Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A climate crisis role playing exercise, hosted by the World Wildlife Fund and the Center for American Progress, has concluded that the world can survive the ravages of climate change, providing we implement a global carbon tax, and create a new global governance structure.
Food Chain Reaction was held last November in Washington DC. The game was played by 65 international experts, who assumed the roles of nations, multilateral organizations and multinational business, and confronted a burgeoning food security crisis in the decade 2020-2030.
The players were divided in teams for Africa, Brazil, China, the European Union, the United States, multinational businesses and the international institutions. Their task: to figure out how they could cooperate to guide the world through a decade of mounting climate pressures and the resulting disruptions. There was no safety net. Through their actions, the participants could either get the world ready for an ever more apparent – and volatile – new normal, or drive it off a cliff.
In the end, even as extreme weather ran rampant and food prices flirted with 400 percent of the long-term average, they came up with a host of solutions. Cooperation mostly won the day over the short term individual advantage. Teams pledged to jointly build international information networks and early warning systems on hunger and crops, invest in smart agricultural technology and build up global food stocks as a buffer against climate shocks.
The most eye-catching results, however, were a deal to institute a worldwide carbon tax and a global food security summit that was tasked with setting up a whole new global governance structure for climate and food security issues.
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/cargill/2016/02/15/food-security-in-a-time-of-climate-change/
I’m skeptical about the claim that additional global governance can improve the resilience of food production. Central planning was a disaster for Soviet Agriculture – distant bureaucrats tend to make poor farm managers.
“The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961
I think that much more than a solution, United Nations is likely to become a huge, bureaucratic and undemocratic problem – an economic black hole. By it´s climate panel: IPCC, it is evident that United Nations has endorsed inductivism.
United Nations was supposed to solve international problems of a cultural character – not to become one!
Yes – it’s always a “Fund” in the name of “Progress” – the progressive funders will make sure they get a whopping return on their investment, by hook, crook, and force. It’s like being charged for the air we breathe.
http://cdn.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CLASSWARFARE.png
Good and true diagram. The real reason for believing in AGW is to take over the world! It would be a good plot for the next James Bond film.
Great diagram but it is missing one important group.
The rich, the very very rich and all the rest, live and die for money. But there is a class – beyond wealth – that has genuine power, the power to ‘manufacture’ money. With unlimited ‘money’ the price of any commodity can be controlled and any currency manipulated.
“And if you and your army don’t like it, we’ll spare no expense to arm your enemies and ruin your economy. Fuck it, we’ll arm you as well, through the backdoor, while we’re at it! There are many other benefits for us, but you probably get the idea.” / sarc (1%)
These people are mentally ill. Either that, or suffer from a sever case of cranial-rectal disease.
But for the fact that we know they mean phony climate change when they say climate change, the article actually makes some sense, in that they talk about mitigation. Of course, the carbon tax sentence ruined it all.
This was simply a game created in a Malthusian Universe with Malthusian assumptions. Those assumptions have no validity in the real world. Hence the game is completely meaningless. If these bureaucrats spent the same amount of time figuring out how to defend Middle Earth from Sauron, it would have been just a meaningless, but at least a bit more entertaining, as their collectivist ideas were completely consumed by org armies!
Awesome…LOL
I take offense at this post – it is clearly a micro-aggression against Middle Earth in general and Hobbits in particular.
The conclusion was in before the exercise began.
+1
So ….gaming the system by gaming the system….take the money …rinse , repeat….
The CAGW fraud has created a lot of distrust of grant seeking scientists, not the science !
Why does all discussion, on a world government, not include the word democracy? Are we all incapable of the concept of a democratic world government? Is the U.N. the only possible world government we can imagine, with the modern mind? GK
Silly G, they do not WANT a Democracy of any kind !! They want to rule the world !
A democracy can exist only in a union of people with similar values, traditions, and goals. The world is far too diverse for a single democracy. Look at what is happening to the USA. Some ideologies are not compatible, the required compromises to freedoms and lifestyles are too great. Consider the NH slogan “Live free or die”. Many of us will take up arms and fight to the death before allowing our freedoms to be compromised due to incompatible ideologies taking root. Those who would give away the wealth and power of the USA to the rest of the world are traitors to the USA and are guilty of treason. Some of us like the dominant position of the USA and will protect it. Trump is the best thing to come along in a long while!
It would likely wind up like the EU, an elected parliament with absolutely no power, governed by an unelected bureaucracy that rules with an iron fist. A veneer of democracy on top an all-powerful autocracy.
If they never think of it, how would they prevent catastrophic descent into the next glaciation?
…Liberal Socialist Fairy Dust ?
How many people are employed by the United Nations and its associated agencies : Here is the problem.
Roughly, 44,000 people, according to UN Careers.
