Boo-hoo-hoo!
Gore is quoted as saying:
COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates and For the Petrostates.”
What was impressive was OPEC conducted a huge effort to push back against COP28 calling for the end of using fossil fuels almost from the start.
It didn’t help matters was the record-breaking snowfall Germany experienced that occurred during the conference and the possibility of some diplomats on their way to attend the event might have been held up.
The there’s the criticism of the Fifth National Climate Assessment that was released last month and was met with lots of well-deserved criticism too.
Of course, we cannot forget the multiple claims Al Gore has made over the last 30 years only for them to be proven wrong every time.
“Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro,” he said to the audience in An Inconvenient Truth. This occurred moments before he makes his prediction for Glacier National Park.
Alluding poorly to the title of the Ernest Hemmingway short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gore was trying to claim that Africa’s tallest mountain, with a peak that stands higher than 19,000 feet, would no longer have measurable snow cover on or before 2016.
As of November 2022, Snow-forecast.com, a webpage for skiers, reported that an average of 93 combined inches of snowfall (almost 8 feet) hits just the middle altitudes of Kilimanjaro during November and December. And 9 inches of combined snowfall is the average expected for the middle elevations for July and August, the lightest two-month period for snowfall on the middle part of the mountain.
But, so far, no apology from John Kerry for his contribution to greenhouse gases. Perhaps Al Gore sold him some more carbon offsets?
Ultimately, the conference was exposed as nothing more than Kabuki Theater and Gore needs to get a real job. But it is questionable that he has any real skills.
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