Guest essay by Eric Worrall
“a damning indictment of failed climate leadership”: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stops short of openly offering his services as global climate dictator, but I think we get the idea.
IPCC adaptation report ‘a damning indictment of failed global leadership on climate’
28 February 2022
UN scientists on Monday delivered a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, saying that ecosystem collapse, species extinction, deadly heatwaves and floods are among the “unavoidable multiple climate hazards” the world will face over the next two decades due to global warming,
“This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“It shows that climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to increasing climate risks,” he said, adding: “Half measures are no longer an option.”
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the first report, issued last August, a “code red for humanity”, and said that “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe.”
‘Clobbered by climate change’
His take on the latest report is equally stark: he laments that the evidence detailed by IPCC is unlike anything he has ever seen, calling it an “atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.”
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Criminal abdication of leadership
Mr. Guterres said the world’s biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.
In the face of such dire evidence, it is essential to meet the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, and the science shows that will require the world to cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
“But according to current commitments, global emissions are set to increase almost 14 per cent over the current decade. That spells catastrophe. It will destroy any chance of keeping 1.5 alive,” said the UN chief.
One of the report’s core truths is that coal and other fossil fuels are choking humanity, the Secretary-General explained, calling on all G20 governments to live up to their agreements to stop funding coal abroad, and the must now urgently do the same at home and dismantle their coal fleets.
Adaptation saves lives
The second core finding from he IPCC report is slightly better news: investments in adaptation work.
“As climate impacts worsen – and they will – scaling up investments will be essential for survival. Adaptation and mitigation must be pursued with equal force and urgency. That’s why I have been pushing to get to 50 per cent of all climate finance for adaptation,” Mr. Guterres explained.
Noting that the Glasgow commitment on adaptation funding is clearly not enough to meet the challenges faced by nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis he said that he is also pressing to remove the obstacles that prevent small island states and least developed countries from getting the finance they desperately need to save lives and livelihoods.
“We need new eligibility systems to deal with this new reality. Delay means death,” he said.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112852
The full report is available here. Unsurprisingly even the executive summary mentions “distributive justice” – the imposition of global communism to defeat the carbon hobgoblin. I think the world has had enough of remote dictators messing up everyone’s lives.
The report species loss predictions in my opinion are absurd. Up to 14% species loss at 1.5C, 29% at 3C. Mild positive temperature excursions in past epochs never caused such losses. The Roman and Medieval warming were periods of abundance. Viking artefacts from the Medieval warm period are still being released today, by the glaciers which covered them during the Little Ice Age. In my opinion this is compelling evidence that the relatively recent past was at least as warm as today, if not warmer.
Of course, the losses mostly occur somewhere else. You can’t see it, you have to take their word for it.
Food security features heavily. Apparently after decades of successful adaption and rising yields, our farmers will suddenly forget how to farm. Or maybe the plan is to deny them nitrate fertiliser (nitrous oxides are potent greenhouse gasses), then blame falling yields on climate change.
Sadly this UN fantasy / power grab will not be the last. But the predictions of this report are so dire, imminent and ridiculous, future historians will surely mark this as the year the United Nations jumped the shark on climate change.
With the war in Ukraine, Guteres looks rather like John Kerry in asking, “ other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?”.
It’s a good thing the UN doesn’t have nuclear weapons.
But they want them. (Or at least the authority to order another country to launch them.)
PS I don’t recall the UN condemning or promoting sanctions against China or Russia for their CO2 emissions. I wonder why?
This has been going on since Monotheism was invented. Domination of the World based on one idea beeing the only true idea. UN is yesterdays chatolic church or komintern.
Sounds to me like a spoiled child who has been unable to get his way.
Slash UN expense accounts and travel budgets. Move meetings to Zoom. Move UN headquarters to Antarctica.
Maybe follow President Trump’s suggestion, get rid of the UN tenant in New York and convert the building into a Casino and reverse the cash flow back into the taxpayer’s account.
