November 16, 2021

Glasgow Climate Summit Sets Emissions Record

Alarmists clearly don’t believe their own rhetoric, but thankfully, it matters little to the actual state of the global climate.

The UN’s latest climate change confab ended this past weekend after two weeks of bloviating that produced little in the way of significant action. COP26 is in the books, and it seems to have concluded with minimal economic damage.

Yet it’s worth noting that the gathering of global elites and climate activists exposed the brazen hypocrisy of the summit, with around 102,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions generated by attendees, more than doubling the emission numbers from the last UN climate summit back in 2019 in Madrid, Spain. With all the talk about the “need to act,” one would think these global elites would at least make an effort to appear to act like they believe their own rhetoric.

But no, they’ll jump into their private jets and fly off to their next “important” gathering as they congratulate themselves for bringing greater awareness to the imminent threat that is climate change. Never mind it’s an imminent threat that continues to fail to emerge. We all must be browbeaten into accepting The Science™.

Speaking of science, why is increasing carbon always viewed as objectively negative? Is it possible that the increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may also present some positives for the planet? This is the argument made by Heritage Foundation chief statistician Kevin Dayaratna, who observes that increasing carbon dioxide emissions have also resulted in a “greening of the planet.”

At the 14th International Climate Change Conference, a gathering of scientists, economists, and academics from around the world who met this past October, Dayaratna challenged the UN’s catastrophic climate change paradigm. “Regardless of one's predictions on the extent of human influence on climate change,” he noted, “commonly proffered solutions by lawmakers here, such as carbon taxes and ‘cap and trade,’ will have no meaningful impact on altering the climate anyway, as we’ve demonstrated in prior Heritage Foundation research.”

However, Dayaratna does point out that what climate change is negatively impacting are lawmakers’ responses, which are almost always against positive economic growth. In reality, “the benefits of CO2 may outweigh the damages,” he contends. “In fact, when more realistic assumptions about how sensitive the climate is to carbon dioxide emissions are plugged into the climate models, many of the damages disappear from the forecasts.” So, is global warming by definition a bad thing? He answers, “CO2 in the atmosphere can increase agricultural productivity.” That in turn feeds more people, which is just one example of how climate change can benefit humans.

Furthermore, as these global elitists have just set a new record in carbon emissions with their latest climate confab, their hypocrisy is actually and ironically helping to green the planet. And that, too, is not a bad thing.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.