Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Time Magazine, the struggle to keep global warming below 1.5C is all but lost – but governments have to keep spending money.
Did We Just Blow Our Last, Best Chance to Tackle Climate Change?
BY JUSTIN WORLAND DECEMBER 30, 2021 7:00 AM EST
In mid-2020, after the pandemic had settled in, I wrote in a TIME cover story that the stars had aligned to make 2020 and 2021 the “last, best chance” to keep the world from experiencing the worst impacts of climate change. Temperatures have risen more than 1.1°C since the Industrial Revolution, and the COVID-19 pandemic had unexpectedly opened up new pathways to rethink the global economy to help the world avoid the 1.5°C of temperature rise, long seen as a marker of when the planet will start to experience the catastrophic and irreversible effects of climate change.
Now, 18 months later, the world seems poised to blow it. Governments across the globe have failed to spend big on a green economic recovery. Political leaders from the world’s largest economies have made lofty promises to eliminate their carbon footprints but failed to offer concrete policies to get there. And President Joe Biden’s ambitions for bold climate legislation have been stymied in Congress.
…
The Biden Administration has described its strategy as an “all of government” approach, meaning every agency and official needs to consider how their work can help address the issue. But, despite a swathe of new rules and regulations targeting emissions, the Administration has hinged much of its agenda on a key piece of legislation dubbed Build Back Better.
…
Without it, or something of equal scale, the target remains an empty promise. “It’s impossible to get from here to there without these investments,” says John Podesta, the former advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who now works on climate issues, of the role Build Back Better bill plays in meeting Biden’s goal.
…
Read more: https://time.com/6130470/climate-change-2021-build-back-better/
Of course, we all still have an opportunity to atone. No matter how dire the crisis, there always has to be a way back for the climate sinners.
The leaders of the climate movement appear to consciously walk a narrow line between motivational fear and disengaged despair. Anyone who crosses the line gets a smack from fellow Climate activists. In my opinion, none of them appear to care about the very real suffering they inflict on their trusting followers.
Is this guy delusional?
Yes
Way out OT:
If you just got a brand new i-phone built in India and you are not feeling your usual normal, you might be interested in this:
Times is reporting: “For weeks, workers had battled against wave after wave of illness as they toiled to build iPhones destined to sit under Christmas trees across the globe. Factory bosses promised action as more and more workers suffered debilitating cramps and sickness. Yet nothing changed.
In mid-December, 150 workers who had eaten dinner at the vast factory making Apple gadgets in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai in India, became violently ill and were taken to hospital with vomiting and diarrhoea. Another 100 needed medical treatment for what doctors recorded as an outbreak of dysentery.”
Not to worry, there will be more “last chances” where the ones that have passed came from.
It’s already too late to stop these “It’s already too late” proclamations.
Ditched Time subscription in favor of the Economist 20 years ago, but have been letting that one lapse as it’s gone full alarmist as well
Not to worry! There’s always 1.6C. And 1.7C. And so on. At the Last Chance Climate Saloon, it can never be “too late”.
I have been an avid follower of WUWT since the very beginning. It, like Instapundit, has been a shining beacon in a darkening world.
We have spent years arguing and clarifying the scientific aspects of AGW but apparently to no avail. Those that would not hear wouldn’t listen.
What IS amusing is that it now seems that the whole scam will not be taken down by scientific arguments and the endless minutiae of facts and data, but instead AGW will fall for the most basic of reasons – the unrelenting and unforgiving laws of economics. The Gods of the Copybook Headings, if you will.
Reality is a heartless bitch.
” Did We Just Blow Our Last Chance to Tackle Climate Change? ”
Yes, we did.
But the next best last chance, or next last best chance, or whatever, is on its way and will arrive soon.
According to Hadsst3 the 1980 temperature was about the same as in the 1940s. The UAH global temperature was about -0.25 C in 1980. Given the current UAH temperature anomaly of 0.08 C that would tell us we’ve warmed about 0.3 C in the past 80 years. Any warming prior to that time is usually considered mostly natural.
Not sure when that 1.1 C of warming occurred. Certainly wasn’t when humans were emitting the most CO2. It appears 0.8 C of the warming was natural and only 0.3 C was due to humans.
Oh, brother!!!! This obsession with the need to control the uncontrollable is unhealthy. Here is my response to that inquiry:
Did We Just Blow Our Last, Best Chance to Tackle Climate Change? – Justin Whatshisname
Dear Justin:
No, we did not “blow” anything. The reality that you refuse to face is that no human can control this planet and what it does. I’d bet money you think volcanoes can be stopped from erupting. Never has worked.
As a result of your refusal to admit that you are powerless to do anything, including control your own GI tract’s behavior, my suggestion to you is that you stop obsessing about such things and step away from the computer. Go outside without your coat on this winter and yell “STOP!!!” at a heavy snowstorm and let me know if the snow stops falling right away, OK?
Otherwise, please get some help with your obsession. We’re supposed to have a blizzard in my AO this next week. Looking forward to it because I can make a truly bodacious pot of soup while I watch the snowplows burrow along the road. It’s a shame that you can’t enjoy the real world the way I and others do.
Thanks!!!
Of course volcanoes can be stopped. Just throw Greta in…
Nope, it has to be a Virgin….
And due to all the Sex Ed classes in the lower Elementary schools, we don’t have any of those left.
Not followers; potential victims. A big difference.
