By Jo Nova
It could be the lamest COP meeting yet
Every year thousands of bureaucrats meet in an exotic location for a UN conference to agree not to solve “global warming”. Next week will be the 29th failure. It is the Olympics of Big Government rorts. This is not just a few hundred climate scientists catching up for a weekend, there are forty or fifty thousand grifters meeting, not just for a few days but for two money-sucking weeks. After they’ve used the tax dollars to get there, they sit around and discuss how they will divvy up the loot, the other tax dollars, called “climate finance”, as if the atmosphere wants a loan.
In a devastating blow, this year the EU political Queen Ursula von der Leyen is going to miss the event, which some call a “fatal signal”.
As it happens, Joe Biden and Emmanual Macron are not going either. It just doesn’t have the social cachet these days in the wake of the US election.
This next little story is so emblematic of the corruptocrat blob. A senior member of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team has been caught red handed using the “climate” conference to line up investors in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas fields. The sad truth is, that in terms of the world’s poor, this was probably the most productive event at the conference.
In a secret recording a fake Hong Kong investor said he wanted to sponsor the conference but in return needed to discuss “investment opportunities” in local gas fields — ain’t that just the way the whole climate cartel rolls? Everybody pretending to look after the planet, but really looking out for themselves.
COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing “investment opportunities” in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
“We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed,” he says.
The BBC has been shown documents and secret video recordings made by the human rights organisation, Global Witness.
However, this is the second year in a row the BBC has revealed alleged wrongdoing by the host government.
Where was the BBC for the other 27 conferences? — covering up the crime.
The horse-trading starts Monday. But In a shock, Papua New Guinea has pulled out, calling the event a total waste of time.
“The last three Cop meetings have gone around in circles, producing no tangible results for small island states. Cop29 will be no different, so Papua New Guinea will not participate at the political level,” Tckatchenko said.
Good for you PNG.
For politicians and public serpents, it’s a dream conference. They get a taxpayer-funded holiday to an exotic location on paid work time plus likely get to ride in one of the hundreds of private jets attendees usually use to attend these “conferences”.
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Pretty sure “ the Donald “ will not be there. He doesn’t take kindly to expensive hoaxs!!
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Trump will end this. For global boiling (h/t António Guterres) madness to end the US must lead the way. Only Trump can do this.
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Totally agree, Donald has the charismatic authority to turn the world upside down.
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If the Youtube I saw was not fake he has already done it.
Somebody put a link here yesterday in which he declared that the Global Warming hoax had to be stopped.
Anybody who doesn’t understand that such a declaration carries authority is in for a surprise.
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So, PNG isn’t sinking beneath the waves which is sinking all other Pacific islands. Strange that!
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Is it true that Australia wants to host the next one ?
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I must attend if that is the case. All of those yummies and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot- maybe two to set me up for a rampage (he,he). The pretence of these arrogant green socialists.
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I am in Nepal now. Three people were invited but 30 are going. A huge waste of resources for this poor country.
My bolding. At least here they have real journalists who are prepared to ask questions.
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You would think with all those mountains and snow/ice/water that Nepal would be 100% hydro electric power already. So why the need to go there.
“About 23% of the electricity is imported, with the rest almost completely supplied by hydroelectricity. Nepal also exports hydroelectricity to India in the wet season.”
From Wikipedia –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Nepal
So build more Hydro and then export the surplus. A good way for a poor Country to make money. The World Bank, where are you?
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Namaste Mister Maddison 🙏
Please pass my salutations on to Machapuchare, Mt Fishtail, in the Annapurna Massif north of Pokhara. The Nepali family I stayed with, back in 1986, knicknamed me that 5-syllable lip-smacker when they found out my surname was a play on the word ‘Fishtail’. Lovely people, amazing country. Namaste!
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See if the Nepalese can find out why UK has rubbish temperature data.
