{"id":290967,"date":"2023-12-12T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290967"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:53:55","slug":"verge-of-complete-failure-but-otherwise-a-bonanza-olympic-fashion-parade-for-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290967","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVerge of complete failure\u201d but otherwise a bonanza Olympic fashion parade for billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scientifically the UN Conference of Parties (COP) has abjectly failed 27 times at the one thing it was supposedly set up to do, which was reduce carbon emissions and save the weather,\u00a0 but it\u2019s been a wild success on the Global-Trade-Party-and-Schmooze calendar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight the UN COP28 \u201cclimate\u201d conference is on the \u2018Verge of complete failure\u2019<\/a> says CNN \u2014 because they\u2019ve given up talking about \u201cphasing out fossil fuels\u201d and they\u2019re only trying to reduce<\/em> fossil fuels now (exactly the same as the last 27 meetings). No doubt tomorrow, headlines will tell us a historic deal, which is barely enough, was somehow clawed from the brink after an all-nighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The historic deal will amount to ambiguous subclauses that enable carbon grift and graft wherever carbon grafting and grifting were likely to happen anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28 conferences and nothing to show for it:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It was never about CO2 anyway, was it?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Whatever happens, the conference is a big success as the Planetary Fashion Parade where the virtue-signalers of the world unite to show off their cloaks of carbon-purity. In the background it\u2019s the place where billionaires and bankers bring their yachts and personal planes to meet Presidents and Kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supposedly 100,000 people signed up, and 70,000 \u201cwere expected\u201d to attend the Bureaucrat-Trade-Olympiad which used to be a kind of science conference 28 years ago, but is now a large trade convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How COP28 has become the new Davos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It costs a lot to stop global storms and floods you know. No wonder the Bankers and Bill Gates<\/a>, care so much about the climate, and go to a UN convention with lectures on climate sensitivity. It\u2019s like speed-dating for business deals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of zeroes\u2019: Why global CEOs flock to COP<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hans van Leeuwen, AFR<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026there are trillions of dollars needed to finance or develop projects that serve the energy transition. As World Bank chief Ajay Banga told a panel: \u201cEverything has a lot of zeroes attached to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an all-star cast: ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods, and the bosses of energy companies RWE, ENI and Engie. The global CEOs of PwC and EY. The heads of Brookfield, BlackRock and IFM Investors. The bosses of Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America and Macquarie. Rubbing shoulders with Stella McCartney and Chelsea Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such is the size of the trading and financial contingent, The Times<\/em> even called the COP28 event \u201cthe new Davos<\/a>\u201c. Apparently some billionaires are wondering whether they need to ski at Davos in January if they met all the private-jet-set celebrities at COP28<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science, is and always was just the excuse.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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