You mean the weekly round robin of press releases by Federal agencies under Obama and Biden are not enough?
These people crying that a 1.5C increase in average global temperature spells doom for us and our planet are really starting to bore me. A 1.5C increase is certain catastrophe and they admit that the average temperature has already increased 1.1C. By my reckoning we are 73% of the way to doom. Funny I don’t feel doomed, is doom linear or logarithmic? If it is linear shouldn’t a certain percent of us have died off by now? Maybe it is logarithmic and we will all die off at the very end. Whatever I don’t buy it.
Temperature harvesting has a way to go before living up to it’s promise.
Hope so
The motor vehicle industry is not making any profits from manufacturing and selling EV, they cannot compete on price with their own ICEV models producing an equivalent EV model. The EV transition is based on government regulating against ICEV, and to quote one motor industry senior executive: “EV is over hyped”.
And worst of all EV are recharged by mostly fossil fuelled generators worldwide.
Another waste of money like the transition to unreliable so called renewable energy installations.
Why do people think that if humans reduce emitting CO2 that global average temperatures will drop?
There is no evidence of that anywhere. Are the just hoping?
The same reasons why sales and marketing sells products and services.
Advertising and selling to people who in the majority are receptive and in the climate hoax example many are frightened by the deception.
However, advertising campaigns have a short attention life span and if repeated over and over people stop taking notice.
5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.5..
WHAT SCIENTISTS KNEW FOR SURE IN 2001
Fossil fuel emissions is causing atmospheric CO2 concentration to go up and that in turn is causing global mean temperature to go up. If we don’t take climate action to reduce and eliminate emissions, the temperature will continue to go up and when it warms 5C above pre-industrial, warming will become irreversible – meaning that it will no longer be possible to attenuate warming with climate action and that will make it impossible for us to save the planet.
WHAT SCIENTISTS KNEW FOR SURE IN 2007
Fossil fuel emissions is causing atmospheric CO2 concentration to go up and that in turn is causing global mean temperature to go up. If we don’t take climate action to reduce and eliminate emissions, the temperature will continue to go up and when it warms 4C above pre-industrial, warming will become irreversible – meaning that it will no longer be possible to attenuate warming with climate action and that will make it impossible for us to save the planet.
WHAT SCIENTISTS KNEW FOR SURE IN 2013
Fossil fuel emissions is causing atmospheric CO2 concentration to go up and that in turn is causing global mean temperature to go up. If we don’t take climate action to reduce and eliminate emissions, the temperature will continue to go up and when it warms 3C above pre-industrial, warming will become irreversible – meaning that it will no longer be possible to attenuate warming with climate action and that will make it impossible for us to save the planet.
WHAT SCIENTISTS KNEW FOR SURE IN 2015
Fossil fuel emissions is causing atmospheric CO2 concentration to go up and that in turn is causing global mean temperature to go up. If we don’t take climate action to reduce and eliminate emissions, the temperature will continue to go up and when it warms 2C above pre-industrial, warming will become irreversible – meaning that it will no longer be possible to attenuate warming with climate action and that will make it impossible for us to save the planet.
WHAT SCIENTISTS KNEW FOR SURE IN 2018
Fossil fuel emissions is causing atmospheric CO2 concentration to go up and that in turn is causing global mean temperature to go up. If we don’t take climate action to reduce and eliminate emissions, the temperature will continue to go up and when it warms 1.5C above pre-industrial, warming will become irreversible – meaning that it will no longer be possible to attenuate warming with climate action and that will make it impossible for us to save the planet.
Thanks to https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/12/25/earth-day-wisdom/
How is it that Earth recovered from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum?
The whole CO2 is Bad thing is designed to distract people from the real problems.
We are supposed to move on and forget the climate hoax pitches of the past, for example at the Kyoto Japan IPCC Conference the focus was on reducing “greenhouse gas emissions” with no specific reference to Carbon Dioxide, not suggestion that it is “carbon pollution”.
By Paris France the Paris Agreements were signed by various member nations in 2016 following the Paris Conference at the end of 2015 and focus on Carbon Dioxide reduction by 2030, and the next step “zero carbon emissions” by 2050.
And of course the point of no return, the tipping point, that date moves forward as the previous date is reached.
And the UN attempted to change the goal posts by reducing the 2030 timing and increasing the already agreed targets of nations.
You mean like vested interests’ hand in their pocket?
I’m going to do my part.
If I ever need a wheelbarrow, I’ll only buy an EV wheelbarrow.
(As long as it comes with a subsidy or tax break.)
I sure hope it is our “last chance”.
Maybe they’ll shut up about all the CAGW BS they’ve been spewing for decades?
Could be.
Seem they’re priming Covid-19, variant (fill in the blank), to scare people into submitting to their authority.
Keep people scared of something.
I have every confidence that Cop 89 will still be claiming that we have only 11 years to save the world.
🙂
“the Administration has hinged”. That shoud read “the Administration is UN-hinged” Fixed.
God I hope so
The climate side of BBB was a hoax too. 90% was tax credits, which you only get if you make a profit, for things that would never make a profit.
BBB will be split into three or more massive stimulus bills which Mitch McConnell and the RINO Republicans in the Senate will be only too happy to support.
These stories are becoming as routine and ho-hum as the annual Groundhog Day report from Punxsutawney. Cub enviro reporters get the assignment to repeat ad infinitum the “last chance” meme, and it’s just about as believable as the groundhog.