European Airports Full of Private Jets Are Buried in a Huge Blizzard of Ice and Snow as the COP2023 United Nations Climate Conference Takes Place in Dubai
Wall Street Journal has the receipts.
Billions in U.S. Funding Hasn’t Convinced Developing World to Ditch Coal
JOHANNESBURG—Wealthy nations are sending tens of billions of dollars to poorer ones for clean energy, the linchpin of a global strategy to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the developing world.
But two of the most ambitious efforts yet—in South Africa and Indonesia—are now at risk of unraveling, sowing doubts about the rich world’s ability to push developing countries away from coal and other fossil fuels.
South Africa and Indonesia, among the world’s most coal-hungry economies, are backtracking on commitments they made to burn less of the fuel under agreements known as Just Energy Transition Partnerships, or JETPs, which offered them $28.5 billion from the U.S. and other wealthy nations. Officials are working to prevent the agreements from falling apart as governments convene in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations climate summit.
Global Warming/Climate Change is the most fantastic planetary swindle in the history of the Universe.
Resistance from pro-coal politicians in both countries and fears about the economic and technical viability of replacing the fuel quickly are jeopardizing the agreements. South African and Indonesian officials say the money from wealthy countries isn’t what they hoped: Most of it will come in loans, not grants, saddling the countries with more debt.
Climate funding “should be more constructive, not in the form of debts that will only increase the burden on undeveloped or developing countries,” Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said last month.
But this is the ultimate of all the ironies…
Indonesia’s program was upended this year when the government said that the JETP didn’t account for a host of coal plants built for metal smelters and other factories in remote areas that aren’t connected to the grid. Indonesian authorities are planning for companies to build many more of them despite the country’s JETP commitments, part of a national strategy to become a major smelter of nickel and cobalt, needed to make electric-vehicle batteries.
When the agreement was first announced, U.S. officials were assuming that Indonesia would have 9,000 megawatts’ worth of off-grid power plants installed by 2030. Since then, Indonesian officials have disclosed that there are already around 14,000 megawatts of them around the country. Indonesian companies plan to build an additional 20,000 megawatts.
These climate clowns are running around the world giving away other people’s money, but the Third World beneficiaries of the free money who don’t care about climate change anyway are building dozens of coal-fired plants out in the woods to power metal smelting plants for….
….batteries to power electric vehicles in order to save the environment !
Good night Hamsters. Just finished reading today’s posts. Didn’t have time to post anything during the day, busy getting a few things done that had been lagging some attention being under too much stuff of little importance. Congratulations to Grandmother Tedtam on the birth of her grandson today. May he bring much joy to the family and the family equal… Read more »
I have taxi duty tomorrow – taking a friend to have carpal tunnel surgery… so I guess I’d better turn in early to enable my wake up function to work…
Just when I think the Jardience commercial has finally gone away, it rears its ugly head once more.
As such, the old M.A.S.H. song keeps popping up in my head.
Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes…
Tedtam congratulations to all the family. Now you’ll have a little boy to spoil.
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Thanks for reminding us about Lacey J. Dalton.
I had forgotten what a distinctive, memorable voice she has.
Yeah, I always did like her work.
Ol’ Condom Head may be just another old Texas Democrat.
But if those people in Houston allow She-Jack to become mayor, I have no sympathy for them.
A worldwide embarrassment it will be. A set back the city will spend fifty years recovering from.
I have to say Squawk is the most shrewd, calculating political intel guy I have ever met. He invented the “leave the vote blank” option and now has somehow covertly inserted it into the American Islamic Jihad political platform in order to make sure Biden and the Democrats are slaughtered in 2024. What an incredible move. Outstanding and a patriotic… Read more »
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Stop it.
Doctors say I’m not supposed to laugh that hard anymore.
So BSue was watching the news and Whitmire comes on in a commercial. And she says……
“Ya know he looks like a Saturday Night Live character with a condom over his head.”
