{"id":294379,"date":"2024-01-09T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294379"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:43:54","slug":"political-realism-from-a-climate-alarmist-the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294379","title":{"rendered":"Political Realism from a Climate Alarmist (the beginning of the end?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe UN\u2019s COP process is almost as dead as its deeply dishonest posturing about \u2018keeping 1.5\u00b0C alive\u2019\u2026. With the COP process itself on life support, surely it\u2019s time to change tack\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sight of 80,000+ delegates unwittingly providing credibility to the fossil fuel incumbency that COP now unapologetically represents, has become sickening. Stay away. Call it out. Tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Jonathan Porritt (below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At least some climate crusaders are realistic in the lack of progress in the mitigation policy designed to dislodge consumer-driven, taxpayer-neutral energies (oil, gas, and coal) and substitute politically correct, inferior ones (wind, solar, batteries). It all gets back to energy density<\/em><\/strong>, a fundamental concept that climate activists do not want to understand (or do understand, but want pure de-industrialization).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent post by \u201csustainability campaigner and writer\u201d Jonathan Porritt, \u201cFrom COP 28 to COP 29<\/a>\u201d (January 4, 2024), has a number of realistic points regarding politics, while clinging to the narrative that Net Zero is achievable and at hand. It brings to mind what James Hansen said<\/a> about the Paris Climate Accord back in 2015:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a fraud really, a fake. It\u2019s just bullshit for them to say: \u201cWe\u2019ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.\u201d It\u2019s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Back to Jonathan Porritt. Here is much of his post (with my subtitles added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COP 28 limped to its predictably calamitous conclusion on December 13th<\/sup>. The heavily spun headline (\u201chistoric breakthrough\u201d) quickly dribbled away into the sands of Dubai, to be replaced by more \u201cbalanced\u201d commentaries from governments, businesses and some mainstream NGOs. Three weeks on, even that laboured balancing act now looks either totally na\u00efve or deeply dishonest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201chistoric breakthrough\u201d boiled down to one simple fact: that the final COP 28 Agreement refers explicitly to the burning of fossil fuels as the primary cause of today\u2019s climate breakdown \u2013 the first time that has happened in 30 years of futile climate diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It gets worse. I won\u2019t weary you with the forensic details of how critical sections of the Agreement have been worded to minimise any serious impact on petrostates and fossil fuel companies. It\u2019s so full of loopholes, weasel words, and vacuous generalisations, let alone unlimited boosterism for all-but-useless technologies like Carbon Capture and Storage, as to fast track this Agreement instantly into the pantheon of toxic suicide notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fake Progress for PR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Government delegation will have known that as they watched that gavel come down on the final text on December 13th<\/sup>. Some will have felt \u201cjob done\u201d; others \u201cgame over\u201d. Every business delegation, messing around in the margins of COP 28 trying to be useful, will also have known this. But will have avoided talking about it, assiduously averting their eyes from the monstrous heap of Emperors\u2019 clothes in the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worst of all, every NGO with any serious knowledge of the gap between what the science tells us today and the policies now needed to narrow that gap, will have known this. But they held dutifully to the line that COP 28 demonstrated \u201creal progress\u201d \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realism, Anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My criticism here applies just as much to those NGOs as to all those government delegations and businesses enjoying the latest COP tourism offer. They\u2019re either totally na\u00efve or deeply dishonest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I hate to have to say this, but that particularly applies to many of those \u201cstubborn optimists\u201d or \u201cresolute climate solutionists\u201d who still cannot accept just how fast things are changing around the world. \u2026 [T]hey continue, COP after COP, to offer up a \u201csolutions agenda\u201d that they know means very little faced with the raw power of today\u2019s fossil fuel incumbency\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong: I\u2019m not saying that the work of these organisations (including Forum for the Future) isn\u2019t still critical: it is. In fact, it\u2019s going to be even more critical over the next few years. People do indeed need to know that the transition away from fossil fuels is both necessary and absolutely doable \u2013 in a remarkably short period of time. That\u2019s still the central premise of all the talks I\u2019m doing these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to remain both honest and effective, we solutionists must now preface that authentic solutions agenda, on every possible occasion, with this harsh and sometimes unbearable set of truths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. There is literally no combination of emergency interventions, at this stage, which will keep the average global temperature increase below 1.5\u00b0C by the end of the century. As a target, 1.5\u00b0C is no longer on life-support: it is definitively dead. Indeed, it\u2019s looking increasingly possible that the average temperature may temporarily reach [an increase of] 1.5\u00b0C this year \u2013 primarily because of the cumulative impact of the current El Nino.