[✔️] December 5, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Jaber blaber. Net Zero BS, Aussie sarcasm, 2007 Rush Limbaugh

[Richard Pauli]

/*December 5*//*, 2023*/

/[ At the COP28 - Al Jaber blabbers ]/
*Climate Summit Leader Tries to Calm Uproar Over a Remark on Fossil Fuels*
Sultan Al Jaber, responsible for leading the world away from fossil 
fuels, had said there was “no science” to support a phaseout of oil and gas.
By Lisa Friedman
Reporting from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dec. 4, 2023
Simmering tensions around the decision to hold a global climate summit 
in a petrostate burst into the open on Monday when Sultan Al Jaber, the 
Emirati oil executive who is leading the conference, launched into an 
angry public defense of his position on ending fossil fuel use.

Mr. Al Jaber, who runs the state-owned oil company, Adnoc, was under 
fire for a video that surfaced in which he said there is “no science” 
behind the idea that fossil fuels must be phased out in order to keep 
average global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius over 
preindustrial levels...
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Former Vice President Al Gore, who has called for fossil fuels to be 
replaced with wind, solar and other renewable energy, assailed Mr. Al Jaber.

“From the moment this absurd masquerade began, it was only a matter of 
time before his preposterous disguise no longer concealed the reality of 
the most brazen conflict of interest in the history of climate 
negotiations,” Mr. Gore said in an email. “Obviously, the world needs to 
phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible.”

He said Mr. Al Jaber “has been preparing one of the most aggressive 
expansions of fossil fuel production, timed to begin as soon as he bangs 
the final gavel to conclude COP28.”...
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But on Monday, a defiant Mr. Al Jaber suggested he did not say what he 
can be heard saying on the video. And he indicated that anyone who 
claimed otherwise was trying to undermine his leadership of COP28...

In front of a packed and hastily arranged news conference, Mr. Al Jaber 
appeared to take the criticism personally and described his background 
as an economist and an engineer. “I respect the science in everything I 
do,” he said.

“I have said over and over that the phase-down and the phaseout of 
fossil fuels is inevitable,” Mr. Al Jaber said.

He insisted that he has called many times for a phase out of fossil 
fuels and said that his efforts to champion climate change had been 
ignored by the media.

Mr. Al Jaber appeared aggrieved, saying “one statement, taken out of 
context with misrepresentation and misinterpretation that gets maximum 
coverage.”
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The fossil fuel industry has responded to suggestions of a phaseout by 
saying that technology could capture and store carbon emissions, which 
would allow it to continue to operate. But scientists widely agree that 
the technologies that the oil industry is depending upon, like carbon 
capture and storage, cannot be deployed at the scale or pace required to 
avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/climate/cop28-aljaber-fossil-fuels.html

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/[ Democracy Now - segment on COP28 Coverage  ]/
*Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 4, 2023*
Democracy Now!
Dec 4, 2023  Latest Shows
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzL41fCfLys&t=404s

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/[ An excellent report samples company propaganda at COP 28 ]/
*Corporate 'Net Zero' BS is all the rage. Don't get taken in!*
Just Have a Think
Dec 3, 2023
Everyone's got a 'Net-Zero' plan these days, haven't they? No 
self-respecting company would be without one. But are these claims a 
genuine marker of real decarbonisation within a business or just an 
exercise in corporate box-ticking? Now a new report has analysed 300 of 
the world's largest corporations to find out the answer.
https://youtu.be/m8_sDjFN1uM?si=8D7fpmcGYJBTFst3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8_sDjFN1uM



/[ Sarcasm from Down-Under - we live in the age of the Enshittenment ]/
*Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza 🇮🇱 🇵🇸*
thejuicemedia
Oct 26, 2023
The Government™ has made an ad about Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly 
honest and informative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Zb9iUi0JM



/[The news archive - ugh ]/
/*December 5, 2007 */
December 5, 2007: In a monologue that clearly explains why he had spent 
the previous nineteen years claiming that climate change was a hoax, 
Rush Limbaugh declares:

    "Can I give you a real simple reality? It may be controversial, but
    it's inarguable. This is a world that runs on fossil fuels, folks,
    and it's going to run on fossil fuels long after you and I and your
    grandkids are dead. Wind, solar, all pipe dream stuff, as we sit
    here and speak now. Would somebody explain to me what is so immoral
    about the leaders of this country attempting to maintain a supply
    and access to the fossil fuel that runs the world and runs our
    economy?...What I'm suggesting here is that even if a part of all of
    the strategy here [with the Iraq War] is to maintain the free flow
    of oil at market prices, what in the name of Sam Hill is wrong with
    that? What's the crime? Where's the immorality in it?"

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/12/05/what_s_wrong_with_war_for_oil2


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