The true madness of COP29 conference

In an article he wrote in February 1941, George Orwell, despaired of finding “objective truth” in the mass media. AFP reports concerning the recent COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan are wilfully devoid of objective truth, the one in The Star of November 25 being a typical example.

If it were not for the economy-killing indebtedness amounting to hundreds of billions to transition to the fallacy of decarbonised energy to which leaders are condemning their countries, the COP 29 summit could be written off as a Mad Hatter’s Tea party.

In any event, certain peculiarities Lewis Carroll brings to the fore in the story aptly reflect the prevailing nature among the participants in COP 29. Personality disorder, confusion and chaos were symptoms hatters experienced from inhaling mercury vapours – hence the expression “mad as a hatter.”

Thanks to the mass media, an Orwellian oligarchy has succeeded in creating an utterly false climate pandemic which criminalises the emission of carbon dioxide on the basis that it is killing the planet. Emotionalism masquerading as science and reason blames fossil fuel usage as the cause of wild weather – excessive heat, floods, droughts and hurricanes.

Hard scientific and historical evidence to the contrary is totally ignored by the mad hatters. How can a gas which constitutes only 0,043% of the atmosphere possibly be responsible for weather extremes?

Graphs compiled from CO2 concentrations over the past 10,000 years from ice cores in Greenland show no correlation with temperature changes. Research shows that temperatures were often higher in the pre-industrial era, thereby discounting fossil fuels as a factor. Botanically, it is a proven fact that CO2 is the “gas of life” and that vegetation greening and crop production benefits from increased CO2 levels.

Despite the irrefutable evidence provided by science and history, the mad hatters are hell bent on phasing out fossil fuels and nuclear energy and replacing them with staggeringly expensive and unreliable wind turbines. To date the wilful mental disorder of the hatters has crippled Germany’s economy.

Studied ignorance and stupidity is leading South Africa down the path of permanent debt by committing it to trillions in the quest of a “just transition.” In the US offshore wind farms have caused a 40% cost increase in producing a single megawatt.

Fortunately, President Trump’s commitment to“drill, baby, drill!” will upend the decarbonisation madness of the COP29 adherents and compel objective truth about climate change to prevail.

DR DUNCAN DU BOIS | Bluff, Durban

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