JOSH HAMMER: A climate summit to turn you green with nausea: Kamala and Kerry flew on SEPARATE jets... the host is a Sultan oil boss... and it's all held in Dubai - where they air condition the desert. What a net zero charade!

Josh Hammer is host of 'The Josh Hammer Show' and a research fellow at Edmund Burke Foundation

The United Nations' 28th climate change conference is melting down faster than an iceberg in the Arctic.

It's a collection of the world's rich and influential who've set out to save all of humanity by getting rid of fossil fuels. But apparently, the engines of this international powwow don't run well on bull manure.

John Kerry, the failed presidential candidate now moonlighting as President Biden's 'special presidential envoy for climate', is leading the American delegation for the COP28 summit.

True to form, Kerry, our Bay State plutocrat, reportedly jetted in on a carbon-belching private plane.

And Kamala Harris, our flailing vice president, deemed the meeting urgent enough to justify the greenhouse gases necessary to fuel Air Force Two and fly her to the lavish affair as well.

Would it be too much to ask them to ride share?

And the location of COP28: Dubai.

Yes, you read that right: Dubai.

Look, no hate against the United Arab Emirates or its glittering international metropolis. The Emirates was first out of the gate during the 2020 Abraham Accords peace agreements with Israel, and its response to the war in Gaza has been more measured than most Arab states.

I was even in Dubai last year. My fiancé and I watched the iconic New Year's Eve fireworks show from the towering Burj Khalifa skyscraper. But here's a thought that didn't cross my mind while soaking in the show inside an oil-rich country that overcomes the sweltering heat by air-conditioning the desert: 'Dubai will one day lead the world to clean energy.'

That would only make sense in a 'Saturday Night Live' parody.

Yet here we are, and the full reality is even more absurd.

Amazingly, the president of COP28 is Sultan Al Jaber, an Emirati official who serves as both the Emirates' special envoy for climate change and director general and CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, a state-owned oil company.

That's some serious whiplash.

The sultan has also been accused of laundering this glitzy boondoggle to sell new oil and gas leases to hungry buyers (he has strongly denied this). Perhaps, best of all, Sultan Al Jaber has reportedly argued there is 'no science' supporting the push to phase out fossil fuels.

Excuse me? Isn't that the entire justification for this Oil Burning Man?

Al Jaber has apparently said that a full fossil fuel phase-out doesn't make sense 'unless you want to take the world back into caves.'

John Kerry's response? The sultan's remarks may require a 'clarification.'

Understatement of the century?

As the online jargon goes: LOL.

If a Republican presidential candidate suggested there is 'no science' supporting fossil fuel phase-outs and that climate zealots wish to 'take the world back into caves,' the left-wing media would laugh him out of the mainstream. But when the president of an international climate change summit says it, America's leading envoy dismisses it as an innocent mistake.

The elitism, hypocrisy, and compete lack of self-awareness is simply stunning.

Kerry is a hypocrite of world-historical proportions. He is a fabulously wealthy man (through marriage) who flies around the world aboard gas-guzzling planes to useless junkets to admonish the plebeians who drive to work in gas-guzzling cars. And to top it all off, this weekend in Dubai, Kerry had the chutzpah to preach that all coal plants must be shuttered posthaste.

His reason? Coal plants are killing people daily.

You know what else kills people daily, and on an order of magnitude considerably larger than climate change? Poverty. And there is no more time-proven, efficient method for alleviating poverty than ensuring the widespread availability of affordable energy.

Alas, the climate fanatics care more about appeasing power brokers in Washington and Brussels than they do about improving the lives of millions in Sub-Saharan Africa or the Indian subcontinent.

If there's one upside to this energy-intensive desert fiesta, it's that the globalist green energy blob is finally starting to tear itself apart.

On the sidelines of COP28, Al Gore, the patron saint of the green church, has been critical of the conference and upbraided the environmentally-sensitive yet sane British Prime Minister: 'I am not impressed with Prime Minister Sunak's climate policies. I think they're terrible. They're very disappointing.'

Sunak's crime? Delaying a ban on petrol cars and gas boilers to allow working people more time to adjust to the onerous new climate change laws.

Translation: Anything less than fully bending the knee to the extremists' pro-poverty, anti-growth agenda makes one an enemy.

The fanatics can barely contain their unmitigated fury against those who agree with them on anthropogenic climate change, but who want to approach the problem incrementally.

Even Greta Thunberg took a break from her recent pro-Hamas demonstrations to criticize Sultan Al Jaber.

They'd never admit it, but these radicals want to plunge the world into darkness—and to stop us all from having children, while we're at it. But these extremists can't hold back the overwhelming silent majority who recognize that the world cannot commit suicide on an altar of windmills and solar panels.

Indeed, to his credit, Sultan Al Jaber is saying things that would never have been accepted in polite society before.

Perhaps it's a sign of progress that Kerry hasn't already hopped on his jet and left in disgust?

Ironically, maybe COP28 will yield something good, after all: the collapse of the Net Zero Cult that wants to rid the world of fossil fuels – by any means necessary.