Bummer: World Leaders Leaning Back Into Natural Gas

The climate cultists and their Elites have been pushing to end natural gas for quite some time. Banning the use of gas heaters, gas stoves, and anything natural gas. But, now (via Climate Change Dispatch)

(Semafor) Natural gas is making a quiet but highly placed comeback at Climate Week. At a number of events on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables. Anna Bjerde, managing director of operations at the World Bank, told a small group of reporters that the lender is agnostic about which technologies it helps finance to improve access to electricity around Africa. The main focus of that work has been on solar, she said, but “gas has to be discussed and pursued” for providing baseload power. “We should be leaning in to help countries develop gas.”

That view should get a warm reception from the Trump administration, which has reportedly been pressuring the World Bank to unwind its restrictions on financing oil and gas production. And it was a view echoed in a separate briefing at the Rockefeller Foundation offices by Daniel Chapo, president of Mozambique, who said he is working to expand the country’s large hydroelectric dam while also pursuing gas production deals with Western drilling companies, and hopes to use more of that gas for domestic power plants.

In the evening, between glasses of prosecco and mini lobster rolls at a reception in a high-end Times Square hotel, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, director-general for energy at the European Commission, took the podium alongside Toby Rice, CEO of major US gas producer EQT, and lauded the security benefits of LNG. “The energy war in Ukraine has come to redefine our strategy of independence,” she said. “The energy transition will continue to be our path, but we will need gas for many years to come.”

Man, now that is a real shame. I’m guessing many are realizing that all that wind and solar are just not making ends meet, which is making the peasants very unhappy with their energy bills. It also means that more are using wood and wood pellets, and those pellets are often shipped on big, fossil fueled cargo vessels.

Meanwhile

Yale students and faculty head to New York for climate summit

Climate Week NYC, a week-long climate gathering that attracts leaders and researchers from around the world, featured several Yale faculty speakers on issues including the U. S. environmental movement, international organizations’ climate obligations and carbon credits.

Several students also traveled to New York City this week for the summit. With more than 900 events total, Climate Week is one of the largest climate summits in the world.

Weirdly, nowhere in the article do they say how these people traveled to NYC from New Haven, Connecticut. You can bet it was in fossil fueled vehicles.

Split screen: Governor Newsom launches new international climate partnerships as Trump unleashes unhinged UN rant

Governor Gavin Newsom spent this week in New York showing the world that California is a stable, reliable partner – a stark contrast to President Trump’s unhinged rant to the United Nations (said the Governor: “what an abomination, what an embarrassment, what a fraud”).

The Governor was in New York for Climate Week, an annual convening of local, state and international leaders that occurs on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Here are the highlights of his trip.

How’d Gavin get to NYC?