The Last Chance Saloon Is Still Open!
By Paul Homewood
Once again, courtesy of Josh and Net Zero Watch, let’s take a look at all of the “last chance to save the planet” warnings, which have populated every COP:
Bali, 2007
`Bali could be the last chance to avoid
the worst effect of global warming’ – New Zealand Herald, 3 December 2007
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Poznan, 2008
`The world will “suicide” if it cannot
strike a strong climate pact soon’.
`[The summit is] the world’s last
chance to stop climate change before
it passes the point of no return’ – The Age, 9 December 2008
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Copenhagen, 2009
`Copenhagen summit is last chance
to save the planet’ - Lord Stern.
`Copenhagen Climate Talks are last
chance’ - Gordon Brown
.
Cancun, 2010
`Jairem Ramesh, the Indian environment
minister, sees [the meeting] as
the `last chance’ for climate change
talks to succeed’ – Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2010
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Durban, 2011
`…the World Council of Churches
general secretary, Reverend Dr Olav
Fykse Tveit, called the United Nations
UNFCCC COP 17 meeting a “last opportunity
for the international community
to be responsible in addressing
climate change”.’ – Christian Aid, 30 August 2011
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Doha, 2012
`Tomorrow: the earth’s last chance
with climate change?’ – The Examiner, 25 November 2012
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Warsaw, 2013
`Is the Warsaw Climate Change Conference
a last-chance summit? …
this summit could represent a turning
point in the fight against global
warming.’ – Sustainable Mobility, 14 November 2013
.
Lima, 2014
`Last chance: Change needed for climate
negotiations in Lima 2014…A
repeat performance next year would
be disastrous, not just for the progress
of these negotiations, but more importantly
for vulnerable communities
everywhere and the natural world on
which we all depend…‘ – WWF, 23 November 2013
.
.Paris, 2015
`The next climate summit in Paris
(COP21) may be the “last effective opportunity”
to negotiate arrangements
that keep human-induced warming
`to a limit safe for humanity, while
protecting the poor and the vulnerable
from ongoing climate change
that gravely endangers their lives’. – L’Osservatore Romano, 29 April 2015
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Marrakesh, 2016
`Governments are drinking in the
“last chance saloon’ – Edie.net
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Bonn, 2017
`The Bonn Conference may be our
last chance to get it right.’ – Vice, 5 May 2017
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Katowice, 2018
`Katowice offers last chance to limit
warming to 1.5°C; countries must revise
national plans at the upcoming
climate conference’. – Down to Earth, 1 December 2018
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Madrid, 2019
`UN climate change summit opens in
Madrid amid last chance warnings’. – City AM, 2 December 2019.
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Glasgow, 2021
‘COP26 Glasgow: Climate summit is
world’s “last chance“ to aver disaster’. – The National, 9 August
‘“This is our last chance“: Biden urged
to act as climate agenda hangs by a
thread‘. – The Guardian, 18 October
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Sharm, 2022
‘COP27 represents one of our last
chances to avert global catastrophe.‘ – The Observer, 30 October 2022
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Dubai, 2023
COP28 is humanity’s last clear chance
to avoid a climate catastrophe – UN
chief. – Cleantechnica, 25th November 2023
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
As the world has warmed a miniscule 0.15C in the last 25 years, perhaps the New Zealand Herald was right, we did something about climate change at Bali and the worst is now over.
Everyone can now forget about it.
And between-COP reminders too …
Whatever happened to this?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/100-months-to-save-the-world
“If you don’t make it in 100 months, we’ll give you a 100 more.”
Still a bit to go on that one isn’t there? 100 months is 8 years and a bit and it was December 2016.
Amazing how wrong that “growing consensus” was. Yet it doesn’t in any way dent his belief.
So as we’re obviously doomed, we may as well not bother with any more of these jamborees for the middle classes.
middle classes?
Ah, the ‘last CLEAR chance’ to save the world – that makes all the difference. I wonder what they will say at COP29? Perhaps we should have a competition.
“CRAP! Ever since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States again, my shares of Big Solar, Big Wind, Big CO2-Scam-You-Name-It, have lost 75% of their value.”