I was thinking just implode the building at the right moment, but ok.
I think it would be a great residential condo. Trump should be appointed to redevelop it.
Not Antarctica. they are needed in the largest most troubled continent: Africa. I suggest some where about the intersection of the north south axis of 20°East and the East West Axis of 10° North, which is in the nation of Chad.
His first job is to stop immediate issues like wars and pandemics, when he has dealt with those then we can talk about future issues.
Are “pandemics” in the Chart of the UN?
That is random google “World Health Organization” 🙂
https://www.who.int/about
Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.
While The West obsesses and self-harms about CC, Russia is benefiting in more ways than one:
Russia Is an Emerging Superpower in Global Food Supply; Climate change is working against other regions [sic] but in favor of the Eurasian Grain Belt.
‘Nio fiddles while Ukraine burns.
“Jumped the Shark”doesn’t even begin to describe this nonsense,
The ink isn’t dry on WG1 of AR6 ( has it even been finalised yet?) and this load of politicised science is loosed upon the world.
I propose to write to the Chief Scientist in Australia to enquire whether she supports this pseudo science and has any public statement to make.
The best weapon left is to ridicule this mercilessly.
Good, Herbert,
Keep us informed if you get a reply, any reply, as nonrecognition that dissenters exist is part of the game plan. Geoff S
I recently wrote to the Oz PM with a reference to the CSIRO (one of his ‘experts’) stating that the Southern hemisphere is a carbon sink.
The stock response was to disagree with me and to tell me of all the good things they are doing to meet the Oz CO2 reduction commitments.
No doubt my letter was turned around by the PM’s gate-keepers as it was 99% identical to another response from 6 months previously on a totally different point regarding the farce of CAGW.
Don’t expect anything different from our lords and masters in Government, no matter which party holds the reins.
Aw c’mon man. Antonio Porky Pig and the UN are critical to the survival of humanity. Look at all they are doing to keep the peace. And putting the focus on what is vitally important compared to a mere nuclear conflict—less than a degree of beneficial warming must be stopped at any cost. We can’t let ourselves be distracted by raving madmen threatening nuclear holocaust when in another 100 years Scotland could become suitable for human habitation.
OK, Rich, I’m guessing you don’t have to put a “sarc” tag on your (excellent) comment, because, like me, you were born sarcastic?
As David Middleton likes to say if I have to use a /sarc tag it spoils the whole point of being sarcastic!
Or maybe he was born Sassenach?
The things I learn on WUWT! Sassenach – Scottish derogatory name for Englishman
Derogatory? Interesting. In Outlander (books and TV series) one main character uses it as a term of endearment for his love.
Wishful thinking Rich. Scotland will always only be suitable for Scotsman.
LOL
As you acutely observed, Antonio Porky Pig (APP) is suffering from sugar poisoning.
Therein lies not only his problem but what is now a worldwide problem. Sugar consumption is responsible for 80% plus of all deaths – directly or indirectly.
APP is thus playing to his audience = vast numbers of people who are similarly affected, mentally as well as physically by their ‘addiction’
I put that in quotes because yes, sugar is addictive BUT, the human animal is not intrinsically an addict.
Its because there is now, effectively, nothing else to eat but sugar
And all the sugar consumers/addicts are seriously and chronically depressed – they are lapping up this Climate Shyte like cats lapping up cream
Never mind doing a finger-prick test for your pre-diabetes – take a cognitive skill test for a more accurate (long term) test result.
Go read the comments section at any BBC News climate story (where they allow comments) to see the dementia writ large
Now there is something which is genuinely depressing (it occasions ‘sadness’) because:
The responses of both Gojo Brandon and BoJo Johnson to the Covid scare beautifully exemplifies – they went on wild spending sprees and trashed their economies
Exactly what we see here with APP – throw money at a problem, any problem real or imagined, to make it go away.
Trouble is and even as The Victorians in England discovered, handing out free money (charity) only creates a demand for more free money and charity.
