[✔️] November 29, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | COP28 subterfuge, McKibben opinion, Ukraine war weather, wrestle a tornado, Carbon Trauma, The Body Keeps the Score, mental health,

[Richard Pauli]

/*November *//*29, 2023*/

/[ COP28  -  From Centre for the Climate Reporting ]/
*COP28 president secretly used climate summit role to push oil trade 
with foreign government officials*/
/Leaked documents reveal COP28 president and UAE national oil company 
boss Sultan Al Jaber’s plans to discuss boosting fossil fuel business in 
bilateral meetings about the climate summit./
/Ben Stockton
November 27, 2023
The BBC, working alongside CCR, also covered the story.

Inside the campaign that put an oil boss in charge of a climate summit
UAE oil company executives working with Cop28 team, leak reveals
The United Arab Emirates’ COP28 president, Sultan Al Jaber, sought to 
lobby on oil and gas deals during meetings with foreign governments 
about the UN climate summit, according to a cache of internal records 
leaked by a whistleblower.

Al Jaber, who has continued his role as CEO of the Abu Dhabi National 
Oil Company (Adnoc) despite calls for him to step down during his COP 
presidency, has held scores of meetings with senior government 
officials, royalty and business leaders from around the world in recent 
months. The COP28 team has quietly planned to use this access as an 
opportunity to increase exports of Adnoc’s oil and gas, briefings 
prepared ahead of those meetings obtained by the Centre for Climate 
Reporting (CCR) reveal.

The leaked documents include more than 150 pages of briefings prepared 
by the COP28 team for meetings held by Al Jaber between July and October 
of this year, which CCR has decided to publish in part below. They offer 
an extraordinary insight into the private discussions between the COP 
president and prominent government figures attending the UN summit in 
Dubai, which starts later this week.

CCR, working alongside the BBC, verified the authenticity of the 
documents leaked by the whistleblower, who came forward on the condition 
of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Our investigation confirmed that 
on at least one occasion a nation followed up on commercial discussions 
brought up in a meeting with Al Jaber; a source with knowledge of 
discussions also told CCR that Adnoc’s business interests were allegedly 
raised during a meeting with another country.
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Prof Michael Jacobs of Sheffield University, who is an expert on climate 
politics, said the COP28 president’s actions looked “breathtakingly 
hypocritical”.
https://climate-reporting.org/cop28-president-oil-climate/
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*Cheap cars, supersonic jets and floating power plants: Undercover in 
Saudi Arabia’s secretive program to keep the world burning oil*
Lawrence Carter
Tom Costello
November 27, 2023
Speaking to undercover reporters, Saudi energy officials disclosed 
ambitious plans to undo progress on phasing out oil by financing high 
carbon infrastructure across Africa and Asia.
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Following a six-month investigation, the Centre for Climate Reporting 
can – for the first time – reveal MBS’ secret plans to keep the world 
hooked on oil, even as the devastating impacts of global warming are 
beginning to bite.

The investigation, based on secret recordings, documents provided by 
Saudi officials to undercover reporters, and an analysis of regulatory 
filings, reveals:

A sophisticated strategy to deploy fleets of petrol and diesel-fuelled 
vehicles across Asia and Africa so that Saudi Arabia can “capture the 
increasing gasoline/diesel demand.”
Plans to collaborate with an undisclosed global auto manufacturer to 
develop and produce a cheap car that can be sold in emerging markets to 
give “an oil uplift for the kingdom.”
Plans to fast-track commercial supersonic air travel, explicitly because 
it consumes three times more jet fuel than normal aircraft.
A plan to lobby against government subsidies for electric vehicles in 
countries around the world.
Plans to encourage the use of toxic heavy fuel oil to generate power in 
Africa and South Asia.
Responding to the investigation, Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift 
Africa, a non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi focused on 
climate change, told CCR: “The Saudi government is like a drug dealer 
trying to get Africa hooked on its harmful product. The rest of the 
world is cleaning up its act and weaning itself off dirty and polluting 
fossil fuels and Saudi Arabia is getting desperate for more customers 
and is turning its sights on Africa.”

“It’s like the tobacco companies that knew the addictive and lethal 
nature of cigarettes yet continued to get millions of teenagers hooked 
on them,” Adow said, “it’s repulsive”.
https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-saudi-arabia-keep-burning-oil/

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/[ Opinion from Bill McKibben]/
*UAE Corruption Beyond Description Means COP28 Is Likely Over Before It 
Starts*
Bill McKibben
November 28, 2023
Common Dreams
We’re still a day or two away from the official start of COP 28 in 
Dubai, but in some ways it seems over before it began: revelations 
Monday that the host nation had used its official position to leverage 
new oil and gas deals around the world were a timely reminder that there 
are entire nations that essentially operate as oil companies, with 
precisely the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell.
This is the logical endgame of an immoral group of men quite willing to 
sacrifice the planet for their power....
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Guterres swallowed hard and said “I can’t believe it’s true.”

But of course he can, and so can anyone else who’s been paying attention 
for the last 35 years. This is the logical endgame of an immoral group 
of men quite willing to sacrifice the planet for their power.

