Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Ban Ki-moon, outgoing UN Secretary General, has declared that the climate debate is over.
… “The debate over climate phenomenon is over scientifically and environmentally,” said Ban, adding that the influence of climate change deniers or skeptics has waned.
“It is affecting our day-to-day life,” Ban said, at a new conference ahead of a G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. …
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-climatechange-un-idUSKCN11A04N
Meanwhile, back in the real world, President Obama is in my opinion misleading the Chinese government into thinking his “ratification” of the Paris treaty means something. President Obama cannot bind the USA to the commitments of the Paris treaty without ratification by a hostile US senate. Such ratification is very unlikely, because the US senate is currently controlled by climate skeptics.
Climate subsidies are being reduced worldwide, as even the greenest governments give up on hopeless renewables.
Climate consistently scores at the bottom of people’s priorities, compared to issues like the economy and the treat of global terrorism, even when the UN conducts the poll.
The only question in my opinion is whether Ban Ki-moon will be forgotten, or whether he will be remembered as the UN Secretary General who presided over the demise of the climate movement.
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Hopefully with your exit Mr. Moon, the entire illusion will cease to be.
With the US and China ratifying the Paris agreement, continued roll out of renewable energy world wide, continued decline in the use of coal and continued evidence of global warming (hottest year ever, even in satellite record, second lowest arctic sea ice extent), then yes, for the majority of the world and for science, this issue is settled.
Only those whose political stance depends on objection to climate change action keep up the increasingly futile fight…
I would like to see the UN audited by a reputable accounting firm and the findings made public. Does the media ever do any actual investigating or reporting of the UN, or just cheer-leading? Having friends that have done consulting work for UNICEF and ECOSOC they tell tales of rampant fraud, waste, and abuse. Most decision makers at the UN push ideologically Marxist claptrap heavy on “central planning”, higher taxes, and more gov’t as the “solutions” to every problem. Do you want to help the world’s poor? Well, don’t give your money to the UN as the poor might see 1 cent out of 1 dollar spent to help them. It’s that bad.
Is it over with IPCC scientists or just the political committee that goes its own way with a separate report and much different uncertainty?
If you thought that the science was settled that was merely an error on your part. R Feynman
The Chinese are laughing up their sleeve over this whole ‘Paris Agreement’ nonsense.
Not only have they got a free pass to increase their emissions as much as they like, they also upped the baseline late last year for good measure – announcing just before the Conference Of The Partygoers in December that they had ‘just discovered’ that their coal use (and thereby total emissions) were WAY higher than previously disclosed.
That announcement should have been met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth by the CAGW zealots, but it wasn’t because China gets a free pass for some strange reason.
And then you’ve got old Obama pretending he’s ratified the agreement. What a shower of shysters!