{"id":290121,"date":"2023-12-05T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290121"},"modified":"2023-12-05T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T17:37:36","slug":"shock-cop28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290121","title":{"rendered":"Shock COP28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"420\" data-attachment-id=\"290123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=290123\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?fit=963%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"963,560\" 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;&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;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?fit=723%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?resize=723%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?w=963&amp;ssl=1 963w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-05-183253.png?resize=768%2C447&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FriendsofScience\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/ytc\/APkrFKYQpM63sarMDMotE_oFvtPHZQ8OuKFEUGwRnzwN=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FriendsofScience\">Friends of Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 70,000 climate activists, government leaders and influencers are at COP28 &#8211; the big UN Climate Conference &#8211; set in fabulous Dubai, a miracle city that rises from the desert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the main objectives for activists is to phase out fossil-fuels to allegedly stop global warming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine their shock when the president of this year&#8217;s COP Conference, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, said that there is &#8216;no science&#8217; behind demands for the phase-out of fossil fuels! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course this rather spoiled the party for the activist set; some had been dreaming of crushing Big Oil and Big Natural Gas; other had been planning to put a wealth or giant carbon dioxide pollution tax on Big Oil and Big Natural Gas; others had been dreaming of how to force Big Oil and Big Natural Gas to finance the triple the renewables demanded by activists; other want to impose a global carbon tax LAW. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter how you look at it, they are all using the fantasy claims of a  to try and pick the pockets of energy corporations, and to make ordinary people poor by driving up the cost of everything through these draconian energy taxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video explainer walks through some of what the reactions were and also gives people a glimpse of the energy and materials that went into the building of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, surely the most prominent reference to the miracles that hydrocarbons help humans create. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the climate cult is not amused by Sultan al-Jaber&#8217;s comments and are just digging in their heels.<\/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\/SHk2S6XlzsU?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Science Over 70,000 climate activists, government leaders and influencers are at COP28 &#8211; the big UN Climate Conference &#8211; set in fabulous Dubai, a miracle city that rises from the desert. 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