Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the UN’s top climate official Patricia Espinosa, if nations fail to follow the UN’s direction on climate change, they will face food shortages, conflict and a flood of climate refugees.
Cop26: ‘World conflict and chaos’ could be the result of a summit failure
Top climate official issues strong warning on effect of unchecked greenhouse gases ahead of summit
Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
Sun 24 Oct 2021 18.35 AEDTGlobal security and stability could break down, with migration crises and food shortages bringing conflict and chaos, if countries fail to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, the UN’s top climate official has warned ahead of the Cop26 climate summit.
Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said: “We’re really talking about preserving the stability of countries, preserving the institutions that we have built over so many years, preserving the best goals that our countries have put together. The catastrophic scenario would indicate that we would have massive flows of displaced people.”
The impact would cascade, she said, adding: “It would mean less food, so probably a crisis in food security. It would leave a lot more people vulnerable to terrible situations, terrorist groups and violent groups. It would mean a lot of sources of instability.”
She told the Observer in an interview: “It doesn’t only speak to the environmental side. It is also about the whole system we have built. We know what migration crises have provoked in the past. If we were to see that in even higher numbers – not only international migration, but also internal migration – [it would] provoke very serious problems.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/24/world-conflict-and-chaos-could-be-the-result-of-a-summit-failure
My question – are we talking about chaos, or are we talking about chaos chaos? Maybe chaos chaos chaos, which is even worse?
Back in the real world, CO2 fertilisation has created statistically significant global greening. Wheat production in India this year busted an all time record.
There is no genuine evidence that our current warming is anything but good for the world, other than the dysfunctional models of climate alarmists.
How many are suffering from climate change, and how many are suffering from wretched governance?
Wretched governance is absolutely the core issue here.
Not least in the West.
Foreign aid disbursed by the United States just for 2021:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country
I’m sure some of the money has/is making a difference, but plenty of it has ended up in the pockets of elected/unelected officials and their cronies. Yet the UN wants to essentially threaten everyone for more.
Food supplies at an all time high … population at an all time high … standards of living and personal comfort at an all time high. If that’s “chaos” gimme more!
Answer: none of the suffering is caused by the glacially slow pace of climate change that takes multiple generations to manifest any significant problem.
Most of the suffering is caused by wretched governance and most of that in countries with no freedom or representative self-government, though in ostensibly free countries irrational government policies that artificially increase the cost of cheap energy and reduce access to it leads to suffering.
“and a flood of climate refugees” ah the old climate refugee claim that failed to happen last time. All that happened is the populations increased in the countries where they said they would be fleeing from.
Yeah, I know about all those “climate refugees” – they’re New Yorkers and Ohioans and Illinoians fleeing the cold north to come down here to sunny and warm Florida by the millions.
Florida’s population increased by 3 million since 2010 .. while all those northern tier states suffered population reductions.
Climate refugees are vastly outnumbered by political refugees…
Infinitely so, since there are no actual climate refugees. They exist only in the fevered nightmares of climate alarmists.
Ahhh, but, stinkerp, think of the Climate Change Policy refugees!
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More likely…
If we fail to CAVE IN to protester demands there will be Traffic disruptions and Chaotic Chaos
Perhaps what is needed is a heaping helping of face to face ridicule and maybe more than a few rotten eggs and rancid fruit aimed in their general direction.
Maybe even a few super soaker squirt guns filled with Morning Breeze.
I assumed “Morning Breeze” was the chamber pot’s first fill upon waking up to the new day. However my short search didn’t turn up that particular idiom.
But I did like the image (-:
Mourning Breeze (Mourning Breeze) is available at many Joke Shops and through Amazon.
It basically smells like a cross between a Skunk and a rotting corpse. (It will empty a large warehouse in about 10 minutes)
So their threat is to flood countries who refuse to submit to their sh*tspew with “refugees”. That is what UN has been doing for a decade now.
That old song: south of the border down Mexico way …..
“if nations
fail tofollow the UN’s direction on climate change, they will face food shortages, conflict and a flood ofclimaterefugees”I think that’s probably a more accurate prediction of future events.
And normalize selective-child (i.e. one-child, delegated) for a planned population.
Going forward, it would be great if you could start typing posts in fluent English.
And it would be great if you could start typing posts without needing to open with the latest management idioms.
Oh, I don’t know: with a bit of blue sky thinking we can run it up a flag pole and see if it flutters.
