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
Perhaps Peter Kalmus is not concerned about keeping the lights on and industry functioning, but the rest of humanity is or will be if the COP28 nonsense gets implemented.
Just reinterate the obvious (on the slim chance that some really did not hear about it):
>> which appears to be accelerating, is irreversible, and is driving all the flooding and heat and fires.
Is wrong! There is no measured acceleration in the global warming rate which can be attributed to anthropogenic CO2, quite contrary, past acceleration and deceleration of the global warming rate is linked to natural phenomena!
>> It’s caused almost entirely by the fossil fuel industry, with industrial animal agriculture in second place.
Unproven at best and unlikely! Measured warming rates point to a moderate warming by fossil fuel, probably close to the expected 1°C/CO2 doubling from the direct CO2 effect as measured in laboratory experiment and calculated with MODTRAN spectra.
This of course also has to be weighted with the global greening by CO2, which is a huge net benefit!
Models has been wrong for decades and their predictions are unreliable.
How comes that models with completely wrong cloud parametrization seem to track real world temperature trends?
If models were good you would expect a flat line here:
Extrapolation I find that by the time of COP28 both TCR and ECS were about zero. Job done, we can all go home now.
I pretty much agree with Kalmus that the COPs are useless charades. But, where I don’t agree with him is that I think that nothing humans have done or can do will have very much impact on the Climate. The only thing we can do is adapt to what the climate is. If it going to be warmer, good. Humans are a tropical species and a warmer world is a happier healthier, and more prosperous world. If it is going to be colder, that is a much worse problem. But, we can and will deal with that one too.
Story tip
COP28 was not about the climate. It was a reason to get control over the general population.
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Ross McKitrick: The only thing wrong with the globalist climate agenda — the people won’t have itPhasing out fossil fuels is going to cost way more than ordinary people will accept. Delegates to COP28 clearly didn’t understand that
COP agreements used to focus on one thing: targets for reducing greenhouse gases. The UAE Consensus is very different. Across its 196 paragraphs and 10 supplementary declarations it’s a manifesto for global central planning. In their own words, some 90,000 government functionaries aspire to oversee and micromanage agriculture, finance, energy, manufacturing, gender relations, health care, air conditioning, building design and countless other economic and social decisions. It’s all supposedly in the name of fighting climate change, but that’s just the pretext. Take climate away and they’d likely appeal to something else.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/cop28-out-of-touch-globalist-climate-agenda
As is the case with a lot of Big Gov you just need to follow the money to get an idea of the oceanic breadth of The Grift. Sniffy “Weekend at Bernie’s” is a small time con artist in the big picture.
Boo hoo, I have no respect for highly educated people crying because we won’t roll over and accept their lying and cheating. No sympathy here move on.
I don’t believe it is lying or cheating. It’s just delusion. He needs professional help.
Drama queen and total derangement are so wrong together.
Idiotic concepts regarding climate, climate measurement, climate causes and some rather stupid belief that climate history has always been boring coupled with rank belief that his personal choices must be the same personal choices for everyone. No exceptions!
Those are hallmarks of a narcissist despot abjectly intolerant of reality and facts.
It’s a good thing that he wrote such a intolerant screed full of delusion, ad hominems, absolute blame and over the top fearmongering.
Anyone and everyone with even the slightest common sense will know to not make eye contact, to move away and avoid someone so stricken with antipathy towards humans and domesticated animals.
Perhaps someone should design clothing or suits for the climate delusional?
That is, clothes bright enough to warn everybody?
Bright white coats, perhaps?
With tapes on the end of the sleeves instead of cuffs, so you can tie them round the back.
This is what the fossil fuel industry wants; this is how we lose a planet.”
How do you lose a planet? Perhaps you left it in your other jacket pocket, maybe it slipped between the couch cushions….I know maybe it was left on the kitchen counter, wait I will go check.
When someone told George Carlin that the family had recently lost Uncle Luke, he asked “Did you look behind the dumpster?”
Will this fit on the bottom of a digital birdcage under a virtual canary?
This pretty tame from Kalmus who’s histrionics often exemplify unhinged psychotic paranoia.
What Kalmus fails to realize is that this is following the tradition. The very first UN Environmental Program meeting in Stockholm 1972 was also chaired by an oil executive, canadian Maurice Strong, who had been handpicked by David Rockefeller, who also started and funded the UNEP.
So Big Oil is managing this supranational movement beyond the control of courts and elections where Big Oil is being described as the incarnation of Satan.
They are in full control of the narrative.
The Rockefellers transitioned from Big Oil to Big Money.
In desperate need of mental health supports
Such a twisted individual.
Mr Kalmus seems demented since how on earth would he communicate with anybody without the fossil fuel goods and chattels that made it possible for him to even know there was a COP28? No mains electricity, no computers, no smart phones, and no internet for starters.
Be interesting to see him attempt living without anything touched by fossil fuels for a year if he could even last that long. He’s clearly full of hot air and little else and typical of the genre.
Mr. Kalmus seems to recognize that con arsists are running the globalist warming charade and yet he still believes the premise of the con. His family probably still owns property in Poyais.
is irreversible
Well, that’s it then. Why keep fighting it?
“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.”
Kalmus thinks all COP meetings have been a complete failure, presumably because they fail to solve the impending doom he describes in the above quote. That quote contains not a single shred of truth being constructed of pure unfounded fantasy. I think the rational judgment would be that every COP meeting that fails to address this vision of doom is, in fact a success, in as much as it fails to force draconian, anti-civilization restrictions on human development and environmental stewardship. Three cheers for outcomes that, if not in spirit but in fact allow forward progress to continue.
Kalmus is an embarrassment as a scientist and as a man. Get a grip already.
If you are the kind of scientist who is constantly “alarmed” or “saddened,” then your objectivity is suspect, and you are probably in the wrong line of work