…so it must be a day that ends in “y”, right?

Gathered together for the 12 day U.N. Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP 27) – this year’s luxury version of the Ivy League/trust fund baby socialist annual scold association – the attendees are indulging themselves in all the usual histrionics, grifting…

COP 27 World Bank tells rich countries, give us more cash for climate

…and doom portending they have turned into performance art. For example, they had a press release pretentiously titled:

Real World Actors Share Progress and Strengthen Resolve at Opening of Global Climate Action Agenda at COP27

Well, my goodness! That sounds important! All those action words and strong adjectives – momentous news, I’m sure.

Not exactly. Basically it’s just a press release so the current and former conference presidents can get their names in the paper, and announce all these super-sounding committees with billions of dollar and euro signs attached for wish-lists, and they’ve anointed someone as “Champions” (who I never did see identified). All these in an incredible display of word salad argle-bargle. A sample:

…In step with COP27’s focus as the ‘Implementation COP’, the event also explores how non-State actors are ‘making good on promises’ to achieve a resilient, net zero future. It is staged in the wake of several reports on the state of climate action, which starkly convey the need to address the current implementation gap with honesty, delivery, and accountability. To take stock of progress towards this, the Champions will today release their ‘Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2022’. The Yearbook reports annually on the progress of non-State entities towards their climate goals, and is proof that – while obstacles remain – businesses, investors, cities, states and regions are building resilience and powering rapid changes in the real economy.

Whatever. All we need to know is that they plan to try to bleed us to death.

As they got down to work, they once again took aim at agriculture as the driving force behind us all shortly cooking to death as the auld sod heats up.

The U.N. food agency aims to launch a plan within the year to make the world’s food system more sustainable, a senior executive told Reuters on the sidelines of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt.

The plan would show how the food industry and farming can align with the world’s goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, Food and Agriculture Organization Deputy Director Zitouni Ould-Dada said.

The hope is that such a plan would act in a similar way to the release of a report for the energy sector by the International Energy Agency, which spurred investment into companies, projects and technologies aligned with the plan.

Did you notice that? “This plan, that plan, and the other plan” – all coming from people who haven’t left their offices except to get on a private plane to attend yet another conference (somewhere chi-chi – they’re never in Mogadishu) in decades. They couldn’t plan their way out of a paper bag. You also know there’s skullduggery afoot when think tankers are talking about “just transitions“…

…Food production accounts for around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the main threat to 86% of the world’s species at risk of extinction, while cattle ranching is responsible for three quarters of Amazon rainforest loss.

Investors are hoping the roadmap will provide guidance on matters such as methane emission limits, and support to ensure a ‘Just Transition‘ for farmers, said Jeremy Coller, chair of the FAIRR Initiative, organisers of the investor-led campaign.

Livestock accounts for nearly a third of the global methane emissions linked to human activity, released in the form of cattle burps, manure and the cultivation of feed crops.

…which in activist-ese translates to “how far can we screw with farmers before things get ugly” as pasture-grabbing Greenies are finding out in the Netherlands already. As with most types who live in government-funded bubbles, they also haven’t checked in with the people who would be immediately affected by their “plans.” These climate folks can’t push around the United States quite as easily – we give them the funding to indulge this BS, but they can sure lord it over Africa, and they try to. Those folks this time, not surprisingly and in the face of some severe world challenges to both food and energy, are hardly keen on the idea of depriving themselves of either cattle, fertilizer, or the option of taking advantage of fossil fuel resources in their own countries. And, as a block, the Africans said so.

African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks.

Pressure to leave hydrocarbons in the ground has been weakened this year by the disruption following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that led to a surge in energy prices and pushed inflation to multi-decade highs.

Even countries with binding commitments to switch to low carbon energy have found their priorities have shifted, at least in the short term and African nations see the potential for new export markets, as well as a chance to end domestic fuel poverty.

Well, there’s a change and good for them.

And just so you know, the U.S. is not sitting idly by while the world burns. John Kerry flew over and is setting your money on fire.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is planning to propose a new carbon-credit program that aims to ramp up funding from businesses and governments in wealthy economies to help developing countries cut back on fossil fuels.

…“No government in the world has enough money to affect the transition,” Mr. Kerry said. “The entity that could help the most is the private sector with the right structure.”

The plan aims to allow money to flow to emissions-reduction efforts for entire regions in the developing world. That would address one of the weaknesses under the current system, which grants credits for building individual renewable-energy projects but doesn’t ensure there are net emissions reductions happening across a broader area.

Gack. Talk about natural gas. There are some emissions I could get behind reducing to net zero.