Math problem: Which will be the largest?
A. The chaos brought on by the consequences of increased global CO2?
B. The chaos brought on by bad governance leading to international conflicts?
C. The chaos brought on by social media coverage of the flavor du jour?
D. The chaos of 18 month – 3 year olds who missed their naps?
That’s easy–A is last by a long shot.
Sad that so many are taken in by this fear-mongering.
And expensive.
Just more of the same fear mongering we’ve been subjected to for the past 40 years.
Except the constant pressure has paid off for the propagandists. Most people either believe it or believe there must be truth in it. The side benefit was how easily the China virus was turned into a plandemic and destroyed the world economy. No one even dares mention it could have been an act of germ warfare
Don’t worry about “climate refugees”, Eric. I watched a climate change genius on CNN say that it costs US $45,000 to maintain one refugee (actually illegal alien, but that’s another topic) in the USA, and here’s a great idea, wait for it…for only US$12,000 per year these poor “Climate Refugees” can safely shelter in place and not undertake their forced death march, saving US $33,000 per year per “Climate Refugee”. Genius! All the wannabe “Climate Refugees” have to do is raise their hand and confess their intentions, and voila! US$12,000 per year is theirs! I think I will declare myself a “Climate Refugee” wait for it…
Oh, but the Dem/Progs need the votes of these illegal, breeding, illiterate, uneducated, unskilled, non-English-speaking walk-ins, to take over the US, destroy the GOP, and rule the US as a single party monopoly.
They will be COUNTING the votes of all elections behind closed doors, and manipulate the spreadsheets so THEY WILL NEVER LOSE
I agree with the your comment about the welcome mat for illegal immigrants, they are welcomed due to a higher percentage of them voting Democrat. I was surprised to read an Archaeology report on the high-altitude (at 11,000 feet the highest in North America) Indigenous settlement on top of Mt. Jefferson, Nye county, Nevada, thinking they were Christopher Colombus types blazing new trails, but it turns out they were idiot outcasts from the more prosperous groups in the lush valleys below. How many of these illegal immigrants abandon a successful family business and strike out on an adventure?
They missed Ebola and Covid19 but they want to scare you with this policy agenda item. worry!
Ebola may be coming to the U.S. through the southern border. If I lived in one of the African nations plagued by Ebola, I would move to the United States in hopes of escaping that disease. But maybe I contracted it on the way to the United States. Sorry about that, Americans. It was an accident that I brought this disease to your nation.
And of course, Ebola is just one of a number of deadly diseases that could be coming across the U.S. southern open border right now. Biden doesn’t care.
Third world and north-south redistribution schemes did not fly so maybe the third time around will work.
This is an open threat (disguised as usual marxist rhetoric )
You do not follow our orders on climate change&Covid(green new deals, built back batter,global currency,lockdowns)
We gonna attack your country with a variety of methods (refugees,revolutions, viruses,cut off from international markets & oil supply,attack on economy and currency ,)
The president of Belarus said he was offered a 900million loan by IMF and World Bank if he locks his country down.He refused(Belarus has less than 5000 covid victims) and instantly protests against him started.
Just as Christina Figueres predicted 3 years ago that we have ” a chance to recreate the world “(seems she already knew about covid in 2018)
here is another “chick” with prophetic skills,
or to be more precise,just another Biden reading the script they were given.
A bit silly to threaten China, who is disinclined to attend FLOP26, with marxist rhetoric, what? What is ‘been there ,done that’ in Mandarin?
China is the rolemodel of the coming global government.
The executing tool that is right now used to systematically colonize Africa (With tons of sugarcoat )
Therefore there are no real threats towards china.
At best a little bit show
What is ‘been there , done that’ in Mandarin?
China is having none of this silly London froth – Bertrand Russell’s world gov’t and Maynard Keynes’ bancor, world currency. Role model – China well remembers British humiliation.
Hilarious, if not tragic, how the MSM anti-China rhetoric boomerangs – a bit like Hollywood – they cannot even do a movie without shooting in the foot….
China will remember opium wars etc,
but china only was allowed to become such an economic behemoth because of Rockefeller, Kissinger,Bilderbergers shifting production to the west.
Industrialising china by deindustrialising the west (Via Lima agreement )
and this goes hand in hand with Frankfurt Schools plan to destroy the west as it was considered the only real obstacle for global communism.
