United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said he’s cut back eating out at steak houses because of his concern over global warming.
Guterres said he “used to love steak houses but now only goes once every three months because livestock contribute significantly to warming,” The Associated Press reported Wednesday, paraphrasing his comments.
It’s unclear how often Guterres ate out at steak houses before warming worried him.
In that same interview, Guterres said global warming would be a “total disaster” if countries don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough. The U.N.’s latest climate report said emissions need to drastically fall by 2030 to avoid more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
Not meeting that goal “would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world,” Guterres said.
In the interview, Guterres called for no more coal-fired power plants to be built after 2020 and a price on carbon dioxide emissions. Guterres wants to end all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Guterres sat down with the AP before heading to Pacific islands he said are being hardest hit by global warming. Guterres plans on using the “moral authority” of people on Fiji, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to convince larger countries to fight warming.
“We need to make people understand that this is not sustainable,” he said. “And the reason why I’m optimistic is that I feel that more and more people are convinced of that. And as more and more people are convinced of that, I believe governments will feel the need to increase their political will which at this present moment is still lagging behind.”
Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (not pictured) during their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, April 26, 2019. Parker Song/Pool via REUTERS.
Small island nations are often held up as being on the “front lines” of global warming. U.N. officials said sea level rise threatens to overtake islanders, turning them into “climate refugees” in the coming years.
However, a comprehensive 2018 study found roughly 89% of assessed islands were stable or increased in size, despite sea level rise.
“Importantly, islands located in ocean regions affected by rapid sea-level rise showed neither contraction nor marked shoreline retreat, which indicates that they may not be affected yet by the presumably negative, that is, erosive, impact of sea-level rise,” reads the study by University of La Rochelle researcher Virginie Duvat.
Antonio should stop flying, and order all UN officials to stop flying. They can teleconference instead.
No, I understand that he is rowing there…
Nope. He’s dog paddling all the way.
He looks rather prosperous. Most Socialist leaders do.
Loved how he was “sitting down with AP” before flying off to tropical islands. Yep, he’s uber concerned about global warming and is doing everything he can.
I have been … *ahem* … “studying” the impact of Climate Change on the Hawaiian islands for the last 20 years. In particular, I have been studying the relationship between climate change and the declining quality of orange curaçao in my Mai Tai’s. I have been documenting hundreds of Mai Tais in my ongoing research. However, so much MORE research needed … please send $$$$$ to my Mai Tai-GlobalWarming Go Fund Me page. Traveling to the islands isn’t cheap … nor is Mamma’s Fish House in Maui.
Wonderful study! Don’t forget Mike’s Nature trick.
Would be more adverse effects from volcanic activity you see? Seems that the Co2 plant food gem gets the blame for everything.
Okay. I’m wondering how many steak dinners the CO2 expenditure for 1 round trip flight to a climate conference is worth.
I am also wondering if he intends to order steak at those fancy restaurants these charlatans dine at on their taxpayer funded per Diem. A steak dinner at taxpayer expense and he can write that CO2 expenditure off.
Its on us so we need to work it off which is actually the way these fat cat bureaucrats think. As much as they hate to tell us, we need to make the sacrifice on their behalf.
Al Gore / Gaia / AGW issue worshiper, I must have become. I can’t even remember how many years back it’s been since I ate at a steakhouse.
Tell him to stop belching and fratting, and I’ll listen to him. The need to tell everyone he’s virtue-signaling (again, probably) is almost as bad as watching him squirm over it.
Steak, huh? I haven’t had one in a while. Been dealing with the side effects of the vaunted flu shot last fall. But I could go for one with nice, crispy fries and a GREEN salad with RED tomatoes and GREEN onions.
What a load of baloney!!!!
Exactly my thoughts, Sara!
I haven’t eaten in a steakhouse in years.
Steaks are a rarity in my household as only meats requiring long moist cooking are within my budget range.
I decry the failures of USDA and FDA to address the cost increasing tricks of the meat process. Meats come well soaked in water.
Ground and allegedly cured meats no longer fry in a frying pan, they steam, spit and pop hot grease everywhere as the excess water is driven out of the meat fiber.
The meat producers and groceries abuse the levels of legally allowed gristle and bone in their less expensive ground meats. In addition to ground meats being filled with bone bits and rubberlike tendons, many add pink slime that turn resulting products, e.g. burger, meatball, into a hockey puck material.
