This came out as the U.N.’s COP28 conference climate talks began in Dubai.

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said.

That’s just one of a set of seemingly contradictory conditions facing climate negotiators who this week gather in Dubai for marathon United Nations talks that include a first-ever assessment of how well the world is doing in its battle against global warming. It’s also a conference where one of the central topics will be whether fossil fuels should be phased out, but it will be run by the CEO of an oil company.

Key to the session is the first “global stocktake” on climate, when countries look at what’s happened since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, how off-track it is and probably say what’s needed to get back on track.

The report comes down to this: scientists concluded eight years ago that, when compared to pre-industrial levels, global average temperatures would increase 3.5 degrees Celsius. But now that figure is completely off the table. The scientist’s revised figure is now 2.7 degrees and their second conclusion is that many countries are not meeting their goals, emissions consistently rise every year, but not as quickly as they had previously thought.

Small wonder the AP says they find these conclusions as contradictory and confusing. In reality, what the U.N.’s experts mean is even though the temperature rate is slowing instead of increasing, global carbon emissions are still rising annually. Consequently, you still have to dump your fossil fuel usage and then embrace renewable energy and electric vehicles.

However, no word if any of the people attending will be following through. But the standard is, the U.N. elitists expect everyone else to obey while they still fly in their gas-powered planes and drive in their fossil fuel-powered cars. If they did, the elites might be taken a bit more seriously.