemical derivatives
If all of their Ilk stopped using Fossil energy sources they might affect the FF industry… or not😙
“Well that sounds hard! I just wanted to do some virtue signaling that did not require any actual sacrifice on my part.”
— EcoWarriors everywhere
A good list, but I struggle to think of a way that permits them to use wind or solar without ff derivatives, pcbs, wiring, transformers etc. And of course the same for batteries and EVs. So it’s beeswax candles , log fires and shank’s pony.
In my best Brendan Gleeson impression…
Now now, We’ll have none of those pony shankin’ shenanigans
Where is the next COP? Shouldn’t they start walking now?
They might be faster, if the used Carnot’s cycles.
I struggle to think of a way that permits them to use wind or solar without ff derivatives
I’m willing to concede those, if they do the rest. But it must be ONLY wind and solar, no nuke or ff.
Nay, lad, let’s not give them any concessions, they’ll only take advantage of it.
In the US the Republican party is extremely skeptical and would surely count as a major political
party. Then there is also fox news which can be seen as the mouthpiece of the republican party.
Of course the Republican party is an outlier being the only major political party in the world that doesn’t believe in global warming.
“believe in global warming.”
I see you still count it as a “belief” rather than provable scientific reality.
“the Republican party is extremely skeptical” – no they are not!! They’ve signed on to the same subsidies and emissions restrictions as the Dims but just not as full-stupid. Any support for wind and solar, beyond some research or say, use in remote, unserviced areas is a waste of taxpayer funds, and so failure in their fiduciary duty!
Republicans are the stupid party lost in the wilderness without a clue what they should do. What they wind up doing is go along to get along because they are petrified of what the Democrats will do if they don’t.
And they have to deal with the RINOs.
*”Republicans In Name Only” for those
who don’t know what that stands for.
I don’t know why Durbin is blocking the subpoena of Epstein’s flight logs. If there is a Democrat listed, then his Democrat voters will still vote for him. If there is a Republican listed, then his Republican voters will eschew him. It’s a win-win for the Democrats.
So the ones disclosed in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial are only the tip of the iceberg? I suspect that the reason they are being witheld is the same reason Maxwell’s address/contacts book was witheld – both have names or Names in them. Given who Epstein was friends with I can imagine it being catastrophic for the Democrats.
Maybe. The Nashville shooter’s manifesto is still being withheld. It must really be bad for the establishment. If there was the slightest condemnation of conservative values, it would be everywhere.
As they say, The Republicans are the stupid party and the Democrats are the evil party; but to do something both stupid and evil takes bipartisanship.
The Republican Party doesn’t believe in global warming and the Democratic Party doesn’t believe in the Constitution. Note the difference?
You believe in ‘Global Warming’. I believe in mechanisms that support Freedom.
Your belief system, and the belief system of those you support, leaves something to be desired.
Fox has but a tiny footprint in the overall media landscape, you dolt. (But then you knew that, amirite?0
I am 100% Independent and have been after I left the democrat party back in the early 1990’s.
I am also a climate realist thus your attempt to pigeonhole me has failed. Utterly.
Cheers.
You should have stayed in the Democrat party–then you would have been in the protected class.
Dizzy Izzy strikes again
Republicans do recognize global warming except for periods like 2015 to mid-2023 when there was no warming
We live in a world of reality with conclusions based on facts, data and logic, rather than wild guess scary climate predictions that gullible fools like you believe.
Speaking for the Michigan division, we LOVE global warming here and even the Michigan Dumbocrats do.
Kalmus was right about cop28 being an abject failure, for which we should all be grateful.
Well, it depends on the goals. Attending a lot of high quality restaurant dining, drinking expensive adult beverages and having no actual work … can be quite gratifying for the self-professed “Elite”.
It was only a failure for the radicals. The moderates got most of what they wanted.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/12/14/cop-28-the-radicals-lose-again/
Kind of like them announcing on the 6 o’clock news that some idiot liberal think tank claims Congress has been a failure for ONLY passing 26 bills this term. That’s 26 too many.
