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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>29, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ COP28 - From Centre for the Climate Reporting ]</i><br>
<b>COP28 president secretly used climate summit role to push oil
trade with foreign government officials</b><i><br>
</i>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.<i><br>
</i>Ben Stockton<br>
November 27, 2023<br>
The BBC, working alongside CCR, also covered the story.<br>
<br>
Inside the campaign that put an oil boss in charge of a climate
summit<br>
UAE oil company executives working with Cop28 team, leak reveals<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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”.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climate-reporting.org/cop28-president-oil-climate/">https://climate-reporting.org/cop28-president-oil-climate/</a><br>
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<b>Cheap cars, supersonic jets and floating power plants: Undercover
in Saudi Arabia’s secretive program to keep the world burning oil</b><br>
Lawrence Carter<br>
Tom Costello<br>
November 27, 2023<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
The investigation, based on secret recordings, documents provided by
Saudi officials to undercover reporters, and an analysis of
regulatory filings, reveals:<br>
<br>
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.”<br>
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.”<br>
Plans to fast-track commercial supersonic air travel, explicitly
because it consumes three times more jet fuel than normal aircraft.<br>
A plan to lobby against government subsidies for electric vehicles
in countries around the world.<br>
Plans to encourage the use of toxic heavy fuel oil to generate power
in Africa and South Asia.<br>
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.”<br>
<br>
“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”.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-saudi-arabia-keep-burning-oil/">https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-saudi-arabia-keep-burning-oil/</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion from Bill McKibben]</i><br>
<b>UAE Corruption Beyond Description Means COP28 Is Likely Over
Before It Starts</b><br>
Bill McKibben <br>
November 28, 2023<br>
Common Dreams <br>
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.<br>
This is the logical endgame of an immoral group of men quite willing
to sacrifice the planet for their power....<br>
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Guterres swallowed hard and said “I can’t believe it’s true.”<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://portside.org/2023-11-28/uae-corruption-beyond-description-means-cop28-likely-over-it-starts">https://portside.org/2023-11-28/uae-corruption-beyond-description-means-cop28-likely-over-it-starts</a><br>
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<i>[ From Moscow Times ]</i><br>
<b>'Storm of the Century' Kills 4, Cuts Power to 2Mln in Russia,
Occupied Ukraine</b><br>
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. <br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.”<br>
<br>
The footage could not be independently verified.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/27/storm-of-the-century-kills-4-cuts-power-to-2mln-in-russia-occupied-ukraine-a83223">https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/27/storm-of-the-century-kills-4-cuts-power-to-2mln-in-russia-occupied-ukraine-a83223</a>
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<i>[ Weather anomalies in Ukraine war - difficult war report ]</i><br>
<b>Russian Defenses Wiped Out in "Storm of the Century"</b><br>
Nov 28, 2023 #ukraine #russia #nato<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfooXw1D2w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfooXw1D2w</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Amplifying a spinning cloud ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>The exact link between tornadoes and
climate change is hard to draw. Here's why</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> MARCH 27, 202310:14 AM ET</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> By Rachel Treisman</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The U.S. will likely see more tornadoes
beyond their typical time and place</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> 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.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">"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</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> How does climate change affect tornadoes?
Here's ... - NPR</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166209327/tornadoes-climate-change-mississippi-alabama">https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166209327/tornadoes-climate-change-mississippi-alabama</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Pecos Hank is a storm chaser - dramatic
video of many tornadoes in 2023 ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>TORNADOES of
2023 - Season of the Twisters</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Pecos Hank</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri">Nov 26, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Tornado chasing documentary following the
incredible storms during the 2023 storm season. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ocxyozxbok">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ocxyozxbok</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[
Interesting but the overdubbing and translation sounds bad,
maybe us CC - video 1:19:00]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change: What Will Our Lives Look Like in 2050?</b><br>
Best Documentary<br>
Apr 4, 2023<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpt0iNE0EK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpt0iNE0EK4</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - Wait, when? Could that
have been now? Can the now, be back then?]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 29, 2015 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 29, 2015:<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"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.<br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/science/earth/paris-climate-talks-avoid-scientists-goal-of-carbon-budget.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/science/earth/paris-climate-talks-avoid-scientists-goal-of-carbon-budget.html?_r=0</a><br>
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