Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t strativarius, Breitbart; Greens are once again pinning their hopes on a November climate conference hosted by a nation whose President plans to boost gas production.
COP29 Host Azerbaijan Says Its Fossil Fuel Is ‘Gift From God’
- President Aliyev commits to boosting investments in gas
- Country also touts its rollout of green energies this decade
By John Ainger
26 April 2024 at 8:24 PM AESTAzerbaijan, host of this year’s COP29 climate summit, will continue to invest in increasing gas production in order to feed demand from Europe as its president said that its abundant fossil fuels were a “gift from God.”
President Ilham Aliyev said at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin that oil and gas would be needed for “many more years” as the country prepares to host the 29th United Nations’ Conference of the Parties, or COP29, in Baku later this year. He highlighted an agreement reached with the European Union to scale up supplies of natural gas to help make up for Russian shortfalls after its invasion of Ukraine.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-26/cop29-host-azerbaijan-says-its-fossil-fuel-is-gift-of-the-gods
Are COP hosts chosen on the basis of how much the choice will upset greens?
Can you imagine what it must be like to be a green climate true believer? To believe that concerted global action is the only hope to save the world, to build up hope every year, only to see those hopes dashed, as each COP conference attempts to outdo the last in farcical mockery of climate tropes?
How can COP30 possibly top this comedy moment? Ask General Aladeen of Wadiya to host a COP conference? Obviously there is a minor problem that General Aladeen is a fictional character, but what better person to host a fictional climate conference?
We simply need to convince the greens to take The Great Climate Leap Forward on their own, to set the pace, lead the way, show us how! Give up FF and all that goes with it! BWAH-ha-ha-ha!!
Maybe we can convince them all to move to an Island nation (that is sinking, if there is really one) so that they can show the world how it is done. No oil or gas derived products. Only unreliables. And since they do not make any false claims, only projects that are financially sound. 5 years of FF power and then shut down all FF power!
Well, El Hiero in the Spanish Canaries made an attempt at relying on “renewables”. It failed.
Small island electrical need. Failed bigly.
Also King Island test bed, between Tasmania & Australian mainland.
Has not been able to run even a week without diesel.
Link to real-time display of electricity source, diesel just now at 24%.
Geoff S
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
and the canaries get a lot of sun and a year round mild climates
I’ve just been censured by the BBC for suggesting the person who said “There’s too many people, we need to reduce numbers” should lead the way.
In my experience, the Beeb has never been keen on taking its own medicine.
The greens are covered in oil. That they need discard clothing to be truly green creates the horrifying prospect of all those thousands in attendance wearing skin only.
It matters not where/who is hosting a COP the results will be the same …. as it ever was. Lots of virtue signaling. Some shaming. Big party.
You left out the request/demands for other countries money.
And the prime beef dinners.
We have to realize that the Greens really don’t care if everyone abandons fossil fuels because if it did happen, they’d have no way to reach these conferences or have anything to talk about. Not that they accomplish anything anyway, but how else would they get a frequently taxpayer-funded free ride to one exotic place or another without having to show any results for it? At least Pres. Aliyev is up front about his country’s continued commitment to oil and gas, and if it doesn’t make the switch to renewables during the next decade no one will hold it accountable or even notice.
The COPs are under the sponsorship of the UNFCCC. The UNFCCC has been ‘captured’ by all the ‘second world’ countries still hoping to use climate change to wring $100 billion per year in ‘climate reparations’ from ‘carbon polluting’ first world countries—with the convention of small island nations (led by Tuvalu and its underwater cabinet meeting stunt) leading the hopeful way. So the ‘green’ farces of COP27 (Scotland, dependent on North Sea oil and gas), COP28 (Dubai in UAE dependent on Persian Gulf gas), and now COP29 will continue to happen in the future. ’Reparations’ will also continue to not happen.
COP30 will be held in Brazil, whose offshore subsalt discoveries have made it another major global oil and gas producer in the past decade. May the farce be with them.
COP-OUT29.
They all fly there and pontificate about how
the massesCO2 emissions need to be controlled and how to do it.Yet, no one walks to one of the parties.
(BTW What does “COP” stand for anyway? I forget.)
Conference of Parties. Which is the real reason to attend.
More precisely, Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC.
Cons and parties. !
The whole thing, Net Zero, is doomed as soon as the general populace realizes that without FF-based fertilizers, half the people in the world would starve in a year or two. Seems to me that when this becomes widely known, the Greens will just stop.
It’s not just fertilizer. Without fossil fuels there is no agriculture (diesel tractors), forestry (gas chain saws and diesel log haulers), construction (Cat diesel stuff), international trade (diesel ocean shipping and jet fuel air freight)…
But the Greens won’t stop— because these things are obvious, yet the Greens are oblivious.
One of two things will happen. Greens eventually prevail, then won’t end well. Or, Greens don’t prevail because common sense eventually will. My bet is on the latter, and sooner rather than later.
But they will have to be stopped. It’ll get ugly.
There will be mass casualaties due to a lack of FF based/derived/produced medicines much sooner than 1 year.
I don’t think the CAGW crowd believes all this nonsense. CAGW is merely a vehicle to gain power and control. As soon as CAGW stops producing they will move on to another vehicle. They don’t give a damn about the climate only power and control.
