Abu Dhabi National Oil Company or ADNOC is the state-owned oil company of the United Arab Emirates
“You’re reading your own media, which is biased and wrong. I am telling you I am the man in charge.” Classic.
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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.
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You WOULD HAVE to ASK, wouldn’t you, ‘why COP’ was ever to be held there. So what kind of idiots are pulling the strings, who has set the stage?
Government is and always has been composed of conflicting interests. Impossible to weed that out.
And I expect those “scientists” who claim denial belong to that group who practice scientism rather than science. I’ve not heard anyone claim there is no climate change on this planet. It’s always been a question of cause, driven by politics, not scientific research.
Oil will be around for a long time yet…
South America’s Offshore Oil Boom Will Challenge OPEC’s Dominance
Nov 29, 2023
By the end of the decade, it is estimated that Guyana and Brazil combined will add nearly three million barrels per day of oil production, significantly boosting South America’s oil output.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/South-Americas-Offshore-Oil-Boom-Will-Challenge-OPECs-Dominance.html
Something else: WHY haven’t there been campaigns & Sit-ins to prevent the closure & demolition of Power Stations, Steel Mills and the like, as there were with the Coal Mine closures – ‘Oh how awful that was …’ a foretaste of things to come. But I’m alright Jack.
When Al Jaber says “I am the man in charge” he is refering to himself as the head of ADNOC, asserting that he knows better than she about what his company is planning regarding future oil and gas production.
Stands to reason, dinnit? His Company, HE is in business, Maywe Wobinson is just a politician ( Heavyweight ? – naw – jist a wumman fa’ wis heid o’ ‘e Irish Fowk ) Too many Non business People stick their nose in to other’ businesses. I think we should be glad t hat Ally is standing up for us. We need more Company bosses to stand up and be counted, show there is a spine in there. Thanks Al.
The Great Climate Scam was invented to generate cashflow to PhDildos who have no marketable skills but are good at panic pron theater.
Until these azzclowns start ragging on China and India about their MASSIVE creation of coal fired power plants, I would gladly spit in their breakfasts. Grifters, charlatans, thieves, liars, snake oil salesmen,… ETC!
I miss the days we could ride them out of town on a rail covered in tar and feathers.
Insane refusal to understand than a switch to NetZero, as well as being clinically insane, will require the most immense amount of fossil fuels to get there, and to back up the grid. “Fuckwits” doesn’t even begin to describe them
Asia can’t increase its energy consumption as forecast (~80% from 2020-2050) with renewables and a few nuclear plants – which leaves coal, gas and oil in the frame. That’s just the increase, doesn’t touch current usage. COPpers are merely indulging their fantasies.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2020.01.03/main.svg
Same for S. America, Africa, Middle East etc. on a smaller scale.
Pick the bones out of this…
COP28: Head of UN talks hits back at climate denial claims
Published 53 minutes ago
He said he wanted to make it clear that he was representing the global scientific consensus, signed off by governments.
He added he wanted to repeat what the IPCC says about fossil fuels.
“I will say it very precisely. Looking at scenarios in which global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees with no or little overshoot, by 2050, fossil fuel use is greatly reduced, and unabated coal use is completely phased out,” he said.
To meet that goal, oil use had to be reduced by 60% and gas use by 45% by 2050, he said.
The UN talks are dominated by the question of how and when the use of oil, coal and gas will be reduced.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67612929
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‘Looking at scenarios’ sounds like climate model stuff.
Ah, brings fond memories of similar heresy at Glasgow COP
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Saudi Arabia says ‘absolutely not’ to oil phase down at COP28
A tentative “phasedown/out” was included in a first draft of an agreement on climate action that delegates are haggling over during talks that are scheduled to finish on December 12.
But Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, a half-brother of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, told Bloomberg that Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, would not agree.
“Absolutely not,” he said in an interview in Riyadh.
“And I assure you not a single person—I’m talking about governments—believes in that.”
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“You cannot go to undeveloped countries or developing countries and ask them to do the same measures of the transition,” Yasir Al-Rumayyan, chairman of Saudi state oil giant Aramco, told the forum.
“Especially people who don’t have access to the energy.”
He said he heard an African minister say “in order for us to have growth, we have to carbonize first then to decarbonize.”
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saudi-arabia-absolutely-oil-phase.html
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That’s that one busted.
…. but but, I believe / understand that the beeb brat told his audience that that was not so…. I heard it myself out of the blue, but didn’t quite make sense / conflicted with reports I’d read already. Hmm?
COP28: Record number of fossil fuel delegates at climate talks
Published 5 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67607289
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Or… COP28: Record number of climate delegates at fossil fuel talks?
You’ll all just love this stuff ….. all so fu’ of themselves .. https://mailchi.mp/pv-magazine.com/pvi12?e=feba5cb3b4 ( newsletter in browser) Gold gold gold, eh?
Invesco Solar fund is tanking…
https://www.trustnet.com/factsheets/E/03wd/invesco-invesco-solar-etf/
Click on 1y, down 50% to date this year.