New COP28 draft text does not mention phase out of fossil fuels
New COP28 draft text does not mention phase out of fossil fuels
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Annotated text, via Richard Delevan
Ah yes. No meaningful change in action since last time. Just what we were expecting from a conference led by the President of a national oil company.
I'm sure COP29 will get the job done. Or maybe COP30, or COP65...
COP29 to be sponsored by Shell in Qatar.
But I really can't wait for COP30 sponsored by BP, to be held on the 20th Anniversary of the Deep Horizon incident! I'm sure there will be agreement to ceremonial dumping of oil into the Gulf of Mexico there.
Well at least we didn't expect anything useful to come of this conference, so we won't be too disappointed.
I admire the optimism of everyone who didn't expect this outcome
Well at least this COP has shown that this is not a developed countries vs developing countries situation.
Shocking.
Pretty much what happens when you let a petrostate host and give oil-dependent monarchs veto power over the text
It doesn't say anything against nuking the countrys responsible for that...
will nuclear winter be enough to halt global warming?
Yes, but it would be really nice to stabilize temperatures without killing the bulk of the human population
More seriously, it would at best delay things for 10 years, and that’s if our current understanding of the climate turns out to be wrong and a nuclear winter could indeed actually happen in the first place.
The theory behind a nuclear winter was that in the 80s some scientists thought the secondary fires caused by detonating a bunch of nukes simultaneously in forested areas would combine to be powerful enough to carry the ash into the upper atmosphere. In the 2010s hover Australia had a wildfire big enough that according to the nuclear winter theory it should have easily demonstrated said effect, but dispite careful observation it didn’t, which is also what more modern climate science predicted.
Fun bonus fact: In a full scale nuclear war the majority of the projected casualties come from a breakdown in gobal trade leading to a lack of western produced fertilizer and subsequently food being grown in Africa. The same food production that is going to be heavily hampered by climate change. Thankfully there’s more time to mitigate it with climate change, but it’s still liable to be one of the biggest issues in a 2+C world.
When did a COP ever create meaningful change?
It is happening anyway, whether the people there want it to or not.
Largely not because the petroleum monarchies have the ability to block text they don't like.
