There are many rich people who love lying about climate science in order to stymie constructive action - they especially love lying about the IPCC and broadcasting hysterical fabricated arguments and storytelling dedicated to ignoring the evidence and instead focused on painting the IPCC organization and scientists in general for the politicization of the HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING DRIVEN DISRUPTIVE CLIMATE CHANGE.
And the foolish public is too lazy and apathetic to do the hard work of critical thinking and honest self reflection to see what a heinous fraud they are perpetrating against our children and grandchildren.
But the evidence for the fraud is out there.
CSSN Issue Paper:
“What sets Saudi Arabia apart from most other countries is that it sees its national interest as best served by obstructing intergovernmental efforts to tackle climate change”
Decades of Systematic Obstructionism: Saudi Arabia’s Role in Slowing Progress in UN Climate Negotiations
Joanna Depledge, Kari De Pryck and J. Timmons Roberts
November 2023Contents
Introduction 4
How Saudi Arabia Obstructs 6
Undermining the Process 7
Undermining the Science 11
What can be done 15
Conclusion 16
One nation has had an outsized role in undermining progress at global climate negotiations, year after year: Saudi Arabia. The fossil fuel giant has a thirty-year record of obstruction and delay, protecting its national oil and gas sector and seeking to ensure UN climate talks achieve as little as possible, as slowly as possible.
This strategy has been termed Systematic obstructionism: “the sustained and aggressive use of obstructionist tactics over time, applied not just on one or two issues but on the general thrust of the negotiation process”.Key findings
● Since the inception of UN climate talks in the 1990s Saudi Arabia has sought to slow progress
● Riyadh’ s envoys are among the most active across all tracks of UN climate talks, frequently pushing back on efforts to curb fossil fuels
● Promoting carbon capture and removal technology is now a priority for Saudi Arabia: we are likely to see this goal pursued across all talks at COP28
● Undermining science is a core strategy employed by Saudi Arabian envoys who contest new climate science at the UNFCCC and IPCC
● Despite increased temperatures across Saudi Arabia and falling groundwater supplies Riyadh has shown
GOOGLE: how+oil+industry+lied+about+climate+change
Although, I imagine someone will pop up to tell how useless it is to try and inform people, it just makes them more skeptical I’m told - problem, what problem?