Logo of the Climate Summit, COP28, in the United Arab Emirates, Dec. 2023. Wikipedia. Prologue The Petroleum Kingdom is the  United Arab Emirates .  The chief negotiator is the president of the UAE’s petroleum company, Sultan al-Jaber. This petroleum businessman probably oiled his influence onto the UN officials. And without a second thought, he assumed the responsibility of being president of the UN Summit as well. One wonders if Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, was so innocent about this brutally obvious corrupt connection with UAE and al-Jaber in particular. This  oil executive  revealed his contempt and ignorance of science when he said there is no reason to believe that fossil fuels must be phased out in order to prevent global temperature from reaching 1.5 0  Celsius above preindustrial levels. “There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phaseout of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5[degrees Celsius,” he said. And this is the same