..Russell, that is 43,999 too many ! ( somebody has to answer the phone )
Marcus I’m still laughing thanks. The one person for the phones must be bilingual Quebec more waste of money.
Hi from Oz. So how does this UN sponsored climate madness end, their way or ours? And if ours, by whom? All the rest is just waffle and wooly thinking. I don’t want my grandchildren to be slaves. Do you?
Claim: We’ll survive Climate Change – if we cede More Power to the UN.
Not a crumb from a garbage bin, give these professional high living moochers an inch, they will take a mile.
The Left preach tolerance, but in practice, only for their own point of view. In climate change, they have found a license to be openly totalitarian.
Can anybody find out how much this ‘game’ cost?
How many thousands of dollars were flushed down the drain for a bunch of adults to spend an afternoon playing Clash of Climate Clans?
They’ve always wanted central planning and global government and from what I’ve read over the years, it appears they are leveraging AGW as their means of getting what they want.
What we could very well end up with is a world with UN leftists in total control and at their fingertips, the means to monitor virtually everything we purchase, everywhere we go, everything we watch, read, or listen to, everything we write or say…
Love that the World Wildlife Fund is a Rockefeller funded organization and the Center for American Progress has been funded by both the Soros backed Tides foundation and Rockefeller. Must be that those dependent effeminate left-wing hippies are too stupid to connect big-money dots.
Lets get something straight, when you say the UN it really means the US.
Hugh? OK, let’s terminate the UN. Good riddance!
The UN is yet another step you and I are removed from being represented in decision making, just like the EU is for Europeans.
Hang on, the IPCC, Al Gore, Obama and the EU are all Nobel prizes winners. I wonder if there is a connection? /sarc
Yes, there is a connection, it is called corruption. And you would have to be criminally negligent, not to see it.
Whenever one hears ‘food security’ it raises red flags, its usually a mask for stealing and self interested control. Food grows just fine without governments trying to steal the production for themselves.
Collectivized humanity produces collective stupidity.
Those of us in Europe have heard this kind of thing before: whatever crisis there is, the only solution for it is ‘more Europe’……..
Any bureaucrat given any problem can only try to solve it using more bureaucrats…
If you asked them to implement a free market, their heads would explode!
These people act as if “1984” was an instruction manual.
“Freedom is slavery.” -Orwell
“Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game is a simulation and role-playing exercise intended to improve understanding of how governments, institutions, and private sector interests might interact to address a crisis in the global food system. The scenario is set five years from today in a world where population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather, and political crises combine to threaten global food security.”
I would be surprised if we don’t have such a situation arise within the next four years, because of this solar minimum. Looking carefully at the Gleissberg (late 1800’s) and Dalton solar minima, the bulk of the more extreme negative North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillation episodes occur between the sunspot maxima of the first two weak cycles +~1yr, 1807-1817 and 1885-1895. For Maunder, the same pattern follows for three max to max cycles rather than one, 1672-1705 with a brief respite at the sunspot maximum around 1686. http://climexp.knmi.nl/data/tcet.dat
For this minimum that translates to from now to around 2025. El Nino frequency will likely double, and coupled with a renewed AMO warming, which will cause persistent regional continental drought, mostly cool-wet summers in maritime regions like NW Europe, and a large increase in deep cold winter episodes, furthering crop problems, such as this recent freeze event in Russia:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/russian-wheat-trapped-under-ice-risks-crop-in-major-growing-area
Canada is currently having food supply problems, and will have increasing production problems through the next decade:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/02/01/canadas-food-banks-fear-shortage-crisis-due-to-price-of-fresh-foods.html
“The most eye-catching results, however, were a deal to institute a worldwide carbon tax and a global food security summit that was tasked with setting up a whole new global governance structure for climate and food security issues.”
Unless they are fully clued in on what is driving natural variability, their tinkering will do more harm than good.
Roughly a doubling of El Nino episode frequency 1807-1817:
https://sites.google.com/site/medievalwarmperiod/Home/historic-el-nino-events
And a dearth of aurora sightings 1807, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1815, 1816,
page 11:
http://www.leif.org/EOS/92RG01571-Aurorae.pdf
ye, CO2 is the cause 😉
Leftists devise a game that proves that only leftism can save us.
Who da thunk it.
I’m also skeptical about that, as I also was about COP21 and other “gatherings” like that. Everybody is preoccupied by the climate change, but it is useless to discuss only the future without understanding the main cause of the climate transformation. My opinion is that the ocean and human activity on the ocean (mostly naval wars) has a big contribution in the matter. Aren’t we ignoring that? Shouldn’t we pay more attention to the ocean? Let’s not forget that oceans govern climate, as it’s very well mentioned here: http://oceansgovernclimate.com/.