Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Just in case you missed this month’s failed Bonn climate summit (don’t forget the extended session in Bangkok), or the Melbourne Climate Adaption Conference earlier this month, there is plenty of climate action happening now at the R20 World Summit in Austria.
Climate change: An ‘existential threat’ to humanity, UN chief warns global summit
None of the world’s challenges loom as large as climate change, the United Nations chief told a major climate action summit on Tuesday, reiterating his belief that global warming poses an “existential threat” to humanity.
Both leadership and innovation are essential for climate action, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the global gathering, known as the R20 Austrian World Summit – a long-term initiative to help regions, States and cities implement the Sustainable Development Goals and meet the Paris Agreement targets.
Mr. Guterres spelled out: “We must use all our resources to build a sense of urgency”, to raise ambition, while keeping temperature rises in the years ahead, as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible.
He said there was reason to hope, declaring that “the world is seeing a groundswell of climate action”, citing examples, including Morocco’s building of a solar farm “the size of Paris, that will power over a million homes by 2020” and China’s achievement in already passing it’s 2020 goal of producing 105 gigawatts of solar power capacity.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/05/1009782
Isn’t it wonderful that we taxpayers have the opportunity to provide funds for the thousands of bureaucrats and scientists who tirelessly climate conference around the world on our behalf.
an “existential threat” to humanity.
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So make carbon pollution illegal. Forget about carbon taxes. That simply makes it profitable for governments to encourage carbon pollution. The more pollution the more the government makes in taxes. Why would the government want to see this decrease no matter his much they might want us to believe otherwise.
Lead and asbestos are illegal as is R12 and many other substances. And none of these threaten the existence of humans.
Carbon pollution is like nuclear weapons. We don’t allow people to run around with nuclear weapons. Yet we allow anyone to run around creating carbon pollution.
We need to treat anyone creating carbon pollution like terrorists with nuclear weapons.
Seriously. California should lead the way with one of their famous ballot propositions to make it illegal to emit CO2 and show the world they are serious about ending the existential threat.
Seriously there are nuclear free cities. California can lead the way and become a carbon pollution free state. Moonbeam and CARB should be all over this.
Given the hype over the dangers of carbon pollution I’d expect a ballot proposition to make it illegal to emit CO2 would have a good chance of passing in California.
This would place elected officials in the impossible position of eventually having to arg that they need to make a harmful substance legal even though the people voted to make it illegal. Class action lawsuit?
‘…illegal to emit CO2….’ – Does that mean that everyone in California would be required to wear rebreathing equipment? Humans alone emit megatonnes of CO2 by exhaling, never mind what cows and dogs and cats do.
Yes, I can see that right now: Governor Moonbat with an airmask and rebreather making a speech about not emitting CO2, and waht the fines and penalties should be.
He’s right though!
Crop failures and food shortages due to the likely Global Cooling period we are entering, is a greater threat than the warming conditions.that produced record crops!
Morocco’s building of a solar farm “the size of Paris, that will power over a million homes by 2020”
The INSEE (French National Institute of statistics) made an inventory of about 1 322 540 dwellings in Paris in 1999. That it is going to take a solar farm the size of Paris to power that lot is an indication that putting up enough solar panels to meet the needs of every city in the world is going to create one hell of a silicon footprint.
” tracking mirrors of the first two phases concentrate the sun’s rays onto a synthetic oil that runs through pipes and heats it to 350°C (662°F), creating water vapour that drives a turbine-powered generator. ”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/morocco-is-building-a-solar-farm-as-big-as-paris-in-the-sahara-desert/
saveenergy
Oops…….Oil.
Back to the drawing board.
” tracking mirrors of the first two phases concentrate the sun’s rays onto a synthetic oil that runs through pipes and heats it to 350°C (662°F), creating water vapour that drives a turbine-powered generator. ”
How many birds is that going to kill?
A solar farm the size of Paris to power the households of Paris…And another solar farm the size of Paris to power the businesses of Paris? And how large of a solar farm to power the vehicles of Paris? But no amount of solar panels will be able to power the industrial manufacturers Paris!
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Stevan Reddish
“A solar farm the size of Paris to power the households of Paris”
During the day.
At least they have stopped blaming it on non-existent global warming, but don’t explain how CO2 causes climate change if it is not by global warming
Climate change alarmism creates a role for the UN.
Just more of the self serving agenda.
The reality is that climate change has been going on for eons and will continue to take place whether mankind is here or not. So the threat has always been and will always be. The climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. And concerning the threat, there is nothing that we can do to change it. Mankind does not have the power.
This pseudo-scientific Pope has spoken.
History repeats itself. The purported Armageddon around the first millennium generated by Christianity gave rise to the economics of indulgencies which were in effect a tax on lessor mortals for the benefit of the few. The similarities are remarkable.
Then: Catholics. V Protestants. Now: Warmists. V Sceptics? …. Worth a ponder upon?
