U.N. leader: Sandy a lesson in climate change

Just wondering what world he is talking about.

Words fail me.
Well, actually not, but they would end up appearing here as “snip”.

If you look very closely you can just about see the $ symbols in his eyes.

2013 will be the “international year of climate alarmism”. It is clear. Pressure on Obama to try again the Cap And Trade, Hollywood and Matt Damon, climate radicals renewed, new IPCC report, Kioto II etc etc. Well, well. The carbon market need you!

“The world already knows that extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal”
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Yes, everyone in the world does seem to know this and repeats it like a parrot. BUT, this is not what the Science says!
In its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012)
http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/
the Inter Govermental Panel on Climate Change says :
“There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change”
“The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados”
“The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
So why do people keep saying that any event of extreme weather is due to climate change – and then claiming that the ‘settled science’ supports this view – when quite clearly it says the opposite?

Look, all the technocrats know that the only source of future funding for their political projects is energy and unlike taxing enterprise and business they can, by manipulating the science, look holier than thou doing it. So far nature in its current warm cycle has played along. Now if they can reduce CO2 just as we hit a cooler cycle, which is coming, then they will be able to say, “see we were right!” We have to carry on the fight to get the real science out there and to delay energy taxes so that it does cool before CO2 starts falling. We, the skeptics, are winning, and they know it, hence the panic to get these taxes etc on the back of any weather event of note…

History has taught us time and time again, that some of the most destructive events in mankind’s past are driven by brainwashed ideologues such as the hapless individuals, Obama, Ki-moon and others.
A half percent reduction in TSI, combined with larger reductions in EUV, Solar and Terrestrial magnetic fields, may shortly (2014, Abdussamatov) bring such obvious cooling that eventually even the blinkered fools that bring climate advice to Obama and Ki-moon may start to bring them different advice.
Given that the PDO has turned negative, the AMO will go negative in a few years, sunspots have plateaued at an unusually low level and will start a (long drawn out ?) decline in a couple of years, then Northern hemisphere / global cooling is the only possible outcome.
Ultimately the political fool leaders shielded from a balanced range of advice will prove to be largely ineffectual, though it is likely that the economy of primarily the USA will take a hit, not helped by the growing national debt.
Interestingly, the US economy is on course for a possible total collapse sometime between 2030 and 2040. Obama and the EPA will likely hasten the arrival of that event. Do a search for Laffer on Cheifio’s blog if you are interested in reading more about that pending disaster or just keep on doing an Ostrich impersonation and keep your heads in the sand.

Which report after the IPCC AR4 which stated
“Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations.” changed “most likely “to a definite need for action?

Yes. He is absolutely correct! This is a lesson in climate change. The climate is changing dramatically. We should all pay attention. It is getting colder. Long term changes in climate are evident at the poles. If the poles get cooler the temperature differential between equator and poles increases and winds will increase resulting in more storms. Conversely, warming poles, less heat differential, less wind, less storms. Climate 101.

GET US OUT OF UN
GET UN OUT OF US

Mike Bromley the Canucklehead says:
November 10, 2012 at 1:29 am
“it is difficult to attribute any single storm to climate change, but the world already knows that extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal.” …Sequele.
Of course I agree with you Mike.
This is the greasy sophistry and weasel words they use today (or maybe always have).
Totally analagous to “I would never say that Blacks are more likely to commit crime but if we let them into our neighbourhood, be sure that house break-ins will increase.”

Luckily he’s preaching to the UN choir, and luckily the UN choir has very little influence these days. The UN has failed so dramatically and bizarrely in so many different ways that nobody obeys its orders any more.

What period of time in earth’s history was it free from extreme weather? Sure, there’s never been a time with such a high density of people living all over the planet to experience extreme weather. But when has the planet been free of extreme weather?
I can tell you: during the short period known as the Garden of Eden.

Mike Bromley the Canucklehead says: “You are out of your cotton-pickin’ mind, Ban Ki-moon.”
I think he is on the Moon Mike.

How about “extreme weather due to climate change is the new meme”? That is a statement I can believe in.
What liberty-loving peoples need to do to protect themselves from these statists is to somehow tax only those individuals who are constantly calling on higher taxes for the rest of us to pay – especially on such bankrupt ideas as ‘climate change’. “If you believe in Climate Change/taxpayer-funded abortion/changing the definition of marriage/welfare without work/(etcetera, etcetera…) please turn to the tax tables on page xxx of your Form 1040 instructions to compute your taxes…”

MikeB says:
November 10, 2012 at 1:54 am
So why do people keep saying that any event of extreme weather is due to climate change – and then claiming that the ‘settled science’ supports this view – when quite clearly it says the opposite?
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First, they want your money/wealth.
Second they want to provide legitimacy for a transition from national sovereignty to something like the EU. Pascal Lamy has stated that repeatedly in his speeches.

WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the European University Institute in Florence on 19 February 2011, said that “today’s world is confronted with major global challenges… Pragmatic solutions need to be found now to enhance global governance and better address the problems that our world is facing”.
…What does the dominant theory tell us? That the international system is founded on the principle of national sovereignty. That the Wesphalian order remains the basis of the international architecture, and that global governance can only result from the action of sovereign States. In other words, that global governance is the globalization of local governance. This theory of governance, which has not substantially changed for centuries, is based on the transitivity of both coherence and legitimacy: as States are coherent and legitimate, global governance is necessarily coherent and legitimate as well.
Unfortunately, the practice tells us otherwise. It does not suffice to establish international organizations to ensure a coherent approach to address the global problems of our time.
First, the European experience shows that supra-national governance can work….
There is one place where attempts to deal with these challenges have been made and where new forms of governance have been tested for the last 60 years: in Europe. The European construction is the most ambitious experiment in supranational governance ever attempted up to now. It is the story of a desired, delineated and organized interdependence between its Member States. How has this endeavour coped with the challenges I have just outlined?….

Translated the world elite want to get rid of national sovereignty. It is a pain in the rump for multinational corporations.
Pascal Lamy goes on to say

….If one looks at governance from a practical point of view, three elements are necessary. First, governance needs to provide leadership, the incarnation of vision, of political energy, of drive. Second, it needs to provide legitimacy, which is essential to ensure ownership over decisions that lead to change. Ownership to prevent the in-built bias towards resistance to modify the status quo. Finally, a legitimate governance system must also ensure efficiency. It must bring about results for the benefit of the people at a reasonable cost…

In another speech at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University on 8 March 2012, he makes it even more clear that national sovereignty has to go.

…In fact, the Wesphalian order is a challenge in itself. The recent crisis has demonstrated it brutally. Local politics has taken the upper hand over addressing global issues. Governments are too busy dealing with domestic issues to dedicate sufficient attention and energy to multilateral negotiations, be they trade negotiations or climate negotiations.
I see four main challenges for global governance today.
The first one is leadership….
The second one is efficiency, i.e. the capacity to mobilize resources, to solve the problems in the international sphere, to bring about concrete and visible results for the benefit of the people. The main challenge here is that the Westphalian order gives a premium to “naysayers” who can block decisions, thereby impeding results. The ensuing viscosity of international decision-making puts into question the efficiency of the international system.
The third one is coherence, for the international system is based on specialization… It is a fact: the UN is not really overarching, assuming this was the initial intention.
The last challenge that I see is that of legitimacy — for legitimacy is intrinsically linked to proximity, to a sense of “togetherness”. By togetherness, I mean the shared feeling of belonging to a community. This feeling, which is generally strong at the local level, tends to weaken significantly as distance to power systems grows. It finds its roots in common myths, a common history, and a collective cultural heritage. It is no surprise that taxation and redistribution policies remain mostly local!

So that is the real reason the UN has promoted CAGW and environmentalism since the first earth summit in 1972, to give legitimacy, a sense of “togetherness” a shared feeling of belonging to a community.
It was always political right from the start. Why else would the major international corporations have put their weight and money behind it for decades? If the power elite and corporations did not want socialism, environmentalism and animal rights to be part of the political landscape, people with those concerns would have been relegated to fringe groups. Instead they have been promote to major political power houses. This did not happen by chance.
The key is to look behind the surface and follow the money trail. To figure out who benefits. never forget H. L. Mencken’s words of wisdom.
i>The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Just another thought.
Maurice Strong, who chaired the First Earth Summit in 1972 and the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, stated: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse…isn’t it our job to bring that about?”
We see this type of thinking in many. Why are so many people advocating a return to poverty for the majority of humanity (not them of course)?
I think it is because of the basic instinct in most life forms to compete for natural resources and to make sure OUR genes are the ones that survive. That OUR children and great-great grandchildren are the dominant power in the future.

andrewmharding says:
November 10, 2012 at 1:36 am
This just shows how far behind the times the UN actually is! The rest of the world is starting to realise that mankind has been subjected to the biggest con trick ever, but not the UN….
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Given the recent US elections, I am afraid you are not correct. However people are starting to wake-up FINALLY. That means the next few years are going to be very very dangerous.
The CAGW story is unraveling, the economic pinch is making more and more people question what the heck politicians are up to and the internet is providing the answer.
Expect a big push to get a Carbon Tax through for ALL countries or a Financial Transaction Tax or a travel tax, anything that will give the UN the ability to tax. Also on the agenda is the UN Gun treaty with universal gun registration:
the UN should “expand the UN Arms register in order to show production and sale of small arms and light weapons. It should include specific names of their producers and traders.”…”to limit and move toward eliminating the use of the veto. The UN must move towards veto restriction. ” … “A major task of the world community in the twenty-first century will be to strengthen and greatly enhance the role of the United Nations in the global context. Governments must recommit themselves to the realization of the goals and mandates of the United Nations Charter… From the 2000: The United Nations Millennium Summit
A discussion of the major objectives of the UN taken from the We The Peoples Millennium Forum Declaration and Agenda for Action that also includes historian Carroll Quigley and his extensive research is here.