The only hope for this COP—and really for this planet—is that our 
revulsion at revelations like these somehow spurs the movements 
necessary to break the power of Big Oil.
https://portside.org/2023-11-28/uae-corruption-beyond-description-means-cop28-likely-over-it-starts



/[ From Moscow Times ]/
*'Storm of the Century' Kills 4, Cuts Power to 2Mln in Russia, Occupied 
Ukraine*
A severe storm on the Black Sea hit parts of Ukraine and southern Russia 
on Sunday night, killing at least four people and knocking out power to 
nearly 2 million, with strong winds continuing into Monday.

"About 1.9 million people remained without power supply as of 10:00 
Moscow time due to unfavorable weather conditions," Moscow's energy 
ministry said, listing the Russian regions of Dagestan, Krasnodar and 
Rostov, as well as the occupied Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk, 
Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

The storm peaked on Sunday evening, with some parts of Russian-annexed 
Crimea receiving 33 millimeters of precipitation and winds reaching 
speeds of 144 kilometers per hour.

As waves up to 8 meters high battered the coast, crude oil loading was 
halted on Russia’s Novorossiysk oil terminal and the nearby Caspian 
Pipeline Consortium terminal — leading Kazakhstan, which exports through 
the CPC, to reduce oil production by nearly 15% compared to the day 
earlier, reported Bloomberg.

A Ukrainian interior ministry adviser posted several videos on X, 
formerly Twitter, allegedly showing the storm washing away Russian 
defenses on the coast, saying: “A storm washed away trenches in occupied 
Crimea that Russian army dug out on the beaches.”

The footage could not be independently verified.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/27/storm-of-the-century-kills-4-cuts-power-to-2mln-in-russia-occupied-ukraine-a83223 


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/[ Weather anomalies in Ukraine war - difficult war report ]/
*Russian Defenses Wiped Out in "Storm of the Century"*
Nov 28, 2023  #ukraine #russia #nato
A "Storm of the Century" has hit the Black Sea with high winds and white 
out blizzard conditions as huge storm surges hammered Crimea and the 
Russian coastline.  November is not over yet and this is already going 
to be Russia's mostly deadly and costly month of the war as Putin 
continues his failed meat assaults to take the city of Avdiivka.  Back 
in the United States, both the House and the Senate are stating they 
will take up debate and vote on additional funding aid for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfooXw1D2w



/[ Amplifying a spinning cloud  ]/
*The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. 
Here's why*
MARCH 27, 202310:14 AM ET
By Rachel Treisman
The U.S. will likely see more tornadoes beyond their typical time and place
Experts say climate change is impacting the conditions in which 
tornadoes form and could lead to changes in when and where the U.S. sees 
them.
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"Climate projections for the late 21st century have suggested that the 
conditions favorable to the development of the severe storms that 
produce tornadoes will increase over North America, and the impact could 
be greatest in the winter and fall," he added.Mar 27, 2023

How does climate change affect tornadoes? Here's ... - NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166209327/tornadoes-climate-change-mississippi-alabama

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/[  Pecos Hank is a storm chaser - dramatic video of many tornadoes in 
2023 ]/
*TORNADOES of 2023 - Season of the Twisters*
Pecos Hank
Nov 26, 2023
Tornado chasing documentary following the incredible storms during the 
2023 storm season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ocxyozxbok

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/[ Interesting but the overdubbing and translation sounds bad, maybe us 
CC - video 1:19:00]/
*Climate Change: What Will Our Lives Look Like in 2050?*
Best Documentary
Apr 4, 2023
Climate disasters, health crisis or even food shortages, the future 
looks bleak for the planet. Find out what our future could look like if 
the world population does not change its behavior and consumption patterns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpt0iNE0EK4



/[The news archive -  Wait, when?  Could that have been now?   Can the 
now, be back then?]/
/*November 29, 2015 */
November 29, 2015:
The New York Times reports:

    "After two decades of talks that failed to slow the relentless pace
    of global warming, negotiators from almost 200 countries are widely
    expected to sign a deal in the next two weeks to take concrete steps
    to cut emissions.

    "The prospect of progress, any progress, has elicited cheers in many
    quarters. The pledges that have already been announced 'represent a
    clear and determined down payment on a new era of climate ambition
    from the global community of nations,' said Christiana Figueres,
    executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on
    Climate Change, in a statement a month ago.

    "Yet the negotiators gathering in Paris will not be discussing any
    plan that comes close to meeting their own stated goal of limiting
    the increase of global temperatures to a reasonably safe level.

    "They have pointedly declined to take up a recommendation from
    scientists, made several years ago, that they set a cap on total
    greenhouse gases as a way to achieve that goal, and then figure out
    how to allocate the emissions fairly. The pledges countries are
    making are voluntary, and were established in most nations as a
    compromise between the desire to be ambitious and the perceived cost
    and political difficulty of emissions cutbacks.

    "In effect, the countries are vowing to make changes that
    collectively still fall far short of the necessary goal, much like a
    patient who, upon hearing from his doctor that he must lose 50
    pounds to avoid life-threatening health risks, takes pride in
    cutting out fries but not cake and ice cream.

    "The scientists argue that there is only so much carbon — in the
    form of exhaust from coal-burning power plants, automobile
    tailpipes, forest fires and the like — that the atmosphere can
    absorb before the planet suffers profound damage, with swaths of it
    potentially becoming uninhabitable."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/science/earth/paris-climate-talks-avoid-scientists-goal-of-carbon-budget.html?_r=0



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