Yet another climate conference
Another round of climate obsessives versus energy realists, as ‘Saudi, India and China led opposition against a proposal to link the IPCC’s assessment cycle with the global stocktake’. Supposed climate issues continue to be a drain on government time and resources, with attendees racking up loads of the dreaded ’emissions’ between them just to get to the latest of the endless series of venues.
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Governments have failed to agree on a timeline for the delivery of highly influential scientific reports assessing the state of climate change by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says Climate Home News.
That is after Saudi Arabia, India and China opposed attempts to ensure the scientific body would provide its assessment in time for the next global stocktake, the UN’s scorecard of collective climate action, due in 2028, according to sources present at the IPCC talks in Istanbul, Turkiye, last week.
Following “fraught” discussions that ran all night Friday, governments postponed a final decision on the timeline until the next meeting scheduled in the summer.
Swiss climate scientist Sonia Seneviratne, who is the vice chair of an IPCC working group, said she “was not totally surprised” to see opposition to the proposal.
“We know that some countries do not necessarily want climate policy to advance very fast and IPCC information will be critical for informing the global stocktake”, she added. “But I was surprised by the lack of willingness to even negotiate on these points”.
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The lack of consensus led to “IPCC Chair Jim Skea half-jokingly warning that the time to leave the venue was near and further consultations would shortly have to be held on the street”, the report added.
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Negotiators eventually struck a last minute compromise. The final agreement puts the IPCC’s bureau – an advisory group – in charge of proposing a timeline for the assessment reports that could be decided at the next meeting.
Full article here.
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India’s growth agenda takes priority…
India to Become Single Most Important Driver of Oil Demand Growth
Jan 24, 2024
High GDP growth, industrialization, urbanization, and a rising number of middle class in India are set to drive demand growth in the Asian country.
Total Indian refining capacity is expected to increase by 22% in five years from the current 254 million metric tons per year.
All major forecasters expect India to replace China as the biggest driver of global oil demand growth in the long term, which should happen before 2030.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/India-to-Become-Single-Most-Important-Driver-of-Oil-Demand-Growth.html
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
January 24, 2024
Roy Spencer
Roy Spencer is a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment.
SUMMARY
Warming of the global climate system over the past half-century has averaged 43 percent less than that produced by computerized climate models used to promote changes in energy policy. In the United States during summer, the observed warming is much weaker than that produced by all 36 climate models surveyed here. While the cause of this relatively benign warming could theoretically be entirely due to humanity’s production of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning, this claim cannot be demonstrated through science. At least some of the measured warming could be natural. Contrary to media reports and environmental organizations’ press releases, global warming offers no justification for carbon-based regulation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that predicted by almost all computerized climate models.
Climate models that guide energy policy do not even conserve energy, a necessary condition for any physically based model of the climate system.
Public policy should be based on climate observations—which are rather unremarkable—rather than climate models that exaggerate climate impacts.
https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models
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If governments listened to such commentary, which they clearly won’t, sanity in climate matters could start to return and endless futile conferences could be avoided.
After all we’ve been through, and shouted about, “…. sanity in climate matters could start to return…” ? Hmm, Sanity went the way of Santa. I think we need to reform the whole mechanism of government and administration. Like the PO Case, It’ll have to be a Root n Branch pruning … Maybe feed to Drax and sow new seeds – unless the only soil is in the swamp: Need a glasshouse first to watch n oversee in full public view before it gets transplanted into a new remediated soil. Talk of a Sea-Change ? -Gramps says he first heard that as a popular term back in the late 80-90’s The beginning of the fall of BS5750 ( and all that went along with it ) BS.
As the French writer and philosopher François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire (1694-1778) warned:
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
tallbloke, they must be getting very worried that people are no longer being fooled by the climate cult if they have managed to get NBC News to trot out the ‘scientific consensus’ story, after all they should know that science doesn’t work with consensus unless it is Mann made climate science.