Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Durban’s UN Sustainable Development delegate Debra Roberts, we no longer have the option of choosing how to respond to global warming.
Global warming is ‘right on our doorstep’, panel warns
NEWS / 20 OCTOBER 2018, 6:00PM / ARTHI GOPI
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Dr Debra Roberts, Durban’s climate change champion and co-chairperson at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said global warming was an issue that was “on our doorsteps”, and every action counted.
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“We have passed the era of choices. The report is clear, we have to act now, and rapidly, and at scale. These are significant changes we have to make and we’ve never had to do it at scale before. It’s an unusual challenge,” said Roberts.
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“Industries need to change, and we as consumers need to change to make sure we have an impact in bringing about change. We also have to make these changes rapidly because we have about 12 years to cap the temperature rise.
“We need to build our buildings differently, have more meat-free meals, look at how we move around with transportation and what energy we are using. We can no longer be complacent, it’s right here on our doorstep,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.iol.co.za/ios/news/global-warming-is-right-on-our-doorstep-panel-warns-17566339
Make no mistake, the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming was the opening salvo of the great power grab greens have been building up to. If enough people believe their call to arms, we really may pass the “era of choices”.
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Great!
So, Mr. South African, what mandates (remember no choices) has your government and your people opted to self-impose on your nation and its economy?
Hmmm???
Just saying,
GoatGuy
Goatguy
They actually want to enact a law against climate change here
to which I objected:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hfqcfpxdr41wj7v/SUBMISSION%20by%20Henry%20Pool.docx?dl=0
Great!
So, Mr. South African, what mandates (remember no choices) has your government and your people opted to self-impose on your nation and its economy?
Hmmm???
Just saying,
GoatGuy
Uhhh…forcably taking away land from productive uses?
South African city set to seize white-owned land in test case for nation
https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/south-african-city-set-to-seize-white-owned-land-in-test-case-for-nation/
Er that’s a Ms South Africa.
I think…
Sad to see a great country run by pinko communists..
Once again Eric fails to capture the subject of his portrait. I was initially unsure whether it was a man or a woman ( though it seemed male). Then I saw it was about S.A. and though : oh maybe it’s black person. Lips … maybe , but now I was unable to tell black/white/male/female.
I used to do a lot pencil drawn portraits myself when travelling. You soon need to learn which ones worked out and are worth showing to others and which are best converted to roof installation feedstock at the local recycling facility. 😉
No, it definitely looked like a pudgy, dowdy middle age or older white female with no real skills but a ‘college’ education.
I mean that scarf really makes up for the pounds and the throat wattle.
You’re both wrong, it’s an NPC.
She is employed by one city and in order to keep her job must continue to prove that her input is both necessary and valuable.
Just don’t ask her to explain her personal carbon footprint as she travels far and wide on junket after junket.
Hey Goatguy, I know it’s really exciting to be the first post but if you did not realise that “Debora” was not a Mr S. A. then you did not even read the first friggin line of the article before posting your comment.
Same reply as before,
There’s to be a ‘carbon tax’ – because the Income tax is about as much as it can be, the company tax is falling because more businesses are closing, and the Value-Added Tax (VAT) has been increased by a percent because the fiscus is down because so much of it has been stolen. And any ‘carbon tax’ will come out of ordinary peoples’ pockets and straight into the pockets of the ‘connected’.
We can start to believe these Chicken Littles when:
– we see them teleconferencing their meetings instead of high priced jetting to exptic locales on OPM.
– Tom Steyer and Al Gore “Walk the talk” and give up their private jet lifestyles and big mansions.
– the talk that others give up meat in their meals begins with them.
For these folks, like Ms Roberts, climate sacrifices are always someone else’s sacrifices.
We are the world
We are the Big Shots
We make the rules
For S. E. S . (someone else’s sacrifices)
Using O.P.M. (other people’s money),
YOU are the peasants
You are the tools
Who have to dream less
Have less and do less
And obey the rules
That we ignore.
+++++;-) well done!
And past, not pass, Eric.
Direct quote from the article Joel. Passed is correct usage AFAIK – you pass something, you have passed it.
She passed something alright!
And then you look down in the pan
and see the spitting image of Michael Mann…
For your choice Joel, the passage would have to state that “The Era of Choices is in the Past”.
Past is past tense, pass is present, or future tense……..isn’t it?
In this case we ‘may pass’ (future tense). The ‘past’ is history (past tense).
Or, to confuse matters, we are driving ‘past’ a road junction, but we can also ‘pass’ a road junction.
English is such a conundrum I’m glad I’m a Scot. 🙂
One has to pass the present tense to be in the past. If one is in the pass, then one has passed the present. It’s no different if one os playing pass the parcel, which a lotter of Warmistas do.
