Ahuge new project to build the world’s biggest airport is underway in a city British tourists love, costing a whopping £2.1billion.
As Dubai International Airport (DXB) approaches its maximum capacity, the UAE is in the process of formulating plans for its successor, set to be constructed on the outskirts of the city and anticipated to commence operations in the 2030s. The Daily Express has the story.
The planned new airport for Dubai essentially already exists in the form of Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC), situated 23 miles southwest of the city, predominantly catering to freight planes.
Currently, a few passenger airlines, predominantly of Russian origin, are utilizing the facility, and Aeroflot is scheduled to inaugurate services in December.
At present, Al Maktoum Airport accommodates only 1.6 million passengers annually.
However, there are ambitious plans to significantly expand the hub, with the aim of accommodating up to 250 million passengers by 2050.
This expansion is part of a strategy to alleviate the congestion at Dubai International Airport (DXB) by diverting a substantial portion of its passenger traffic to Al Maktoum.
Paul Griffiths, the CEO of Dubai Airports, which oversees both airports, revealed that plans for the new mega-airport are already in the works, recognizing the imminent need for such infrastructure within the next few years.
“Over the next few years, we’ll be receiving 100 million passengers at DXB, and beyond that, we’ll need a new airport because we probably can’t get much beyond 115 million or 120 million,” he articulated during a speech at the Dubai Airshow last month.
The redesigned Al Maktoum International Airport is poised to overcome capacity limitations due to its modular design, facilitating more straightforward expansion.
As Marc reports, Vice President Kamala Harris just pledged $3 billion American dollars to the UN’s “Green Climate Fund.” When precisely did Congress appropriate that?
John Kerry took the UN stage and promised to shut down ALL “unabated” American coal power plants. Meanwhile China is building 182 new ones!
The UN is not only targeting American energy and tax dollars, they are coming for our food supply as well. They aim to eliminate fifty percent of American meat consumption and ninety percent of American beef!
There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5°C” above preindustrial levels … Show me a roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuels that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.
Thanks for the honesty, Sultan! Let’s hope the UN does not succeed in silencing you before you reveal again.
Murphy further reports on another moment of revealing candor when Isabela Tagomori, who works on integrated assessment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at Utrecht University, told a UN panel that, it is essential to inject “fairness principles” and “distributional justice” into climate policy.
“Murph” pulled no punches. He took the microphone and told the speaker that her redistribution talk smacked of “Marxism.”
You should have seen how fast she backpedaled!
She countered rather that her organization’s effort was merely to collect “many different (justice) dimensions.”
When threatened with the facts, climate campaigners retreat to vague, opaque language.
Who is lining up to pocket the billions of dollars Kamala Harris and the rest are throwing at climate?
Investors, dictators, and incredibly well-funded left-wing climate pressure groups.
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UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.
Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”. The Guardian has the story.
The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
Al Jaber made the comments in ill-tempered responses to questions from Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a live online event on 21 November. As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest.
More than 100 countries already support a phase-out of fossil fuels and whether the final Cop28 agreement calls for this or uses weaker language such as “phase-down” is one of the most fiercely fought issues at the summit and may be the key determinant of its success. Deep and rapid cuts are needed to bring fossil fuel emissions to zero and limit fast-worsening climate impacts.
Al Jaber spoke with Robinson at a She Changes Climate event. Robinson said: “We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone … and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel. That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of Adnoc, you could actually take it with more credibility.”
Al Jaber said: “I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.”
Robinson challenged him further, saying: “I read that your company is investing in a lot more fossil fuel in the future.” Al Jaber responded: “You’re reading your own media, which is biased and wrong. I am telling you I am the man in charge.”
Al Jaber then said: “Please help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
“I don’t think [you] will be able to help solve the climate problem by pointing fingers or contributing to the polarisation and the divide that is already happening in the world. Show me the solutions. Stop the pointing of fingers. Stop it,” Al Jaber said.
Guterres told Cop28 delegates on Friday: “The science is clear: The 1.5C limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce, not abate. Phase out, with a clear timeframe.”
