Chiming in on the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, 75-year-old former Vice President Al Gore blasts the conference as a complete failure if they don’t sign a pledge to “phase-out” fossil fuels, the most extreme position only taken by the nuclear power industry. Hard to know how much investment Gore has in the nuclear power industry but it’s a good bet he’s invested in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors [SMRs], a questionable technology that’s more fantasy than anything that can realistically replace natural gas and coal-fired electricity plants. Gore and other climate science hysterics demand, like they did 2015 in Paris, that the COP28 conference include language saying it recommends a “phase out” of fossil fuels. Gore has zero science background but quotes climate scientists insisting that carbon emissions released into the atmosphere by automobiles, jets, trains and industry cause climate change.
Climatologists have the data to point to carbon emissions through burning fossil fuels as the primary culprit in climate change and its main side effect of global warming and extreme weather conditions, like super-storms, that go with the territory. Gore warned that COP28 was on the “verge of complete failure” because the draft resolution didn’t include extreme language urging a “phase out” of fossil fuels. Gore doesn’t have any data that proves that a “phase out” of fossil fuels would reverse the current trends to global warming, continuing the trend of melting polar ice caps resulting in rising sea levels and extreme weather. No scientist knows with current modeling whether or not moving the planet to electric vehicles would make any difference in current polar ice melts, rising sea levels or extreme weather. Yet Gore throws a hissy fit not getting his way.
Environmentalists want the “phase out” carbon-polluting oil, coal and gas electric power plants. Whether oil-rich Arab Gulf states or not, it’s insulting and bullying for Gore to insist on his language, when Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, the host country of COP28, earn their living mining and selling fossil fuels. Gore still tries to convince skeptics that carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels causes the green house gasses that cause climate change and global warming. Gore wants COP28 to commit to a “phase out” of fossil fuels by 2050, essentially telling the Gulf States and every other OPEC country that they’re going out of business. Apart from the obvious economic destruction to OPEC countries, Gore has a lot of nerve pushing anything when it’s not his field, only a retired politician pushing for a ban on fossil fuels to promote nuclear power.
Gore hides behind the environmental movement, marshalling climate scientists to push for a ban on fossil fuels. Gore says all industrial polluters should cut their green house gases “so as to achieve net zero by, before, or around 20250,” Gore said. What gives anyone like Gore the right to demand anything of fossil-fuel producing countries, when, in reality, Gore has no idea that banning fossil fuels would change the current earth-warming trends. “The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared,” Gore said, insulting the United Arab Emirates, hosting COP28. When it comes to funding research or paying for changes of infrastructure, they go to Saudi Arabia, Emirates and other fossil-producing countries for the necessary cash.
Gore continues to antagonize China and India, managing over one quarter of the earth’s 7.88 billion population. What’s Gore or other environmental extremists supposed to do other that shame and intimidate developing countries. China, India and many other industrialized and developing countries rely on fossil fuels for just about everything to provide a modicum of lifestyle to their people. Gore says China and India refused to sign onto language in the COP28 draft resolution that calls for “phase out” or “phase down” for fossil fuels. Gore must be upfront with his plans for nuclear power, hiding behind the green energy industry. “It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously,” Gore said, showing the kind of bullying used by teenagers
like Greta Thunberg and other environmental extremists. Gore’s bullying shows why he’s not taken seriously.
COP28 is not an embarrassment because it doesn’t embrace environmental extremism Gore wants to hide behind green energy but he’s pushing the world to go nuclear to meet his demand to ban fossil fuels. Neither Gore nor any climate scientist knows whether trading fossil fuels for nuclear energy would be better for the planet, even if a reduction in green house gas emissions. No one knows whether hypothetically eliminating carbon emissions would reduce the current earth’s warming trend with all its consequences. “In order to prevent COP28 from being the most embarrassing and dismal failure in 28 years of international climate negotiations, the final text must include clear language on phasing out fossil fuels,” Gore said. Why not have the honest language that Gore wants to transition from fossil fuels to nuclear power also in final draft resolution.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