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This UN nonsense was inevitable in the run up to COP26.
The UN FCCC has three problems it cannot avoid and cannot hide, no matter how shrill they are:
None of their negative ‘prognostications have come true. Not even a little bit. In fact quite the opposite—more food, more polar bears, more fossil fuels.
Their renewables solution doesn’t work at any meaningful grid penetration: too expensive, intermittent requiring backup, no grid inertia. Texas Feb 2021 proof.
The rich countries are not forking over the $100billion per year that was promised to the poor countries, despite the UN spending $5 billion to set up admin in South Korea. Not even green Merkel in Germany. Tuvalu keeps on pounding sand.
But who is currently in control in the US?
We can probably expect Biden to be passing out handfuls of climate change cash. After all, it’s not his money. What does he care?
Congress appropriates.
Xiden at COP26 will be just the latest installment of the ongoing comedy show “Weekend at Brandon’s.” He will be “writing checks his ass (Congress) can’t cover.”
#FJB’s latest public forays have shown how his puppeteers’ arm waving’s are out of sync with those flapping his jaws. Tough times ahead for the U.S.
About the only likely thing to produce mass food shortages would be attempts to reach net zero.
The UN official quoted, and the UN as a whole for that matter, are so stupid that they don’t even realize they’ve just admitted what the climate change scare is all about – the redistribution of wealth. That’s my interpretation of this latest round of propaganda, and I’m 100% confident of being correct on this.
Dear Mr. Sullivan you are completely right. The main consultant of Angela Merkel and Mr.Steinmeier President of Germany) on climate issues (and the German representative at IPCC), Mr. Edenhofer has told explicitly and public:
Investors Business Daily
U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare
Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
Figueres is perhaps the perfect person for the job of transforming “the economic development model” because she’s really never seen it work. “If you look at Ms. Figueres’ Wikipedia page,” notes Cato economist Dan Mitchell: Making the world look at their right hand while they choke developed economies with their left.
If oceans keep rising at one inch per century, in 100,000 years, we are all going to drown.
“Run away!”
I’ve got a bad leg … can I limp away ??
But only if we don’t manage to climb up 1/10 of an inch per year.
(and only those who don’t live 30yards or more above sea level)
OT but priceless……. https://rumble.com/vo80ck-sky-news-cant-miss-greta-thunberg-roast.html
Food shortages? With record global harvest every year? Food shortages, if they exist, are caused by UN interference in the distribution of food, not by climate.
Have you seen any of the refugees flooding the US? They aren’t starving! They are looking for freedom, economic and otherwise, not for food.
Well, the way the wind is blowing, they sure aint going to find it in the US or any other Western nation
Dem dher Canadians might be sweating somada time. Chaos!
Perhaps on June 26th. Day after Late Spring and day before Early Winter
Sorry hun. You’re a stuck record
Close the door behind yourself on the way out
Oh, have a nice day 🙂
There are millions threatened with famine, even the US has rocketing food insecurity. Afghanistan faces a humanitarian disaster – and what happens? IMF and World Bank freeze their $9 billion claiming human rights, starving the very kids and women they claim to support?
None of this is caused by climate whatever, but by deliberate refusal to actively deploy.
So is the UN covering for this?
Meanwhile a US attempt to revoke the Security Council veto is blocked.
And this week China celebrates the 50 years return to the UN. Is this what drove Espinosa to such an outburst? Will she next invite Taiwan because Beijing will not go to FLOP26 ?
Meanwhile the Whitehouse says Biden’s outburst on Taiwan was a ‘gaffe’ – they must be falling over themselves!
Doesn’t matter .
1 ) they kill people
2) they blame it on climate change and covid
3) does’nt work – they are the laughing stock of FLOP26. The Queen is likely not amused and they will face a summons!
“Afghanistan faces a humanitarian disaster”
We can thank the idiot Joe Biden for this.
As you watch this horrific story unfold in Afghanistan, keep in mind that all this misery was caused by one delusional man, Joe Biden. It’s all on his head. And he couldn’t care less.
Just a little tin of instant sunshine on Glasgow would solve this problem.
Greyest place I’ve ever been.
Another handmade tale and first-order apology for forcing [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] immigration reform for opening abortion fields, democratic gerrymandering, social justice, redistributive change, and other “benefits”.
We will RULE through FEAR…
Shut up & obey.