When possible, I purchase larger portions of chuck and shoulder and run it through my grinder.
Yet, we are supposed to feel sorry for an entitled elitist socialist whining about eating fewer steaks at steakhouses.
Oh yeah, I feel so sorry for uber wealthy jetsetting Guterres. Not!
He’s cut down to only 3 flights a week in his private 757.
Come on! The world needs him.
Does he have female, male flight attendants, or both?
Nah, it’s all shemales.
Maybe he should consider exhaling through a portable CO2 capturing and storage device as well.
Wasn’t the “catastrophic situation for the whole world” supposed to have already happened …. a few times?
Great news!!
You can’t experience the true pain of his suffering, the moisture of his tears, the desperate hand-wringing, from a teleconference. Maybe some time in the future, when technology has provided for the necessary emotional theatrics, this will be more relevant.
This guy needs to lose some serious weight – steaks only every three months? I doubt it.
He should stop overeating and stop flying – to reduce his monstrous huge CO2 ass-print.
He should also try exhaling CO2 only every three months. 🙂
if he REALLY cared?
he could hungerstrike
might take a while to gain sympathy though
funny how the “larger” (heads/egos /guts/ among us never seem to choose that option of protest?
Dr. Schellnhuber, was dubbed CBE by Her Majesty in 2004 for ouspoken upper limits on human population – 2 billion. He calculated that by lowering the energy densits flux of economies by decarbonizing and no-nuclear, we will fall back to paleolithic levels.
So it’s fake news that it “popped out”. Talk about the arithmetic of mass death! The kind of maths even Royals understand.
German ✔️
Elite✔️
Misanthropic fanatic✔️
Dubious ethics✔️
Xenocidal maniac?
Of course
All stakeholders should be concerned.
A lot of us never eat at a steak house, we can’t afford it
He looks as though he could do with eating a lot less steak and everything else.
and at the cost of electricity and /or gas, a lot of steakhouses cant afford it either.
shops in Aus are battling to stay viable with massive power bills , butchers petshops and food handling etc
I haven’t eaten in a steak house since the late 1970s and that was at Vlado’s in Melbourne, Oz. Very special place. Not cheap 🙂 Current prices are around $100 to $110 a head.
The steak houses that I’d been taken to in the UK, probably once a year, as a treat when I was a child were, I realised later, chain restaurants. The steak version of Maccas.
I had a radical nephrectomy because of renal cell carcinoma a couple of years ago and now I only have one kidney. I’m on a low-protein diet.
I still eat steaks, but not as often as I used to and they are smaller. I still enjoy them. We buy best quality steaks, usually rib-eye/Scotch fillet, from one of the local butchers. Not from a supermarket. The meat does not come from a factory or a packing house. Add in mashed potatoes (lower GI potatoes) and a lot of mushrooms and you have a feast.
Or of course the claims of the disastrous effects of ‘sea level rise’ are completely wrong.
Methane is completely overlapped by water vapour so wont cause any warming.
Except in those areas where there is very little water vapor.
As in the Antarctic? Not much methane or CO2 warming going on there.
CH4 doesn’t have a lot of absorption bands in the relevant LWIR spectrum and its strongest one is not aligned with an H2O line of any significance. CO2 has a much broader absorption spectrum and many of its lines overlap with water vapor, perhaps this was what you were thinking of?
CH4 will never be a problem even in the impossible event that the IPCC was right about the ECS. Even at a 10x increase in concentration, the incremental absorption would be a small fraction of what would arise from doubling CO2.
I would suggest to the Secretary-General that it is not necessarily a matter of political will, it is a matter of not believing. Or a matter of believing that the worst of it is far enough off that they (the politicians) don’t need to worry about it.
Either way, in the eyes of many, I suggest that the Secretary-General is be-clowning himself.
From the article: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said he’s cut back eating out at steak houses because of his concern over global warming.
Guterres said he “used to love steak houses but now only goes once every three months because livestock contribute significantly to warming,” The Associated Press reported Wednesday, paraphrasing his comments.
It’s unclear how often Guterres ate out at steak houses before warming worried him.”
Guterres didn’t say he had sworn off steaks, just steak houses. How many steaks does he eat at home?
This is the kind of silly rhetoric we get out of the alarmist fanatics. Worrying over eating a steak. Does he really worry, or is he just putting us on? Skeptics want to know.
