{"id":290000,"date":"2023-12-05T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290000"},"modified":"2023-12-05T06:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:24:30","slug":"un-cop-28-climate-conference-off-to-bipolar-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290000","title":{"rendered":"UN COP 28 climate conference off to bipolar start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Peter Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubai, United Arab Emirates<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest UN climate conference of the year did not start off as planned. Prominent figures, conference chairman Sultan Al Jaber, and two well-known U.S. climate leaders spoke way, way past each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sultan spoke an unvarnished truth (video<\/a>) that went way beyond the usual group-think so pervasive at these mass climate gatherings when he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what\u2019s going to achieve 1.5\u00b0C\u201d above preindustrial levels \u2026 Show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wasn\u2019t in the UN climate script!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a high-level proclamation couldn\u2019t be left unchallenged. First up was U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, who pledged to lead all Americans, if not the world, headlong back to the proverbial caves. Kerry announced America would be joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a pact of nearly 60 countries that have promised to accelerate the phasing out of coal-fired power stations. \u201cWe will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President and climate pooh-bah emeritus, chimed in. He slammed Sultan Al Jaber, saying his, and the UAE\u2019s, position as overseer of international negotiations on global warming this year was an abuse of public trust<\/a>. \u201cThey are abusing the public\u2019s trust by naming the CEO of one of the largest and least responsible oil companies in the world as head of the COP,\u201d Gore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One has to feel for the Sultan, who probably thought chairing the COP meant dealing with business people and reasonable policy experts, not unhinged climate fanatics.  He should have known better. CFACT could have told him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that backdrop, the conference resumed Monday, and CFACT\u2019s team went straight to work. One UN panel CFACT attended was to \u201ccreate feasible and just transitions\u201d to achieve carbon \u201cnet-zero\u201d by 2050 (or whenever).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all technologically \u201cfeasible\u201d to get there, panelists insisted, if only enough countries would do what they are supposed to.  The big impediment to net zero, they explained, is \u201cinstitutional.\u201d  Nations just won\u2019t play ball. Among them was the People\u2019s Republic of China, one panelist acknowledged.  That was a refreshing change from the usual blind eye climate campaigners point toward China.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One panelist was Isabela Tagomori, who works on integrated assessment of carbon dioxide Removal (CDR) at Utrecht University. Tagomori presented on \u201cjust transition scenarios,\u201d which is all about infusing climate \u201cjustice\u201d into determining the redistribution of \u201cglobal carbon budget investments\u201d among nations and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tagomori outlined multiple scenarios, which she called global \u201cfairness principles\u201d for \u201cdistributional justice.\u201d She wants to ensure \u201cwell-being among justice communities,\u201d in contrast to economic growth to increase prosperity for people at all income levels. The scenario she leaned toward most was the \u201cegalitarian\u201d approach, that is, wealthy and non-wealthy societies are to be made equal in resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the question-and-answer period, I challenged her on this preferred egalitarian principle and pointed out that conflating redistributing resources among people and nations based on the weather smacked of Marxism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She countered by saying her organization\u2019s effort was merely to collect \u201cmany different (justice) dimensions.\u201d  When exposed, climate campaigners retreat to vague, opaque language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite her nimble backpedaling from her egalitarian (i.e. Marxist) principle, it is clear that this panel well illustrated the overall UN climate agenda.  Extracting billions, indeed trillions, of dollars from the U.S. and other \u201cwealthy\u201d Western nations (which are drowning in their own debt) to redistribute under the guise of \u201cclimate justice\u201d is a  central element of the COP28, and past summits. They are counting on politicians to glibly print and spend dollars, and pile more debt on to future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0UN COP 28 Climate Conference off to bipolar start<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0CFACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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