Bill Hare, the chief executive of Climate Analytics, said: “This is an extraordinary, revealing, worrying and belligerent exchange. ‘Sending us back to caves’ is the oldest of fossil fuel industry tropes: it’s verging on climate denial.”
“Al Jaber is asking for a 1.5C roadmap – anyone who cares can find that in the International Energy Agency’s latest net zero emissions scenario, which says there cannot be any new fossil fuel development. The science is absolutely clear [and] that absolutely means a phase-out by mid-century, which will enhance the lives of all of humanity.”
Prof Sir David King, the chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and a former UK chief scientific adviser, said: “It is incredibly concerning and surprising to hear the Cop28 president defend the use of fossil fuels. It is undeniable that to limit global warming to 1.5C we must all rapidly reduce carbon emissions and phase-out the use of fossil fuels by 2035 at the latest. The alternative is an unmanageable future for humanity.”
Governments across the world are stepping back from their net zero promises because inflation, the cost of living, Ukraine, Gaza and other issues make it appear too costly politically.
The Cop28 climate summit has opened in Dubai, yet it is already clear that the world is not on track to meet the climate change targets that governments set themselves in Paris in 2015. In strictly numerical terms therefore, Cop28 will be a failure, like all the climate summits that came before it. The likely response will be much wringing of hands and pointing of fingers as people conclude, once again, that mankind lacks the moral and political will to save the planet and itself.
This is the wrong approach to climate change. The energy transition needed to combat global warming is not just a matter of will. It is a matter of technology. Technology holds the key to arresting climate change, and while we have a mountain to climb, the new technology required is coming on stream faster than most people realise. We need leaders to adopt a laser focus on technology and the policies needed to develop and deploy it as quickly as possible; we need leaders back in their home countries, trying to figure out how to create the environment for this technology to grow.
Governments across the world are stepping back from their net zero promises because inflation, the cost of living, Ukraine, Gaza and other issues make it appear too costly politically. Democratic politicians across the world are all making the same calculus: saving the planet will not get them re-elected. They cannot drop the pledge altogether so instead are adjusting the narrative and playing with the timeline.
Policymakers should instead focus on the tech. This means acknowledging that the current level of technology is insufficient to deliver enough carbon abatement in a way that enables an energy system that is affordable, secure and reliable, and therefore more technological progress is required to transition the energy system without unduly burdening consumers.
Look at the global spend: five years ago, $500bn a year was spent on clean energy while almost twice that – €900bn – went on hydrocarbons. Investment in hydrocarbons has since stayed the same but spending on clean energies has mushroomed, reaching $1.2 trillion last year and expected to hit $1.8tn this year.This is still well short of the 5 trillion annual investment which the IMF says is needed, but the trajectory is good.
Once we understand that the critical determinant is how quickly technology can respond to the policy-induced shock of the energy transition, it becomes clear that the right response to the bad news expected from Dubai is to take stock of the available technology: do we have the technology to deliver a politically viable energy transition that is affordable, secure and sustainable? If not, what do we need? When might it be available, how quickly can it be deployed and scaled up, what are the financial implications? What needs to change in public policy to better incentivise this shift?
The energy transition is thus not merely a matter of will. Whilst political will is necessary to drive and sustain any major policy shift, fundamentally the energy transition is a reengineering of the global economy. This transition is starkly different to any previous economic transformation: rather than the technology shocking the economy, with regulation seeking to catch up; the regulation to avoid climate change is shocking the global economy, and technology is the one playing catch-up. It would be a great tragedy if politicians abandoned climate goals just as technology catches up with policy.
Many liken the energy transition to putting a man on the moon, but the analogy is false. The moon shot was a one-off effort to make first-of-its-kind technology that could be rapidly developed to deliver the political goal – of American pre-eminence in space exploration – at any cost and with very high levels of risk. The energy transition, however, requires adopting new technology, globally and at scale, and reliably integrating it with existing energy systems, which will fundamentally transform those systems and the wider global economy.