My Climate Outrage Party Report
The delegates came first class
Ate striped bass
Nuclear got a pass
Gas did not get a pass
But John Kerry passed gas
One Arab was a badass,,
said there was no science.
There was a gasp, en masse
Thought he was a jackass
Two men needed a bypass
22% of attendees smoked grass
Hookers charged 50% more for …
He must be desperate, the poor sod.
Having read his comments, my first thought was ‘He’s a NASA scientist?!’ ‘No wonder they can’t build rickets anymore ‘.
Rickety rockets and NASA are synonomous to build on your typo.
I never spotted it, but you’re right 😄
Depression, anxiety and high stress. All from being on a vegan diet – get him off that and he’d be a lot healthier and happier.
The push back on AGW will only increase. Too many failed predictions. Too many nonsensical claims of causation attributed to AGW. Too many restrictions to our lifestyles. Too many businesses off shored. Economies collapsing under the weight of AGW. How many people have switched from being AGW skeptic to AGW proponent?
“How many people have switched from being AGW skeptic to AGW proponent?”
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That hasn’t shown up here on WUWT for a while. When it has, it shows at the bottom of issues people care about on some survey.
I know many people, myself included, who went from AGW believer to skeptic, but I have never heard of anyone who made the opposite journey.
“In Kalmus’s eyes, COP28 was nothing short of a spectacular failure, a charade that serves only to perpetuate the status quo.”
Maybe he should conclude that most people don’t think we’re having a climate emergency. It’s always a bad sign when you think everyone else is crazy and/or corrupt but not yourself.
If he was as smart as he apparently thinks he is, this should provoke some introspection, wherein he examines his believes on the subject of AGW. Not going to happen.
‘Everybody else in the world has a problem but I’m fine, I’m the only one who sees things clearly.’ Anything like that should be treated by mental health professionals – I don’t think Kalmus is quite there yet, but he’s well on the way to a full psychotic breakdown.
According to Peter Kalmus
These are the anti-science, denialist garbage-words:
“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5,” al-Jaber said. He added that it would be impossible to stop burning fossil fuels and sustain economic development, “unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
Peter Kalmus could have noted the scientific research he has that negates these words. That’s what scientists do. Instead he attacked the speaker, which is the logical fallacy, argumentum ad hominem.
When NASA hires scientists, is it a job requirement to find those that employ logical fallacies when they write their opinion pieces?
The House needs to bring him in to testify, in West Virginia, and to be sworn by congress and also by the local sheriff/judge.
Then ask him to repeat these claims under oath.
He will not. He is not stupid enough to put his freedom at stake. Since Brandon’s DOJ would never prosecute a leftist, the local authorities could prosecute him for perjury if he made all these false statements under oath.
WV farmers and miners are smart enough to determine the facts of CAGW, and the data do not support his l!es.
Once convicted of perjury, remove him from NASA. BTW, every government employee who has made similar false claims must be treated similarly. Set up a sub committee of 3, 2 Republican and 1 Democrat and ask the same questions to every “witless”.
All questions to be Y/N and any other answer to be stricken, and contempt of congress charges brought. I believe there will be a lot of “I take the 5th answers”.
NOAA is run by AGW believers.
Not by AGW believers, just the politically astute.
All “Climate Summits” are useless and have fooled no one whose synapses are still firing.
“””We are all in grave danger from global heating”””
Not round here we aren’t.
It gets hot here in East Texas. We call it Summer.
I wish!
(SE UK, bloody freezing)
“..is driving all the flooding and heat and fires.”
That is an assertion. Prove it.
Phew! This guy seems to have found the tipping point and fallen right over it.
Kalmus got one thing right. COP28 was a failure to alarmists, like all 27 before it, and like all that will come after.
The modern world doesn’t work without fossil fuels. But that is OK because there is nothing to be alarmed about. All the by now to have happened alarms didn’t happen. All the predictive climate models (with one exception, INM CM5) are easily proven wrong several different ways. Renewables at any meaningful penetration are ruinables; there is NO nonFF grid solution for intermittency.
