Worst Climate Stories of the Week – If a Climate Meeting Happened and Nobody Cared, Did It Make a Sound?

Every year, the world’s most concerned globalists charter their jets and contribute megatons of man-made carbon dioxide to the atmosphere so they can gather in person to talk about how to stop man-made carbon dioxide emissions, which they assure us will lead to global Armageddon any day now. So it’s real important to have this meeting in some far-off third-world economy to give the uber wealthy delegates the opportunity to show how much they care. This time, COP29—or the 29^th UN Climate Change Conference— was in Baku, Azerbaijan. The delegates debated fiercely—some wanted to extort a few trillion dollars from first-world economies, while others wanted to extort tens of trillions for redistribution. The globalist economists who addressed the conference insist the rich countries need to pay up—“at least $1 trillion a year by the end of the decade to cope with climate change.” The lead negotiator for Panama called the proceedings a clown show, which counts as a rare admission of the truth.

In the end, the nearly 70,000 delegates will flap their gums, express grave concern, and then board their chartered flights back around the globe to tell their people how much money they extorted from the first world. Unless they make some sort of unintentional headlines, none of the citizenry will notice or care.

Don’t miss last week’s column: Worst Climate Stories of the Week – The Why Donald Trump Won Edition

So that sums up the state of climate action these days. Meanwhile, the climate cult members keep on doing crazy things in a vain attempt to make the rest of us take notice. We have the host country of COP29 calling the meeting out for going off the rails, the Exxon CEO trying to intimidate the new Republican administration, and Canada’s investment in crickets imploding.

We also have several good news items this week. Europe may have had enough of the renewable energy racket, and yet another study in a peer-reviewed journal destroys assumptions about global warming.

COP29 Cop Out

This year’s UN Climate Meeting—COP29—wraps up today, but the finger-pointing over its ineffectiveness began even before the delegates arrived:

Azerbaijan is being slated for failing to lead the COP29 summit, which was expected to disappoint even before it started.

Given the job at the last minute as Ukraine and Russia’s supporters couldn’t agree on a neutral venue, the government was only given one year to prepare instead of the usual two, but even after the event started, participants are complaining that Azeri negotiators are few on the ground, and the government seems more interested in cutting gas deals than stopping global warming.

The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, gave the opening speech, and shocked attendees by calling gas a “gift from God.” He then railed against the “colonialist West” and called out first-world nations for their hypocrisy. He later called out France and The Netherlands for repression and colonial rule.

“What can we expect from the European Parliament and PACE if Europe's leading diplomat Josep Borrel called Europe a garden and the rest of the world a jungle. Well, if we are a jungle, then stand aside and do not interfere in our internal affairs!” Aliyev said in the conclusion of his emotional speech.

At another point, he called out “double standards, a habit to lecture other countries, and political hypocrisy” among politicians, media outlets and what he called “state-controlled NGOs.”

The schadenfreude flowed. And we're here for it.

Don’t You Dare Take Away Our Federal Money!

The CEO of Exxon Mobil, Darren Woods, gave an interview to Politico recently, in which he warned the Trump administration against the repeal of Joe Biden’s signature legislation, the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA pumped trillions into “investments” in “green energy,” which of course has pumped huge amounts of windfall funding towards Exxon Mobil. Seems everyone has gotten in on the gravy train, including some Republican lawmakers:

Despite the forecasts that the world is on pace to set a new annual high temperature for the second year in a row, Trump has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax,” demonized policies promoting electric vehicles and castigated wind and solar energy.

But some members of his party, including a sizable number of Republicans in Congress, have spoken out against wholesale repeal of the IRA, citing the economic benefits it has delivered to their districts.

Woods, who took the top job at Exxon after his predecessor Rex Tillerson became Trump’s first secretary of State, said he opposed carbon border tariffs, which would impose fees on imports that are produced through processes with higher carbon emissions than in the U.S.

Woods says he would much prefer a more complex regulatory system to a tariff model. He also reiterated his support for the climate hoax, and the governmental “investments” that come with it:

“I don’t think the challenge or the need to address global emissions is going to go away,” Woods said. “Anything that happens in the short term would just make the longer term that much more challenging.”

