Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A draft UN IPCC climate report suggests poor people suffering “multidimensional” poverty will be hit worst by climate change – so lets make everyone rich.
Leaked draft summary of UN special report on 1.5C climate goal – in full
Published on 13/02/2018, 10:34am
Read the draft summary for policymakers of the most important climate science report of the year, on the challenge of holding global warming to 1.5C
By Megan Darby
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What are the impacts of 1.5C global warming, compared to 2C? What would it take to limit temperature rise to that level? What are the trade-offs with sustainable development goals?
These are the questions to be addressed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a special report due to be finalised in September 2018.
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Read more (includes a full copy of the draft report): http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/02/13/leaked-draft-summary-un-special-report-1-5c-climate-goal-full/
Most of the report is fairly boring, containing references to post 2020 climate action (yet more evidence global climate cycles are aligned to US Presidential Election Cycles), and pushing long discredited nonsense about a warmer climate change exacerbating the spread of diseases like Malaria and Dengue Fever; Malaria used to be a deadly problem in Northern Russia, during the Little Ice Age.
But one paragraph particularly caught my eye;
… Globally, the poorest people are projected to experience the impacts of 1.5C global warming predominantly through increased food prices, food insecurity and hunger, income losses, lost livelihood opportunities, adverse health impacts and populations displacements. Such impacts can occur, for instance, from increased heat stress and other extreme events, such as flooding, with over 100 million people projected to go into poverty through impacts on agriculture and food prices (limited evidence, medium agreement) …
Even if this is true, which I doubt, the solution to easing the lives of people impacted by “climate” is mechanised, fossil fuel powered goodness.
I recently experienced the advantages of mechanised agriculture in a tropical climate in the middle of a heatwave (picture at the top of the page). I didn’t get ill from heat stress, because my gasoline powered lawn mower did most of the work. You don’t need expensive equipment to make a difference, even small, simple tools – gasoline chainsaws, miniature tractors, hand operated lawn mowers, hand operated rotavators – can make a huge difference to the physical effort required to perform simple agricultural tasks.
The worst thing you could do for people at the bottom of the poverty ladder is to implement some of the lunatic green policies making the rounds, to force additional costs on them. Back in 2008, green policies triggered mass starvation and riots in poor countries, as Western efforts to turn food into biofuel pushed food prices out of reach of the world’s poorest people.
Regardless of what happens to the climate in the future, and the climate will change regardless of what we do, the solution to poverty is pragmatism, capitalism and wealth creation. Always has been, always will be.
Radical environmentalists are the great killers of our time, ranking with Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
One example of this criminal malfeasance is the banning of DDT, which has greatly increased malaria in the tropics – a global-scale holocaust based on false environmental alarmism.
A more recent example is global warming hysteria and the war against cheap, reliable, abundant energy, which is the lifeblood of society.
Global warming alarmism is the greatest fr@ud in human history, in dollar terms. Tens of trillions of dollars have been squandered on this proven falsehood – funds that were more-than-adequate to install clean water and sanitation systems in every village on Earth, and operate them forever. In the 30+ years that global warming hysteria has been promoted by radicals, about 60 million kids below the age of five have died from contaminated water. These child deaths exceed the total deaths in WW2, or Stalin’s purges, and are only exceeded by Mao’s Great Leap Backwards.
Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, wrote this article in 1994. It still rings true today. Read “The Rise of Eco-Extremism”.
http://ecosense.me/2012/12/30/key-environmental-issues-4/
Regards, Allan
Below is a graph that quantifies the number of DEATHS EACH YEAR FROM MALARIA – between one and two million.
Note how malaria deaths increased steadily since 1980 (or earlier), after the banning of DDT in 1972, and how malaria deaths declined after DDT was re-introduced.
See the red area of the graph – that is CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OF AGE – FOUR AND UNDER – JUST BABIES FOR CHRIST’S SAKE! Yes I am upset. This holocaust was preventable, and easily so.
I want to personally recognize the radical environmental movement for the key role it played in the banning of DDT and the resulting deaths of millions of people from malaria, especially children under five years of age. After this holocaust became fully apparent, many enviros continued to oppose DDT, based on flimsy evidence and unsupported allegations.
DDT was only re-introduced circa year 2002. Malaria deaths declined after that. The battle against malaria continues.
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Quotations from http://www.green-agenda.com/
It is truly amazing that these people actually believe they are ethical, and of above-average intelligence.
Regards, Allan
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“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
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“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation.”
– Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
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“One America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
– Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO Courier
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“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
– Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund
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“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
– John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
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“The extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good thing.”
