Posted on 12/03/2023 3:26:53 AM PST by RandFan
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.
Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
Al Jaber made the comments in ill-tempered responses to questions from Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a live online event on 21 November. As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’s state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest.
More than 100 countries already support a phase-out of fossil fuels and whether the final Cop28 agreement calls for this or uses weaker language such as “phase-down” is one of the most fiercely fought issues at the summit and may be the key determinant of its success.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
On one hand, I am not a big fan of fossil fuels because it profits do help the Islamists way too much.
On the other hand, I am almost equally (if not more) skeptical of the Climate Change crowd. I think most of them are Marxists whose real plan to achieve “sustainability” is to kill of billions of humans.
So....pick your poison.
prison
Three cheers for Tommy Gold!
Carbon dioxide is a VERY small constituent of the total atmosphere of earth, some 400 parts per million, and is relatively heavy at ambient temperatures, sinking to the bottom of the air and quickly absorbed by the surface waters of the earth, and by living plants in the process of photosynthesis, creating carbohydrates and free oxygen as a byproduct. Without carbon dioxide, there could not be adequate quantities of oxygen regenerated into the atmosphere, and there would be a widespread die-back of most animal life. Of course, the decomposing corpses would give off considerable carbon dioxide, quickly restoring the balance of carbon dioxide to its equilibrium levels, which vary between maybe 300 parts per million, up to 1,000 or so parts per million.
Carbon dioxide, as a “greenhouse” gas, is vastly less important to heat absorption and retention than a highly variable constituent of the atmosphere, water vapor. The water molecule can exist simultaneously as a solid (ice), a liquid (water) and as a gas (water vapor or steam), at the so-called “triple point”, 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Centigrade. Carbon dioxide cannot, as it can exist only as a gas at normal sea-level conditions, but under extreme cooling, it becomes a solid, which sublimates directly from a solid to the gaseous state as it warms, with no intermediate liquid state except under extreme pressure.
Without the liquid state, carbon dioxide cannot retain the heat energy, or release it, under normal atmospheric conditions as they exist on earth. So its effect on warming or cooling of the atmosphere is very minimal. But water, which absorbs considerable heat energy as it passes from solid (ice) to liquid (water) and on into gas (water vapor), also gives up that energy as well, as the temperature decreases, eventually reverting back to the solid form. This is what moderates the temperature of the atmosphere, and by conduction, radiation, or condensation/vaporization, keeps the rest of the earth in a relatively narrow band of temperature, something carbon dioxide cannot do.
... and thus commenced the “War on Water”!
Guterres is a commie moron
Thanks, the figure is from: Hot weather and climate change – a mountain from a molehill?
Climate changes over hundreds and thousands of years. Data from ice cores show several periods during the last 10,000 years that were warmer than today, including the Roman Climate Optimum at the height of the Roman Empire and the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings settled southwest Greenland. The warm and cool eras since the last ice age were due to natural climate cycles, not greenhouse gas emissions. The “on record” period that NOAA references is only a tiny part of the climatic picture.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/03/hot-weather-and-climate-change-a-mountain-from-a-molehill/
All of this crap is a manufactured panic designed to goad the less-intelligent masses into complying with agendas that increase the power and wealth of the self-appointed elites at the expense of everyone else they deem beneath them.
All these super-villains with nary a James Bond to deal with them. I'd do it but I got old and broken down before seeing it. LOL
I just copied and pasted this into my notes on my phone so I can use it whenever posting about “climate change”. Thank you! More people need to understand this!
There is no such thig as “fossil fuel”, that is a convenient fiction used to make people believe that the supply of hydrocarbon fuels extracted from the earth is a finite amount.
News alert. The deep crust of earth at the boundary of the rocky crust with the molten deeper layers, continues to generate new quantities of various hydrocarbons in that hellish zone known as the Mohorovičić discontinuity. Supercritical carbon dioxide acts as a powerful solvent, and a reactant in the millions of complex chemical reactions with what is also supercritical steam, water vapor compressed back into a liquid, forming new hydrocarbon compounds known as kerogens. These compounds are then forced into the rocky layers above, where they become reservoirs of crude oil, or refilling “dry” reservoirs that have been abandoned as oil wells years ago. Together with these kerogens, huge quantities of natural gas, composed of methane, ethane, propane and butane, also accumulate, and recharge the crevices and cavities within the rocky crust, to be released by “fracking”, a process that extracts this important energy source.
So the earth’s crust is generating NEW hydrocarbons, and thus meets the definition of a “renewable” energy source.
It takes the truth to overcome lies.
You go, guy...just don't be obnoxious with a loud non-muffler. I have to constantly monitor the gas stations for the lowest prices because of "I Did That" ass-hat's directive to help destroy America.
Hey Elon Musk - we love your brilliance but either perfect electric cars or admit it's a failure and provide a better option.
I love it!
Affirmative Action and “inclusivity” bites the propagandists in the ass!
There’s no doubt in my mind that they made this guy their president because he’s Arab who could be used to showcase how inclusive they are.
I’ve got a flowmaster 10 muffler. Sounds nice ideling butnot loud... I like hearing my vehicles which is another reason I’d never own an EV.
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