{"id":228339,"date":"2022-11-09T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228339"},"modified":"2022-11-09T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:34:32","slug":"cop-27-un-climateers-hoisted-by-their-own-alarmist-petards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228339","title":{"rendered":"COP 27: UN climateers hoisted by their own alarmist petards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The purpose of United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) gatherings, like the one taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt November 7-18, is supposedly to \u201csave the planet\u201d from a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d caused by \u201cwealthy fossil-fuel-burning nations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after years of jet-setting around the globe, it\u2019s safe to say these conferences have become a laughingstock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, so maybe COP-21 in Paris was sort of a high point. It was there that every nation on Earth signed a \u201clegally binding\u201d agreement to slash fossil fuel use \u2013 which they believed would limit global warming to 2.0 or even 1.5 degrees Celsius. They convinced themselves this could be done by controlling \u201cgreenhouse gas\u201d emissions that somehow replaced natural forces that caused past climate changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, however, it achieved nothing.  How could it? Many greenhouse-gas-belching countries, like China and India, were given a pass in the agreement, while  many poor countries simply signed onboard because rich countries promised them $100 billion annually for climate change reparations, adaptation and \u201calternative energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expect COP-27 in Sharm El-Sheikh to produce more of the same. The UN conference does, however, present some major dilemmas for climateers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holding it in the northeastern corner of Africa will dramatically underscore how desperately energy-deprived Africa needs oil, gas and coal to reduce poverty and disease; how close the continent is to the petroleum-rich Middle East; how Africa itself is endowed with abundant, untapped fossil fuel resources; and how its development has been stymied by rich countries that finance only wind and solar projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor countries are determined to realize their God-given rights to develop, as much as long-wealthy nations have, as much as China has, using fossil fuels<\/em>, until other energy sources are proven to work just as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The looming COP-27 dilemmas also result from decades-long hype about climate cataclysms and an \u201curgent need\u201d to \u201creset\u201d the world\u2019s energy, economic and social foundations, to bring about \u201ca fairer, more sustainable, more resilient, climate friendly future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, European and other countries are finally realizing that they still need fossil fuel energy \u2013 that wind and solar are too expensive and unreliable to power modern economies, preserve jobs, and keep people warm during frigid winters. Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has driven this home dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Europe wants to switch from Russia to Africa for oil, gas and maybe coal \u2013 while still refusing to finance fossil fuel projects for Africa\u2019s own needs and telling Africa to rely on wind and solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich countries are also saying they cannot afford<\/a> to give poor African, Asian and Latin American countries $100 billion per year that they\u2019d promised in Paris \u2013 much less the $1.3 trillion<\/em> per year<\/em> that poor countries are now demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, rich countries are starting to realize they won\u2019t be rich much longer, unless they keep using fossil fuels, which they aren\u2019t willing to produce at home \u2013 but are happy to import. Meanwhile, China is saying it will begin reducing its fossil fuel use and emissions only when it makes sense to do so<\/a>, perhaps decades from now. India and other countries have expressed similar positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can rich countries say \u201cNo\u201d to paying trillions \u2013 if they caused a climate apocalypse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how can they say \u201cYes\u201d, if they are no longer rich? If the climate hysteria they launched has resulted in policies that are destroying the abundant, reliable, affordable energy that made them wealthy \u2013 and forcing them to \u201cdeindustrialize,\u201d eliminate millions of jobs, slash their economic growth and living standards, and leave their citizens freezing jobless in the dark?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put another way, rich nations are being\u00a0hoisted by their own petard<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 their economies are being blown up by the very policies they\u2019ve imposed on themselves and want to impose on the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re destroying the energy systems that made them prosperous, with nothing in the foreseeable future to replace the coal, gas and nuclear power plants they are literally and figuratively blowing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for honest soul-searching. The only \u201cGreat Reset\u201d the world needs now is one that rethinks the dominant Doomsday climate narrative. The world urgently needs to recognize:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* There is no climate crisis<\/em>. What we are experiencing today is little different from climate fluctuations throughout Earth\u2019s history \u2013 including the Ice Ages<\/a>, Little Ice Age<\/a>, and Roman<\/a> and Medieval<\/a> Warm Periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Computer models cannot possibly reflect all the forces that govern climate and weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* There is no scientific basis for eradicating fossil fuels and trying to sustain economies and living standards with millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of battery modules, thousands of miles of new transmission lines, and countless other technologies \u2013 all of which would require mining, materials processing, manufacturing and installations at scales unprecedented in human history \u2013 with horrendous\u00a0environmental and human rights cons<\/a>equences at every stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Great Reset message that needs to be driven home \u2013 loudly, forcefully and repeatedly \u2013 in Sharm El-Sheikh over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free market think tanks will be there, including ours, working hard to achieve that. Let\u2019s hope more than a few countries will be listening to our message, and that it rises above the sound of clinking champagne glasses and roar of private jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at\u00a0Real Clear Energy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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