{"id":34144,"date":"2021-10-31T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34144"},"modified":"2021-10-31T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:20:59","slug":"cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/cop26\/","title":{"rendered":"COP26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conference of The Parties 26 is a climate summit being held in Glasgow.  This is widely called the &#8220;last best chance&#8221; to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Commentary and excellent perspective by Michael Mann, author of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B088RN8FCF\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B088RN8FCF&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=76c3e66df083df4c2bf17d8f9ac4bc16\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet<\/a> (Amazon associates link*) interviewed on CNN:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Leaders Meet for Final Day of G20 Summit\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dxI6hJaCOI?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Notice Mann&#8217;s comment on Russia (and Saudi Arabia).  I&#8217;m not sure if people realize the extent to which Russia has made itself, under Putin, a specialized economy based almost entirely on fossil fuels. See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07Q18953R\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B07Q18953R&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=7fa28114d8378b49502ce32c73117b1d\" rel=\"noopener\">Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth<\/a> (Amazon associates link*), a must-read read, to read about that.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of COP26:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COP26: Opening of the Conference\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ckoQmc5Up6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2021-10-31\/climate-crisis-delay-has-become-the-new-form-of-denial\">this commentary in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference of The Parties 26 is a climate summit being held in Glasgow. This is widely called the &#8220;last best chance&#8221; to address climate change. Commentary and excellent perspective by Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (Amazon associates link*) interviewed on CNN: Notice Mann&#8217;s comment on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/cop26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COP26<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021],"tags":[21,6262,20,740],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Earth_On_Fire_Global_Warming_Greg_Laden_Blog_smaller.jpg?fit=425%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-cop26","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34146,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144\/revisions\/34146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}