Here in The West, we are in great danger of doing something sooooo very amazingly dumb as to extinguish ourselves
I often ponder how at a time in the existence of H0mo Sapiens, we have never before had so much unfettered access to so much real knowledge, yet we appear to be stupider than any versions of our ancestors.
And deteriorating day by day 🙁
Bleed out two pints of blood and call me in the morning.
Yes! It’s much like Weather Cooking from 500 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcAy4sOcS5M
Witchcraft, and the killing of witches because of it
Yes and No Mr Mr…
You’re making a common and very major mistake – some might argue it is what’s creating this mess, you are confusing information (data) with knowledge
i.e. Information is not = Knowledge
By example, it is the primary fault with the science output of Jim (Captain Minutia) Steele
Knowing where or when does not tell much about how or especially, why
Correlation vs Causation basically
Hashtag:Istandwithneaderthals Hashtag:neaderthalsdidnothingwrong
reminds me of a debate between the president of the Sierra Club and someone at least halfway reasonable who backed him into a logical corner. HIs error was so obvious that he had no where else to go so
‘I stand with the the 97% consensus’ was the only thing to come out of his mouth thereafter.
IPCC has lost. They just don’t know it yet. Just a matter of time before they become the IPCAS) International Panel of Climate Adaptation Services)
So the UNelected guy has a UNbelievable story that is UNproven and UNscientific.
All of the UNscientists need to become real scientists.
Just as you have Congress and Progress, so you have UNtruth and truth.
and explained to all in Unscientific American
They sound like children in college! “Mommy! I am going to die!!!!! Send me money!!!!!” What a bunch of whiny c*nts.
Moving UN headquarters to Antarctica would solve some problems.
It needs to go to Atlantis, a make believe place for make believe policies.
Only if you cut of the gas supply
And make them use only solar panels and wind mills! That would take care of the rest of their problems.
This is what happens when the World Economic Forum members have taken over all the major positions in the UN. Evil.
In September 2019, more than 400 civil society organizations and 40 international networks heavily criticised a partnership agreement between WEF and the United Nations and called on the UN Secretary-General to end it.[142]They see such an agreement as a “disturbing corporate capture of the UN, which moved the world dangerously towards a privatised global governance”.
https://www.cognitoforms.com/MultistakeholderismActionGroup/CorporateCaptureOfGlobalGovernanceTheWorldEconomicForumWEFUNPartnershipAgreementIsADangerousThreatToUN
International fascism. Aka Public – Private partnership.
The more shrill IPCC gets, the easier it is to falsify their nonsense. The old species extinctions thing has been around since AR4WG2. Despite all the fancy misleading graphics, the IPCC claims were based on exactly one paper that used a flawed methodology, a flawed ‘model’, and a flawed key constant to produce very flawed and easily falsified alarm. Essay ‘No Bodies’ in ebook Blowing Smoke. They were so bad, were partly walked back in AR5.
But politicians, NGOs, crony capitalists and Deep State operatives continue to cite extinctions as a reason to hand over your money and liberties, all without any of the vaunted Leftist factchecking.
It reminds me of the words of Winnie the Pooh, “For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me”. The other thing that bothers me is that I cannot see any evidence that would show
Suskind identified this carry-on precisely decades ago : see ‘reality-based community,’:
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore … We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’“
Now look at Mann, IPCC, et al. They will create new realities and you will be left to study what they do – is that the deal?
This imperial Rules-Based-Order is now finished – welcome to the Multipolar Law-Based-Order.
We are not here to study imperial actor’s arbitrary realities, are we?
Then it’s appropriate to label the UN as the “fantasy based community”.
Surprise surprise (((they))) wanted money all along
General Who……..thius bloke caoul
General Who?? this bloke would not know how to fight his way out of a paper bag!! from Trevor in New Zealand.
Clearly we need some Ukrainians to run the show they know how to fight.