None of the climate models are predictive. Not even INM CM5.
Its slightly older CMIP6 brother, INM CM4-8 shows ±11 Wm⁻² uncertainty in simulated long wave cloud forcing (Figure 19 in Boucher, et al, 2020).
Most likely, the INM modelers have just done a better job tuning the model to produce more effective offsetting errors.
They remind me of the Nostradamus acolytes who can only find a prediction after the event has occurred and not before. By the way, whatever happened to this year’s prediction from the usual experts that we would see the worst hurricane season in the US ever? They’re going to need to get a bigger rug to keep sweeping all of their failed predictions under it.
Why do kooks like Kalmus only blame the FF “industry” and not the people burning the products (like Kalmus) I think the blame shift is telling!
Plus the FF industry holds less than 13% of global oil and gas production and reserves. National oil companies (NOCs) account for more than half of global production and close to 60% of the world’s oil and gas reserves
Major companies are BP, Conoco Philips, Chevron, Eni, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Total Energies.
Most of the largest NOCs are located in the Middle East – Saudi Aramco, National Iranian Oil Company, Kuwait Petroleum Company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
IEA ‘The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions’ Nov. 2023
Man, I remember when NASA scientists were the best of the best, or at least that was their reputation.
And who is to say Dr. Peter Kalmus isn’t good at his job. Being an expert in his field doesn’t mean he’s an expert outside his field. From his biography, he appears to be a climate modeler, so there’s that.
And why does NASA need a “climate modeler”?
Not even a weatherman? Their weathermen killed the Challenger crew by approving THAT launch, so even then their “weather” scientists were crap.
I think the decision was up the chain.
The higher-ups were warned and launched anyway.
An engineer alerted Richard Feynman and he cleverly,
and in public, exposed the problem.
What’s he using to model, clay?
“This is what the fossil fuel industry wants; this is how we lose a planet.”
Remember the so-called “Climate Blues” epidemic under the stress of a protracted “Dreaded Pause” in temperature increases that lasted almost 2 decades, which was as long as the period of warming to the end of the 20th century that caused all the fuss. The sufferers of this neurosis (being in classic denial) were also hit with the forecast failure of warming that proved to be 300% higher than observations and, bad news in threes, climategate, that showed up the crooked behavior of the climate all-stars. Imagine dueling with your brain which is trying to tell you your 25 years in school, your life mission and 10-20 years of practicing your craft was a foolish waste of time!!
Only the rhino-skinned proven miscreants of the ‘science’ remained clinging to the carcass. Outed in Climategate and known by how they reacted to the unequivocal falsification of their sciency stuff – wholesale fiddling of data, fabrication of data (Daniele Dixson:https://www.science.org/content/article/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says ), changing colors of photos to make healthy coral look dead … Kalmus had better get a grip somehow. The “Blues” are waiting in the wings.
The original wise-guy craic was: “Prozac may help”
Sadly Prozac doesn’t help as the only ‘activity’ it has is to make you constipated.
Which really really odd, as a deficiency of a certain metallic trace element also does that.
(Said deficiency also gets you hideous cramps in your legs through the night ##)
Now it gets bizarre – see the attached:
“”GAD”” is – General Anxiety Disorder – a slight variation of horrible and self-reinforcing depression
See what fixed it – the stuff referred to in the orange boxes in my picture.
(That Soil Erosion is a real pig, it simply gets everywhere)
Role of magnesium supplementation in the treatment of depression
(##) Is depression a variation on ‘Brain Cramp‘ or even, Brain Constipation.
OMG, what a picture:
Puts on best Dr Kildare impression: Sorry Peter old boy, you appear to have a constipated brain
never was a truer word
there was really serious message in there, esp for old boys & girls aged 50+
Magnesium Citrate is good and dirt cheap too
I take it about every night before bed.
I haven’t killed myself YET.
