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.
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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.