…if one is in the PAST… doh!
past is a noun or an adjective.
pass is a verb of which passed is the past tense 🙂
The old lady might have been living in the past, but when you passed her, you were doing 25 MPH over the speed limit, lucky it wasn’t 26.
Nope, the above use of ‘past’ is that of a noun …. and it is a synonym of the noun “history”. Me thinks that when words are used as “nouns” are always “present” tense unless they are immediately proceeded by a “descriptor” word such as ….. “biblical past”.
Or sumpin akin to that.
Cajuns say “…pass a good time….” Past, present and future.
The Past, The Present, and The Future walked into a bar…. It was tense.
What was that about quoting what you disagree with?
‘may pass’ is the future conditional tense and is correct in that context. The past participle of the verb ‘to pass’ is passed. Past is a noun , being the opposite of future.
Now what’s your point ?
“…need to build our buildings differently”. No, no, no, no, no. No more buildings. Buildings are part of the problem. We need to cease life-enhancing economic activities immediately.
She has a lot of strong opinions but no apparent expertise or knowledge.
Agreed – Many Awards and Kudos for Urban Planning, but not one whit of intelligence on Climate Science! Another Political “The sky is already falling” entity, like 95% of the IPCC makeup.
Indeed. She speaks of what “industry” needs to do, yet makes it clear that she only has experience of being a consumer. Probably never done an industrious day in her life. Typical of greens who think the answer to all the world’s problems is to just sell some over priced home-made vegan candles at WOMAD festivals.
Here bio, as linked above.
“Dr. Roberts is currently a lead author of Chapter 8 (Urban Areas) and a contributing author to Chapter 12 (Africa) of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, due for release in 2014. “
In common with the REST of the ANC rulers!
We all have to change. Industries have to change. Governments have to change. And we have to change big. Or else our climate will change. Then it will be too late to change, because the climate will have changed. Then the climate will change us. The earth will be changed, everything we know will be changed.
Say, can you spare some change? I’m fresh out.
The precautionary principle says we must do nothing we are not sure about, that’s why we have to change.
Or something.
Nothing to say that whatever you do doesn’t put you in more danger, remember your actions to solve climate change doesn’t work until 100 years or more from now.
It’s easy to see you could spend all your resources to be carbon neutral only to get wiped out in the next hundred years as you didn’t have the resources to recover. So the precautionary principle says you don’t make the change 🙂
Humans fear change. If we want everything to stay the same we will have to change the way we do everything.
Take your choice.
If we had wanted everything to stay the same in the past we would still be living in caves and eating our meat and fish raw (and no, I don’t mean steak tartare and sushi).
If fossil fuel emissions are uncorrelated to regional or global temperatures (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3033001) how can we know that changing our emissions has fixed anything? If we have no method of checking the results of our actions then we should not act.
True.
Click on my name to read my findings on South Africa. There has not been any warming here….
Always a hoot to drill down to see exactly what her PhD is. From her web page:
“Areas of Specialisation: Metaethics and Normative Ethics
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Plato’s Republic”
If this lady ever stumbled over a differential equation or any real science, she has fully recovered from it.
“ … stumbled over a differential equation …”
I’ve done that.
John Steinbeck, in his novel Cannery Row, used a reference to Algebra in much the same way.
I would be better served to re-read the novel than to read anything more of climate change champions such as Dr Debra Roberts, of Durban.
Thanks for bio , all makes more sense.
If I ever stepping a pile of Metaethics , I would have wiped by shoe on the nearest clump of grass and moved on.
Greens have no choice now but to live humble, low carbon lifestyles and show us their sincerity.
Ironically South African clean coal technologies offer Africa huge massive improvements in quality of life wealth success opportunity.
Yet climate imperialism even has infected Africans so that they would rather continue being enslaved to the wealthy Green in the west then to build their future together.
She’s not Pro-Choice? Positive progress. Think of the children!
That said, Nature is in denial of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming… Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change… not so much climate change, which is Her order.
An engineer, with a solid Mathematics foundation, cannot help but look askance – with deep distrust – at academics in certain disciplines that appeal with ease to the emotions to convince the ignorant masses about the hastening climate doom.
Do people like Dr Debra Roberts have any credibility when they are not prepared to listen to the challenge of the extraordinary Mathematician, George Polya? He wrote in 1944, “in theoretical matters, the best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.”
This applies to both the formal and natural sciences. Let me spell this out in clear language:
“in theoretical matters (which makes up the bulk of climate science),
the best of ideas (the science is settled)
is hurt by uncritical acceptance (critics are climate deniers/not real scientists)
and thrives on critical examination. (simply alarmism or a real alarm?)”
More of that old fashhion chicken little whine about the sky is falling…
(Always) Ten Years Left To Save The Planet…
(Always) Ten Years Left To Save The Planet
An excellent video, thank you for the link.