After the battery buses in Oslo not liking the cold weather, it would seem that neither do the battery trains in Germany that run between Kiel and Lubeck. And in a further blow to the battery lovers, Sixt are dropping Tesla from their car list citing one of the reasons for this as the increased cost of repairs compared to normal cars. Now I thought the battery car evangelists say they are cheaper to fix.
Fewer moving parts than non-EVs, but the battery doesn’t move and ruins the ‘cheaper to fix’ claims.
All total drivel about EVs being cheaper on maintenance.
Most of my expenditure over the past twenty or thirty years has been on running gear, not the engine, and as EVs are considerably heavier than ICE, I suspect tyres, suspension components and brakes (don’t be fooled by the tale that EVs don’t use the brakes, to slow two and a half tons of vehicle using regenerative braking produces far more energy than the charging system can cope with, a few very expensive models cope using supercapacitors to flatten the peaks) cost as much or more than ICEs.
Could not agree more!
My service costs are basically no more than an oil change and brake discs.
The biggest cost comes from tyres
I suspect that’s Teslas rather than EVs in general. As I understand it, Tesla keep a very strict hand on who can maintain Teslas, so prices are high.
“the end of the world is nigh” … again.
I used to scoff at the weird cults that predicted the spaceship would land on a certain date, then when it didn’t, the cultists still believed because they were told they hadn’t been good enough or believed enough. But that’s rational compared with the climate nutters. For 20 years it’s been Apocalypse soon AND endless stories about it being worse than we thought, yet still there’s nothing.
cop 29 venue: Death valley.
We’re boiling away man, the UN blew up the last chance saloon.
Trust New Zealand to lead the loony lefties down into the abyss. It matters not a jot whether NZ doubles or halves it’s greenhouse gas emissions, as far as any observable effect on global temperatures is concerned; but there will always be plenty of NZ greenies, self indulgently virtue signalling like crazy. 70 years ago it was ranked as the second most wealthy country in the world, but struggles to make the top 40 now, and set to sink lower unless the new coalition government shows some guts
Does “last chance” mean that the believers have reached new depths of control freakery?
As many posters are probably aware, António Guterres (UN secretary-general) has apparently stated: “Whether you like it or not, fossil fuel phase-out is inevitable. ”
Apologies if the twitter account is a “parody” account.
So it will be imposed on the population whether the population agrees or not. When did we cedd sovereignty to the UN?
Guterres’ comments should at least be enough to ring alarm bells for anyone who has some understanding of the risks that can be created by a powerful, autocratic and undemocratic organisation.
As always, Guterres’ comments can be countered with: “Where is the proof that humans are responsible for dangerous climate change?”
It’s the phase in that’s the problem. It cannot be done without using conventional vehicles for all of the transportation involved. Renewables don’t install themselves, nor do EVs. That means more oil, not less.
” It’s the phase in that’s the problem. ”
But why spend all that money and go through all that grief in support of a belief ?
Somewhere in excess of £800 billion to date is my estimate for the current cost of netzero in the UK; over £800 billion solves a lot of the UK’s current problems
“Bali could be the last chance to avoid
the worst effect of global warming”
This of course makes no sense. The worst effects must be the later ones, not the early ones.
It is apparent that beyond our scrutiny (or awareness) countries have accords that affect their association with others in trade and cultural association. To this end, many will suffer the causes being beyond our scrutiny. It is not that Mr Sunak is an imbecile, although giving a very good imitation of one.
To think of this country’s lack of value added merchandise and the weight of population it can never employ, there are only so many posts for housekeepers, waiters and garden boys), fracking is the perfect answer for our penury and because of its nature, it can be switched off if some viable alternative is found.
While the denier press is replete with fact and profound thinking, scrutiny and imbecility watch, all the proponents have is necromancy and a free play with the vocabulary of romanticism. Were it not for people of the ilk of those embodying Machiavelli or swooning at the feet of Greta I might gives them some credence and defer to some extent. But they behave as naive, selfish, cosseted children and are such that they could be frightened by shadows. I will not submit to their petty tyranny.
Exactly right. Fracking is the answer. It is incomprehensible, except of course politically, that the Uk and Europe refuse to pump out the trillions of cubic metres of gas that lies beneath our feet, and prefer to beggar ourselves and add to emissions by importing it from distant and not sometimes dodgy countries.
How DARE you remind people of those memory-holed lies?