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by Vijay Jayaraj
August 01, 2026
from
AmGreatness Website
Article also
HERE
India to Climate
Cartel:
Count Us
Out...!
Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against
it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a
time.
This year the big news has been
the Iran war. But even accounting
for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely
consequential development is telling.
And that is the story of India's explicit rejection of the global
net zero movement.
India has walked away from its bid to host
the
COP-33 UN climate conference, and
the world's climate press has treated it as a footnote rather than
the signal it is.
India had spent years projecting a rising voice in the development
of climate policy, and hosting a COP33 is the closest thing the
bureaucracy has to a coronation.
Then, quietly, without public explanation,
India withdrew its offer...
No press conference.
No elaboration.
Just a government stepping back from a role
for which it auditioned for years...
The truth is India has run the numbers on the
cost of a
Net-Zero energy transition for
a population of 1.4 billion climbing out of poverty, and it does not
like what it sees.
The notion that India should shackle its economy
by adhering to restrictive climate policies, while its people
still grapple with energy deficits, is illogical and morally
indefensible.
Data India doesn't need a Summit
to see
Furthermore,
the narrative of a rapidly degrading
Indian environment due to energy consumption is
demonstrably false...
India's own environmental indicators do not
support the apocalyptic framing of the climate-obsessed.
For years, hydrologists and climate modelers have relied on
estimates of Himalayan snowfall to forecast water availability for
hundreds of millions of people across South Asia's most fertile
Ganges plains.
Their projections of a seriously drier India,
it turns out, were wrong...
A team of researchers, including scientists from the British
Antarctic Survey, the U.K. Met Office, and the Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur, used frozen high-altitude lakes as natural
pressure sensors rather than relying on undersized conventional rain
gauges.
What they found was startling:
In a single winter, the best available
snowfall models had
underestimated seasonal snow
over the Lake Hampta area of Himachal Pradesh by 37 percent.
The peer-reviewed study (Using
novel Lake-Based Snowfall Measurements from sites in the Alps,
Himalayas, and Rockies to evaluate Snowfall Estimates from
Atmospheric Simulations) makes clear that,
conventional instruments have been
missing large volumes of snow for decades...!
Then there is the vegetation story, which cuts
even harder against the doom narrative.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of
Tropical Meteorology modeled how India's landscape would
respond to a high-emissions future using the same family of
computer models climate activists cite when warning of
'catastrophe'...
The result was not desertification. It was the
opposite.
Gross primary production, a measure of how
much carbon dioxide India's forests, croplands, and other
vegetation are absorbing, rose from roughly 729 grams of carbon
per square meter annually in 1985 to about 830 by 2014 and is
projected to
nearly double to around 1,305
by the year 2100.
Layered onto that are the steady expansion of
India's forest cover over the past two decades and the recovering
populations of endangered species such as tigers and
Asiatic lions, successes resulting from conservation and habitat
management rather than from decarbonization "mandates"...
All this means India has stopped outsourcing its environmental
judgment to a U.N. process that treats every barrel of oil and every
ton of coal as a moral affront, regardless of its benefit in
lighting a clinic for children or powering a steel plant that
employs thousands.
A country that still has hundreds of millions of
citizens without reliable access to electricity does not have the
luxury of treating energy poverty as an acceptable trade-off for
leadership in the climate industrial complex.
That is why,
India has expanded coal production and
struck oil and gas deals with the United States and
Persian Gulf producers.
It has resisted binding emissions targets that
would cap its own industrial growth, unwilling to commit to far-off
targets for emission reductions.
India's relinquishment of
COP-33 hosting rights is perhaps
the most visible expression of a strategic direction that has been
building for years.
A country that the entire architecture of
climate financing is supposedly built to help, just declined to
host the party.
If climate summits worked as advertised, that
would be unthinkable.
But it is no longer, and pretending otherwise
will not make the next withdrawal any less predictable.
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