From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Well worth reading this by Rupert Darwell:
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the West’s Era of Illusions. It was an era in which Western elites obsessed about solving climate change because the climate crisis was far more dangerous than issues of war and peace and the stability of the international system. They even convinced themselves that climate change causes war, so climate change policy could double as national security policy; and, for many years, the annual round of kumbaya UN climate talks was the apogee of international relations.
In a BBC World Service interview, presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed concern about the amount of greenhouse gas being emitted from the war in Ukraine. Kerry was just getting warmed up with a string of platitudes that show him as a deluded climate relic, unable to come to terms with the reality that Putin has imposed on the world. “Equally importantly,” Kerry complained, “you’re going to lose people’s focus,” as if the first invasion of a sovereign European country since the Second World War is an annoying distraction. Hopefully, Kerry continued, Putin would realize that Russia’s land is thawing, and the people of Russia are at risk.
Kerry concluded with an expression of pure self-deception, saying he hopes Putin “will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.” Stay on track? Russia has never hidden its intention to avoid cutting its emissions. Russia’s second Nationally Determined Contribution, submitted in November 2020 under the Paris climate agreement, is to limit its 2030 emissions to “no more than 70% of 1990 levels.” The document is careful to avoid pledging to cut or reduce emissions. The 1990 baseline year was the last one before the collapse of the highly inefficient and heavily polluting centrally planned Soviet economy. Thus, the 70% limit actually enables Russia to increase its emissions by 34% – and that’s before taking account of any changes in forestry and land use that would allow Russia to claim credit for negative emissions.
Despite Kerry’s claim about the thawing of their frozen north, Russians’ indifference to climate change predates Putin’s rise to power. During preparation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first assessment report in 1990, Soviet scientists argued that warming might be beneficial at northern latitudes. Yuri Izrael, the Soviet academician and chair of the IPCC’s working group examining potential impacts of global warming, emphasized the doubt and uncertainty of climate change and disputed claims that it would be harmful.
At a 2005 conference on avoiding dangerous climate change organized by Britain during its G-8 presidency, Putin’s former economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, challenged the premise of the conference. “Anyone who is frightened about the prospect of global warming is welcome to come and live in Siberia,” Illarionov told a journalist.
Full story here.
Could this be a spark igniting WWIII.
Latest media report: the USA gave permission to Poland to send Russian made fighter planes to Ukraine.
I would be surprised if Russians did not know where these aircraft are hangared.
What if they attempt to use long range missiles and destroy planes while still on the ground in Poland?
How would NATO respond?
You have been warned, head for the hills and the deep caves, after all we are still genetically the cavemen.
p.s to fly missions these jet planes can’t do it from corn fields, they need runways to take off and land, surely they are not planing to do it from Poland?
It either starts now, or in a few years when Putin directly attacks Poland.
In 3 years, I will remind you of this failed proclamation. Putin has been very clear on Ukraine. We just didn’t listen or “we” wanted him to attack 😉
Putin has been very clear on the Baltic States also.
I’m reminded of Jenny’s abusive boyfriend in “Forest Gump”. It’s not my fault, it’s that bastard Johnson’s fault, he made me do it.
No matter what Putin does, Derg will find someone else to blame it on.
“ Latest media report: the USA gave permission to Poland to send Russian made fighter planes to Ukraine.”
Poland said that was fake news by Blinkin. Never underestimate the power of US propaganda. It is easily on par with Russia if not better.
Kerry’s stand-up routine on climate..
https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/02/221704.htm
well, it made me laugh..
I usually like what Kerry says since each time he opens his mouith it provides evidence that he (and the green movement) is totally out to sea without any sail or rudder, disconnected from reality.
John Kerry must propose stopping the boiling of ketchup for worldwide distribution before anything he says I should do will make any sense.
See also Lord Moncton’s recent articles on KGB influence in the US. Kerry’s working for Putin, even if he doesn’t know it.
More likely China. Russia is small potatoes compared to China.
Absolutely no self awareness, never mind intelligence.
“Kerry continued, Putin would realize that Russia’s land is thawing..”
You would think war hero John Kerry never read military history (from Napoleon to WWII) or Russian literature. Did he not even sit through a screening of Dr Zhvago?
If the Finger Lakes region of NY had warmed a degree or two in the winter evenings I might not have relocated south.
