Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure
The real “inconvenient truth”: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative

I have been following the climate cult antics at the United Nations climate meeting in Dubai [Conference of Parties (CoP28)].

Even before the meeting began, I predicted it would be the biggest failure yet. I was wrong.

The staggering level of failure was beyond my ability to imagine, and I can imagine quite a bit. However, I did not count on pushback from the meat industry. And I didn’t foresee that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would mount such a sweeping and effective counter-offensive from beginning to end of the meeting.

I noted that climate cultists John Kerry and Al Gore were attending in a desperate bid for relevance. As the conference wound down, Gore melted down in an X-rant about the upcoming failure of the summit to phase out fossil fuels.

It was glorious.


A rant like this deserves a good fisking, so I shall now fisk.

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.”

Gore forgot about energy expert Robert Bryce’s Iron Law of Electricity, which says that people, businesses, and governments will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need.

Despite significant investments in hydro, solar, and wind, Vietnam is now getting about 60% of its juice from coal-fired power plants. Since 2009, Vietnam’s coal-fired electricity output has grown tenfold and more growth is on the way. Last year, according to Global Energy Monitor, Vietnam commissioned about 1,900 megawatts of new coal-fired capacity. (More on Vietnam in a moment.)

The contrast between the rhetoric coming from the climate claque in Washington and the hard realities of electricity-impoverished countries like India, Vietnam, Pakistan, South Africa, and Bangladesh (which is also in the midst of an electricity crisis), could not be more stark. While the U.S. government is fire-hosing hundreds of billions of dollars on weather-dependent renewables and blue, green, and tutti-frutti hydrogen, developing countries — as well as advanced economies like Japan and Germany — are burning all the coal they can find. Why? The Iron Law of Electricity.

Conclusion: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative

Now, to focus on the next sentence in Gore’s statement:

It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously.

I take all science very seriously. I am offended at the ridiculous ways climate data has been gathered, climate science has been funded, and climate narrative critics have been silenced.

 

 

Not only did the Iron Law of Electricity triumph, but so did natural science, reason, and principled professionals.

The last portion is one of Gore’s fantasy-filled forecasts.

There are 24 hours left to show whose side the world is on: the side that wants to protect humanity’s future by kickstarting the orderly phase out of fossil fuels or the side of the petrostates and the leaders of the oil and gas companies that are fueling the historic climate catastrophe. In order to prevent COP28 from being the most embarrassing and dismal failure in 28 years of international climate negotiations, the final text must include clear language on phasing out fossil fuels. Anything else is a massive step backwards from where the world needs to be to truly address the climate crisis and make sure the 1.5°C goal doesn’t die in Dubai.

I consider this portion of Gore’s rant is just another one of his predictions that will not come true. The deviations between Gore’s assertions about the climate and the realities are vast. There are so many examples of Gore’s erroneous projections, but I have selected this one for its literary reference.

“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.

I would like to conclude by thanking Beege Welborn of Hot Air Blog, who worked together with me on the coverage of CoP28. She has her own take on Gore’s meltdown: Drink Deeply of Al Gore’s Bitter Tears

I will drink very deeply!