A range of technologies to unlock the energy transition are on the way. The Chancellor in the Autumn Statement announced an ambitious plan to cut delays to grid connections for renewables. Meanwhile, the European Commission is on its way to a decisive policy shift too, with for example the incoming EU Grid Action Plan, supporting the roll out of renewables within an integrated and efficient electricity grid.
This technology revolution offers a brighter future for our energy system, and indeed in the longer term, energy costs and energy security. Post-Cop28 policy everywhere must incentivise the development and scaling up of solutions to the obstacles that have hindered the energy transition to date. The public mood may be sceptical, but the momentum of technological change is unstoppable. As they leave Dubai, politicians should put their weight behind the latter and not be scared into inaction by the former.
“The UN’s COP 28 is nothing short of a climate/Great Reset summit in Dubai, where public health bureaucracy and climate merge & Democracy goes to die,” – Marc Morano
Expect a ‘Climate/Great Reset summit’ where ‘Democracy goes to die’
Team of CFACT realists will expose hidden climate agendas at UN’s COP 28 in Dubai
Washington, D.C. — A delegation of climate skeptics will be attending the UN climate summit, COP 28, to be held from November 30 to December 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will be fully credentialed and registered at COP 28 and will be doing daily reports on the dangers facing America and the West from the UN confab. CFACT has faced great peril at previous UN climate summits, with armed UN climate cops targeting and removing its members from the summits.
“Our team will be on the ground to give first-hand accounts of how the United Nations is set to help the Biden Administration further crush American domestic energy to meet the so-called ‘NET Zero’ climate agenda. We will be inside the event to reveal how the U.S. must reject and withdraw from this entire UN process,” said Craig Rucker, the president of CFACT, who will be attending.
Marc Morano of CFACT’s Climate Depot will also be attending. “COP 28 is shaping up to be a doubling down on the green agenda despite the massive failure on a grand global scale. We will report on the energy rationing, blackouts, and economic disruption from the failed UN-pushed policies globally. All the usual suspects will be gathering once again: Bill Gates, King Charles, John Kerry, and the World Economic Forum. Pope Francis, the first pontiff to attend the annual UN climate conference, is also expected, sounding the climate change alarm bells, he noted.
“The UN’s COP 28 is nothing short of a climate/Great Reset summit in Dubai, where public health bureaucracy and climate merge & Democracy goes to die,” he added.
One of the key summit themes this year, and one that CFACT’s Rucker and Morano will vehemently spar with climate change alarmists about, will highlight “meat eating.” Morano notes, “‘Nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat’ to enforce UN plan for ‘food’s climate transition.’”
Reports the UK Guardian:”Meat and dairy must be reined back from its continued growth around the world, if targets to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 are to be met.” …
Jennifer Larbie, the head of UK advocacy and campaigns at Christian Aid, reinforces the anti-food message: “The emissions from farming is a huge driver of the climate crisis and one which needs to be tackled at COP 28 if we are to keep global heating in check.”
At the heart of the climate change agenda is the idea that surpassing 1.5 degrees C or 2.7 degrees F, could trigger a cascade of tipping points, which would irreversibly alter the global climate system and further exacerbate warming. “Rubbish,” says CFACT’s Rucker and Morano.
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Background on COP 28:
The UN COP 28 website explains: “COP28 UAE will take place at Expo City Dubai from November 30-December 12, 2023. The Conference is expected to convene over 70,000 participants.”
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first African Climate Summit ended with a call Wednesday for world leaders to rally behind a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation, and maritime transport, and it seeks reform of the world financial system that forces African nations to pay more to borrow money.
Ever since dumping the world’s most popular princess, King Charles has embraced climate and other left wing media narratives in an attempt to curry favor, wash away his sins, and crown his wife Camilla Paker Bowles, Queen. The Queen part worked.
As the King (and CFACT) were preparing to travel to Dubai for COP 28, the year’s most important UN climate summit, the new tell all book Endgame, was summarily withdrawn from bookshelves in the Netherlands. The Dutch edition (accidentally?) listed two members of the royal family as “racist royals” for obsessing over the skin color of Harry and Meghan Markle’s unborn son Archie.