The COP26 climate conference is in chaos and shambles. You can smell the fear.
Actually that’s the smell of incompetence at the moment. The smell of fear will come when the delegates realise they’re stuck there for days!
No, that smell is the used chip oil they are using to run the generators to charge the Teslas
The stink in the City of London is overpowering, blamed on Thames effluent of course. Their financial system is on a knife edge. FLOP26 is likely the end of a 300 year tyranny – not with a bang but a whimper!
Is she making an observation or making a threat?
There’s that word “could” again. Well, almost anything “could” happen, but mostly does not!
One problem. There is no money. We are broke and Binflation and supply chains are the early warning signs.
The solution: tax unrealized capital gains, A tax on Binflation. A tax on money you might make. Maybe.
Yes, that is the latest brainstorm out of the US. The Dems and Fed both want to introduce it via budget reconciliation.
Of course today only for the rich.
The next logical stages of the illogic is to tax middle incomes the same way and throw on a VAT tax and carbon tax just in case the incomes and activity showed up.
So is the beach landing on Taiwan during COP26 or just after?
Shortly followed by defeat of the US Navy…
You don’t actually think Biden’s navy is going to show up for that do you?
…and the last plane out of Taipei will be loaded with chips instead of Americans and others who want out.
I promise to the American People that We Will Leave No Chip Behind
Biden
Does that thought excite you?
Well we know the UK won’t be there they can’t get enough fuel for their ships 🙂
The US would be there, but do some research and look at the military capabilities of Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, UK and other allies pledged to defend the Region including Taiwan.
I believe that China is playing politics and has no intention of causing WW3, even back in the 1400s China explored the rest of the world and worked out that trade was the most effective tool, military theatre is a useful threat.
Like the nuclear deterrent factor, all who have those weapons understand that there would be no winner and many losers.
Perhaps India can send them some medium range nukes to protect themselves, I doubt that the US has the guts to do it, but India doesn’t like China much right now.
Exactly. A US nuke sub hit an obstacle there last week there – was it laying mines?
Biden’s blather about Taiwan is desperately being walked back as a ‘gaffe’ in D.C.
There are crazies who think a limited nuke war is winnable give or take a few hundred million dead.
And even in Germany the defense minister has caused uproar over nuke comments.
More likely FLOP26 is a damp squib.
What follows then is in fact nuclear- a breakdown of the financial system, a chain reaction. Time for moderators quickly applied now before a meltdown…
“There are crazies who think a limited nuke war is winnable give or take a few hundred million dead.”
That would be the Chicoms. They are leaning towards thinking they can get away with a limited nuclear strike, thinking this will cause their opponent to withdraw.
The United States should state unequivically that there will be no limited nuclear war. If others attack the U.S. or its allies with nuclear weapons then they should expect a full response from the U.S. and its allies.
Don’t let the Chicoms think they can get away with a limited nuclear strike. This would be a dangerous temptation for weak-minded, and/or delusional people with totalitarian instincts.
With the current leadership, Tom, they may well be right.
Yes, Biden’s weak leadership may embolden the Chicoms.
Weakness encourages the Bad Guys of the world to push their envelopes. And when they push their envelopes, misery and death follow.
Biden is a disaster for the whole world.
Again, a never worked parasite from an irrelevant but taxpayer funded cocktail party society is trying to calibrate us by threats and intimidation.
Who cares what you think dear Espinoza?
What she really means is there will be chaos amongst her fellow warmunists if we all don’t do as they say. Maybe she’s talking about all the lawsuits to come for fraud? Or just loss of self esteem when they realize they’ve been fingered as frauds and their is no escaping their permanent discrediting.
“World conflict and refugee chaos”: so exactly how things have been through the entire existence of humanity.😃
and now they get worse, because of the additional impact of climate change
griff, where and in in what way are they getting worse? Please give at least two examples.
You’re asking Griff to count to two?
Big ask . . .
Weather has always affected the human race … just like it does with all other species. Climate has no “impact” at all, because we have never been without it.
If you would switch on the reasoning part of your brain you’d know that.
Do you have any evidence? Or are you just making stuff up again?
ROFL things are getting so bad I played two rounds of golf this week rather than the usual one. If this keeps up I may be playing 24/7 and I am so blaming every bad shot on climate change.
It was a problem for the Roman Empire, natural climate and weather variations.
