It's Wednesday, November 29, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. We are looking at a

very complex world situation, two major wars right now, both of which demand our

attention. One, of course, between Russia and Ukraine after Russia's invasion and the other in the Middle East

the war between Israel and Hamas after the invasion by Hamas of Israel and both of them are

front-page news stories and they're going to continue to be so for a long time.

We will revisit both of those stories.

But there are other big stories in the international headlines.

One of them has to do with who's not going where. In this case the big news

that had to make the headlines is that the president of the United States

is not going to the conference of parties meeting over the next weekend in

Dubai. The fact that the president's not going

is actually the big story. Now why such a big story? What is the conference of

parties? It's an awkward name for the United Nations group that is meeting in order to monitor and sound alarms about a lack of progress towards limiting climate change and in particular carbon emissions.

There was a climate change framework drafted by

the United Nations in 1992. The Conference of Parties refers to the parties to that

agreement. Well here's the bottom line, none of the parties is keeping faith with the agreement.

And one of the parties is keeping faith with the agreement. And one of the things we need to recognize is that when you're talking about climate change,

and you don't have to be a denier of climate change to understand that an awful lot of what is said about it is absolute nonsense.

And I think there's a political reason, you can almost be assured that there's a political reason,

the President of the United States is not there.

And it is because if the president were present at this meeting, he would be the focus of

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