Don’t underestimate him. I know what I am talking about (same high-school, same generation, victim of his government when he was Prime Minister, etc.). Outstanding student, very intelligent, NOT corrupt. That is to say: a true believer in what he says and does.
Just another person who maintains with a straight face that they can predict the future.
Why people who claim that they can predict the future are never seen at a racetrack is beyond me.
This one is a true believer in Climate Emergency® (see my comment to trevor collins at 3:44 am). And he is also a good catholic, so he does not engage in luck and hazards games.
Hey, the very worst has already been forecast . . . what’s with these Johnny-come-latelies, such as Antonio Guterres? Just check out this clip of a scene from a famous comedy movie (substitute “climate change™” for the outbreak of goblins, substitute the IPCC for the “heroes” of the movie, and substitute any and all world bureaucrat ignoramuses for the mayor of NYC, and you’ll get the overall picture):
https://youtu.be/-sED4fzIV0k
Amazing how these liars and con merchants have no shame at all.
Dr Rosling using their UN DATA shows that today Humans are healthier and wealthier than at any time in history and improving every decade.
Our poorest continent Africa population in 1970 just 363 mil and today 1400 million or nearly 4 times 1970 and their life expectancy today ( 64 years) is higher than GLOBAL life exp was ( 56.5 yrs) in 1970. True just look up the data for yourselves.
And Africa also had to fight the HIV/AIDs disaster over the last 50 years as well. AGAIN look up the data yourselves and wake up.
Today deaths from extreme weather events have dropped by 95% + over the last 100 years. Pop then just 1.7 bn and today 7.8 bn. When will they wake up?
IOW the climate today is as good as it gets, so why do they still persist with their lies and distortions?
Money. Writing IPCC reports is a career for many ‘climate scientists’.
Yes I know Rud, but the lousy MSM and pollies and so called scientists should be called out and shamed for either their ignorance or lies.
This isn’t rocket science but very simple data that anyone can check out, yet if you ask very obvious questions you’ll be singled out and howled down by the mob.
And TRILLIONs of $ have been wasted for decades and TRILLIONS $ more by 2050 and 2100 for no measurable difference to CLIMATE or TEMPERATURE at all.
Just ask China, India and developing countries who must be laughing all the way to their banks.
Well to be fair to the doomsters not every region will have bumper crops this year-
Agriculture hits new records (msn.com)
I expect Ukrainian crop output to be down this year but you know leftys and their Great Leaps Forward?
Because that’s the whole strategy for keeping their phoney baloney jobs going.
Mel Brooks is still cracking them up in his private life. He’s 95.
He’d be cancelled today.
Watched Blazing Saddles with my son (15) and a few of his mates a little while ago.
They walked past when the Sheriff Welcoming scene was on. Piqued their interest after the modern day shock wore off.
Maybe that is the real problem, as far as THEY are concerned
The largest, most detailed climate change report in history was released today, clocking in at 3,675 pages, written by 270 researchers for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC).
The UN’s New Climate Change Report Should Make You Mad As Hell (msn.com)
…you should feel bad. You should feel very bad.
and rabbidad dares you to be as devastated as rabbidad
I wouldn’t say devastated but I’m certainly peeved I have to subsidize all these taxeaters to churn out nearly 14 pages each of the usual. Can’t just one of them do the cut and paste job knocking out the dooming templates and changing the date?
There is no correlation whatsoever between “largest” and “most detailed”.
As to issuing any report that is 3,675 pages long, I appeal to the reasoning of Blaise Pascal back in year 1657:
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
It’s also the result of authorship by committee . . . 270 coauthors? Give me an effing break!
Not hard to tell who is on the Putin team. We can’t give an inch on this nonsense if we want our society to survive and thrive.
With fuel and electricity prices skyrocketing the unwashed masses are seeing what the greentards are proposing and the penny seems to have dropped.
“UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the first report, issued last August, a “code red for humanity”, and said that “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe.”