Now now everyone knows that a sudden and severe Climate Change did in fact occur in Rome with the sudden release of massive quantities of CO2 and particulates in 79 A.D., south of Rome near Naples
The troll hot sheet is a one liner.
Espinoza’s threat was made at the Saudi Green Initiative Forum in Riyadh, where average high temperatures in the summer are 109F (43C) and there is no rain whatsoever. Yet Riyadh’s population has doubled to 7.3 million in the last 20 years thanks in large part to in-migration.
Been there. Their water comes from desalination of sea water. Since they have abundant oil and gas, mostly done via ‘flash pan’ evaporation rather than reverse osmosis. Without fossil fuels, Saudi Arabia would have remained all desert with roaming nomads.
They want chaos so bad, they should be careful of what they wish for.
The Bandar-log are getting more and more shrill which indicates to me that they are getting more and more desperate because they see that more and more people are beginning to doubt the veracity of their statements.
We need Mowgli, Kaa, Baloo and Bagheera to get stuck into them.
So if everywhere the weather is awful, why would anyone leave their country to migrate to a country with awful weather?
Patricia Spinosa’s remarks are all optatives & conditionals, ‘could, would’ etc. Nothing certain, definite or affirmative. Finding the words ‘may’, ‘might’, ‘could’, ‘would’ etc.in climate change literature is a sure sign of fear mongering nonsense. You can just as well say that an event ‘may’ or ‘could’ NOT happen.
Ya gotta call BS on the food shortage warnings…AGAIN! Data shows nothing but upward trends.
PLUS
There are bioreactor sugar and protein synthesizers that will soon be able to make abundant foodstuffs out of ABUNDANT raw materials…that we currently throw away.
PLUS
Researches at Chicago University have developed a Non-GMO Process that increases food production output of every edible plant studied so far…50% and they are just starting the refinement of the process.
The FOOD PROBLEM will be too much food to economically support workable agricultural commodity prices.
This reads like a Mob thug selling “protection”: “Dis is a nice country youse got here. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it, like a buncha refugee caravans.” Either adopt the CAGW legislative agenda, or be punished for failure to comply.
And they are punishing the west anyway – just to make sure we know who is in charge. Pay the UN-protection racket forever and still get random punishment beatings, or refuse payment and get immediate concentrated punishment beatings. If only there were an international organisation that could provide an honest judge brave enough to tackle the Mob. Unfortunately, the Mob runs the judiciary too.
She means organizing hordes to overwhelm the border of noncompliant countries.
Really off topic here, but if we want to talk chaos, Trudeau just named a radical environmental activist nutbar as Environment minister.
We now have a government fully staffed by radicals, watch as we head toward the cliff the europeans are currently diving off.
Unbelievable, but its so believable.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-trudeau-unveil-cabinet-amid-push-fight-climate-change-2021-10-26/
I might if it could but as it actually can’t, we know what it really is, no?
preserving the institutions that we have built
And by institutions they mean the UN.
Can’t have individual nations ignoring the UN can making all those UN officials unemployed.
Other than Zimbabwe, is there a single country that has not had all crop yields rise considerably over the last few decades?
In a recent interview [ shown on youtube ] Steve Koonin remarked that, deep in the body of AR6, there is a discussion on the possible results of a 3 – 5 deg C temperature rise. No hint of calamity, but a reduction of 4% in global GDP. It does make one wonder how long it will take before the alarmists and their cancel-culture allies find out and have AR6 cancelled.
I do not think that any agency spouts as much hogwash as the UN. If they were a private business and not propped up by politicians happy to squander tax payers’ money they would have gone bankrupt decades ago.
What they’re saying is that they will direct the globalist multi-nationals they control to starve any country that doesn’t comply, flood them with “refugees”, and possibly justify war against them. I don’t see this as a passive warning, but as a threat.
“if nations fail to follow the UN’s direction on climate change, they will face food shortages, conflict and a flood of climate refugees”
Corrected: if nations
fail tofollow the UN’s direction on climate change, they will face food shortages, conflict and a flood ofclimateenergy refugees”FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) is a well known sales tactic. It is so well known that it has lost it’s merit completely and no longer works.. Can someone please send this memo to stuck-in-the-past lying UN climate zealots who are desperately trying to ruin this world?
There are many people that actually voted for Democrats in 2020. FUD still works on enough people to be worth the effort.