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By\u00a0<\/strong>Steve Goreham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0United Nations<\/a>\u00a0Climate Conference begins on Thursday in Dubai,\u00a0United Arab Emirates.<\/a>\u00a0More than 70,000 delegates are expected to\u00a0attend<\/a>\u00a0from almost 200 nations. The\u00a0COP28 event<\/a>\u00a0will emit large amounts of carbon dioxide but is unlikely to have any measurable effect on global temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COP28 is the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties, an annual event that has been going on since 1995. The Conference of the Parties is the decision-making body of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is an international agreement that was established in 1994 by the U.N. with the intention of \u201cpreventing dangerous human interference with the climate system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Francis, King Charles III, Bill Gates, John Kerry, and many other\u00a0dignitaries<\/a>\u00a0will lead the 70,000 attendees. Heads of state, industry and business leaders, leaders of environmental groups, and media representatives will also attend. The Nature Conservancy plans to\u00a0send<\/a>\u00a0representatives from 20 nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attendees will arrive in the UAE primarily by private jet or commercial aircraft, powered by jet fuel. For each kilogram of jet fuel\u00a0burned<\/a>\u00a0, 3.16 kilograms of carbon dioxide will be emitted. They will then travel from the airport to Dubai\u2019s Expo City by limousine or taxi, fueled by gasoline or diesel fuel. Some may take electric vehicles, but these EVs will be charged by UAE electricity, 82% of which is\u00a0produced<\/a>\u00a0by natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, COP28 delegates will inevitably push for the end of the use of hydrocarbon fuels, which are coal, oil, and natural gas. Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, who is likely to attend, stated<\/a> in 2021: \u201cIf governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas, and coal, from now \u2014 from this year.\u201d Many delegates support Birol\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But most of the conference attendees will have cellphones, which are made from plastic from oil or natural gas. They will be wearing suits, ties, shoes, and other clothing, much of which will be composed of synthetic fibers from hydrocarbons. They will dine on food produced by farms that use synthetic nitrogen fertilizer created from ammonia, produced using natural gas or coal fuels. Hydrocarbons drive our modern society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing nations, too, need oil, gas, and coal to raise the standard of living for their people. Renewables provided only a tiny part of the energy consumed<\/a> in developing countries in 2022, such as in Africa (2.4%), India (5.9%), the Middle East (0.7%), and Southeast Asia (6.3%). More than 1,000 coal-fired power plants<\/a> are now being planned or under construction across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, developing countries appear to be all in for world decarbonization, with heavy participation at annual U.N. climate conferences. And why shouldn\u2019t they be? Poorer nations seek billions in wealth transfers from richer nations in the name of climate change. Prior to the COP26 conference in Scotland in 2021, for example, India\u00a0demanded<\/a>\u00a0$1 trillion per year from wealthy countries to help it reach \u201cnet zero\u201d by 2070. About 25% of all financial aid to the developing world now\u00a0goes<\/a>\u00a0to fund climate-related projects, up from only 4% in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N.\u2019s attendees don\u2019t seem to mind since its climate conferences are already steeped in hypocrisy. Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, is well known for his CO2-emitting private jet flights, but he considers his work too important to travel by alternatives that emit less CO2. Gates, the billionaire, built and owns a 66,000 square foot mansion<\/a> in Medina, Washington, which uses more than 20 times the electricity of a typical U.S. home. Climate change advocates demand emissions reductions from society that they are unwilling to observe themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that it matters much, anyway. There is little evidence that the annual COP climate conferences held over the last 27 years have had any effect on the climate. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show<\/a> that the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere continues to rise steadily. In 2020, global industrial emissions of CO2 declined by more than 8% during the COVID-19 crisis, but this decline was undetectable in the rise in atmospheric CO2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor has there been any significant change in energy consumption. World energy consumption has tripled since 1965. From 2004 to 2021, the world spent about $5 trillion to promote renewable energy and installed more than 300,000 wind turbines. But in 2021, coal, oil, and natural gas provided<\/a> 81% of global energy consumption, the same percentage as in 1999. The COP climate conferences can best be characterized as futile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing rising faster than world energy use is COP attendance. About 5,000 attended<\/a> each of the first five COPs, but this rose to more than 27,000 for COP15 in Copenhagen and more than 30,000 for COP21 in Paris. This year\u2019s conference may have more than 70,000 attendees, but \u201cthe sky\u2019s the limit\u201d for future attendance at this carbon dioxide-emitting event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. says climate change is \u201cthe defining issue of our time.\u201d If we all live long enough, we may have to endure the 50th Conference of the Parties. And it will be just as futile and pointless then as it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve\u00a0Goreham<\/a>\u00a0is a speaker on energy, the environment, and public policy and the author of the new bestselling\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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