{"id":170650,"date":"2021-11-01T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=170650"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:01:03","slug":"cop26-dead-in-the-water-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=170650","title":{"rendered":"COP26 \u2018dead in the water already\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1084\" data-attachment-id=\"170652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=170652\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"867,1300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Photo by cottonbro on &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/macro-photography-of-bubbles-in-water-9667549\/\\&quot; rel=\\&quot;nofollow\\&quot;&gt;Pexels.com&lt;\/a&gt;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;macro photography of bubbles in water&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pexels-photo-9667549\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo by cottonbro on &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/macro-photography-of-bubbles-in-water-9667549\/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pexels.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=723%2C1084&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"macro photography of bubbles in water\" class=\"wp-image-170652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?w=867&amp;ssl=1 867w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=640%2C960&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=816%2C1224&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-9667549.jpeg?resize=53%2C80&amp;ssl=1 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by cottonbro on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/macro-photography-of-bubbles-in-water-9667549\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says it looks like COP26 is \u201cdead in the water already\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve got to say, Scott Morrison might wonder &#8211; particularly with Queensland votes in mind &#8211; if he had to go net zero by 2050,\u201d Mr Clennell told Sky News host Peta Credlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know the UK and US wanted that, but I mean other countries like India, China, Russia, they\u2019re not committing to that, and that was the sticking point at the G20.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6MbAYztF-s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says it looks like COP26 is \u201cdead in the water already\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ve got to say, Scott Morrison might wonder &#8211; particularly with Queensland votes in mind &#8211; if he had to go net zero by 2050,\u201d Mr Clennell told Sky News host Peta Credlin. \u201cI know the UK and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Ioq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208983,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208983","url_meta":{"origin":170650,"position":0},"title":"COP26 president Alok Sharma threatens to quit if new PM ditches net zero commitment","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"17\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The ocean carbon cycle [credit: IAEA] COP26 is over, in case anyone hasn\u2019t noticed. \u201cAnyone aspiring to lead our country needs to demonstrate that they take this issue incredibly seriously,\u201d Alok Sharma says. 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