Yet another round of the usual excesses of costs and consumption looms, ending with the usual fudges and indecision presented as somehow worth mentioning, to the usual bemusement of onlookers. All paving the way for future COPs ad infinitum of course, or so it seems.
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The need for agreement to tackle global warming is “higher than ever”, but it has never been harder as the geopolitical backdrop complicates international cooperation, the European Union’s climate chief said on Monday (30 October) ahead of next month’s COP28 summit. Euractiv reporting.
Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra also said the EU would not accept an outcome at COP28 that only reached deals on less contentious topics – such as increased use of renewable energy – if it failed to solve tougher issues such as phasing out fossil fuels.
“This is not an à la carte menu. It is actually all that is on the menu that needs to be delivered on,” he told Reuters on the sidelines of a preliminary COP28 gathering in Abu Dhabi ahead of the UN summit starting at the end of November.
The challenge of getting countries to agree is all the greater as Israel has escalated its bombardment of Gaza, Russia’s war on Ukraine continues and tensions run high between the US and China.
At the same time as “geopolitically very challenging times” make agreement on the climate harder than ever, the need is “higher than ever,” Hoekstra said.
Scientists have blamed global warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, for extreme weather this year, which is on track to be the hottest on record. [Talkshop comment – the record since satellite data and temperature ‘adjustments’ started, that is].
Israel has so far rejected international calls for a temporary pause in its bombardment of Gaza and politicians have warned of the risk of a wider conflict.
Tensions have also risen between Europe and China as Brussels investigates whether to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports that it says are state-subsidised.
Full report here.
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Will the Hydra be there?… When you see / hear / READ even, about all the Hypocrisies which we have to suffer / partake in. Maybe if someone answered and published ‘What (a) FUEL is’ and relate it to what we are told to use by way of means of supplying energy to our equipment… I am NOT even thinking of Patenting a BIG self-winding CLOCKWORK mechanism or Perpetual PENDULUM ( Clock pendulum is not the Energy source).
Been reading another take on Hydrogen – not a fuel, just a means of transporting / storing BURNT FUEL. Yes! Burnt fuel, burnt to make the Hydrogen / convert it into a useable form. Like a Battery. the Battery is STORING Burnt fuel for later use. Think about it.
Confiscating Others Possessions 28 …
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Targets to end fossil fuel at COP28 crucial: EU climate chief
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-fossil-fuel-cop28-crucial-eu.html
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But the wind industry is on the ropes. Where’s the happy ending for climate obsessives?
While we are sitting in the half-light of so many truths this now, a wee candle is burning enough to show me what heavy thing I have in my hand and what we are sitting on. Jings! It’s a BLACK Crystal ? Well that is certainly NOT CLEAR, is it? Probably just another stupid Eejit in the EU. Who ‘d have known? A demand for targets for the phase-out of fossil fuels in the final agreement of COP28 in Dubai is not frivolous but an urgent request backed by “crystal clear” science, Europe’s climate commissioner told AFP on Tuesday.
BTW with all this wind around, interesting to know how high our power consumption is at current moment: All those extra EVs drawing on the Grid, Where is the rise in consumption? or is it showing the DOWNTURN of daytime consumption through PRODUCING NOTHING in our factories ? Gridwatch shows 35GW @ below 50Hz ( job keeping up with demand?) and the 31% is a “Whopping – Ha ha ha” 11GW. …. until the storm hits them.
And King Charles is speaking the opening statement, demeaning the Monarchy. He believes that the COP sequence can save the planet. Such a shame that he should give his presence to this travesty
…. but we knew that about him already. Aye, a great shame in deed
Pope Francis and King Charles III to attend COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai
2023-11-02
https://shafaq.com/en/World/Pope-Francis-and-King-Charles-III-to-attend-COP28-Climate-Conference-in-Dubai
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Planning to get there using jet fuel by any chance? Or do these prolific travellers have a better idea to stun the world with?
Hmm, getting close to a certain time of year, Snow and all that, but maybe they wont be the THREE Maji, or will they? who will be the missing third one? Camels, anyone?