John Marshall says:
November 10, 2012 at 3:12 am
… Question– do holders of UN Secretary General’s office now have their brains removed on appointment? Despite real climate scientists stating that Sandy is not a climate change phenomenon Ban Ki Moon insists it is.
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No just their honesty and integrity, but that goes for almost all politicians.
Definition of a Honest Politician: One who stays bought.

It is absolutely critical that the UN chief and others there keep hammering on a dead horse. If they don’t both power and funding disappear. This is a power game. The UN has little an most other aspects of things so they will fight to protect the little they do have be it rational or not. This has and never has had anything to do with reality is has to do with the power theater of demigods.

As if I needed yet another reason to call him Ban Ki Moonbat
Ban Ki Lune but very dangerous. He wasn’t elected to be passive. There are surely many so called sovereign leaders that would be happy to be part of a world government.

RockyRoad says:
November 10, 2012 at 6:27 am
I’ve never understood how the concept of global governance could benefit me as an individual. Indeed, I’ve come to a full understanding how the implementation of global governance of the type espoused by the UN will severely limit my individual freedoms and prosperity.
As a consequence, I consider this Ban Ki-moon to be one facinorous, dangerous dude.
It would be nice to be able to say to Ban Ki-moon: “Yes we agree with you about global governance – but no-one currently in the UN or its sub-groups should be allowed to be ‘in any position of power’. As obviously you are all insisting on global governance for the good of humanity and not for any self aggrandizement, you will all be removed from your posts and relinquish all authority, any elevated benefits and savings, and live in your countries of origin at the state provided level of retirement benefits. If you reject this option it is obvious that you are just attempting to gain power and riches for yourselves rather than out of any philanthropy.

Contact information for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
United Nations
New York, NY 10017 USA
212-963-5012 fax: 212-963-7055
Email: ecu@un.org

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says one of the lessons from Superstorm Sandy is the need for global action to deal with future climate shocks.
Due to Sandy, “global action” is to be taken. But spending billions of dollars on things like carbon capture to potentially reduce the global temperature by 1/1000 degree in 100 years is not the global action that is required. Instead, a few million dollars should be spent to make sure the backup generators in the hospitals do not fail should another “Sandy” come next year.

There has been a dramatic change in weather patterns.
Back to the cooling pattern of the mid 20th century.
These guys ar so behind the curve.

Ban Ki-moon back to where he come. When your east coast residents clean up their corrupt and inept local officials, as they recover from the last storm, the UN is just a minor add on to the task. Straight into the east river with em. Actually start there and house the storm victims in the UN Headquarters. This would be the first time US citizens get value for their money from the UN.
And the drop in crimes, of rape, hit&run, and hazardous parking/no-pay would be a net gain to NY citizens. Hard times call for hard answers, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

As everyone here is observing the comments are of much more interest to a student of politics than they are to a student of science. But we knew that before he opened his mouth.

I agree with Ban-ki moon that Sandy is a lesson of climate change. However I don’t agree of the cause and I don’t agree that we can influence the weather.
Looking at the history of hurricane storm surge impacts on the New York City area it becomes apparent that these events are more likely to happen during periods of climate change caused by low solar activity.

Has anybody else noticed that since the climate conference at Copenhagen in 2009 got snowed out that all of the follow up conferences have been held in resort quality climates ever since?

Time for a reminder:
“One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
~ Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair, WG-3, UN/IPCC

Degaulle used to call the UN “the thingy”. He was aware the UN (like the IPCC) is a bureaucracy spending much of the time seeking new reasons to justify it’s own existence.
Both tend to impose a global government, in the name of a superior interest of the world, interest citizens are not enlighted enough to understand.

Jamie Lee Curtis has a yogurt commercial about “the new normal”? Same thing here?

The wider community is not discussing ‘climate change’ – a planet’s climate is defined by the degree of inclination and all secondary inputs,including temperature variations from unknown causes,do not change a planet’s climate.
The following sequential images of Uranus are of considerable importance for a number of reasons –
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Uranus_rings_changes.jpg
Axial precession goes from a long term axial trait to an annual orbital trait as the polar coordinates are carried around in a circle to the central Sun.
The spectrum of planetary or global climate goes from an equatorial climate with zero inclination to a polar climate with 90 degree inclination thereby replacing the older ‘no tilt/no seasons’ ideology which is now unsuitable for 21st century purposes.
An equatorial climate is defined as little or no fluctuations in conditions as a planet orbits the Sun while a planet with an inclination at the polar end of the spectrum experiences huge hemispherical fluctuations such as occurs on the surface of Uranus.
Sadly,the inability to define planetary climate through interpreting images correctly is a symptom of cascading failure or systemic risk as the modeling rut is so deep that few have looked out of the canyon of bandwagon ideologies to breathe the clear and unhurried air of climate studies as they actually exist