COP28: Is the era of fossil fuels over? | DW News

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Anyone else see the irony of this COP28 conference being held in the middle of the desert in a country whose cities were built on the profits of oil

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DRILL BABY DRILL. WE ALL NEED FOSSIL FUELS. MUST HAVE FOSSIL FUELS.

Cop 28 very good cop for oil and gas producer and export country . High level mathene emissions reduction carbonization furnace activate carbon charcoal production

There is no climate crisis

Criminals

They Will need the population of the world to agree WE say NO!

This entire exercise amounts to nothing. India consumes approximately as much coal as the US and EU combined. China consumes four times that. China and India consume 62% of the world's coal. I don't see anyone bringing that up. That fact of the matter is: it's just a tax grab.

Largest source of pollution in the world is " Volcanos " , climate change is a scam .

What caused the five ice ages prior to mankind's evolution? It must have been something built into the cosmic rhythms of the earth in the universe because we were not even here then. We are in at about the ten thousandth year since the last ice age and like it or not will eventually have another ice age in its own cycle and time frame--we are now at the stage where the glaciers melt, the sea rises, humidity increases, the temperature is then cooled by the moisture in the atmosphere (the greenhouse gases are 99 percent water vapor) and the sixth ice age we have evidence of starting will begin. We will enter the cooling period that will present our world with fresh new glaciers. The people of the time will laugh no end at Greta and her accolades who should know better and marvel at the unscrupulous users of a natural cycle for political control and domination and the sheep who believe all the B.S. we are being force fed....

No hard coal? No quality steel. What are we going to use? Recycled plastic in surgical tools? How will the world get China to comply? This is B.S. How about methane pollution from sink holes in the steppes? That pollution is pretty high up the ladder in pollution. Shall we stop buying anything from China and Russia? Then they will support each other. This is useless B.S.

1.5 was never possibleWe will never be possible

Scam

What’s the alternative. Horse and cart and candles and sails

If no obligations, it guarantees zero outcome. You may simply forget about this event as dummy empty place and time waste. Everybody will do what is profitable

Not likely. How would they get to the next conference?

Save human kind first before talking about climate. Climate is here when you was born and it's going to remain here after your death.

The host of this COP wants applause for walking in a race to save our environment. We should be running as if our future depended on it, because it does.
COP hosted by Dubai = failure

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Bravo! Now I can go to sleep peacefully. The world is saved.

THIS MEANS NOTHING.

If we are calling for the abolition of fossil fuels, what about alternative fuels? Without such suggestions, it is meaningless. Those who are engaged in such opposition activities must also be benefiting from fossil fuels. There is no point in calling for its abolition while enjoying the benefits of fossil fuel power generation and production.

How much redution each year --- 5% more double talk

— “The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” — Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations.

— “We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports.

— “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation.

— “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony. … climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment

— “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” – Professor Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.

— “The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.” – Dr David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University.

— “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace.

Is this what the environmental lobby has reduced itself to? Using children for dramatic effect? What's next, hostages and sexual violence?

Short answer: No.

Mankind has agreed to enter a new dark age. So sad.

Non binding 😂

Fossil fuels can't be replaced completely... Thats the outcome of this meet...

The eorld needs to transition combustion engine production

This is a joke... 2030? That is right around the corner.
First off we have to face reality and there is no way the world can transition away that fast. Don't think of the World as the rich, but think of it as all the poor countries and those trying to get out of poverty. Half the planet cooks their food on open fire and they have no electricity. People always look at this situation from their couch in a nice home on their iPad and that is your reality not half the planet. If and only if we had the technology for half of the things they want this still wouldn't happen by 2030. Make a real plan... a real 40-year plan.

While these conferences are needed, people put too much faith in just talk. Didn't a US presidential candidate just announce he is going to drill, drill, drill if elected? Addressing climate change can only be successfully done when the global community gets past all the coffee chat, and starts putting all the talk into action.

back to square 0...

Nature does not care about agreements on paper or practically take actions or not.
Becouse climate and temperatures not changing on paper it changing in real WORLD. around everybody including politions and believers and non belevers Whether you take actions or beleve or not.

Sciancetists just observing it by there methods. Past records and equipments... and try to warn and predict about Futuer.

We can't fool nature. At the end we are ones who going to be fools with pain.
Unfortunately it accelerated in 2023.......

Say candace

Outcomes? Foolishness & wastage of tax dollar. 😡

STOP the B.S and feed the hungry, 1.5 D Celsius is what the planet will readjust on its own. There weren't fossil fuels in the last ice age and the planet found it's way. Stop with B.S

it should be the end of animal agriculture, not fossil

Very reasonable outcome. The world depends on 100 million barrels per day for energy. It’s going to take time and money to replace that. ~26 years

No it is not over, because of Biden's weakness. Anybody with a brain can see that World War III is coming. Better start producing ammunition, and seeing how many conscripts can be drafted out of last year's High School graduation class, and out of the pool of the Illegal aliens that were fooled into coming.

Just like the Paris Climate Agreement, this is probably going to be ignored. There is nothing much to transition to as current "Green Energy" is only 30% reliable.

10 years ago they said we would be dead in 7 years. Trust the science

This makes me want to buy a new internal combustion powered vehicle with a big V-8 engine. Vroom, vroom! 😁

Finally positive outcome thanks UAE

I'll believe it when I see it. Actions speak louder then words.

Whoever thought that holding COP28 in a nation that earns so much of its income through oil and who has denied climate change should have their heads examined. Next Cop should be in one of those island nations threatened by climate change.

What is the point of signing agreements with China 🇨🇳?
- When was the last time China kept its promises or honored its signatures?

Can anyone relevant still afford propping up expensive fossil fuels in a pure tax budget sense of thing in Boomer demographics hittimg hard? The subsidies is one of tue few thing that can still be saved on to balance budgets.