Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure
Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure
The real “inconvenient truth”: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative
Posted by Leslie Eastman Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 01:00pm 21 Comments
I have been following the climate cult antics at the United Nations climate meeting in Dubai [Conference of Parties (CoP28)].
Even before the meeting began, I predicted it would be the biggest failure yet.
I was wrong.
The staggering level of failure was beyond my ability to imagine, and I can imagine quite a bit. However, I did not count on pushback from the meat industry. And I didn’t foresee that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would mount such a sweeping and effective counter-offensive from beginning to end of the meeting.
I noted that climate cultists John Kerry and Al Gore were attending in a desperate bid for relevance. As the conference wound down, Gore melted down in an X-rant about the upcoming failure of the summit to phase out fossil fuels.
It was glorious.
A rant like this deserves a good fisking, so I shall now fisk.
COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates and For the Petrostates.”
Gore forgot about energy expert Robert Bryce’s Iron Law of Electricity, which says that people, businesses, and governments will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need.
Despite significant investments in hydro, solar, and wind, Vietnam is now getting about 60% of its juice from coal-fired power plants. Since 2009, Vietnam’s coal-fired electricity output has grown tenfold and more growth is on the way. Last year, according to Global Energy Monitor, Vietnam commissioned about 1,900 megawatts of new coal-fired capacity. (More on Vietnam in a moment.)
The contrast between the rhetoric coming from the climate claque in Washington and the hard realities of electricity-impoverished countries like India, Vietnam, Pakistan, South Africa, and Bangladesh (which is also in the midst of an electricity crisis), could not be more stark. While the U.S. government is fire-hosing hundreds of billions of dollars on weather-dependent renewables and blue, green, and tutti-frutti hydrogen, developing countries — as well as advanced economies like Japan and Germany — are burning all the coal they can find. Why? The Iron Law of Electricity.
Conclusion: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative
Now, to focus on the next sentence in Gore’s statement:
It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously.
I take all science very seriously. I am offended at the ridiculous ways climate data has been gathered, climate science has been funded, and climate narrative critics have been silenced.