As the King was preparing to deliver a key opening speech at the conference, Piers Morgan revealed on television that the two so-called “racist royals” were future Queen Kate Middleton and King Charles himself.
Scrambling for cover, the Royal Family yesterday released a COP 28 itinerary for the King which is heavily laden with unscientific narratives and group pandering.
The King is embracing the radical line that the horrors of global warming will fall heaviest, and wisdom is to be gleaned from women, youth, “indigenous” peoples, and island nations. The Royals actually proclaimed that “traditional” indigenous knowledge stands “alongside scientific knowledge to address the climate and nature crises.”
Perhaps His Majesty can scientifically end drought with a rain dance.
Do you think King Charles is aware how many new airports and luxury beach resorts are under construction in supposedly sinking island nations?
The edgy animated series South Park recently coined a new term in a hard-hitting episode about Disney entitled “Enter the Panderverse.”
Entering the panderverse appears to be the royal strategy for COP 28, as King Charles casts about looking for favored groups to which to pander.
The King may face yet bigger problems, as many of his subjects question whether it is appropriate for Charles to be pushing political narratives at a UN climate conference at all.
Britain’s unelected royal family has for decades refrained from weighing in on politics. Queen Elizabeth II was known for her masterful royal restraint.
As British Academic Lisa McKenzie said on GB News, the royal family has no scientific expertise, “and no concept of what it is like to live in a cold house… or to turn your heating off.” (Though we do hear castles can be drafty). McKenzie reminded viewers that King Charles lives the ultimate lifestyle of privilege, as he “lives in publicly funded mansions, flies around the world in private jets… and has his energy bills paid for by the British public.”
CFACT’s COP 28 delegation asks:
Can the free world survive the UN climate agenda?
Will the British Royal Family survive King Charles?
Britain’s King Charles arrives to meet the students at Heriot-Watt University Dubai, during the COP28 summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023.Image Credits :Reuters
King Charles’ Dubai agenda reveals the unscientific acceptance of lines that women, youth, “indigenous” peoples, and island nations will be hardest hit by global warming and “traditional” indigenous knowledge stands “alongside scientific knowledge to address the climate and nature crises.”
OFFICIAL BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY PRESS RELEASE:
The King will visit Dubai to attend COP28 UAE
Published 29 November 2023
His Majesty The King will visit Dubai from Thursday 30th November to Friday, 1st December 2023, to attend COP28 UAE, where His Majesty will address Heads of State, Heads of Government, and delegates at the Opening Ceremony. The visit is at the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and at the request of His Majesty’s Government.
During the visit, The King will meet the President of the UAE and undertake a series of engagements in Dubai ahead of COP28. The King will have the opportunity to meet regional leaders, to support the UK’s efforts to promote peace in the region, and to demonstrate His Majesty’s strong interest in bringing together people from different faiths and backgrounds.
On Thursday, 30th November, His Majesty will meet students and graduates from across the Commonwealth. He will hear about green tech and sustainable innovations, celebrating entrepreneurial business and the younger generation’s role in delivering climate and nature solutions.
The King will later join a Commonwealth and Nature reception hosted jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA). His Majesty will meet global and Commonwealth indigenous leaders to talk about the role of using traditional knowledge alongside scientific knowledge to address the climate and nature crises, particularly in tackling the increased threat of devastating wildfires.
Afterward, His Majesty will meet female climate leaders working to address climate change and to hear about the particular risks that climate change poses to women and girls around the globe. The King will also meet representatives from Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
On the evening of Thursday, 30th November, The King will join His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at a reception to launch the inaugural COP28 Business and Philanthropy Climate Forum. The reception, hosted by the COP28 Presidency in strategic partnership with the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), will be attended by global Heads of State and Government, business CEOs, philanthropists, and heads of NGOs.
