{"id":351410,"date":"2024-11-16T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351410"},"modified":"2024-11-16T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:02:39","slug":"cop29-confronting-narratives-and-absurdities-at-climate-summit-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351410","title":{"rendered":"COP29: Confronting narratives and absurdities at climate summit (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"351413\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=351413\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" 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=\"0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0r0_0_1280_720_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/11\/16\/cop29-confronting-narratives-and-absurdities-at-climate-summit\/\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/petemurphy\/\">Peter Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>There is no shortage of \u201cdenialism\u201d among climate alarmists<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Baku, Azerbaijan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no shortage of contradictions and la-la-land thinking at United Nations\u2019 annual climate summits, and COP29 in Azerbaijan is no exception. Consider just a sampling below, both from news accounts (Part I) and on-the-ground encounters (Part II to follow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The host country president, Ilham Aliyev, extolled the blessings of oil and gas as a \u201cgift of God,\u201d even as his minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Mukhtar Babayev, also the COP29 President, the day before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/11\/11\/beggers-banquet-opens-the-un-climate-summit\/\">screamed<\/a>&nbsp;climate alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina, the world\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/geography\/largest-countries-in-the-world\/\">eighth<\/a>&nbsp;largest nation with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worlddata.info\/largest-economies.php\">23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;largest economy, on day 3 of COP20,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2024\/11\/13\/the-trump-effect-argentina-suddenly-withdraws-negotiators-from-cop29-summit-after-just-3-days\/\">pulled<\/a>&nbsp;the plug on its participation and ordered its delegates home. Evidently, Argentine President Javier Mileu has had enough of this participatory folly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heads of state among the world\u2019s largest nations are eschewing COP29 as well, including China, India, Russia, France, and Germany. They are just not that into it. For the United States, outgoing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both of whom attended previous COP meetings, were wise to save the jet fuel since both are now lame ducks. Biden\u2019s senior climate fanatic, John Podesta, did&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2024\/11\/11\/remarks-as-delivered-by-john-podesta-press-conference-at-the-29th-un-climate-change-conference-cop-29-in-baku-azerbaijan\/\">show up<\/a>&nbsp;to reassure the summit that the cause continues in the U.S., tout Biden\u2019s record, and regurgitate junk science; but, he will follow his boss out of power in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been written, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/11\/09\/cop-29-expect-trump-victory-to-turn-un-summit-anti-climatic\/\">by me<\/a>, about how Donald Trump\u2019s imminent return to the U.S. presidency would cast a dark cloud on this year\u2019s climate summit. No doubt the senior UN bureaucrats and developing nations are concerned about the likelihood the new administration will shut off the climate money spigot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, among the 50,000 summit attendees (a figure I heard disputed as too high), the beat nonetheless goes on. Their lives revolve around existential climate change in the bubbles of NGOs, government bureaucracies, media, foundations and universities. It also amazes me how many thousands of people who attend these COP meetings wander the facility or park themselves to look at their phones without bothering with sit through the multiple sessions. And, there will still be billions of dollars made available for climate \u201cmitigation\u201d and \u201cadaption,\u201d so most will stay employed in this lucrative climate industry, even without U.S. taxpayer largess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means the ongoing climate denialism of COP29 will continue, that is, denial about the&nbsp;<strong><em>inability<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;of mankind to alter the natural, ongoing vicissitudes of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no shortage of \u201cdenialism\u201d among climate 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