Time for Climate Exit

Viv Forbes 2 December 2023 The Spectator

The world’s rich and famous – plus an army of publicists, hangers-on, and mendicants – are attending the COP28 meeting in Dubai, the ostentatious 7-star play-ground capital of the United Arab Emirates where even the police drive luxury sports cars.

We peasant classes who are sitting at home note that climate royalty, including King Charles III from the United Kingdom, John Kerry from America, and Blackouts Bowen from Australia, are all flying there by burning vast amounts of carbon fuels. Fittingly, these hypocrites chose to meet in the richest and most wasteful artificial city in the world, wallowing in wealth derived from oil, gas, and air-travel tourists.

UAE has already been accused of using the meeting to organise oil and gas sales ‘on the sidelines’, so for them, it has the potential to be doubly profitable.

Many suspect the hidden agenda of COP28 in Dubai is about convincing leaders to ration our resources – ration energy, reduce meat production, and eliminate wasteful driving.

They seem to want us locked into 15-minute cities with our movements tracked and restricted to walking, bicycles, and small communal electric cars. They plan to abolish the freedom of cash so they can track our consumption. They want to see us restricted to green smoothies, oat-milk coffee, minced crickets, and fake meat burgers while they jet off to a new well-fed tourist destination every year.

We have copped these annual climate fests for decades. The last one catered for about 40,000 delegates and hangers-on for 2 weeks of a talk-fest that achieved nothing useful (as usual). Even Greta Thunberg said of COP27:

‘As it is now, the COPs are mainly being used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention when they say, “We’re going to change,” and using many different kinds of?greenwashing, lying and cheating and so on.’

Let’s have a few Clexit (Climate Exit) Referenda so we can?Vote ‘No’?and repudiate all liabilities under the Kyoto and Paris Climate Agreements.

Only stupid Western politicians from places like the UK, America, and Australia think they can force-feed wind-solar energy sufficiently to keep the lights on as coal and gas plants close. Naturally, Greens are also opposed to building dams for hydro energy and they do not like nuclear.

The Net Zero Prize for reaching fanciful Net Zero Emissions targets will be precarious populations with industry operating on the whims of the weather and an angry, urbanised, locked-down population faced with food, fuel and electricity rationing.

There is no global warming crisis. And politicians cannot control the climate.

However, King What’s-is-name, John Kerry (the US Presidential Envoy for Controlling Climate), and Blackouts Bowen (Australia’s Minister for Climate Panics and Zero Energy) are determined to create an electricity crisis.

If our global leaders continue like this, power grid failure will be followed quickly by failure of food and water supplies to cities.