PS Where is there observational evidence that parts of Russia are actually thawing?
Lurch! I mean really! Who actually listens to
This guy anymore and takes him seriously?
“… presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed concern about the amount of greenhouse gas being emitted from the war in Ukraine.“
I’m sure Vlad Putin is buying carbon offsets
He won’t buy the credits. They’ll just plant trees when they are done. Like self-bonding insurance.
Putin could even plant extra trees, then let Lurch be the middleman and take a cut while selling the credits to Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Then Lurch would in turn make a generous contribution (28% his cut) back to the ‘schools’.
UKRAINE NAZIS EMBRACE NATO AND THE SWASTIKA – ZELENSKY’S NAZI FRIENDS – CRIMES OF AZOV AND AIDAR BATTALIONS – MURDER OUTSIDE MARIUPOL
The European Parliament, the UN, CNN and Amnesty International have all exposed and condemned Nazism and war crimes in Ukraine in the past. But now they are silent. My 30 years of warnings about the corporatist fascist foundation and imperialist nature of the EU (and serious worries about NATO itself) are now playing out like a film script. This photo of the openly Nazi Ukrainian AZOV troops posing with both a swastika and a NATO flag says it all.
Before we look at the main Ukrainian Nazi groups fighting the Russians (and their own people see the horrific murders in the video from Mariupol blow) we must not forget that the totalitarian regime of President Zelensky is not the cuddly democrat of EU mythology.
A year ago Vladimir Zelensky «imposed sanctions» (!) on the mass media of his own country, shutting down TV channels 112 UA, News One and ZIK, firing all the journalists working there. At the time 112 UA and News One were the most watched channels in Ukraine.
In August 2021 Zelensky without any legal authority shut down the web news site Strana.ua and its editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva.
Also last year Zelensky put on trial the leader of the most popular party in Ukraine «Opposition Platform — for Life», Vadim Medvedchuk. Medvedchuk, who played an important role in the exchange of POWs, faced many years in prison for «contacts with the enemy», but in the end was placed under house arrest.
In Zelensky’s Ukraine thousands of Russians in the Donbass have been killed including some 150 children since 2014 (without any concern shown by the western press) Russians wee attacked for speaking their own language and could lose their jobs. Ukraine was almost certainly preparing to develop its own nuclear weapons – hence the Russian concentration on nuclear power plants.
Why would Russians having declared humanitarian corridors so as to attack Nazi Azov troops in Mariupol without harming civilians, then stop civilians leaving? What does make sense is that the Ukrainian forces in Mariupol want civilians in the town in order to hide behind them. Rodney Atkinson
http://freenations.net/ukraine-nazis-embrace-nato-and-the-swastika-zelenskys-nazi-friends-crimes-of-azov-and-aidar-battalions-murder-outside-mariupol/
The Russian trolls are out in force.
I wonder how the 13000 Russians who have been thrown in jail for the crime of disagreeing with this war feel about these lies?
If the case is so solid, why does Putin have to threaten 15 years of jail time for anyone who repeats information that isn’t government approved?
The world has gone topsy turvy. I’m agreeing with MarkW.
You can get therapy for that. You may well need it later!
Hanoi John they called him back when.
Nasty story about his fellow traveler Hanoi Jane.
After flying over open pit mines of the Athabaska Oil Sands, but apparently not reclaimed areas, she said it felt like skin was being torn off her face.
To which a conservative columnist noted that she has had much work done on her skin.
😉
Every time that I hear or read something Lurch has said, I think “is he really that clueless?”
Then I think back to the time when I met John Kerry face to face in 1970. I have to remind myself that yes, he was always that clueless.
“marks the end of the West’s Era of Illusions.” Wishful thinking. The writer underestimates the stupidity or corruption of the political left. They don’t care how their policies affect people’s lives – they just know it’s been good for slogans, contributions and getting elected. So far.
Here is a sampling of some true motivators….
Opposition politicians are demanding to know why Johnson gave a noble title and a seat in Parliament’s House of Lords to Evgeny Lebedev, the Russia-born owner of two British newspapers. His oligarch father Alexander Lebedev is a former KGB agent, and the Sunday Times newspaper reported that British intelligence agencies had expressed concerns about the 2020 appointment.
Stung by criticism, UK’s Johnson speeds up Russia sanctions – ABC News (go.com)
That sailboat is adrift.