Another COP26 Postponment? (fossil fuels winning anyway)

“Vaccine inequity, unaffordable accommodation, travel challenges and new surges in the Covid19 pandemic will lock out huge numbers of developing country delegates from the UN climate talks set to take place in November.” (Climate Action Network, September 7, 2021)

Add “incremental emissions” to the above, and it is quandary time in Glasgow, UK.

Last March, the resurgence of the Pandemic led to talk about a second postponement. Now, the wolf is at the door. With a global fossil-fuel boom in evidence, and international cooperation to reduce CO2 in disarray, this is an opportunity for COP26 to go “net zero.”

The following statement from Climate Action Network International, “COP26 Must the Postponed,” was just released:

Climate Action Network (CAN), a global network of more than 1500 civil society organisations in over 130 countries working together to fight the climate emergency, has today called for the UN climate talks – COP26 – to be postponed.…

Happy Labor-Saving Day (as in modern energy)

The Old Days

Walzel Strikes for Climate Realism (Houston Chronicle interview fair, telling)

“But in the nearly 4,000-page study, skeptics note, the term “low confidence” — jargon for findings where there is conflicting evidence — occurs almost 1,400 times. The term “likely” — which could mean a degree of certainty as low as 66 percent — appears thousands of times, including as to whether major hurricanes have increased in frequency since the 1980s.” (Jim Osborne, Houston Chronicle below)

The title of the featured story is loaded. The interview started from the premise of climate alarmism. But one Jim Walzel, 84 years young, did just fine in making the point that climate science is quite unsettled and not indicative of crisis–just like previous scares he has witnessed in his long lifetime.

James Osborne’s “These skeptics believe in climate change. Why is it so hard to convince them catastrophe is coming?”…

On the History of Resource Thought (Vettese dissertation comments)

Martis in the Solar and Wind Fight: The Latest

Andrew Dessler vs. The ‘a–hole’ World

Nuclear Power Not Welcome at COP26

Texas’s Renewables: How Did the Problem Start? (Enron, Republicans Running Wild)

Climate Leadership Council on Defense (ExxonMobil caper hits the front group)

Plant Boondoggle (Georgia Power’s Vogtle 3 & 4)