Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the United Nations, waiting until the end of 2020 is not an option, the crisis has to be addressed now.
U.N. warns world not doing nearly enough to avert climate catastrophe
UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 26, 2019 / 8:23 AM / CBS/AP
Geneva — Countries have procrastinated for too long and need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting , a senior United Nations official said Tuesday. The appeal by Inger Andersen, who heads the U.N. Environment Program, came days before governments gather in Madrid for an annual climate change meeting.
“We need quick wins to reduce emissions as much as possible in 2020,” Andersen said, as her agency published its annual “emissions gap” report showing the amount of planet-heating gases being pumped into the atmosphere hitting a new high last year, despite a near-global pledge to reduce them.
Current national pledges would leave the world 5.8 Fahrenheit warmer by 2100 than pre-industrial times, with dramatic consequences for life on Earth, the U.N. agency said, adding that getting the world back on track to limit the increase to 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) would require a fivefold increase in measures pledged so far.
Even if the current pledges are met, the U.N. said it “would cause mass extinctions” and leave “large parts of the planet uninhabitable” by 2100.
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This latest warning is a follow on from UNEP’s 1989 warning that entire nations would be wiped off the face of the Earth if CO2 emissions were not brought under control by the year 2000.
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For having such eminent psychologists on their team (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty), the alarmists are flaming morons. Any first year psych major can tell you that hysterics and constant warnings of doom lead to people tuning you out completely. Instead of realizing this, the alarmists scream and run in circles faster and louder. This is the textbook definition of insanity. Honestly, letting the crazies continue with this may eventually result in them destroying themselves. Sadly, the children left with parents who don’t love them will end up depressed and may do themselves in, but there is not much one can do to fix that problem. Just hope the ignoring comes before the mass extinction of human intelligence arrives first.
Aren’t fairly large parts of Earth uninhabitable? People aren’t flocking to Antarctica, Greenland and the Atacama. What exactly do they consider uninhabitable?
What they need is a “Stupid” button.
“Current national pledges would leave the world 5.8 Fahrenheit warmer by 2100 than pre-industrial times, with dramatic consequences for life on Earth, the U.N. agency said, adding that getting the world back on track to limit the increase to 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) would require a fivefold increase in measures pledged so far.”
Nothing to contradict a 97% settled science producing evidence to tenths of centigrade and fahrenheit exactly.
5.8° Fahrenheit, 1.5° Celsius with dramatic consequences for life on Earth!
More propaganda from David Attenborough on the BBC tonight