Climate Negotiations At A Crossroads
The post Climate Negotiations At A Crossroads appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. COP28 Dubai cartoonsbyjosh.com Another year will soon pass, another ‘Conference of the Parties’ to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“COP”) will convene. This time the 28th COP will meet in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during 30 November – 12 December. Doubtless, the legacy media will soon be inundating us with wall-to-wall coverage of yet another attempt at the UN concert of nations to ‘save the planet’. Now that we are three years short of three decades of COP negotiations to handle an asserted “climate emergency” allegedly caused by human-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, what progress have we made? Demons and Saviors at COP meetings The “settled science” narrative put out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the layperson and the mass media is contained in a government-approved “summary for policy makers.” These SPMs are based on Assessment Reports (the 6th synthesis report was published in March 2023) compiled by scientists who are themselves often appointed by governments. Following each of these summary reports, countless mainstream media stories offer a steady drumbeat of alarmist news of rising temperatures, surging sea-levels, disappearing ice and increasing frequency of extreme weather with floods, storms, drought, and wildfires. The underlying message is constant: manmade GHG emissions are the culprit and unless modern energy systems are radically transformed, the Earth is doomed. Since the first COP was convened in 1995 in Berlin (and held annually since, except for 2020), the rhetoric against fossil fuels has ramped up. The demonization of the oil and gas industry at COP26 held in Glasgow in 2021 was palpable. Oil and gas industry executives were ‘not invited’ (coal, of course, being beyond the pale). Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO stated that the company would be absent from the climate talks after being told it…
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COP28 Dubai cartoonsbyjosh.com Another year will soon pass, another ‘Conference of the Parties’ to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“COP”) will convene. This time the 28th COP will meet in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during 30 November – 12 December. Doubtless, the legacy media will soon be inundating us with wall-to-wall coverage of yet another attempt at the UN concert of nations to ‘save the planet’. Now that we are three years short of three decades of COP negotiations to handle an asserted “climate emergency” allegedly caused by human-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, what progress have we made? Demons and Saviors at COP meetings The “settled science” narrative put out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the layperson and the mass media is contained in a government-approved “summary for policy makers.” These SPMs are based on Assessment Reports (the 6th synthesis report was published in March 2023) compiled by scientists who are themselves often appointed by governments. Following each of these summary reports, countless mainstream media stories offer a steady drumbeat of alarmist news of rising temperatures, surging sea-levels, disappearing ice and increasing frequency of extreme weather with floods, storms, drought, and wildfires. The underlying message is constant: manmade GHG emissions are the culprit and unless modern energy systems are radically transformed, the Earth is doomed. Since the first COP was convened in 1995 in Berlin (and held annually since, except for 2020), the rhetoric against fossil fuels has ramped up. The demonization of the oil and gas industry at COP26 held in Glasgow in 2021 was palpable. Oil and gas industry executives were ‘not invited’ (coal, of course, being beyond the pale). Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO stated that the company would be absent from the climate talks after being told it…
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