The Conference of the Parties or COP28, the UN’s annual meeting bashing fossil fuels, was shaken to its foundation when the president of the gathering, Sultan Al Jaber, mentioned on the sidelines of the conference that eliminating fossil fuels, as many climate activists have demanded, is “alarmist” and would send the world “back into caves” at the expense of developing countries.
The Sultan wasn’t finished. He nearly initiated a mass heart attack among delegates when he said there is “no science” to back the statements from activists and the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, that eliminating fossil fuels would bring the world closer to keeping the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees centigrade.
“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C,” the Sultan said.
“Show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves,” he added. “I don’t think [you] will be able to help solve the climate problem by pointing fingers or contributing to the polarization and the divide that…
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