I had a long nap when I got home from my errands at the hospital on the North Loop. I detoured past my longtime favorite Supreme Sandwiches, and scored some yummy chow. During the many years that I worked for Schlumberger way down in Sugar Land, my long drive home took me past that shop just as I finally turned… Read more »
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Talk about cut onions.
#30
BSue
Yes, ma’am, it does.
One of my all time favorite singers:
https://youtu.be/9qNEpWhMsfI
Tedtam
Congratulations on the new entry to Mankind.
Ellie Ruth is due to be born on January 4th. We are already past the time her older brother was born 6 weeks prematurely. So far, Thank God, there is no sign of the preeclampsia that scared the hell out of all of us five years ago.
Tedtam, try as I might, all I can think of is “Little Boy Blue” – or LBB… maybe that’ll stir up something is someone else’s noggin
Wagonburner – take this.
BABY IS HERE!
Now, gotta come up with a screen name for the little dude. Help me out. His initials will be LAF, it that helps.
LD looks so happy! I’m sure Dad is, too.
Given how foggy and unmotivated I was this morning, I am pleasantly surprised that I actually got some work done. Paid some bills, paid the monthly taxes, made the bookkeeping entries, filed a few things. And I got some exercise in, too. Carefully. But it felt good, even though it was so much less than I’m used to. Trying not… Read more »
Too tired?!? Wimmins these days are soft!
Whatever happened to going out in the woods, hugging a tree, and chomping on a stick for childbirth?
yeesh
I’m letting my hair dry ‘down’ after my shower earlier.
Even after all these years, the growth factor still amazes me. If I were to fall backwards, I don’t think I’d be hurt at all. Those curls would cushion any fall.
Now, brushing it out later…./sigh
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Remember when we responded proportionally to Iran when USS Samuel B Roberts hit an Iranian antiship mine? And by “proportionally”, I mean that defined by the Reagan administration, as in you hit one of our ships, we take a really big bite out of your navy proportions.
https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE?si=LqjBHCLBFIJtyXgR
I’m listening to Matt Walsh over at the Daily Wire. Planned Parenthood actually laid out how to depopulate the country – and a lot of those goals/strategies have been achieved. The destruction of the family. Putting kids in school. Contraceptives OTC. Methods of destroying fertility (see “gender affirming care”). It’s an eye opening discussion. PS: I saw Lady Ballers yesterday. … Read more »
Grandson is in last stages before making his appearance. I hope LD isn’t too tired to push. I’m sure it’s been a long day.
#20 I heard that too – I think the bulk of the replies believed that she did it deliberately – and passed them out to people she didn’t believe would vote for her. Those they were sure WOULD vote for her would be herded to the polls in buses
I heard this briefly on the radio this morning: She-Jack puts out ad touting the wrong voting date.
I’m reminded of past mayor Lee period P period Brown putting out some kind of paper full of grammatical errors.
Okay, that made me lol a little bit.
Festus was digging a ditch and come up with a bunch of crawdads, now he’s looking for someone to let him boil and fry ‘em up. Who’da known they’s coonazzes on Gunsmoke.
Well, I had my Fall checkup with my official medicare Doc, at Mem-Herman greater Heights. Everything looked good, especially considering my 80th birthday next month. Then I went next door to Dr Cantu’s optical office and had my new glasses fitted onto my face. So now I have a pair of new bifocals — hopefully about to help me score… Read more »
Texpat has disappeared…when is Ellie Ruth due?
LD is still in labor. Waiting, waiting, waiting…
I’ve run my post office errand, getting a package in the mail. Next up, I’ll tackle the treadmill. I listen to the radio via the iHeart app while on the ‘chine, because the treadmill generates too much static on the radio for me to listen there while walking. I’m tired. I really want a nap, but I know I won’t… Read more »
I’m out for a few hours.
Later.