Translation: keep pumping those fed stimmies right in our veins.

Canada’s Government Invested in Crickets, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!

Energy expert David Blackmon reports at his Substack that the world’s largest cricket factory, in London, Ontario, has had to cut way back on its production. The company, Aspire Food Group, hoped to produce four billion crickets for industrial customers who would then convert the insects into food. You know, to save the environment from evil cattle. Says Blackmon:

The Daily Mail reports that Trudeau “invested $8.5 million of state funds into Aspire Food Group in June 2022 to help 'develop innovative ways to meet the demand for more sustainably grown food,' a press release said at the time.”

So, how did Aspire Food Group aspire to develop those innovative ways to meet the demand for more sustainably grown food, you ask? Why, by raising 4 billion crickets in a 150,000 square foot warehouse, of course.

But - and nobody could have possibly seen this coming - the 4 billion crickets have proved to be hard to manage, leading company management to recently “laid off 100 of its 150 staff members, according to its CEO David Rosenberg.” Rosenberg went on to say some of the staff will be hired back next July after revisions to the production and management procedures had been implemented.

“The company reduced its employee base, mainly in production, while these changes - an updated design of how the crickets live in their habitat - are incorporated,” Rosenberg told AFN. “We had crickets everywhere,” he told The London Free Press.

For the record, that $8.5 million (Canadian) from the government represents 25% of the company’s budget.

Now for some good news .   . .

European Oil Companies Reject Renewables

Apparently, renewable energy development doesn’t make for a solid business model after all. BP, Shell, and Equinor (Norway’s state-owned oil company) have all announced plans to scale back their headlong plunge into the renewables sector. Reuters reports:

Almost five years ago, BP embarked on an ambitious attempt to transform itself from an oil company into a business focused on low-carbon power.

The British company is now trying to return to its roots as a big oil and gas player with a growth story to match rivals, revive its share price and allay investor concerns over future profits.

Rivals Shell and Norway's state-controlled Equinor are also scaling back energy transition plans set out earlier this decade.

Their change of direction reflects two major developments - the energy shock from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a drop in profitability for many renewables projects, particularly offshore wind, due to spiralling [sic] costs, supply chain issues and technical problems.

BPO now plans to reinvest billions into new drilling projects to “boost returns.” They’re getting out of hydrogen and selling off wind and solar projects. Meanwhile, Shell decided it needed to start making money again, so they’ve slashed their wind and hydrogen investments too.

All three companies have “retooled” their 2030 carbon reduction targets.

Again we ask: Who could have seen this coming?

More Evidence of the Climate Scam Published in Scientific Journals

Yet another paper published in a scientific journal this week blew apart the assumptions of average global temperature that underly the theory of man-made global warming.

As COP29 trails off into the sunset, and the Paris 1.5°C goal is dead, a bombshell climate paper in prestigious Nature journal was published today without any press coverage.

Early 20th Century global temperatures were much warmer than initially thought! pic.twitter.com/yJsosdARpZ

— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) November 20, 2024

This follows a paper published last month that detailed the massive errors in the early 20^th-century temperature record caused by deteriorating conditions across many weather stations. The study shows warming has been overestimated by 42%:

When a weather station temperature gauge’s white paint or white plastic ages and darkens, this allows more solar radiation to be absorbed by the gauge than when the gauge is bright white and new. Within a span of just 2 to 5 years, a gauge has been observed to record maximum temperatures 0.46°C to 0.49°C warmer than in gauges that have not undergone an aging process. This artificial warming is not corrected in modern data sets, and it builds up over time – even when the gauges are cleaned or resurfaced every few years.

If these systematic artificial warming errors were to be corrected rather than ignored, the 140-year (1880-’90 to 2010-’20) GISTEMP global warming trend plummets from the current estimate of +1.43°C down to +0.83°C, a 42% differential. The temperature reduction can be even more pronounced – from +1.43°C down to +0.41°C – if a set of conservative assumptions (described in detail in the paper) are removed.

Say, somebody should write a report detailing all the junk science that supports the crazy theory of man-made global warming.

Restoration News has shattered the myths around the climate cult and junk science in our comprehensive report: How the Left’s Global Warming Ideology Wrecked Science—And How to Stop It