Yes, they even named their plot –
Agenda
2130.Think true for the same subset that did COVID19 masks and lockdowns. Think not true for Greens like Mann and AOC. Mann is in it for the money. Bartender AOC is too stupid to be in it for anything other than re-election.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence this all ramped up as the Cold War ended. The Powers That Be needed a new bogeyman.
It’s always been that way – religion, war, etc
Next will be AI, water, O2 shortage, hobgoblins
~ Mencken
The elites, true. The kids are merely brainwashed, or looking for something exciting to do.
Fossil fuels are gift from God?
Somebody tell the Pope!
You can always tell the Pope.
But you can’t tell him much.
It must be in the Koran. 🙂
Small probem here, Eric.
You have shown this analysis based on relationships and influences that are accepted by the public as “Everyone knows that.”
The problem is that the main players, links, structures, money flows are not the ones the public knows. Most of this climate change economic damage is done by stealth. How many times have you seen an unexpected, ludicrous outcome suddeny appear as a fait accompli with little useful faper trail to follow the money?
Why are greens not screaming about this choice of COP 29 President? Is it because a quiet deal has been done already?
Geoff S
I wish I knew Geoff.
Obviously we can all speculate, and occasionally we all see hints and catch glimpses.
But I’ve been wrong before, so I’m not going to bet the farm on something I don’t know for sure.
Take Climategate for example. When I first read Climategate, I expected to find emails with people laughing about how badly they were deceiving the public, and how much money they were making out of the scam. Instead what I saw was a bunch of people who were so sure they were right, they occasionally appeared to bend the rules, to ensure “deniers” didn’t obtain any leverage to deflect them from their mission to save the world.
There is a climategate email (0700.txt) which goes to the heart of this. Did scientists provide “stronger signals” because they were afraid of losing funding, and had to give politicians a bit of what they want to protect their mission to save the world from global warming? Because I don’t believe I saw evidence that scientists were just out to make money from grubby grant scams.
I doubt we’ll ever know exactly what was going through their minds, even with megabytes of private emails to read.
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The interface between science and politics
B Stauffer said that science could not prevent global climate change, therefore science should support sustainability, however if science can point to means of reducing the rate of global change, this would show that there was something that could be done and would evoke political decisions.
J Jouzel said that the truth will come from the use of models and their validation and that there was a move in WCRP – CLIVAR to take more interest in palaeo-data. Communications between scientists and politicians are becoming more and more important and the scientific population must be large enough to be visible. D Raynaud commented that the work by Stocker in 1997 on the gross rate of emissions and the change in thermo circulation is important to conferences such as Kyoto. K Hutter added that politicians accused scientists of a high signal to noise ratio; scientists must make sure that they come up with stronger signals. The time-frame for science and politics is very different; politicians need instant information, but scientific results take a long time
A Ghazi pointed out that the funding is set once the politicians want the research to be done. We need to make them understand that we do not understand the climate system. Kyoto was a compromise and the EC accepted pollution levels which were not accepted by all members. At the next meeting in Buenos Aires in November 1998 we must learn how to approach the USA. The USA wants to buy the 30% of emissions that is not achieved in Russia. This emission trading is not acceptable. However the US argues that if the EC is trading within itself then it can do so also, however the EC will be achieving an emissions reduction of 6-8
There needs to be more science representation to interact with the policy makers. Chris Rapley added that the message needs to be passed that science has the rational approach and that to look at the Earth from a policy-makers point of view raises different issues and interconnections.
That reads like it was produced by a postmodernist gibberish generator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator
I believe that COP30 will be hosted by the Kingdom of Wakanda.
It is thought that green energy warrior and Australian billionaire, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, will be attending (again) to discuss the possible use of a form of Vibranium in establishing a new renewable energy source.
Chris “Blackout” Bowen, Australia’s Energy Poverty Minister, in a recent statement has indicated his government’s support of the research and possible use of the Vibranium isotope in numerous green energy initiatives. With no shortage of taxpayer’s money in more subsidies, grants and discounts to the private sector, the addition of Vibranium to help super turbocharge Australia into a green energy supernova superpower, is an exciting time for the nation, said Mr. Bowen.
Australia tried to get on the queue a few years back, but the deal was we had to make renewable energy work first.
COP1 was at Berlin in 1995. The Keeling curve has steepened a bit since about 1950 so that could be human caused. The COVID deindustrialisation showed not a whit. So it’s natural. Anyway 29 COPs have not made the slightest difference to the c. 2ppm year
Can you imagine what it must be like to be a green climate true believer?
Suicidal?
World energy demand continues to rise, fossil fuel production continues to rise, Co2 emissions continue to rise, global greening continues to increase, poverty rates continue to decline, annual deaths from climate related weather event continues to decline, deaths from cold continue to decline…MUST DRIVE A GREEN ACTIVIST CRAZY!
I imagine Buckingham Palace is tying itself in knots working out how to prevent our King Charles going out there to make another banal and illinformed speech.
I do wish the King the best for his health, but perhaps this will preclude him from travelling..
I believe this should have come on Friday, that’s funnies day isn’t it?