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has become quite apparent to me that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government now have something in common with the UN and the IPCC. They both need to put out propaganda (a.k.a. BS or garbage) in order to sell the world a false bill of goods and to justify themselves and their narratives.
If honesty, truth and sound science are becoming endangered concepts in the world today, the U.N. and the governments of the world are major players in their demise. The Orwellian Big Brothers of the real world we live in today have the Internet and satellite communications to spread their lies far and wide. My only hope is that there are enough reasonably intelligent people in the world to see through it all.
My prayers go out to the people of Ukraine. The history of WWII Europe (albeit on a smaller scale so far) repeats itself with Vladimir Putin.
If the Russians and the Chinese are not behind all this climate hype, they should be. They will benefit more than anyone as the developed West spends itself into oblivion.
Can you not factor into the current situation that Russia has made clear, going back perhaps three decades, that any attempt to add Ukraine to NATO would lead to the removal of Ukrainian independence?
Andy,
I am not entirely sure what you mean by “removal of Ukrainian independence?”. If you are referring to the rumblings of Ukraine joining NATO and its consequences, I remind you that NATO has always said that each nation in the world has the right to determine its own future and fate. If and when it happens, Ukraine’s joining of NATO will be because of its own choosing.
Ukraine has been internationally recognized as a sovereign and independent nation since it declared independence from the USSR in 1991. While I recognize that the Ukrainians are close ethnic kin to the Russians, this does not give Putin (or anyone else) any rights to lay claim to power and control in Ukraine. Any outside nation attempting to do so is violating Ukraine’s status as a sovereign nation. The war violates international law.
I do not know if any promises were made by the U.S. or NATO to Russia and Putin regarding Ukraine’s future, but it does not change Ukraine’s status as a sovereign and independent nation.
Putin’s reckless adventure into Ukraine has caused the International Criminal Court to look into the possibility that war crimes may have been committed. Whether Putin and his generals will ever be charged and brought to justice remains to be seen. I am not optimistic.
At any rate, Putin’s actions and behavior remind me of Hitler. History does repeat itself.
Andyhce: You speak the truth, and it sure looks like the Russians will make good on that promise.
Ummmm . . . didn’t Russia also make clear, going back perhaps three decades to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (31st December 1991), that it was powerless, to prevent the following 14 territories from declaring themselves to be independent, sovereign countries:
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan.
So, Andyhce, you really believe Russia still has legitimate authority to tell each of these countries what they may and may not do in terms of international relationships, under penalty of war? Really???
What right does the Russia have to determine what organizations Ukraine does or does not join?
Take a knee, bray, send money. What are indulgences.
Joe is saying the US is “hunkey dory”
Not one detailed global temperature graph of monthly temperature data in the whole report.
In fact try for yourself to find a detailed monthly global temperature graph from any of the data sets except UAH, you won’t find one. They are hiding the detail.
You can find the data graphed on a privately funded climate4you GlobalTemperatures, these are graphs of each global temperature data set.
All the global temperature data sets show the same thing.
There is a very short period of net or significant warming followed by a long temperature hiatus. The planet warmed in 1998 then did not warm again until the end of 2015 where the planet warmed for 6 months and now the planet is back into a global warming hiatus.
These short periods of net warming are natural events caused by ENSO. A very strong el nino is powerful enough to decrease global cover which allows sunlight (short wave radiation) to increase and warm the planet. This is a complex process that involves el nino and la nina.
The planet will not have significant net warming unless there is another very strong el nino and there is no guarantee that another very strong el nino will occur again any time soon. And the North Atlantic Decadal Oscillation is transitioning into its cooling phase.
I live in Australia near Orange NSW. We cop the full force of ENSO. A natural system strong enough to change the global temperature.
2 summers ago we were experiencing 40c heat and bush fires, this summer it has been cold and floods. This summer I have regularly had my wood stove burning because it has 8 to 10 degrees Celsius below average.
Climate Driver Update (bom.gov.au) Go to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website and see what they say the climate drivers are, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and tropics. Yet the media constantly blame CO2.