Since we have 2 homes and also travel for weeks at a time in our 5th wheel. I sometimes get out of the habit for a while and do notice I don’t sleep as well.
If it stops us oldies from getting leg cramps at night.. means we can get a decent sleep.. hence, less mental tiredness etc.
I take Grampeze every night.
The Earth is still in an ice age, 20% of the land is frozen It is in a cold interglacial period that alternates with very cold glacial periods.
About 10 times as many people die from cold-related causes(4.6 million) as from heat-related causes(500,000)
The ice age won’t end until all the natural ice on Earth melts.
That is not before plate tectonics result in there being no landmass at either pole. I give it 10 to 20 million years.
The re-opening of the Isthmus of Panama and the re-establishment of the equatorial current. Same time-frame.
In an earlier time, he would have been institutionalized, given meds, maybe shock treatments or even a lobotomy. Today, he’s given a bullhorn.
Progress!
Looked Kalmus up. PhD in physics. Worked on LIGO (gravity wave detector). Now at JPL in some sort of data management role. His personal hobby appears to be climate alarm. Lots of articles like this, plus one book full of alarms. Has definitely drunk the climate Koolaid.
It just shows that a genius in one subject can be a dud in another. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of that super logical sleuth Sherlock, believed in fairies and was totally taken in by esoteric scams.
I looked him up as well. He’s well educated and had above average intelligence to get into the colleges that awarded him degrees. What happened?
I wish I could interview the true believers (and I’m guesssing that he is one). Kerry and Gore are career politicians and easily dismissed (by me). But this guy seems different. What convinced him?
People with above average intelligence are more susceptible to closed loops of perception when they accept lies as truth because they can find more examples to support their delusions and are better at rationalizing away inconvenient facts. Some of the most ignorant people I have ever met have had PHD’s. Years of indoctrination creates a self righteous disconnect from empirical reality.
PhD in physics.
Must never have taken an instrumental lab as an undergrad.
Maybe he took too many physics classes and missed chemistry, geology, Earth science, and history. Knowing about radiatively active gases and little else is not a good way to go through life.
Makes you wonder if LIGO is really crap.
He’s not working there anymore.
He could have ruined it while he was working there. I don’t see the point of your comment.
The Kook does not seem to have realised that without fossil fuels, we would quickly regress to the Dark Ages.
The rest of the world understand this to well. That is why Asia and Africa refuse to play ball.
So what is to fear most?
A slightly warmer, more fertile planet?
Or a planet that cannot feed its population?
Public displays of derangement is par for the course with these types. That’s ok in and of itself, it can happen to anyone, but the sick part is they are promoted as role models.
I suddenly wonder if there’s a populational correlation between climate alarm and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Seems like grist for a good sociological study.
Politics corrupts and ruins everything, and every once in a while, that turns out to be a good thing!
If +1.5 C really will be apocalyptic with floods, fires, storms and wreckage, that sort of chaos should have left its mark during the even-warmer Holocene Climate Optimum.
There ought to be stratographic evidence worldwide of strata reflecting extreme floods, extensive wildfire ash deposits, fields of semi-fossil stumps of storm-downed forests, and eroded shorelines.
The existence, or not, of these evidences constitute a mortal test of Peter Kalmus’ predictions (aka, irrational fears). If they are not present in 6-8000 ybp strata, his fears are falsified.
Nonsense…
Dangerous nonsense….
I keep hearing there is a mental crisis in the western world. I now believe that’s true. Common sense would show how you connect the dots….
So what else is new since not only the COP conferences but also most of the rest of such meetings have failed to produce any results that would supposedly arrest the “climate crisis”. Just consider this estimate: McKinsey & Co. claims that US $275 trillion would have to be spent annually on physical assets between 2021 and 2050 just to reach Net Zero. So what would be left for other needs like housing, education, healthcare, defense, etc.? In other words, it’s an impossibility. With numbers like this, it’s no wonder these meetings achieve nothing except to provide a getaway for activists, alarmists, academics, bureaucrats, and assorted hangers-on who know they don’t have to produce any positive results.