They have zero awareness of how relentlessly stupid they’re making themselves look. Still, ‘never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake’ and all that.
From the article: “Mr. Guterres spelled out: “We must use all our resources to build a sense of urgency”, to raise ambition, while keeping temperature rises in the years ahead, as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible.”
The latest ECS estimate I’ve seen is 1.2C, and there are other estimates in this range or lower, so it looks to me, going by those estimates, like we won’t exceed 1.5C even if we burned all the fossil fuels on Earth. So the problem is already solved. There is no need to cut back on the burning of fossil fuels. We can’t burn enough to exceed Mr. Guterres’ 1.5C.
Mr. Guterres still has visions of the worst-case 4.5C increase, which is not even close to reality. That’s where the money is at.
We’ve faced the challenges of a changing climate since evolution began. The nanny pseudo-scientific/political-activist circus is totally convinced that nothing can survive without their guiding hand.
As an interesting aside, currently there’s quite a disturbance in the force regarding student suicide rates in the UK A large part of the kerfuffle centres on Stephan Lewandowsky’s employer…
Three students from the University of Bristol have committed suicide in as many weeks.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/stop-playing-politics-with-student-suicides/21399#.WvwpKogvz4Y
I wonder what they were reading.
. . . and the POINT of worrying about an asteroid strike would BE???
Everyone is missing the by far largest existential threat: an asteroid hit – even a small one could well destroy most life. And recent reports say that NASA has “lost” the locations of a large number of near earth asteroids. Just maybe NASA should drop their global warming/co2 scam and concentrate their efforts on a truly serious problem.
MAYBE !
BUT what the hell could they do about it anyway !
I mean , Bruce Willis has already destroyed one asteroid……but died in the process !
Where are you going to keep finding “Kamikaze” rocket riders ???
I DON’T THINK THAT “WE” HAVE ANY PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO THE IMPACT OF A
LARGE ASTEROID apart from ” Always look on the bright side of life ! “
You have not been paying attention. The answer is to stop burning fossil fuels, we need more socialism.
AHA !!!!
So………………..Your NAME is just DAVIS…………..but like AL GORE…………………….
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YOU are planning to make it “RICH” too !!!!
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You Got Me !! I missed the inherent sarcasm !!
Without a solution to cope, it’s not even a problem. Actually, knowing about doomsday would make things worse, turning lots of people into desperadoes with literally nothing to lose
He is dumb.
current “Existential Threat” to Humanity is Artificial intelligence. Nothing else.
Those dumb robots we call “government” already rule over us. As dumb as they are. Now, imagine the same with intelligence…
“None of the world’s challenges loom as large as climate change, the United Nations chief told a major climate action summit on Tuesday, reiterating his belief that global warming poses an “existential threat” to humanity.”
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means” – Inigo Montoya
More audits of UN corruption are needed. The recent convictions of bribe taking by staff are just the tip of the iceberg.
Those template statements get around fast.
https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/jerry-brown-once-again-shuns-tax-reform/
The UN Secretary General has resurrected the BIG LIE from Hitler’s Mein Kampf (1925): “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. “ (Paraphrased by anon.) The goal in the case of the UN is to take wealth from the rich nations and distribute it to UN bureaucrats and special interests. The guise, as many have noted, is to solve a problem that does not exist and, if it did exist, cannot be solved. This a transcendental threat, not an existential threat.
This guy (Guterres) is a former president of Socialist International. I’m sure he’s giddy over the prospect of the world’s resources and people under UN control…
“The ultimate objective of the parties of the Socialist International is nothing less than world government. As a first step towards it, they seek to strengthen the United Nations so that it may become more and more effective as an instrument for maintaining peace.”
Source: http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=2133
What is the difference between a threat and an existential threat?
An existential threat is doublespeak and without meaning. A threat is someone pointing a gun at you. The meaning is clear.
the difference between “i Will ruin your car” and “I will kill you, your parents, friends, spouse, kids and even cat, and wipe you out of all world archives as if you never existed in the first place”
This UN clown doesn’t have a clue what an existential threat is . He will understand that unless the UN
starts to do something productive with the billions they are handed they won’t exist . Pushing a phoney earth has a fever con-game is a sure fire way to be defunded .
How about solving some real problems like the on going one sided massacre of Palestinians .
Sling shots vs 50 cal sniper rifles fired by cowards . The UN is impotent to solve real problems perhaps that’s why they chase hot air fables .
UN is a solution in need of problems to justify its existence, so why do you expect it to solve problem? Far easier to create or fuel them, like it does for the one you mentioned. After all, it is UN (and EU) money that is used to pay for kid brainwashing into hate, to have them gotten killed, so that antisemite can shout “see? Jews are really bad guys, they kill poor kids”.
It’s getting so you could call the UN itself an ‘existential threat to humanity’ – they seem to be against us pretty much down the line.
Ignorance is ruling the world for the time being…