On Friday, 1st December, The King will join world leaders at the Opening Ceremony of the World Climate Action Summit at Expo City Dubai for COP28 UAE. His Majesty will join Heads of State and Heads of Government for the ‘family photo’ and deliver an opening address at the Summit.
Background
For over 50 years, The King has championed action for a sustainable future. His Majesty believes that everyone has a role to play in tackling even the most complex environmental challenges facing our world. From Heads of State to young people and from chief executives to local community projects, the King’s unique ability to bring people together has proved a powerful way to inspire solutions and motivate people and organisations at all levels and all around the world.
The King, as The Prince of Wales, previously delivered the opening address at the Opening Ceremony of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 and COP21 in Paris in 2015.
The 28th Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) will take place from 30th November to 12th December 2023 in Expo City Dubai.
“The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat as part of the first comprehensive plan to bring the global agrifood industry into line with the Paris climate agreement. The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month…The United Arab Emirates has called on governments to sign a declaration committing to include food transformation into their national reduction and adaptation plans. The COP28 summit will have a Food, Agriculture, and Water Day on Dec. 10, a first-ever day dedicated to food systems, which encompass anything from how food is grown, processed, distributed, consumed, or thrown away. Catering for the summit will be two-thirds plant-based.” — Bloomberg Climate
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The Los Angeles Times (LAT) published an editorial, titled “On climate change, world leaders are saying one thing and doing another,” in which the author bemoans the fact that despite global leaders saying climate change poses an existential threat, the greatest threat to humanity, their actions to fight climate change are insufficient to prevent purported catastrophe. It is true that governments are talking the talk, but not walking the walk about the draconian policies they claim are necessary to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
But it is false that climate change is worsening extreme weather or that if governments don’t enact sharp, rapid bans on fossil fuel development and use it will “throw humanity’s future into question,” as claimed in the editorial.
The LAT editorial board says:
World leaders will gather for the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai starting Thursday. And already, there are troubling signs that we’ll see another year of powerful countries spouting a lot of hot air but ultimately shirking their obligations to protect humanity from grievous and irreversible harm caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
A U.N.-backed report released earlier this month found that despite their promises, the world’s governments still plan to produce and consume more than twice as much coal, oil and gas in 2030 as they should to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a gap that’s remained basically unchanged since 2019.
The LAT’s description of the state of climate negotiations and past COP meetings is accurate. A lot of hot air has been spouted and bold promises made that have not been matched by actions. Thankfully, however, what is claimed in the editorial, that “[t]he repercussions of countries not delivering on their pledges to cut heat-trapping emissions are life-or-death,” is patently false. Nor, as claimed in the editorial are, “[t]he consequences of inaction … already manifesting in the form of more ferocious heat waves, storms and wildfires, rising sea levels, drought, and damage to marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Here are the facts. The 1.5℃ tipping point is a made-up number settled upon by politicians. As shown at Climate at a Glance: Tipping Point – 1.5 Degrees Celsius Warming and in numerous Climate Realism posts, here, here, and here, for example, there is no scientific evidence any specific rise in temperatures will produce increased incidences of extreme weather or cascading climate catastrophes.
Real world data refute the claim that heatwaves have become more severe or more frequent, as discussed at Climate at a Glance: U.S. Heatwaves, and at Climate Realism, here and here, for instance.
Evidence shows that neither storms nor wildfires have increased in number or intensity during recent decades of modest warming. Indeed, wildfires have actually declined both in the United States and globally.
In short, none of the claims about damage from climate change asserted by the LAT’s editorial board as facts are true. To paraphrase the late Senator and Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan famous statement, although the LAT’s editorial board “is entitled to its own opinion about climate change, it is not entitled to its own facts.”