In Israel, where is it cool and hip to be a right-winger. While in the West, young voters are often more liberal than their grandparents,’ the opposite is true in Israel, Rafael, one of Gen Zayin’s co-founders who is using a pseudonym, told CNN. A 2022 poll by the Israeli Democracy Institute found that 73% of Jewish people surveyed between the ages of 18 and 24 identified as right-wing… Read more »
Social media mega-influencer and British comedian Russell Brand (6.7 million subscribers) ran a new segment of his popular, now de-monetized YouTube show this weekend titled, “Vaccine BOMBSHELL – 973% Increase In HEART FAILURE?!” It has a half-million views so far. What? That’s for real…. Could that be the worst slogan that anybody ever came up with since Fetterman Formalwear’s “dress for the job… Read more »
The Times reacts to some anti-jab activity: The Times was badly triggered by what you and I might consider to be good news. Back in July, a federal judge overturned Mississippi’s strict childhood vaccine requirement, requiring the state to start accommodating parents’ religious objections to jabs, which the Times thinks is totally outrageous. But even worse, now parents are starting… Read more »
Next story from the C&C: Hollywood actor Mark Sheppard, 59, played in the popular long-running occult series Supernatural, as well as in Battlestar Galactica and other TV series over the years. But on Saturday, Mark …. collapsed in his kitchen and then endured what sounds like a pretty painful ordeal: “Six massive heart attacks later, and being brought back from dead 4… Read more »
FOUR NDE’S ☙ Monday, December 4, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Today’s roundup includes: the holidays are off and running; media obfuscates the end of a successful Israel-Hamas cease-fire; US military considers maybe thinking about responding to Yemenese missile attacks on the supply chain; SADS supernatural encounter featuring four near death experiences; second Pope Francis mystery… Read more »
Tedtam, what he said; It’s the Cycle of Life. I thought about that earlier but couldn’t put it into words. Texpat came through nicely. 😉
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It’s the Cycle of Life.
As one life ends, another begins.
The US has always refused to supply Israel with bunker-busters and Israel, at least as far as anyone knows, does not have aircraft capable of carrying those bombs to Iran and back. The IAF is almost exclusively light fighter jets. They’ve never had any reason to have long-range heavy bombers since Israel has always operated in a defensive mode. But,… Read more »
On a happier note, I’ve been informed that LD is in labor and my grandson should be arriving today. Unless she pulls a repeat of her first labor, in which case it’ll be tomorrow.
Prayers for a safe and quick delivery.
I’m going to try to get back into my routine today. Yesterday was a curl-up-in-a-ball-and-lick-my-wounds” day. As the saying goes, I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put up wet. The head still hurts and the tears still fall. And I’m doing my best to not let BCS live in my head rent free, but dang! Try to abuse… Read more »
Bud Light Fumbles While Trying to Recover Brand by Teaming Up with NFL Legend. Two of the most beloved NFL legends in history are Peyton Manning and Emmitt Smith. You’d be hard-pressed to find two NFL icons with generally higher favorability ratings than Manning and Smith. It would take a truly toxic property to get people to sour on those… Read more »
Yup, they’re having to relay on reliable coal to smelt the nickle and cobalt to make EV batteries,…..BAWHAHAHA!!!! You can’t make this s#!t up. 😀
The environmental nut-job’s chickens are coming home to roost. FWIW; I’ve been watching the local news and if you’re wondering what is wrong with the education establishment I can give you a clue form over here in Alabama. The president of the Birmingham Federation of Teachers (whatever the hell that is) was discussing the problems with getting new teachers on… Read more »
The climate change myth is the biggest lie since Social Security. It is all a mechanism to drain the middle class and rule the world. The big grift by the biggest grifters of them all, John Effing Kerry leading the charge.
A painful pox on all their houses.
Good morning from the not-so-great white north. 16F this AM rising to 39F later this afternoon. Going to be almost 60 tomorrow, yippee!
No other news. This time of year the temperature is the news.
Have a great day, all y’all.
Lol, that’s hilarious.
First!