These pledges are part of the problem. It's one thing in the heat of a meeting when everyone is hyped to make promises you may, or may not, be able to keep.
The reason we have Cop28 is because the promises made at Cop1 through Cop27 didn't amount to enough to solve the issue.
In this latest promise they will boost renewables, by actually trebling them.
That second part will prove to be the undoing of it all. 2030 is but a handful of years away and, as laudable as it may seem, just trebling stuff isn't realistic.
But the important part, and the positive part, is it is a step change in the obsession we seem to have had around stopping stuff and banning stuff and generally messing with peoples lives in a way that was never going to work.
Banning the combustion engine is most likely to prove to be the biggest piece of idiocy yet.
Back when they started making promises about it, 2025 or 2030 or 2035, depending on where you were, seemed a lifetime away. Now that it's here reality has hit and the combustion engine is still very much alive and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon.
Britain has backed off their ban, America has no appetite for it whatsoever and its replacement, the EV, is in real trouble in terms of non-subsidised uptake.
People seem to prefer the hybrid, which has of course an internal combustion engine.
Given we like cars and aren't giving them up, how about more wind, more sun, more wave and, dare I suggest, more nuclear. Boosting good stuff is a better calculation than cutting bad stuff.
Essentially, this is a lesson in human nature. We all want to do the right thing but we will not be inconvenienced and we will not be bludgeoned into submission.
The trick is simple - whether my lights get turned on via the sun, or wind, or coal doesn't matter, as long as the lights are on.
Reliability is the key.
Renewables currently are not reliable. Maybe a trebling of supply will make them so.
Let's hope so.
Let's hope this path is the chosen one at meetings like Cop. Otherwise before you know it, it will be Cop45, Cop51, Cop67.
And so it will go.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The reason we have Cop28 is because the promises made at Cop1 through Cop27 didn't amount to enough to solve the issue.
In this latest promise they will boost renewables, by actually trebling them.
That second part will prove to be the undoing of it all. 2030 is but a handful of years away and, as laudable as it may seem, just trebling stuff isn't realistic.
But the important part, and the positive part, is it is a step change in the obsession we seem to have had around stopping stuff and banning stuff and generally messing with peoples lives in a way that was never going to work.
Banning the combustion engine is most likely to prove to be the biggest piece of idiocy yet.
Back when they started making promises about it, 2025 or 2030 or 2035, depending on where you were, seemed a lifetime away. Now that it's here reality has hit and the combustion engine is still very much alive and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon.
Britain has backed off their ban, America has no appetite for it whatsoever and its replacement, the EV, is in real trouble in terms of non-subsidised uptake.
People seem to prefer the hybrid, which has of course an internal combustion engine.
Given we like cars and aren't giving them up, how about more wind, more sun, more wave and, dare I suggest, more nuclear. Boosting good stuff is a better calculation than cutting bad stuff.
Essentially, this is a lesson in human nature. We all want to do the right thing but we will not be inconvenienced and we will not be bludgeoned into submission.
The trick is simple - whether my lights get turned on via the sun, or wind, or coal doesn't matter, as long as the lights are on.
Reliability is the key.
Renewables currently are not reliable. Maybe a trebling of supply will make them so.
Let's hope so.
Let's hope this path is the chosen one at meetings like Cop. Otherwise before you know it, it will be Cop45, Cop51, Cop67.
And so it will go.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
8 comments:
COP FRAUD.
Spoken like a true member of team MSM. Instead of following your own team’s endless propaganda, how about asking yourself “Is there a climate emergency?” Why is it that your team refuses to challenge the greatest lie ever told? It remains taboo while world leading physicists clearly say there isn’t a problem. The truth doesn’t mind being questioned but a lie hates being challenged. So Mike, I dare you to break the MSM mould and publicly question this nonsense.
I read that 100,000 people are attending Cop28. If that number is correct then it is beyond hypocrisy.
It would be nice if you managed to come out with anything remotely sensible concerning global warming, Mike.
But I guess working for the MSM has its price.
Renewable energy doesn't work. Try doing some research onto it. You know, that thing that real journos are supposed to know how to do but never bother with these days.
There is “no science” that says the world should phase out fossil fuels to curb global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to Sultan Al Jaber, the PRESIDENT of the COP28 climate summit.
“You’re asking for a phase-out of fossil fuel," al-Jaber said.
"Please, help me, show me for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
The remarks from Al Jaber draw criticism from 'scientists' and are in contrast with the view of Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the UNITED NATIONS, who said at the climate summit 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.”
Even the IPCC report, that being the scientific part acknowledges that RCP8.5, being the model run that has a possible "climate catastrophe" in it, was removed but the hapless fools of polies and sycaphants demanded its reinstatement or else their ludicrous gambit is gone.
No more private jets, no more endless tables of caviar etc.
Yes CO2 is a warming greenhouse gas, but the question of materiality is as yet unresolved.
Stop the idiocy of FLOP 28.
The New Zealand population should redirect their focus onto our fiscal problem and politely say to Flop 28.
NZ will withdraw from sending tax paid funds to oblivion and redirect the future multple's of $10 billions to returning NZ to a nation with balanced books .
James Shaw et al have had their chance and achieved nothing factual.
Basil Walker
Is the debate about the climate or is the debate about how simpleminded some people have become to believe that we humans can heat the entire globe up and then turn it off like a thermostat, when it goes up 1.5 degrees.
How utterly dumb can some people be?
Or , how gullible are the masses?
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