Looks like you neglected to mention the fact that India is building quite a lot of solar. And I do mean a lot. Solar’s cheap and India gets 300 days of sunlight per year so it’s in their self-interest. Why so selective with the truth?
Yes, the Keystone Cops will jet into the land of the oil sheiks, dine on exquisite food, waste countless kWh of electricity, and gnash their chemically whitened teeth, all in hopes of........Getting their own piece of a**. Sorry to be so vulgar, but who can't see through this orgy of opulence all in the name of making mankind live shorter, more miserable lives without efficient, plentiful, and affordable energy?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Plenary Speaker at COP28 was Dr. Marlo Lewis. In testimony before Congress last March, he said this:
If climate change were a global ecological and economic crisis, we would expect to find evidence of declining health and well-being over the past 50 to 70 years. Instead, we find dramatic improvements in global life expectancy, per capita income, food security, crop yields, and various health-related metrics.
Powerful evidence that the apocalypse is not coming after all.
The COP event is a site to behold. I've had the (mis)fortune of attending them. It was shocking to see the huge amount of work, money, and time put into the event. Everyone jockey's for the most sought after names to come by their booths ("centers") and dispense their knowledge, to have their programs/initiatives go viral, and most importantly to maintain the climate industry gravy train running full steam towards the economic and energy security cliff it leads towards. The self importance and haughtiness of the place was suffocating. I'll post my take on COP in the coming days to hopefully add to your great 'stack.
"At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said. Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
I fear that as long as we continue to pay the virtue-signalling class to attend these COP love festivals the impoverishment of the free world will accelerate. Sanity will not return until the money spigot is turned off.
Why does Kerry's face and manner inspire in me a desire to smash him in the face with a pie while he's on ice skates? Hmm, it could be that he's a facile idiot masquerading as a saviour in Brooks Brothers clothes.
Great article to read before getting the day started. In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's daughter says, "every time an bell rings an angel gets his wings." I have a similar motto, "every time political leaders gather to discuss hydrocarbon reduction I buy a few more shares of XOM."
“If the events of the last two years proved anything, it is that when faced with the choice of darkness and death (physical and economic), citizens and even their most idiotic “leaders” will ultimately choose electricity, heat and living standards over climate policies.”
Ah, once again we encounter the Fallacy of Rationality. Should our “leaders” catch on to the obvious truth that you can’t run a 21st Century country of some 330 million on windmills? Of course they should. Will they? That would require admitting that they have been wrong all along, and that their hated critics (“deniers!”) were right. Never going to happen.
Looks like you neglected to mention the fact that India is building quite a lot of solar. And I do mean a lot. Solar’s cheap and India gets 300 days of sunlight per year so it’s in their self-interest. Why so selective with the truth?
Kudos Again, environMENTAL!
Yes, the Keystone Cops will jet into the land of the oil sheiks, dine on exquisite food, waste countless kWh of electricity, and gnash their chemically whitened teeth, all in hopes of........Getting their own piece of a**. Sorry to be so vulgar, but who can't see through this orgy of opulence all in the name of making mankind live shorter, more miserable lives without efficient, plentiful, and affordable energy?
I just read Biden will not attend COP28.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Plenary Speaker at COP28 was Dr. Marlo Lewis. In testimony before Congress last March, he said this:
If climate change were a global ecological and economic crisis, we would expect to find evidence of declining health and well-being over the past 50 to 70 years. Instead, we find dramatic improvements in global life expectancy, per capita income, food security, crop yields, and various health-related metrics.
Powerful evidence that the apocalypse is not coming after all.
Testimony of Marlo Lewis, March 1, 2023
The COP event is a site to behold. I've had the (mis)fortune of attending them. It was shocking to see the huge amount of work, money, and time put into the event. Everyone jockey's for the most sought after names to come by their booths ("centers") and dispense their knowledge, to have their programs/initiatives go viral, and most importantly to maintain the climate industry gravy train running full steam towards the economic and energy security cliff it leads towards. The self importance and haughtiness of the place was suffocating. I'll post my take on COP in the coming days to hopefully add to your great 'stack.
This tells us all we need to know.
"At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said. Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
I fear that as long as we continue to pay the virtue-signalling class to attend these COP love festivals the impoverishment of the free world will accelerate. Sanity will not return until the money spigot is turned off.
Why does Kerry's face and manner inspire in me a desire to smash him in the face with a pie while he's on ice skates? Hmm, it could be that he's a facile idiot masquerading as a saviour in Brooks Brothers clothes.
The scary part is just how small the penetration of renewables are and yet how badly all economies implementing them are faring.
Success would be catastrophic
Simply, the morons leading the clueless.
In the meantime they pillory one of the greatest scientific minds of our time, Nobel Laureate John Clauser, because he does not agree.
"Washington Post Attack on Nobel Prize Winning Climate Sceptic Backfires Spectacularly"
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/washington-post-attack-on-nobel-prize
Great article to read before getting the day started. In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's daughter says, "every time an bell rings an angel gets his wings." I have a similar motto, "every time political leaders gather to discuss hydrocarbon reduction I buy a few more shares of XOM."
Wow that is a ton of information to absorb in one sitting. I will have to come back for another bite. Thank you.
“If the events of the last two years proved anything, it is that when faced with the choice of darkness and death (physical and economic), citizens and even their most idiotic “leaders” will ultimately choose electricity, heat and living standards over climate policies.”
Ah, once again we encounter the Fallacy of Rationality. Should our “leaders” catch on to the obvious truth that you can’t run a 21st Century country of some 330 million on windmills? Of course they should. Will they? That would require admitting that they have been wrong all along, and that their hated critics (“deniers!”) were right. Never going to happen.
The quote at the top is bonkers. The purpose of the UN is you secure (and obscure) US hegemony. Literally the opposite.