{"id":460210,"date":"2026-08-04T03:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=460210"},"modified":"2026-08-04T03:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:19:51","slug":"india-to-climate-cartel-count-us-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=460210","title":{"rendered":"India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CO2 Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is the story of India\u2019s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. India has walked away from its bid to host the COP33 UN climate conference<\/a>, and the world\u2019s climate press has treated it as a footnote rather than the signal it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India had spent years projecting a rising voice in the development of climate policy, and hosting a COP33 is the closest thing the bureaucracy has to a coronation. Then, quietly, without public explanation, India withdrew its offer. No press conference. No elaboration. Just a government stepping back from a role for which it auditioned for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is India has run the numbers on the cost of a net zero energy transition for a population of 1.4 billion climbing out of poverty, and it does not like what it sees. The notion that India should shackle its economy by adhering to restrictive climate policies, while its people still grapple with energy deficits, is illogical and morally indefensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data India Doesn\u2019t Need a Summit to See<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the narrative of a rapidly degrading Indian environment due to energy consumption is demonstrably false. India\u2019s own environmental indicators do not support the apocalyptic framing of the climate obsessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, hydrologists and climate modelers have relied on Himalayan snowfall estimates to forecast water availability for hundreds of millions of people across South Asia\u2019s most fertile Ganges plains. Their projections of a seriously drier India, it turns out, were wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team of researchers, including scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, the U.K. Met Office, and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, used frozen high-altitude lakes as natural pressure sensors rather than relying on undersized conventional rain gauges. What they found was startling: In a single winter, the best available snowfall models had underestimated seasonal snow<\/a> over the Lake Hampta area of Himachal Pradesh by 37%. The peer-reviewed study<\/a> makes clear that conventional instruments have been missing large volumes of snow for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the vegetation story, which cuts even harder against the doom narrative. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology modeled how India\u2019s landscape would respond to a high-emissions future using the same family of computer models climate activists cite when warning of catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was not desertification. It was the opposite. Gross primary production, a measure of how much carbon dioxide India\u2019s forests, croplands, and other vegetation are absorbing, rose from roughly 729 grams of carbon per square meter annually in 1985 to about 830 by 2014 and is projected to nearly double<\/a> to around 1,305 by the year 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Layered onto that are the steady expansion of India\u2019s forest cover over the past two decades and the recovering populations of endangered species such as tigers and Asiatic lions, successes resulting from conservation and habitat management rather than from decarbonization mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this means India has stopped outsourcing its environmental judgment to a U.N. process that treats every barrel of oil and every ton of coal as a moral affront, regardless of its benefit in lighting a clinic for children or powering a steel plant that employs thousands. A country that still has hundreds of millions of citizens without reliable access to electricity does not have the luxury of treating energy poverty as an acceptable trade-off for leadership in the climate industrial complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why India has expanded coal production and struck oil and gas deals with the United States and Persian Gulf producers. It has resisted binding emissions targets that would cap its own industrial growth, unwilling to commit to far-off targets for emission reductions. India\u2019s relinquishment of COP33 hosting rights is perhaps the most visible expression of a strategic direction that has been building for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A country that the entire architecture of climate financing is supposedly built to help just declined to host the party. If climate summits worked as advertised, that would be unthinkable. But it is no longer, and pretending otherwise will not make the next withdrawal any less predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published at American Greatness<\/a>, August 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the <\/em>CO2 Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India. He served as a research associate with the Changing Oceans Research Unit at University of British Columbia, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. <\/p>\n

And that is the story of India\u2019s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":460212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time.\n\nAnd that is the story of India's explicit rejection of the global net zero movement.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691825345,691831632,691818901,691819635,691844453,691818237,691818154,691819148],"class_list":["post-460210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carbon-dioxide-co","tag-climate-financing","tag-climate-industrial-complex-cic","tag-climate-modelers","tag-coal","tag-cop33-un-climate-conference","tag-india","tag-net-zero","tag-oil-and-gas","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1VIK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":421397,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421397","url_meta":{"origin":460210,"position":0},"title":"Climate Alarmism\u2019s Credibility Sinks Under Weight of Ecological Evidence","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/15\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The house of cards built on computer models and manipulated emotions is collapsing under the weight of a stubborn, inconvenient reality. 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