Climate Depot note: I will be on the ground again this year attending the UN climate summit COP29 in Azerbaijan. Morano will be there for the week of November 10th through 15 in Baku, following the UN’s every effort to squelch your freedom and continue the dark path of net-zero rationing of energy, food, freedom of movement, and free speech. This will be my 20th out of the past 22 international UN summits to attend in person.
This year’s summit is being dubbed the “finance COP” because climate and green energy lobbyists are descending on the event to try to funnel even more U.S. taxpayer money into their pockets.
Morano: “With Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, the United Nations COP29 will turn into a giant wake, with the United Nations facing defeat of their anti-human climate agenda. The entire climate agenda is facing utter and complete collapse due to its unrealistic mandates and targets. Failure across the board is occurring, from emission targets to anemic electric vehicle sales to pushback by farmers fighting back against agricultural climate restrictions. The Trump victory will help push the United Nations and its net zero agenda into the dustbin of history. I will be on the ground with other team members to report daily on what’s happening post-election at one of the most consequential UN climate summits.”
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Enjoy the wake. Looking forward to the reports.
The US needs to stop playing the Net Zero game here at home and we absolutely must stop financing the international organizations pushing this nonsense.
And stop your own government pushing net zero on the rest of the world.
Yes sir.
Good man. Now stop WWIII as well. Snap to it!
Just found a great pic of a climate cultist…
Looks like Al Gore to me.
Closely resembles a Kamala supporter too
Climate Cranks tend to also be cranky about all manner of things.
Being offended about perceived “injustices” on behalf of other people with whom they have absolutely nothing in common in the ordinary course of their lives is the definition of “woke”.
Cranks wear this buffoonery as some sort of badge of honor, which has to be constantly signalled to other cranks as a demonstration of their “virtue”.
(and they deride normal people as “misinformed” 🙂 🙂 🙂 )
The letters N S and M U N come to mind
Trump wins–the planet wins.
There, I fixed it.
Trump Wins – we the people win!
The Earth couldn’t give a frac
Did you know…
Donald Trump can’t stop the battle to save the planet, claims Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband
…countries and businesses around the globe were “getting on with this transition” to green economies.
https://apple.news/Akq7bpWoYRQGKd2MmhEAKVw
Poor Ed, as delusional as ever.
That really is completely deluded. Once the US drops out, its over. It never has amounted to a real program which would deliver global emission reductions, but with the US behind it, it had some conceptual credibility. Once the US goes, its over, it will be just a few nutters wailing about the end being nigh.
As for the supposed ‘transition’ – well, where is it? None of the COPs have resulted in firm commitments on any scale, and this one certainly will not either. Surely Starmer is going to run out of patience with the charade at some point?
They need American money – and lots of it.
Starmer is out of step with the EU and US. A neat trick.
The Net Zero falsity is already shown to be what it is: Wrong in science and expensive to economies; thankfully Trump will soon ensure its demise Any and all government funded science must operate on red team/blue team principles where both sides of an issue are researched. We have to get rid of the nonsensical idea of ‘consensus science’ and go back to the sixties when Feynman and Einstein taught real science and the real scientific principle that if an idea was not confirmed by experiment or by observation then it is WRONG.
Steve Koonin tried to introduce the red/blue team idea, but the US Govt were fully behind the alarmism and didn’t want to hear any real alternative science.
Trump would be wise to give Koonin a significant role in his admin – maybe science advisor to Zeldin at EPA.
I’m confident that rational experts in many fields will be conscripted by the new government to craft sensible policies & legislation.
Their main challenge will be having this rationality enacted by the “resistance” operatives who have been planted throughout the bureaucracies.
It sounds like Trump is going for serious reforms of all the federal bureaucracies.
I imagine he is scaring the bureaucrats in The Swamp to death right now. They don’t even know if they will have a job after Trump gets done. Or, if they do still have a job, it might be in Omaha, Nebraska, rather than Washington DC.
And Elon and Vivek are going to be dissecting the U.S. budget, so things are going to get interesting. They are already interesting!
It’s so good that Trump can come in and shake things up. The perfect guy to do so. He can’t be bought and he is not doing things for himself, he is doing things that will benefit all the people.
I imagine he is scaring the bureaucrats in The Swamp to death right now
Apparently, a lot of people at DOJ are quitting in advance of his inauguration.
I like that idea.
“where both sides of an issue are researched”
Implies there are only two sides
Implies members of a side agree on more than 1 disagreement.
“it will be just a few nutters wailing about the end being nigh.”
