U.N. climate talks head says "no science" backs ending fossil fuels

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Rest of the title: "That's incorrect" Also, The head of United Nations climate talks is "Sultan al-Jaber, who is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates' state-run oil company."

The guy is from UAE. Their GDP is at least 1/3 from oil revenue. What do you expect? :)

Not just from UAE. He's literally the person who heads up the state-run UAE oil business. From Wikipedia: "minister of industry and advanced technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC),and chairman of Masdar."[1] Masdar is a UAE-owned company that Financial Times said, "hires lobbyists to deflect climate talks criticism"[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Al_Jaber

2. https://www.ft.com/content/6c207836-a26c-4960-888c-bea2890a2...

I'd like to imagine that if I'd been in the room when his name came up as the person to head COP28 I'd have stood up, crossed my arms, and asked everyone, "Are you crazy, or just plain stupid?"

Consider the alternative of a planet full of sentient beings who do not want to destroy their home. Now realize that this is not the case and UN climate talks will make absolutely no difference to all the lemmings manning the mechanical apparatus that takes liquified organic matter out of the ground and then uses it as sustenance for its continued existence.

The machine needs fuel and fossil fuels are very energy dense. The only other thing that comes close is nuclear but the lemmings don't like it because it is "unnatural". The lemmings prefer natural things like liquified fossils because it was put there by their god. Presumably he turned dinosaurs into fossils because they got too uppity for his taste.

Anyway, I know how to fix these problems. All I need is $80B.

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