Some ideas and pictures from #COP25 in Madrid
It’s been attention-grabbing, it’s been difficult, and it’s been exhausting. It has additionally been a bit surreal. What follows is a mixture of my experiences and occasions taken from information reviews and social media.
Let’s begin with my arrival on the airport Monday morning after a red-eye flight. Leaving baggage declare, the very first thing I see is a TV reporter doing a report from in entrance of an data kiosk for COP25.
Then on trip from the airport to the lodge, a few billboards touting “local weather emergency” or “local weather disaster”. I didn’t get pictures of these since I couldn’t get a transparent shot from the shuttle, however there’s this one from Greenpeace overlaying up some legit and paid for promoting. I assume they don’t like vehicles.
Supply; Each day Mail
Listed below are another pictures. The policia had been in all places, they actually put the “Cop” in COP25.
Inside, they actually lay out the welcome mat for you. I don’t know what “local weather debt” is, nevertheless it’s in all probability simply one other excuse to extract cash.
The world on ice….good imagery, however simply as silly because the earlier picture.
Time for motion? Hmm looks like each convention says that. But, the world is unmoved it appears:
Picture from my buddy Keely Drukala of Heartland
These youngsters apparently didn’t get the motion memo:
Picture from my buddy Keely Drukala of Heartland
Right here, some extinction rebel folks did one thing. This report from AFP must suffice as a result of I didn’t need to get near any of those folks:
UPDATE: AFP Blocked the video from showing on WUWT, so once you press play, you’ll get a discover. Nevertheless, you continue to can view it on YouTube by following the hyperlink straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsuZY_xpi7M
They like handy out awards at these occasions, right here’s some youngsters getting awards on behalf of their nations for daring to maintain the lights on:
Then, there have been the ever-present polar bears. I’m unsure how they match into nuclear vitality, however I’ll take it:
Nuclear is the second low carbon electrical energy supply in the present day and is a key a part of the answer to combat local weather change along with different carbon sources. Come and meet our volunteers right here in the present day at #COP25! pic.twitter.com/iiy1iIb98x
— Nuclear for Local weather (@Nuclear4Climate) December four, 2019
Nancy Pelosi and Sheldon Whitehouse confirmed up with an entourage of like minded political simpletons and made some blah blah claims to make it appear like the U.S. actually hasn’t left the 2015 Paris Local weather Accord:
Here’s what she mentioned:
“At this time, our delegation concluded a profitable two-day go to to COP25 in Madrid with a message on behalf of the U.S. Congress of ‘We’re nonetheless in,’” Speaker Pelosi mentioned. “Combating the local weather disaster is the existential risk of our time and it was important that our delegation stand with worldwide companions, who’re persevering with to construct upon and solidify their commitments to satisfy the Paris Settlement’s objectives.”
supply: https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/12319-1
Ummm, riiiight. That ship didn’t sail, it already sank. And for the document, President Trump did actually begin the method to drag the U.S. out of that quagmire. I feel Pelosi is holding onto the hope that Trump will probably be impeached or un-elected earlier than the one-year withdrawal deadline is up.
Sheldon Whitehouse needed to get his licks in too, citing the imaginary funding from “massive oil”.
Sen. Whitehouse: “You could hear statements from the fossil gasoline trade about what their hopes and expectations are for local weather motion. My firsthand expertise is that the statements from their lips don’t match the expenditure of their funds.” #COP25 pic.twitter.com/MbrMGbcp0G
— The Hill (@thehill) December four, 2019
Then there was Greta Thunberg, and the media frenzy round all that. This video from Euronews sums up the non-event of fossil fueled chase boats attempting to get a glimpse of the eco-saint-in-waiting fairly effectively:
There was a number of shouting from the McKibbenites too:
Whereas all this circus motion was occurring, I used to be concerned in a dwell video feed sponsored by The Heartland Institute. Right here is Dr. Will Happer, former science adviser to President Trump:
And, we made the information within the native newspaper in Madrid, the “El Confidencial” ran an in-depth piece on The Heartland Institute dwell feed.
I in some way managed to seize front-and-center, the headline says:
Skeptic counter-summit in Madrid: “The place is the climate emergency? There isn’t one!”
Within the picture above, Heartland’s James Taylor is on the left, and on the appropriate is hurricane researcher Stanley Goldenberg who has his head down as a result of he’s typing a response to some troll on the YouTube Q&A feed.
That is what they needed to say about me:
Translated:
Some, equivalent to Anthony Watts, a former tv meteorologist who grew to become a profitable blogger inside the skeptical sphere, supported the existence of local weather change though they claimed that the homogenization of knowledge by scientists was nothing greater than a manipulation to current temperature rises. as far more pronounced within the title of the algorithm. “The place is the climatic emergency?”, He requested himself, “there actually isn’t one: they take pristine knowledge and modify it within the title of homogenization, thus shifting from a gentle warming to an alarming warming.”
The place is the climate emergency? There actually isn’t.
Watts questioned why all these scientists and activists at COP25 insisted on denying this proof of theirs: “They assume they’re on a mission.”
supply: https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2019-12-04/contracumbre-escepticos-negacionistas-cop25_2363471/
When my dwell feed presentation is prepared on YouTube, I’ll add it.
Briefly, right here’s my impression of COP25:
It was a complete lot of sizzling air speaking about cooling the planet, shouting it’s “time for motion”, whereas placing out palms asking for cash.
The convention appeared subdued in comparison with the larger shindigs of Copenhagen in 2009 (which ClimateGate efficiently skewered) and Paris in 2015 which acquired hamstrung by Donald Trump a yr later.
Maybe it was because of the last-minute change from Chile, maybe individuals are realizing these conferences are pointless.
For sure, we dwell in attention-grabbing occasions.
Subsequent week I’m off to the AGU conference in San Francisco. However, I’ve to buy galoshes first.
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