{"id":290949,"date":"2023-12-11T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290949"},"modified":"2023-12-11T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:49:24","slug":"dubious-climate-change-solutions-on-display-at-cop28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290949","title":{"rendered":"Dubious climate change solutions on display at COP28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Peter Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dubai, U.A.E.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week two of the UN climate summit in Dubai is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A climate alarmist letter<\/a> initially with 800 (now 1,400) signatories from business and government, \u201ccelebrities,\u201d faith leaders and others was just released with familiar cliches (\u201cwe are at a tipping point\u201d). They call for an \u201corderly phase out of fossil fuels\u201d and, by 2030, a tripling of renewable energy. How does all this occur? By the \u201cimplementation and ratcheting of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans well before COP30 in 2025.\u201d In other words, the letter is another attempted money grab, particularly from the U.S., including under the guise of more NDCs stemming from the Paris Accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLater is too late,\u201d the letter concludes, which we\u2019ve been reading for 30+ years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate policies come down to coercion. They entail refusing to finance fossil fuel development in poor countries, mandating electric vehicles, blocking gas pipeline construction, and so much else. This invariably<\/p>\n\n\n\n

raises the cost of fossil fuels to create a \u201cmarket\u201d for alternative energy. The word, \u201cmarket\u201d often used is deceitful and Orwellian since little or no market exists for so-called renewable energy, which necessitates mandates and taxpayer subsidies to force them on the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN does, however, attempt to find climate change solutions to usher in a \u201cjust transition\u201d to renewable energy, a commonplace term heard all during COP28. To that end, the UN conducted an \u201cEnergy Transition Changemakers\u201d competition among companies to develop carbon mitigation projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the award recipients was Fatima Al Suwaidi, a director at Masdar-Indonesia<\/a>, a global renewable energy firm. She presented on the company\u2019s floating solar plant in the Cirata Reservoir in the West Java province of Indonesia that produces 145 megawatts of power to serve 50,000 homes. The company plans to add to this capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are floating solar panels remotely scalable or practical? Being from New York State, home of the Catskill and Adirondack forest and mountains with scores of lakes and reservoirs, it is inconceivable to picture a bunch of floating solar panels taking over. Ms. Al Suwaidi told me afterwards that waterbodies do serve places like Indonesia, Japan and elsewhere since scare open and is taken up for agriculture or otherwise mountainous. Such projects are a reminder of the clear tension and conflict between\u00a0the climate change policies and traditional environmentalism and nature preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fake windmills at COP 28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Other projects included facilities to replace gas-powered heat with electricity and replace coal with massive battery storage facilities. Unanswered was the extent of government-taxpayer subsidies, reliance on battery ingredients under the control of the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship, and other thorny issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate awards ceremony occurred at the \u201cImpact\u201d building, which is high-tech theater with seating capacity 126 that viewed a stage and massive flat-screen equivalent in size to a stadium monitor. In between the stage and seating is a large ceiling fountain that \u201crained\u201d water down in circular fashion before the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Expo City campus in Dubai that hosted COP28 is a multi-acre campus the size of a small municipality of numerous buildings, all with state-of-the-art technology. Rest assured, this high-tech capacity could only be powered by fossil fuels, notwithstanding the handful of fake, purple-colored wind turbines wheeled in as a Potemkin display of some faux commitment to wind power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole set-up for COP28 far exceeded in scale the make-shift buildings for COP27 in Egypt last year, and the two convention centers used in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26 in 2021. It will be hard to equal the capacity of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to host a convention of 80,000 to 100,000 attendees, but the unofficial word is that next year\u2019s summit will be in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet Republic in southwestern Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another observation that will be continued to be monitored by CFACT: the increasing visibility of political agendas and causes that are glomming onto the climate issue, including banning meat, reigning in the clothing and fashion industries, opposing Israel and western military deterrence, demanding workers\u2019 rights, feminism, transgender rights, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of what side one comes down on these issues, the nexus to climate change is indirect or non-existent. For example, emissions from cow and fertilizer are a worthwhile an ancillary byproduct to feed the world\u2019s population with meat products and protein to improve diets; thus, banning beef would be absurd and harmful to millions of people. On the flip side, slavery and child labor in China and the Congo to produce EV batteries, turbines and solar panels warrants a campaign for workers\u2019 rights, though I noticed no panel discussion including these particulars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s evident that with billions in public and private money flowing to the climate change industry, more political agendas and causes are grifting aboard since, the rationale goes, everything<\/em> comes back to climate change. This will only lead to increasing and overweening government control of every aspect of individual life and society, including in ostensibly free, democratic nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0Dubious climate change solutions on display at COP28<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0CFACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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