Cartoon: Climate newspeak at COP28

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"Polarization" has become a weasel word for bad actors to stop legitimate criticism. The fact that we're seeing it used by an oil CEO to deny climate science should set off alarm bells. 

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of COP28 who also happens to be CEO of the UAE's state oil company, made this and other disturbing remarks while speaking with three women at a She Changes Climate event.

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