That made me laugh! 🙂
Just wondering what happened last time Donald Trump was elected. Was it a case of “Once the US drops out, it’s over”? Unfortunately it didn’t appear to be that way. Otherwise would we be where we are today with COP as crazy as ever. I hope you are right but past experience suggests otherwise.
Trump will be in a much stronger position this time.
Oh, yes, “it will be different this time”. Hope so, but waiting to see evidence.
“It never has amounted to a real program which would deliver global emission reductions, but with the US behind it, it had some conceptual credibility”.
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What “conceptual credibility” would that be besides none? Once again:
I agree the trend is there for the transition to die a natural death once the US refuses to pay its climate reparations. However, there is so much money out there from fervent believers and governments wanting to bet on new renewables technology, that it will take a few more years before these governments admit they will not get re-elected if they continue to squander their resources on climate to the exclusions of real problems their people are experiencing. Also, when they lose their previous dominant economic advantage over the `developing ‘ nations like China and India, witness the huge problems in Germany due to their high energy prices, and popular revolts against Net Zero elsewhere in the EU. The UK and Australia are next on the list of deluded left-wing governments that will have to change their energy policies or face mounting public anger and retribution. Bring it on folks!
Millipede was in the Blair-one-eyed-monster Gord government.
Ya know the shower that sold off most British gold at 90% discount and sold BNF, a world leading NPP technology company.
Gordon Moron and Bliar should have been spending time in prison cells, not lecturing the world.
ATTN: Red Ed
The climate ain’t broke, so don’t try to fix it.
Trump probably can’t stop the UK’s self-destructive race to third world status. !
If Ed Millibrain what’s to “transition”, he can go for it.
Tuck is ***** between his legs and pretend. !
Is the race to third word status really just an attempt to undue Brexit? I do listen to the BBC, but there’s very little UK content, it’s mostly news about everywhere else.
Ther trouble is that Ed and all these other deluded climate alarmists insist on taking us to the cleaners, and blaming us for all the problems of modern society, when in reality they have been taken in by the environmental climate cult, not us but they need someone else to blame. Eventually. they will all go the way of Dodos and extreme religious cults, but unfortunately not before they bleed us dry.
Cheerleading always wins the game.
Why no one ever cheerleads in China and India is confusing though.
On one count he is right: Trump can’t stop the battle to save the planet. It will be stopped by laws of thermodynamics and economics.
That’s right. You can’t fool Mother Nature.
Regarding disintegrating rotor blades in Cape Cod, the field test of fully instrumented 351-ft long rotor blades on a mast, for AT LEAST one year, in a windy area of the North Sea, is the most important part, which GE executives “omitted”.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as airplane wings of a Boeing-747.
Nobody in their sane mind would ever bypass field testing, including torsion testing.
What were these GE top executive folks thinking?
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How in hell did they get in these top positions?
Falsifying test records to endanger people, and the environment, and ocean fauna, and fisheries, and tourism? All these are felon offenses.
All involved should be fired and prosecuted for malfeasance, blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.
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Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) WANTS TO ESTABLISH FACTS ON THE GROUND (by building wind turbines without rotors) SO PROJECTS WILL BE HARDER TO CANCEL BY SANE PEOPLE IN EARLY 2025
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Utilities paying 15 c/kWh, wholesale (after 50% subsidies), is gross economic insanity, plus all of us paying for grid reinforcement and extension, plus:
– paying for traditional plants counteracting variable output, on a less than minute by minute basis, 24/7/365, plus
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low wind, low solar conditions, plus
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill
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The insanity and environmental damage it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do do
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Europe wants to foist high electricity prices into the US (using the fig-leaf canard of global-warming/climate-change), so the US will be in big do do as well, TO MAINTAIN ITS EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS TRADE BALANCE WITH THE US; money talks.
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Why in hell is a GE, a US company, building several hundred EXPERIMENTAL rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported, from Cape Cod to France, on specialized European ships, to a French testing facility?
How low and idiotic can a US company go by screwing US workers out of jobs?
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Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat, cabal, using feeble BIDEN/joyful HARRIS as their puppets for 4 years, did their Wind thing, and their Open Borders thing, that ended up screwing US viability, and US people, and play into the hands of Europe, the reason the European elites like Biden/Harris so much.
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What was the traitorous, Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat cabal thinking?
Now you see why the American people finally had to take revenge by voting the cabal idiots out
Now you see why European elites hate Trump, because he puts AMERICA FIRST, UNLIKE TWO-FACED RINOS, LIKE SENATOR COLLINS, etc.
