Let’s hope the climate talks will eventually make sense of the realities of energy, science and economics
Paul Driessen
“Show us the money!” demands from climate activists, and rich countries are expected to accelerate.
Did I hear 100 billion dollars? Would you give 1 trillion dollars? Now, will you give 2 trillion dollars?
The bidding war for climate compensation is ongoing. Numbers that started at $100 billion a year at COP-21 in Paris quickly skyrocketed to $1.3 trillion on the eve of COP-27 in Paris. Sharm-el-Sheikh-DownEgypt and currently stands in 2.4 trillion dollars annually! And we are nowhere near “go once, go twice, sell”.
It’s always about money, of course – endless sums of money supposed to help developing countries (like China!) adapt to dangerous, man-made climate change, covering the whole the area by wind and sun, while ensuring “fairness, justice and equality” indemnify for rising temperatures, sea level rise, devastating storms, floods, droughts and famines attributed to nations that have used fossil fuels since 1850.
Yes, China. The Middle Kingdom has long considered itself a developing country, when it comes to can start building less coal-fired power plants and gradually switch to “renewable” energy.
Now China says it will pay are not-cash climate compensation, if the US pays in dollars. Of course, any “fair share” by the US, UK, Germany, etc. will be very high – and paid while they “switch” away from fossil fuels quickly, regardless of the economic costs. , social and ecological.
As Oliver Hardy would say, “Another beautiful mess you dragged me into,” Joe, John and the climate-obsessed, fossil-fuelled eco-justice warriors, obsessed with the Biden Team.
They and their activists, media and academic allies have created climate fear – asserting that fossil fuel emissions alone are driving today’s climate and weather. Never mind that, since Last Pleistocene Ice AgeThe global average temperature has increased significantly (Baruch Hashem); sea level rise about 400 feet; and floods, droughts, storms and other disasters have devastated the planet and humanity countless times. However, whatever happens today is due to nations getting rich using fossil fuels. Or so they insist.
Naturally, therefore, organizers, activists and COP-27 attendees now say that the “climate crisis” requires huge payments from rich countries for poor countries – or more precisely, from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy oligarchs in poor countries. That raises another inconvenient truth.
Not long ago, “scientific advisor” Obama John Holdren intonation: “Only one logical path is open to us – the simultaneous development of [United States and other over-developed countries] and semi-developed by least developed countries, in order to achieve a good and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all those in between.” This underdeveloped ideology is shared by many others.
Yes, de-develop and deindustrialization underway in the UK, Germany and other places, because wind, solar, and battery (WSB) power cannot replace abundant, reliable, affordable, and weather-independent fossil fuel and nuclear power. Jobs, companies and entire industries have disappeared across Europe, as it destroys fossil fuel-powered power plants but with nothing viable to replace them.
So how are all these developing formerly rich countries (FRCs) going to provide billions or trillions of dollars annually, to pay for climate compensation and help poor countries develop? They cannot do so.
Worse yet, the eco-imperial developed countries continue to demand that poor countries develop only to the minimum extent that WSB technologies allow. Rich countries, World Bank and global financial institutions refuse to fund anything but fake renewable energy.
This unscrupulous policy prolong unemployment, poverty, disease and death – and advance another fundamental goal of “climate stabilization” programs: control our lives and standard of living. But poor nations have inalienable, God-given rights to development, use fossil fuelsnuclear power and hydroelectricity – and oil as the feedstock for fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, plastics and hundreds of other miraculous life-enhancing things, life saving products (developed by countries that are now expected to pay compensation).
Developed countries must Help developing countries achieve those goals. Instead, they often block the path to a better life. Worse, the US and Europe have the guts to ask the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America to produce more oil and gas, but only Export to America and Europe!
Meanwhile, Britain is setting up “warm rooms” where people can come in for a few hours a day, instead of starving and without work in dark apartments. It seems that Merry Old England has suddenly been transported back to the Middle Ages, by politicians who put climate signals above the basic needs of their people.
Meanwhile, Germany is dismantling an industrial wind power installation – so it can lignite mining below, to run the power plants, to keep the plants running and to keep the houses warm!
Even crazier, these are just a few examples of the madness that is pervading the political classes of the world, especially during the Conference of the Parties (COPs) on climate change. Happily, escaping this insane asylum requires only a few simple realities.
* The vast majority of countries signed the Paris climate accord for the money – most of them are now starting to realize they will never get it. Furthermore, coal, oil and natural gas still provide 82% of the world’s energy; Nuclear, hydro and biomass (wood and manure) provide most of the remaining energy needs, and less than 2% comes from wind and solar.
* Developing countries will use fossil fuels for decades to come – and emit more carbon dioxide as fertilizer for crops in the process – largely for raw material extraction and manufacturing “green technology” that they will export to the US, UK, EU and other soon-to-be FRCs. So even if developed countries phase out the use of fossil fuels completely, the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will continue to rise.
* But that doesn’t matter, because there’s no evidence that we’re facing a climate crisis, much less a man-made climate crisis, much less a climate crisis. change unprecedented in the history of Earth and mankind. Humans can influence temperature, humidity, climate and weather to some extent, especially around large urban “heat islands”. But that’s a far cry from the cataclysms attributed to fossil fuels that displace the powerful natural forces that have controlled climate and weather throughout history.
* The 1.5 degrees Celsius we must avoid to avoid disaster is arbitrary, pointless – and tied not only with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution but also with the end of the Little Ice Age. One or two degrees of warming will mostly benefit, while another minor or major ice age will wreak havoc on agriculture, habitats, wildlife and humanity.
* The entire climate crisis agenda is based on computer models that (a) cannot reflect all the forces that govern climate, and (b) consistently predict planetary warming happenning two to three times bigger compared to reality recorded by satellites, weather balloons and surface temperature monitors.
* Based on policies that destroy the economy, changing lives on useless models is absolutely insane – especially if alternative energy comes from WSB systems that require mining, processing, production manufactured and installed on a scale that would devastate our planet.
The only reason these facts are so little known is because climate activists, politicians, academics, news and social media deliberately defame, harass, censor, silence, destroy platform and bring down scientists, economists, and energy experts who challenge narratives about the climate crisis.
Thankfully, the Truth is slowly winning. Perhaps COP-27 will deliver a healthy dose of climate and energy. Otherwise, we might end up with John Holdren’s formula for pushing back development and living standards. Don’t expect the ruling elite and their Hollywood and Big Tech allies to set an example.
Paul Driessen is a senior policy adviser to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate change, environmental policy, and human rights.
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