“U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations.”
https://medforth.biz/uk-weather-agency-accused-of-inventing-temperature-data-to-push-climate-change-narrative/
Perhaps there IS NO problem.
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NB. Musical Satire – sung to
‘Israelites’ by Desmond Dekker & The Aces:
Get up in thee mornin’
beggin’ for bread sir,
so I can buy me another
billion dollar yacht.
Poor, poor me, the Corruptocrats.
Spinnin’ all me jargon
quotin’ from thee Hokey Schtick,
so we can blame Western Man for big
Mike’s Nature Trick.
Poor, poor me, the Corruptocrats.
Initially I was going to call them the Coprolites (fossilised animal faeces) but Jo’s wonderful turn-of-phrase, Corruptocrats, seemed more fitting. Please feel free to add more verses (while you can).
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The question is not whether extra CO2 heats the earth but whether the CO2 increase is man made.
Trump could order a definitive statement. Fossil fuel CO2 is directly identifiable because it has no C14. No ice cores needed. That would end the hoax forever.
At the same time, if CO2 is a problem, which it isn’t, in 36 years the world has spend $50Trillion on CO2.
And achieved nothing.
Why not ask for an accounting? Like any business. The US alone has spent trillions. What is the effect on CO2? Zero.
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Emissions are not CO2. The implication is that they increase CO2 in the atmosphere. But most, 98% of CO2 is in the ocean. So as 30x more soluble than oxygen, 98% of all CO2 emissions go straight into the oceans which cover the planet.
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Will Happer might get asked to rejoin the NSC.
‘In 2018, Donald Trump appointed him to the National Security Council to counter evidence linking carbon dioxide emissions to global warming.’ (wiki)
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He has proven additional CO2 does not cause warming. But he also believes wrongly that the increase in CO2 is man made. I asked him for proof and he ultimately said it was a ‘personal opinion’. I have no idea why? The conjecture was examined in 1958 and proven wrong.
So perhaps he has given ground as part of negotiation. Or perhaps to get to his own specialist area of spectral modelling? Few would understand this definitive argument.
I prefer black and white facts. To agree that mankind is increasing CO2 is to lose the entire argument from the start.
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A total Waste of Time (TWT) but glorious for time wasting blood sucking bureaucrats figure heads, nincompoops, knuckleheaded and general F**kwits. I suppose KC3 will be there?
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The ‘Joy,’ has left the building…
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Joy was their only hope. To argue proven competence and real achievement was out of the question.
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Yet another UN-United Nations Conference. Making fastidious climate rules for the weary world to follow whilst climate delegate elites live it up gorging on luxury food and relaxing in the sublime comforts of posh accommodation. It’s not about making the world a better place, but it is about junketeering and entitlement.
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I couldn’t find any information on the size of the Australian delegation.
Does anyone have any idea?
I’d imagine it would be 100 to 200 at least.
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Australia has a special pavilion at COP29 and even a Web page describing it.
The BS is strong.
Do you think they ever read or understand it or realise how stupid it sounds?
Emperor Xi, the world’s largest CO2 emitter by far (and exempt from emissions restrictions) is rolling on the floor laughing.
List of Australia’s events:
https://unfccc-cop.dcceew.gov.au/cop29pavilion
Australia’s “climate action”.
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/international-climate-action/unfccc-cop
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Just saw a News piece on SKY News this morning. A new study just released, shows that the self appointed Elites and Non Elites who travel around planet Earth in private planes are increasingly causing much more CO2 emissions than commercial plane flights do (as flown by us Plebs).
What a bunch of hypocrites. Do as I say and not what I do. Oh, and don’t eat meat and have fun either. So their CO2 emissions don’t count but the ones generated by us Plebs do. LOL. Well, guess what? CO2 is plant food and is regulated by the planet. This planet has always had Climate Change but CO2 is NOT THE CAUSE.
“An increase in private jet flights contributed to a 46 per cent rise in the industry’s annual carbon dioxide emissions between 2019 and 2023, say climate scientists.
