Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al...

World leaders just gathered at the UN in New York to discuss the climate, ahead of the main COP 28 climate conference coming up in November 2023. The president of that event is also the CEO of one of the world's largest oil and gas producers. So how, in the name of all things holy, can we possibly expect to make any progress there? This video has a couple of suggestions.

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Research Links

Climate Group - Climate Week NYC

Climate Group - Facing the New Reality (video)

Al Gore TED Talk "What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know" (video)

Al Gore's view of Rishi Sunak

Simon Steill Speech at Climate Week NYC - full transcript

IMF - global fossil fuel subsidies 2022

Sultan Al Jaber - Commentary piece in Fortune Magazine

ADNOC analysis in 'Net Zero Professional'

ADNOC Analysis by Global Witness

ADNOC PR Execs working with COP28 advisory team!

Abu Dhabi projects accelerating

Antonio Gutteres at UN General Assembly

Antonio Gutteres at Opening of 'Climate Day'

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - Net Zero Roll Back Speech

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[Danny_Handford]

Having Al Jaber president of COP28 is like having the wolf guarding the hen house. It makes a mockery of the whole idea and objectives of COP.

[retteketette]

Ive been watching Just Have a Think for over 3 years or so and you, Dave, restore my faith in humanity. Keep on the integrity! ❤🌍

[michasosnowski]

Love your passion in this video. Its hard not to feel passionate anger about the actions of these scumbags in positions of power!

[nottenvironmental]

In PNG we used to say "never let the mosquitoes make decisions to stop malaria ". Current climate management fits the definition of insanity 🙄

[ravenwing]

Why are fossil fuel companies given subsidies whilst the rest of us (specifically the UK) are being driven into chaos with net zero and being penalised for something that is a far bigger problem?!! Respect to you and your channel and a big shout out to Al Gore - we need more people who reveal the truth and let us know what really is going on.

[The_answers_]

Keep up the great work Dave, and the fight. You have built a platform built on facts, objectivity and reason.

[stevehayward]

Al Gore nails it here:- “Fossil fuel companies….are much better at capturing politicians than they are emissions.”

[rklauco]

Finding politicians that can see beyond their election term - well, that's more difficult than fighting climate change. A little depressing video, again. But hey, we still can do everything we little people can - doing our part and vote for those, who at least pretend to be reasonable.

[torstenkruger]

thanks for this! The last thing we need is more blind optimism, what we need is anger at cultivated institutional corruption. ❤

[robertgavin]

Thank heavens we have people like you exposing these liars. I'm sure Sunak, and his ilk, will be heading straight for a job in the oil industry after they are booted out. Thank you for your efforts to keep us informed.

[aussiesobama]

Great Stuff Dave...you're getting better every day👍
Our problems can be summed up by the saying: "none of us can do everything; but all of us can do something" And we all get better at it with practice.

[gavinminion]

It's been a bad week in the UK. We have paid a heavy price already for this populist right wing government and now out prime minister has just increased the burden further.

[drevan]

Watching Al Gore full of energy makes me wish he were running this time…and really wish he would have won 22 years ago. We’d be in a much different place.

[chrissmith]

Always a great way to start a new week! Nothing like a Just Have a Think video to make you feel helpless in the face of corporate greed and inept leadership. Don't stop making these - it's an important message. In the bleaker moments, I reassure myself that planet Earth will be just fine; it's been through much more significant episodes than Homo Sapiens, and in a few million years when all that we ever were is a 10mm thick layer in the strata, mother Earth will be busy with new adventures.

[OAPerez]

Marvelously sarcastic and humorous, Dave. Thank you. It left even my jaded head spinning with disbelief. Insanity and hypocrisy—has now reached levels almost as high as our emissions. Well done! Now, if we could just find a way to make sure Al Jaber sees this!

[billhanna]

Thank you 🙏 AGAIN 🙏 for your excellent work. Nothing exposes our perception of democracy as a falsehood and it's really a democracy for Corporate Overlords and THEIR Welfare.

[Stuartrusty]

Industrial quantities of sarcasm here Dave. But seriously, if we wait for our 'nominated leaders' to take action on our behalf, then we are likely going to be baked in the resulting temperature rise!

[omm.]

Insane consumerism and greed at every level, in particular those in power and well off and Gov folks are playing the fiddle instead of raining on them.

[BitBert]

Merci beaucoup pour cet excellent résumé de la situation mondiale actuelle et des causes très claires qui nous y ont conduit!

[michaelmeehan]

First time I've heard you say this, "Have a great week if you can"... THAT is the message, emotion, and subtext that needs to be hammered home to every, single person on Earth, but mostly the politicians and corporate bullies that are taking us down this dangerous road.