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. That doesn\u2019t automatically mean an irreversible slide on to 2\u00b0C and beyond. But if we\u2019re not completely honest about why we have failed so comprehensively to protect 1.5\u00b0C, then all future efforts to protect 2\u00b0C will fail just as comprehensively, for exactly the same reasons. Stubborn optimism that denies this undeniable realpolitik is now a massive barrier to forcing today\u2019s politicians to narrow that science-policy gap for real.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The UN\u2019s COP process is almost as dead as its deeply dishonest posturing about \u201ckeeping 1.5\u00b0C alive\u201d. This has serious implications for all those NGOs still hoping to justify the millions of dollars their funders and members provide them with. With the COP process itself on life support, surely it\u2019s time to change tack, prioritising a last-ditch global \u201csave our COP\u201d campaign, demanding hard-edged reforms? This has to happen before the whole circus descends on CoP 29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a country even more corrupt and just as much in thrall to the curse of fossil fuels as the United Arab Emirates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should also be put on notice. Forced to comply with the UN\u2019s highly politicised, consensus-based decision-making process, its Assessment Reports (and occasional Special Reports) do not tell the truth. The IPCC has rarely managed to reflect the frontline science going on all around the world; its generic reassurances (that 1.5\u00b0C is still alive, for instance) are now a travesty of what good, responsible science is all about\u2026. [T]he IPCC \u2026 refus[es] to speak the real truth about accelerating climate change to the world\u2019s real power-brokers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. All multinational companies should now threaten to boycott CoP 29 \u2013 unless a list of \u201csave our COP\u201d conditions are met. And this should include banning the representatives of all fossil fuel companies. The sight of 80,000+ delegates unwittingly providing credibility to the fossil fuel incumbency that COP now unapologetically represents, has become sickening. Stay away. Call it out. Tell the truth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I know a lot of my colleagues in both the NGO and business worlds will resent these comments: \u201cunreasonable\u201d, \u201chectoring\u201d, \u201cextremist\u201d \u2013 these are just a few of the responses I get these days. But where, I ask you, have reasonable, calm, middle-of-the-road voices got us over the last 30 years? Irrefutably, just a whole lot closer to that point where we find ourselves tipped over into irreversible climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There\u2019s too much political naivety at the heart of today\u2019s solutions agenda. Do any of these genuinely caring, passionately committed, reasonable solutionists seriously think that today\u2019s fossil fuel incumbency (embedded so deeply in both governments and the whole global business community) gives a flying fuck about what they think, say or do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I understand why few of my erstwhile colleagues will be keen to join me in taking a different path \u2013 in advocating on behalf of those who believe that civil disobedience is now the only way forward: Just Stop Oil, XR and so on. For those of us who\u2019ve worked inside \u201cthe system\u201d (as I have done since stepping down as Director of Friends of the Earth in 1990), it\u2019s deeply uncomfortable to have to acknowledge how little real impact we\u2019ve made during that time \u2013 both on the climate and the biodiversity fronts. There have been so many dead horses that we should have stopped flogging a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For me personally, that realisation kicked in around 2010, when the Tories came back into power, and even more definitively after 2015. It was clear then that there is no accommodation to be had with ideological zealots of that ilk, still locked in a deadly embrace with an industry that will go on prioritising shareholder dividends over the future of life on Earth \u2013 until we stop them\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Yes<\/strong>: Government delegations, businesses, and NGOs \u201cenjoying the latest COP tourism offer [are] either totally na\u00efve or deeply dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Yes<\/strong>: Fossil fuel companies are part of the Climate Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    True<\/strong>: Carbon capture and storage is a boondoggle, but that\u2019s what you get by politicizing energy. \u2018Big Oil\u2019 is part of the Industrial Climate Complex, indeed. Greenwashers, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Think<\/strong>: \u201c\u2026 fossil fuel incumbency\u201d is about energy density and consumers. It is not some accident or artificial construct created by a vast conspiracy of some sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Wrong<\/strong>: \u201c\u2026 the transition away from fossil fuels is both necessary and absolutely doable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Good News<\/strong>: Temperatures are leaving the COP goals of 1.5C and even 2.0C in the dust. And the world will do just fine so long as climate policy does not prevent adaptation to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A Plea to Climate Alarmists Be Realistic and Happier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When will the likes of Jonathan Porritt shed their deep-ecology skin to realize that politics is the wrong answer; that industrial wind and solar are threats to the living space; that CO2 is not a pollutant but beneficial to global greening; that climate-model extreme scenarios are just that; and wealth-is-health adaptation is the way of the future\u2013as it has been in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stay radical but get real. Reject the Climate Industrial Complex for freedom from Statism and for human betterment. No more COPs, greenwashing, fossil-fuel boondoggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The post\u00a0Political Realism from a Climate Alarmist (the beginning of the end?)<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0Master Resource<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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