But the EU where i am is going to continue to push the Climate Agenda, especially now Trump has been elected. You know, to ‘compensate’ for lost weight on the other side. Won’t work though. People are tired of being pushed. They are pushing back..
German and UK politicians have lost their minds over CO2.
They are bound and determined to eliminate CO2 and damn the consequences.
The consequences are the ruination of both nations.
German and UK politicians are too deluded to see this.
I think “the reckoning” is not far off. Then everyone will see what a huge mistake Net Zero really is.
A lot of heartache between now and then.
And all this insanity is based on curbing CO2, a benign gas essential for life on Earth.
There is NO evidence that CO2 is measurably affecting the Earth’s temperatures or weather, and there is no reason for CO2 to be regulated or curbed.
All this craziness is based on no evidence. German and UK politicians, and all other Climate Alarmists assume too much and are causing society great harm as a result.
Perhaps not. The Traffic Light Coalition in Germany is crashing and burning right now. For all practical purposes, Germany has no government of any kind.
“They are bound and determined to eliminate CO2 and damn the consequences.”
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Tom,
It has been my experience that politicians rarely if ever admit to being wrong about anything. This is probably true on both sides of the Atlantic. It simply is never done.
It should hold then that there is no easy way for Starmer, Miliband, the German govt and others to back away from or out of the CO2 climate change issue and Net Zero. It would look disastrously bad for them politically to admit to anything after they and their predecessor govts committed so much money and other resources to this so-called “Cause”.
On the other hand, Trump was never really part of it to begin with. He still is not. He therefore should have the freedom to ignore the requirements of the “CO2 as a pollutant/Net Zero” cult and operate outside of it. Hopefully many or most of the Republicans in the next Congress have not been faithful members of the club either, and they should have no qualms about repealing the green energy IRA legislation and perhaps passing legislation which declares that CO2 is not a pollutant. Is there any sound science that says it is?
I do not know if the U.S. election results will finally kill off the climate alarmist narrative once and for all, but Trump’s election win is certainly a severe blow to it. The COP[OUT] 29 conference that is now getting underway is looking a bit like a wake in the aftermath of Trump’s win. The next four years should be very interesting to watch to say the least.
It should hold then that there is no easy way for Starmer, Miliband, the German govt and others to back away from or out of the CO2 climate change issue and Net Zero. It would look disastrously bad for them politically to admit to anything after they and their predecessor govts committed so much money and other resources to this so-called “Cause”.
This is true, but British politicians have sneaky, subtle way of changing course once policy is revealed to be a failure. They never admit the failure but instead ensnare the policy in endless “consultations” and “reviews”. After a year or two, nothing more is heard about it.
AH! Tom, you are so right mate, but Trump is going to sort out the EPA and get CO2 off the pollutant list, then he can legally push against the stupid FF mitigation policies the bed- wetter’s seem to love. It’s going to be a great battle and a win for science and common sense!
Tell me why the Keeling curve continues upwards at over 2ppm a year when we have the Paris Agreement. Looking closely at the magnified version of the annual sawtooth one remarks that there was no change during the COVID deindustrialisation. So it’s natural? And doesn’t matter? Prove me wrong
Not only that, but around 2012 the rate of global CO2 emissions slowed a bit (see graph)..
… while the actual rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 got slightly steeper.
Wouldn’t that would be about the time that the greening of the surface began getting noticed and noted?
And did you see the response in the Keeling curve when CO2 emissions went down during the pandemic shutdowns? I can ‘t find it.
The answer you seek is actually very simple and obvious: no country that signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change—with the possible exceptions of the US, Great Britain and Germany—ever had any real intention of enacting what they agreed to do!
With China, India and Indonesia building new coal-fired power plants at their highest rates ever, there is zero chance that reductions in fossil fuel usage in the US, the UK and Indonesia combined would make a meaningful reduction in world-wide fossil fuel use, and thus “human emissions of CO2”.
Ooops, my last paragraph in the above comment should read “. . . reductions in fossil fuel usage in the US, the UK and
IndonesiaGermany combined would . . .”As good as Trump’s win is for humanity, the climate zealots will never stop. It’s a disease of the mind.
It’s called CO2-phobia. An unreasonable, unwarranted fear of CO2.
“ the climate zealots will never stop” Never is a very long time!
This will recede in the same manner as: Witch trials in the early modern period – Wikipedia
A new “crisis” will need to be found. What will that be? 🤔
Traditional religions collected tithes or other mandatory religious taxes.