You think the global ruling class eats at home? They don’t have time between wine and dines and flying to Tuvalu.
Of course they eat at home (when they’re not jetting off around the world). That’s what their personal chef is for.
Other types of restaurants serve steak as well.
Yes, and his personal chef will grill a steak for him at home upon his request.
From the article: “In that same interview, Guterres said global warming would be a “total disaster” if countries don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough. The U.N.’s latest climate report said emissions need to drastically fall by 2030 to avoid more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.”
Cheer up then! The global temperatues have cooled 0.5C since Feb. 2016 !
Have a nice, juicy steak to celebrate.
Add me to the juicy steak list also, Tom. Thanks to Guterres cut-back I now feel no guilt when I fart. Thanks!
What exactly is suppose to happen if we do reach 1.5 degree increase in the Earth’s average temperature? I have listened to what they claim but so far all I have heard is that somehow catastrophic weather is going to get worse. Some even claim that it already has all over with world. Will suddenly sea level rise so fast that we need the Biblical Noah back?
Secretary-General António Guterres -Oh thank god, the world is saved…LOL
That clip could convert even the most hard core true-believer alarmist. What a phony, gasbag politician blathering about sacrificing chop house steaks while flying off to Fiji. Why do we continue to fund such an obvious sham like the UN?
Outstanding information is emerging on meat-based diets and how they affect personal health and well being in positive ways – as well as on problems associated with plant-based diets such as antinutrients, oxalates, and reduced bioavailability. A good place to start getting information is a Podcast titled Peak Human.
Complete BS. Ultra-low fat is the healthiest diet, it’s known since Kempner and Pritikin, since 80 years by now… Look up Dr. McDougall or Dr. Ornish.
From the article: In the interview, Guterres called for no more coal-fired power plants to be built after 2020 and a price on carbon dioxide emissions.”
A completely unrealistic expectation. Come back and revisit this after you get China and India’s cooperation to stop building coal-fired power plants.
To suggest this is reasonable or realistic shows just how divorced from reality Guterres really is.
“He Only Eats At Steak Houses Once Every 3 Months”
Good so I can eat steak there all the other times and be in good company. Just post on Facebook when you’re going to be there dude.
“Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang”
Wow, what a mismatch of minds, I wonder if any of these UN leaders, (sic), really have a clue about how mentally outclassed they are by the Chinese, by Putin, by (your choice here). I would love to see Alan Simpson, in his prime, do the slow-western-twang deconstruction of anything he has to say about anything
No, cattle creating methane is not disrupting the climate. Stop pandering to catastrophists.
Okay, I’m convinced…that I’m eating steak tonight.
I wonder how often he eats steak at home, or via room service.
He only GOES every three months …… the rest of the time he orders in ….. 😉
“Guterres wants to end all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”
Does that mean he plans to stop breathing?
There’s another who is going to find it difficult to climb down when the planet cools.
This is basically a Mad-Lib: ” vows to cut back on , because contributes significantly to warming.”
Oh wow! Look at this exemplary UN official !
He has been a “Climate Killer” by eating steaks nearly every day , now he regretting his crimes, he is going to be a good believer in CAGW and will sin only once in three months!
Hallelujah!
I was just reading Tim Ball’s article:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/01/a-story-of-co2-data-manipulation/
(see the heritage.org chart of greenhouse gases )!
The facts, – and then this nonsense!
Unbelievable !
I bet he uncorks his Dom Perignon daily, and by the looks of him he swallows it.
As a typical communist, he preaches water and drinks
winechampagne! (I think he prefers>> Champagne Armand de Brignac<<)Well hells bells. I don’t eat at steak houses any more than that.*
Look Ma, I’m a climate-concerned guy after all!
* = though mostly due to budgetary concerns.
He is over weight, needs to cut back on food, the hypocrite.
It is ironic the Reuters picture has him sitting across from the Chinese premier. China’s and India’s increasing emissions swamp his efforts in cutting back on steak and all of the developed world’s CO2 emission cuts.
What’s he going to do to stop the Chinese from building coal plants after 2020? Send in UN troops?
Hide the Chinese children.
In a world where territorial aggrandisement by major nations has been off the menu for a while now, its only reasonable to expect the UN to be trying to find a new raison d’etre ? Turkey’s do not after all vote for Christmas or Thanksgiving 🙂