Laying out the facts, backed by evidence, is the best way to show something.
To present it in a calm on way makes it even more compelling.
At the age of 65, I am so glad that they have moved forward the day of no return. Wouldn’t miss it for anything. All that biblical burning stuff, sounds great, I will bring the BBQ tongs.
Ask any of these cagw sheep to place a personal wager that it will actually occur, guess what, not a single one would dare to. But they will wager tax payers money.
Nice sunny day here, temperature the same as it was 100 years ago, life is good.
Regards
You would think that if you set the closing date of the bet to be a month after Thermagedon, that they’ll be all for it. After all, they’re not going to make a payout art they? It is very evident, that they don’t believe their own words.
“Dr Debra Roberts, Durban’s climate change champion and co-chairperson at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said global warming was an issue that was “on our doorsteps”, and every action counted.” — Most unfortunately people like D. Debra Robert’s becomes co-chairperson of IPCC, what we expect. This gentlemen has no knowledge of natural variation in precipitation. Recent drought is part of it. The Durban rainfall showed a clear W followed M pattern with 66 year cycle along with the sub-multple of 22 years. This work was published in 1984. During drought years, temperature goes up.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
Jeeva, buddy, Debra is a chick. Well of the female persuasion.Or at least born with XX chromosones or whatever.
Hard to tell these days.
And even knowing that, doesn’t tell you what she identifies as. It could believe it’s male, or a poodle, or something.
Dr. Roberts’ expertise is urban planning, ecology, and biochemistry…..study of climate, not so much….just another one of the IPCC cadre of non-experts with a Ph.D. behind their name.
South Africa has run out of time running down its economy and desperately news other people’s money.
I respectfully disagree.
These ANC idiots look like they’re going to replay the entire apartheid who-ha from beginning to end (so much for Mandela’s brief shining moment). It ought to take about 20-30 years to hit rock-bottom.
This will work about as well as Venzuela (except Venezuela had oil money). Get ready to see pictures of starving little kids.
And blame it on anything except the vile ignorant bigotry taking over SA.
resource guy
news = needs?
Yes
I miss edits.
“we no longer have the option of choosing how to respond to global warming.”
I disagree. If global warming is on my doorstep, I can choose to do what the warmists want me to do in the vain hope that it will be enough to get it to go away, or I can invite it in. The idea that CO2 is evil, and that a little warming will be harmful, is not science. It is speculation. There is evidence that increased CO2, and even a little warming, is a net benefit to the planet. There is no proof that the benefits will not outweigh the problems. But there is proof that banning fossil fuels would cause a disaster for humanity. I say that global warming is a good thing and should be welcomed. Any problems that may arise can be dealt with. Why would any thinking person choose to do something that definitely WILL cause harm in order to prevent something that only MAY cause harm? It makes no sense.
Ah, but that is joined-up thinking, not allowed.
Louis
You don’t really understand. There really is no AGW. Click on my name to read my final report on that. So what they did is change the issue to ‘man made’ climate change. Now, obviously, the climate is changing all the time. Not only from day to day and season to season but also at longer time scales. Currently we are cooling. It will lead to droughts at the higher latitudes and flooding at the lower latitudes. Simple physics. But is it not convenient that we can blame man for it?>
So, they want to redistribute some money to the people ‘affected’ by climate change.
Maybe that is not a bad idea? Or what do you ay?
Hasn’t South Africa recently built some of the largest coal-fired electricity generating stations in the world? So what right does it have to be preaching to other nations about taking drastic climate action? Are they taking lessons from David Suzuki, Al Gore, Neil Young and Leonard DiCaprio?
I dont think its ‘recently’ cos there is a ‘leccy shortage there.
They have mostly coal and a nuke. They are being told that renewables will save them, and new nuclear is unaffordable.
Well, seeing as those shiny new coal fired power stations are about 4 years overdue and 200% over budget, maybe the incompetence is the ANC’s way of taking climate action? Mind you, waking up yesterday morning (late) because of a power outage is sort of driving things home!
As a middle aged dog that spends a lot of time on the front porch, I didn’t notice anything had changed. In the next 5 years, a cataclysmic event will occur that will catch everybody off guard. Deal with it when it happens.
What might that cataclysm be?
Forget tipping points , Lancaster in California has reduced crime rates by going Solar !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-21/californian-city-powered-by-solar-inspires-aussie-councils/10401642
She says: “ We can no longer be complacent, …”
Of course we can. On this topic, color me complacent.
I’m a member of Chiefio’s Church of the Sacred Carbon
“have more meat-free meals”
Let’s see the UN start by eliminating meat from the menu at the Visitors Café at the UN Visitor Centre at UN Headquarters in NYC. Then eliminate meat from meals available to staff and diplomats. Won’t happen.
Other way round, first deny meat to the troughers