Conference of Powers at twenty six, still useless after all this years
via Watts Up with That:
America’s climate envoy John Kerry says the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow is the “last best hope for the world to get its act together”.
The idea is that hundreds of global leaders, not a one of whom has much if any idea how the world’s energy systems work, will come together to agree and order that those systems must be completely discarded and replaced. Currently, all the world economies run mostly on fossil fuel energy; but these political leaders are oh so much smarter than that, so they will order that use of such energy must be reduced and then ended, and associated carbon emissions will of course decline commensurately. These people equally have no idea how or whether the newly-ordered alternative energy systems might work, or how much the new systems might cost when fully implemented. Those things, you see, are mere engineering details, too insignificant to warrant the attention of great potentates. What they do know is, as the magnificent Barack Obama put it in 2008, “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. . . .”
Forbes Kerry is COP is our last best hope to save the planet? I suggest that if Kerry actually believed his dribble he would ground his private jet, and attend COP by teleconference.
Question about Demented Joe from Delaware: will Joey find past the executive restroom to the conference room?
Bonus question: how many bowls of chili do I have to forgo to off just one flight to Scottland?