The IPCC are deceitful.
This is a class action waiting to happen.
Neil, those temperature spikes from El Niños are actually planetary cooling events. The warm water, that was trapped in the Pacific warm pool, sloshes back across the pacific, and warms the atmosphere as the heat passes through, on its way to deep space.
Yes, la nina and el nino working together to cause the global temperature spikes. A strong la nina or a number of moderate la ninas charge up the western pacific with water, warmed by sunlight and this gives the following el nino the energy to become a very strong el nino. All driven by changes in cloud cover causing increases in sunlight, all natural.
The data may show the trend but the energy has to come from somewhere and where is very much in controversy
“. . . the energy has to come from somewhere and where is very much in controversy”
Sadly, that is true for some people. On the other hand, the overwhelming percentage of educated people know, without doubt or controversy, that the Sun provides over 99.95% of the energy that the Earth’s surface receives on an annual basis (smoothing out daily/monthly changes in albedo and insolation).
N.B.: Earth’s interior contributes heat to its surface at a rate of about 0.05 watts per square meter (when compared to areal-averaged incoming solar radiation of about 341.3 watts per square meter, this is equivalent to about .015% of the total). Even smaller energy fluxes are contributed by the solar wind, starlight, cosmic rays, and meteors/cosmic dust falling onto Earth’s atmosphere.
I think we need to start calling this “a UN disinformation campaign”.
I’ll gladly send them my money – if in ten years they aren’t able to control the climate with the money I sent, they must repay me my money plus 5% APR + the rate of CPI compounded daily.
Good luck getting your money back. UN officials are above the law in host countries, they cannot be prosecuted for criminal offences without UN sanction, let alone failure to repay a debt.
Like Kofi Annan and his son and the Oil for Food program in Iraq, massive corruption and theft, had a fire of the evidence and when investigators said there was not enough evidence to convict Annan announced they had been found innocent.
Thats just how it works.
“he laments that the evidence detailed by IPCC is unlike anything he has ever seen”
Well I totally agree with him.
UN has done so well with preventing military adventurerism, so clearly they are the best people to go to for all other problems.
East coast of Australia must be leading the climate change race?
Major bushfires late 2019 to early 2020 followed by major floods in 2020.
Now early in 2022 floods major natural disaster areas with much more rainfall predicted.
Missed out on the warming bit.
45% by 2030 and net-zero by 2050? That’s so divorced from reality it’s absolutely laughable.
I’ll take this seriously when they show a complete breakdown of every project required, with a timeline for completion and cost estimate (which they would underestimate).
Personally, I look on this as a good sign. They’re desperate.
Whatever happened to the days where if someone claimed they could control the average temperature of the world they would have been advised to see a psychiatrist? Outside of cloud seeding (which has had some modest success), controlling the weather is the provenance of Hollywood movies and delusional people.
That message has been stated by alarmists for over thirty years. Even with their moving the goal posts two decades further out, the goals are still absurd.
This reenforces my belief that the bias and false reporting by the mainstream media must be addressed. It is one of our biggest problem.
“In the face of such dire evidence, it is essential to meet the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, and the science shows that will require the world to cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
But according to current commitments, global emissions are set to increase almost 14 per cent over the current decade. That spells catastrophe. It will destroy any chance of keeping 1.5 alive,” said the UN chief.
Does that mean that COPs will become defunct by 2030? By then the world will be divided into two camps. One will see that catastrophe cannot be diverted because emissions will not be cut at all, never mind by 45 per cent. The other will just carry on as usual because they know that catastrophe was never threatened in the first place.
Meanwhile, there is a real crisis happening here and now, not in decades to come, and people are being killed. And what is the United Nations doing about it?
I choose death for the UN and the IPCC..
Does anyone know who this Hoesung Lee is? I have never heard of him.
Is it/he/she from China by any chance?
What happened to Patch?
Is he still writing porn?
Mind you as this is global warming porn perhaps he had an input?