Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’
behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
The Guardian [UK],
by
Damian Carrington
&
Ben Stockton
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
12/4/2023 9:57:48 AM
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
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/4/2023 10:04:57 AM (No. 1610296)
When you fight the narrative with facts, it is labeled “ill-tempered.” I would characterize the sultan’s words as “fed up.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/4/2023 10:05:03 AM (No. 1610297)
The Sultan is right.
Pushing this crazed anti fossil fuel agenda is not going to change the climate one iota.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
paral04 12/4/2023 10:09:48 AM (No. 1610300)
The Sultan has more sense than the hypocrites who flew in private jets., burning tons of fuel, to tell the world that fossil fuel changes the Climate. How do these so called 'Climate Experts" explain ow the climate has changed over the hundreds of thousand of years the earth has been around before we burned oil and gas?
BTW, can these overeducated idiots tell us what would happen to life on Earth if we got rid of Carbon? Any 10 year-old kid can tell you that plants need Carbon to grow and its byproduct is Oxygen. I'm more we worried about lack of plants, which feed all life , than some idiots who think they can bully us into giving up using what makes our lives easier.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/4/2023 10:13:00 AM (No. 1610304)
Idjits! What did they think someone from an oil producing country would say?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/4/2023 10:26:28 AM (No. 1610317)
This is all a power play. Science has nothing to do with it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FormerDem 12/4/2023 10:40:39 AM (No. 1610324)
imo the sultan is right and this is one of the good things that happened today, finding a sane person in power somewhere. Those who think he is wrong, can kindly find the highest credentialed actual hard physics atmospheric scientist willing to attach his name and institution to a dispute with the Sultan's summary. You will find teenagers vagrants journalists, people who want to go under the name of ther Institute (which they can dissolve someday and wiggle away from) and you will find weasel words and you will find Michael Mann who due to his lawsuita against Mark Steyn cannot get away from his past opionions. Beyond that, show whatcha got. Name, institituion, clear words. Whatcha got.
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Man-caused Global Warming is as real as the Covid vaccine, Biden's claim of no inflation, and the danger of Monkey Pox and AIDS to heterosexuals who don't do drugs or involved with prostitution.
Everything they say is a lie.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 12/4/2023 11:18:54 AM (No. 1610342)
There is NO SCIENCE to any of the Climate Scam claims. It is a naked power play, the biggest world wide scam ever run.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/4/2023 11:29:43 AM (No. 1610351)
I have long contended that this is more about pollution than anything else, just using the "fossil fuel" as the mechanism to change things.
After all, why is it only a few Western Countries are obsessed with this topic? You'd think they were all stupid people in China, India, Russia, etc.... who just can't see the "facts".
Just at this same conference they lowered the target from 3.5 to 2.7 Celsius, which is huge considering they are trying to limit the increase to 1.5 Celsius, so the objective of reducing the higher 2.7 down to 1.5 is much less and more realistic to meet now.
Remember, we have until the year 2100 (76 years to go) to meet these targets.
Who thinks we won't have major breakthroughs in technology by 2050 or 2060 that will change the course of things and meet that target?
BTW, the term fossil-fuel is not accurate. We drill thousands of miles down for oil but have never found dinosaur remains anywhere close to that level.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/4/2023 11:57:09 AM (No. 1610362)
Finally - someone had the cojones to stand up and tell these morons that the emperor has no clothes!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/4/2023 12:11:58 PM (No. 1610370)
Jaber had better stack his billions into a defensive wall, because all of the high priests, bishops, cardinals and henchmen of the Supreme Climate Cult religion are getting ready to excommunicate and condemn him to exclusion from the WEF heaven.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
thomthomp 12/4/2023 1:24:01 PM (No. 1610419)
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Here the one-eyed man is shouting that the Emperor has no clothes, but the true-believers of the climate faith/hoax refuse to abandon their religion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/4/2023 2:10:28 PM (No. 1610451)
If it's possible for a newspaper to be a more lunatic leftist propaganda rag than the NY Times - - then the UK Guardian takes the cake. They are among the loopiest, lyingest, mouth-foaming leftists on the planet - - and possibly in outer space as well.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 12/5/2023 6:55:38 AM (No. 1610807)
Fast forward ten years. Europeans will be shivering in their huts while the Arabs will have their air conditioners on high.
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Mary Robinson is a longtime nut job. In the article is her claim that women and children are suffering from the climate crisis because countries have not agreed to ending the use of fossil fuels. The Sultan is a realist, but can he prevail against the zombie-psychosis of the UN and European leftists?