New research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, analysed the habits of 18,655,789 private flights over four years to understand the role of private aviation in climate change.
It found leisure trips to holiday destinations and major international sporting events had driven a surge in private flying.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/private-jets-used-like-taxis-are-making-huge-contribution-to-climate-change/ar-AA1tKLmd
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Those who follow and attend COP meetings would have been called camp followers back in the day.
From Wikipedia:
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What is also so ironic is that Azerbaijan is Oil and Gas rich. Now, I wonder what they will do next after this ‘Con Flab’ (with the emphasis on Con) has finished. How many solar panel and wind chopper plantations will they build? My prediction is NONE.
Oh and BTW, I did not need to model it so it must be ‘kosher’ IMHO. More LOL.
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Look at this link, and it’s to a page of Wikipedia entries, so sorry about that.
Now see the top one there. UNFCCC. Well, that used to be the only one, and since then, in the intervening years, all the others have been ‘hived off’ from that original, and ALL of them have become so monumentally huge. Okay, for the sake of this exercise, (but only to show you something) take that top link and when it opens, see under the Heading, alongside the word ….. ‘Read’, there is a link to ‘View history’. Take that link (umm, just to see it)
Okay, when that opens, above the bolded text near the top, titled ‘Compare selected revisions’, is this site’s way back machine, with every revision ever made to the site, going back to when it started back in August of 2001. Where it says 500, that’s 500 revisions to a page, and there are many, many pages of those 500 entries to a page.
The Conference of Parties was originally in this UNFCCC entry, and then when the site for The Kyoto Protocol opened, it was moved there, and then it (COP) also became so huge, they hived it off to a site of its own.
I’ve written Posts at my own home site detailing both the UNFCCC, Kyoto, COP, et al over the years, because right from when I started it interested me that there was just one short entry of ten words at these sites that ‘distilled’ the whole thing down to just the money. That was where it listed the Countries participating, now 198, and detailing them in a sort of ranking. They singled out a very special select group of just 23 Countries, all of them Industrialised, Australia among them, and classified them as Annex ll Countries with the bracketed ten word addition …..(Developed Countries which pay for all costs of developing Countries)
That got my interest right up front.
Okay, incidental to this, and from one of my own early Posts on the subject at this link, when I first starting writing about it, take this link to what the page was in October of 2008. Scroll down (only a little way) to the heading ….. Annex I and Annex II Countries, and Developing Countries.
Scroll down a little to the last sentence in that section, and it’s about President Bush not ratifying the Protocol. It also mentions Bill Clinton there as well, somewhat obscurely. Well that one sentence has been edited so many times. It started out as just mentioning Bush as, well, the bad guy for not ratifying it, then later it added Clinton to the sentence, then changed to his (Bush) predecessor, (minus the word Clinton) and then back to just Bush again, leaving Clinton unmentioned at all.
Now, what that was all about was that Clinton wanted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, under the aegis of his Vice President who he sent off to that COP at Kyoto in 1997. Gore brought back the Protocol, and went to submit it, backed by Clinton to The Senate, where as Vice President, Gore was the President of The Senate.
The Senate had already passed Byrd Hagel so would not ratify The Kyoto Protocol, That Senate vote to (effectively) not ratify Kyoto was ….. 95-0, so it didn’t even get one vote, not even from the Democrats.
So, while it was the Clinton Administration who originally failed to ratify, all the blame, well, at Wikipedia anyway, was sheeted home to the supposed climate destroyer George Bush. The Wikipedia entries changed so many times across the years I went back and looked, and has now disappeared from the site, as has the bracketed ….. pay all costs sentence as well.
And you wonder why I don’t particularly like using that Wikipedia site. In this case it has become so monumentally huge, and hived off into so many different sites, you can hide anything that might look a little unpleasant, shall we say, in plain sight.
Tony.
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