Contrary to the LAT’s claims, it is not that COP 28 will fail to make meaningful progress towards ending the use of fossil fuels that the world should fear, it is that it will succeed in securing enforceable carbon dioxide emission reductions. We should all be thankful that politicians are hypocrites when it comes to climate change. Had governments enacted the types of fossil fuel restraining policies sufficient to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions to net zero on the timeline described in the Paris climate agreement, the world’s climate would not be made safer but millions more people than are already suffering under present policies would be suffering from poverty, hunger, and energy shortages. In the words of Alex Epstein:
Climate is no longer a major cause of deaths, thanks in large part to fossil fuels. … Not only are we ignoring the big picture by making the fight against climate danger the fixation of our culture, we are “fighting” climate change by opposing the weapon that has made it dozens of times less dangerous. The popular climate discussion has the issue backward. It looks at man as a destructive force for climate livability, one who makes the climate dangerous because we use fossil fuels. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite; we don’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous climate and make it safe. High-energy civilization, not climate, is the driver of climate livability.
Note: BTW, The Heartland Institute will discuss COP 28 this Friday LIVE on Climate Change Roundtable, and our President, James Taylor, will be on hand next week at COP 28 in Dubai to make these same points about the tremendous benefits of fossil fuels and fight false climate catastrophe claims. Keep an eye out for our efforts.
The United Nations Conference of the Parties, more commonly referred to as COP, is a yearly climate conference. This year’s COP, the 28th such event, is to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Dubai between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12.
The irony of the event’s location this year cannot be overlooked. The UAE, a nation synonymous with opulence, innovation, and towering skyscrapers, made most of its wealth from selling oil and natural gas, which are supposedly the cause of a coming apocalypse.
Dubai, the epitome of hydrocarbon-fueled extravagance, stands as a stark contrast to the very principles that COP28 purports to uphold. Hosting COP in a nation deeply entrenched in the fossil fuel industry is paradoxical at best.
In recent years, discord has emerged between developed economies embracing so-called green agendas and impoverished nations being pressured to adopt the same “decarbonization” objectives. Many voices in the global South and East believe that the West’s call for decarbonization exposes their hypocrisy both collectively and at a personal level.
Emission-Spewing Private Jets and Carbon-Intensive Lifestyles
While political figures in the West regularly point accusatory fingers at the substantial CO2 emissions of China and India, they tend to ignore per capita emissions in various nations. The per capita metric reflects individual lifestyle choices, shedding light on energy usage and quality of life.
For instance, India’s per capita emissions in 2016 were less than 2 tons. In contrast, the UAE, the COP28 host, had 24 tons. The country that gave rise to the Paris Agreement, France, emitted about 5 tons, while Germany, an “apparent leader” in renewable energy, emitted about 9 tons per person. U.S. emissions totaled 15 tons, compared to less than a paltry one-tenth of a ton from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Climate hypocrisy at the individual level also warrants notice. COP conferences are infamous for private jet use of political leaders and celebrities.
For instance, consider Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar-winning celebrity infamous for his travel by private jet. Leonardo’s typical trip on a G550 aircraft — a type of jet that he has used before — between New York and Dubai will emit approximately 52 metric tons of CO2 according to an emission calculator provided by Paramount Business Jets.
Now, let’s compare this jaw-dropping figure to the average person in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who emits a mere 0.08 metric tons of CO2 per year. Leonardo’s one-way trip on a luxurious G550 jet from New York to Dubai would generate emissions that are a staggering 650 times higher than the yearly emissions of a person in the DRC.
The COP27 conference in Egypt last year had around 400 private jets, many of which could have been avoided by simply taking advantage of Egypt Air’s generous increase in trips. This year will be no different, especially considering the availability of private jet operators in Dubai.
For a native of a developing nation, the decarbonization lectures of COP leaders are the most insensitive, selfish, ill-informed, corrosive, and hypocrisy-filled policy pronouncements of the yearly calendar! The same speakers demand that people of DRC and other developing countries forgo their dreams of higher standards of living, which are unattainable without the use of significant amounts of fossil fuels.
Coal, oil and natural gas play a vital role in elevating real people in the Third World from crushing deprivation just as they contributed to the West’s triumph over widespread poverty through industrialization. There should be no restrictions on their use.
Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, U.K.
This commentary was first published at Daily Caller on November 28, 2023.
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