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COP28 Has Been Hijacked by the Fossil Fuel Industry

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Nov 29, 2023Nov 29, 2023 5:25 pm GMT
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The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Dr. Fatih Birol, (the organization used to be an apologist for the fossil fuel industry, but not anymore) describes COP28 as “a moment of truth” for coal, oil and gas. Almost everything being talked about by these companies and countries indicates they are committed to continue to explore for new finds, increase production from existing assets, and pay lip service to climate change mitigation but only if they receive financial assistance from taxpayers. Becoming “part of the solution” is not in the fossil fuel industry’s DNA.

Dr. Birol is unequivocal in stating the “uncomfortable truth.” To mitigate climate change, fossil fuel production has to be reduced. Demand for oil and gas needs to be curtailed. There cannot be continued expansion and the cutting of new production and exploration deals blatantly being explored at COP28. There can’t be, and yet there are.

COP28 Has Been Hijacked by the Fossil Fuel Industry

Oil and gas giants continue to pay lip service to addressing climate change, offering unproven carbon capture technologies as a panacea.

Source: www.21stcentech.com

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Mark Silverstone on Dec 1, 2023

In spite of the “hijacking”, which was highly predictable, given that the meeting is being held in a “petro-state”, I was surprised that they actually accomplished something worthwhile on the first day: the Fund.

”A new fund to help vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters should be up and running this year, after diplomats from nearly 200 countries on Thursday approved a draft plan on the first day of a United Nations global warming summit.”

Len Rosen on Dec 1, 2023

Hi Mark, The "damage" fund was an entry point for this COP. It had pretty much been green stamped before the conference began with the World Bank given the responsibility to manage it initially. But the amounts being pledged don't cover very much of the total cost borne by those nations already feeling the wrath of extreme weather events linked to climate change.

Mark Silverstone on Dec 4, 2023

Too bad this showed up. Even though he said it 2 weeks ago, showing up now kind of takes the wind out of the sails.

The Emirati oil executive leading the global climate summit faced intense criticism on Monday over his claim that there was “no science” that shows fossil fuels must be phased out to prevent disastrous levels of global temperature increases.

Sultan Al Jaber, the COP28 president and chief executive of the state-owned oil company Adnoc, said in a newly surfaced video there was “no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phaseout of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5.

Fortunately, he’s trying hard to walk it back. Can’t be easy!

Douglas Cotton on Dec 5, 2023

It is very easy Mark to prove with correct physics that the claims about greenhouse gases warming us are false. See the quotes by retired physicists at the foot of the "Images" page in my website http://climate-change-theory.com and read Why the physics used by climatologists is wrong and greenhouse gases actually COOL the planet | Energy Central

Douglas Cotton on Dec 2, 2023

All this will be reversed when the world wakes up to the now-proven fact that the main "greenhouse" gas water vapor cools rather than warms the planet - confirmed by correct physics. Rainforests are cooler than deserts, other things being equal. The high percentage of water vapor over Singapore caps the maximum temperatures such that they rarely exceed 33°C. What really happens is in my 2013 paper "Planetary Core and Surface Temperatures" which, despite many thousands of reads, has never been correctly refuted. That is because the heat process described is a direct consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. http://climate-change-theory.com

Mark Silverstone on Dec 2, 2023

Please see:

«A benchtop experiment and analysis that qualitatively illustrates climate change mechanisms using changes in the cooling rate from an Earth-like object immersed in a radiative participating medium is presented.»

Let us know the results please.

Douglas Cotton on Dec 5, 2023

You seem to be unaware, Mark, of the explanation of the correct physics in my paper "Planetary Core and Surface Temperatures." The mean solar radiative flux to Earth's surface is about 168w/m^2 and to the Venus surface it is less than 20w/m^2. For the flux reaching Earth's surface the maximum mean surface temperature that it could achieve is 233K (-40°C) so no amount of slowing of the cooling rate by back radiation is relevant. Furthermore, back radiation cannot slow non-radiative cooling such as that by convection and evaporation. These rates actually accelerate to compensate for any slowing of radiative cooling. But cooling from what temperature? The main input of thermal energy into the surface of Earth, and the only input of thermal energy into the surface of Venus is not by radiation of any kind: rather it is by the non-radiative process that I have been first in the world to explain from the laws of physics. I have shown that evidence in experiments and data for Earth and planets throughout the Solar System support my hypothesis. You might do well to consider reading it one day, perhaps with the help of someone like myself who has studied correct, long-established physics in the Physics Dept of a recognized university, not the fictitious, fiddled physics that climatologists teach generation after generation of themselves.

I refer you to Why the physics used by climatologists is wrong and greenhouse gases actually COOL the planet | Energy Central

Douglas Cotton on Dec 5, 2023

You probably have no idea how significant and ground-breaking is my discovery of the "heat creep" process. I refer you to Why the implications of the "heat creep" process turn current thinking on its head. | Energy Central

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