The green religion uses similar concept to collect carbon taxes, direct or indirect.
The new crisis would be another justification for taxing the whole population, all human activity.
But it is very hard to supersede the neatly constructed CCCGW CO2 scare. This is why they will defend it at all costs.
Depends on the life expectancy of a climate zealot, doesn’t it?
The fertility crisis.
John Robson is there too. https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateDN/videos
Love his Youtube videos!
The planet is not “losing.”
Even if the Eco-Nazis think of a better (warmer) climate as a “problem.”
Life (including us) is winning. Warmer AND more CO2 = win-win.
There is a great deal of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” about Climate Change. Pointing out that the mole on the Emperor’s bum might be a melanoma is rude, but necessary.
One question about the above article’s headline claim “Bernie Sanders: ‘Struggle against climate change is over’ “:
How hard was it for Bernie to extract his head from under the sand in order to make that statement?
There needs to be an accounting of the money given to the IPCC so far for redistribution to “underdeveloped countries” to counter CC. I know Obama gave them $500M as a parting gift from his time in office but I haven’t seen any total tally or anything from the ROW. I’m betting most, if not all, of the donated money was spent on “administrative” functions (like most charities). You know it can’t be attributed to any positive developments in those countries or they would be publishing it. You also know it’s just a Marxist slush fund.
From Wikipedia: Green Climate Fund – Wikipedia
As of Dec 2023, the GCF had a portfolio of 13.5 billion USD (51.9 billion USD including co-financing
There will not be “an accounting”. Like Jimmy Hoffa gone in 1975, go ahead and look, but do not expect to find.
Sales of Kleenex tissues are now rising faster than global temperatures! 😀
Here in the US, seventeen states have enacted climate change legislation of one kind or another.
The states of New York, Massachusetts, California, Oregon, and Washington have set highly ambitious goals for decarbonizing their energy consumption.
Washington State’s incoming governor Bob Ferguson has stated unequivocally that Washington State will not retreat one iota from its climate action goals in the face of a Trump takeover of the federal government.
States like New York and California (et al) have been relying on federal regulation, federal subsidies, and direct federal funding to support their climate action agendas.
Will those states be willing to tax their own citizens for the costs of their own Net Zero agendas when federal support for those agendas is withdrawn?
Much like the rich pay more of the taxes than anyone else, then every election must endure being told they don’t pay their fair share, the big-population, big-economy blue states of the coastal USA do subsidize little-population, little-economy red states in the South and central USA.
This will be YUGE!!
Lysenko is turning in his grave.
Carbon taxers are wetting themselves in fear
Pretend academics are applying to serve fries
”Professional” media types are seeking therapy and disability payments
Ayn Rand is dancing a joyful jig
UN, WHO, WEF, EU, and IPCC are now just letters of no special import
And people who mine resources, grow food, manufacture valuable goods, teach truth to kids and govern as if they care about society are continuing to build a better world.
Heh, McDonald’s needs a new worker recruiting slogan:
Meanwhile Starmer is doubling down on cutting emissions
What a Richard Cranium
Fantastic.
Eliminate the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Put pack in the Office of Science and Technology.
See the difference?
The West has obsessed over the unproven CO2 control knob hypothesis, and fantasized about the inane concept of “net zero” until it’s become the joke from “Crocodile Dundee” about two fleas arguing over which one owns the dog.
The dog won.
China and the rest of the developing world barely pay attention. Why bother when your former rivals are taking themselves out of the game?
Sanders is not quite right because if he and the rest of the global climate alarmists had had their heads screwed on right, they would have realized that the fight against climate change was over before it even began. There are are two main reasons for this. First, the forces of Nature are too powerful for human activity to alter or interrupt. That’s why the planet has experienced a number of ice ages and warming periods long before human activity could have caused them. Second, once people get used to steadily improving living standards, they’re not going to willingly forgo them by accepting higher taxes and new laws and restrictions to combat what they don’t see as a major threat. For their part,the alarmists pushed too hard in the hope of cashing in on the investments they made in alternate energies and any other fast ones they pulled in order to benefit from the unproven theories associated with the whole climate change charade. Finally, the public has dismissed their hysterics and has recognized all the conferences on the matter as nothing more than excuses for free rides to destinations where nothing has to be accomplished.
Well, if there is one thing that belongs in the dustbin of history, it is COP29.
The great news is that in a couple of months they will get back to finishing the Keystone XL pipeline!