– Christopher Manes, Earth First!
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“The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth – social and environmental.”
– Ingrid Newkirk,
former President of PETA
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“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a government license.
All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
– David Brower,
first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
It’s plain that there is an entire demographic of people who hate humans, and therefore, hate themselves, and want all of us dead. I think they should be the first in line to volunteer for termination, especially that PETA witch and Prince Phillip. Neither of them performs any useful function.
“increased food prices, food insecurity and hunger” – None of this is necessary and we all know it. Mass production of preserved foodstuffs is so common now, I don’t understand how anyone can justify watching people starve. It is inexcusable. The ignorance behind it is equally inexcusable. When it happens, as is going on in Venezuela now, it is not due to lack of resources, and we all know it.
Maybe what we could do is start sending begging letters to all these people who want US off the planet, demanding cash from them. And let’s include Algore and others of his ilk in that demand – put them on the same economic footing as the rest of us, or even lower.
Women having children is the root cause of the Marx/UN folks perceived problem but for some reason they don’t address it with cries for a global baby tax…
The IPCC produces nothing but a continuous and continuing stream of blatant falsehoods. Here we are reading another article on this disingenuous bunch of cretins. We should be ashamed of ourselves. The IPCC thinks of us as a bunch of credulous morons who will buy into their ideal climate – controlled world government with their beneficent selves as anointed saints and overseers.
Never, in the history of man, has so much garbage been written with so much authority as the putrid stuff cranked out by the ipcc. The folks who produce it are nothing but humanity-hating, hypocritical, scum-sucking liars.
Only wealthy nations can help the poorer and therefore have to defend themselves primarily from immigration and the effects of overpopulation. Unfortunately, however, climate change is realistic and needs to be addressed. The two are completely independent.
Climate change is real, and almost entirely natural.
At present, efforts to address the non-problem of climate change have made rich countries a lot poorer.
That’s why the two issues are not independent.
MarkW – you win the thread. The climate will change naturally- slowly. Our ability to adapt is far greater than ever before, which will lessen any negative impacts. Only the folks in Western nations are concerned (see UN poll). The fact that it was a major topic at Davos is nothing more than a signal to follow the money.
The average temperature increases are a distraction and for planning a remedy they should be ignored. The globe is not warming evenly or even at the same time of day. Not every part of the globe is critical to human survival. Where specifically on earth is climate change changing so much that there is a pending disaster that needs remedy? Where do we start?
I expanded upon this concept a bit:
Junk Science Draft UN Climate Report: Poor People Will be Hit Worst
Over 150 years ago oil was discovered in America. Its discovery resulted in the end of the whaling industry, the development of the automobile and tractor, and a greatly increased standard of living for the American people. That fuel, along with coal, was later used to power the industrial behemoth that was later used to defeat the Nazis and place America on top of the global economies. China, an extremely backward Nation as recently as 1989, has used oil and coal to go from being ignored to the 2nd largest economy in the world. Today children are slaving away to dig for cobalt in the Congo to build batteries for “green” electric vehicles.
Continue Reading
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/junk-science-draft-un-climate-report-poor-people-will-be-hit-worst/
What real use do we have for the pathetic useless politicians at the UN.
By their reckoning, Climate Change has eliminated all ice in the Arctic and snow is a thing of the past.
I read the Draft Summary; I’m not making any of this up. It is mindless SJW blathering. The UN will:
Use integrated climate and economic models (IAM) to predict how things will work out under their various schemes for directing economic activity. If you think EPA’s IAM-derived social cost of carbon was bad, just wait till you see the future UN versions.
Plan everyone’s lives in great detail through a pyramid of unaccountable governmental levels, from the neighborhood up to the top of a (unexplained) world government.
Dictate the amount and types of food people will eat. Forget hamburgers. I assume the government functionaries will still eat steak and lobster with expensive wines.
Force people into crowded urban areas, with no private vehicles for the proles. There will be rationing of energy, clothing, and all other necessities (determined by Big Brother) of life.
Redistribute (their wording) wealth to obtain fairness, equity, social justice and gender equity. Although the method of redistribution is not specified, I assume the world government will tax producers and subsidize all sorts of social programs.
Plan out the world’s economy and dictate production, distribution and consumption such that it will work in a sustainable (their wording) manner. I guess they think they are smarter than the old Soviet Commissars.
There is no way we can alter this product of Third World despots’ voting at the UN. Just ridicule it every chance you can and support President Trump’s pruning of the government-funded climate hustlers.