Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As the UN plan to assume leadership of the world’s climate response unravels before his eyes, and the world focusses on real problems, UN Secretary General António Guterres is urging people to remember the fake climate crisis.
UN chief warns against ‘sleepwalking to climate catastrophe’
21 March 2022 Climate and Environment
The goal to limit future warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, highlighted in the Paris Agreement on climate change, and driven home in last November’s COP26, gathering in Glasgow, is now on “life support” and “in intensive care,” the UN chief told the Economist Sustainability Summit on Monday.
Speaking via video link, Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted some of the progress made at COP 26 last year but pointing to “the enormous emissions gap” conceded that “the main problem was not solved – it was not even properly addressed.”
“Keeping 1.5 alive requires a 45 per cent reduction in global emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by mid-century”, he said, highlighting how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatened to become a huge setback for the concerted effort to speed up climate action.
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Last year alone, global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by six per cent “to their highest levels in history,” Mr. Guterres said, as coal emissions surged “to record highs.”
With the planet warming by as much as 1.2 degrees, and where climate disasters have forced 30 million to flee their homes, Mr. Guterres warned: “We are sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.”
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If we do not want to “kiss 1.5 goodbye…we need to go to the source – the G20”(group of leading industrialized nations), the UN chief said.
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“We can’t point fingers while the planet burns,” said the Organization head.
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As major economies pursue a so-called “all-of-the-above” strategy to replace Russian fossil fuels, short-term measures might create long-term fossil fuel dependence and close the 1.5 degrees window, he warned.
“Countries could become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use,” Mr. Guterres insisted. “This is madness.”
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“Developed countries, multilateral development banks, private financial institutions and companies with the technical know-how – all need to join forces…to deliver support at scale and with speed to coal-intensive economies”, he added.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114322
The UN’s continued adherence to the climate faith in my opinion simply demonstrates how out of touch they are with the needs of the people they claim to serve. Even green Germany has thrown climate purity overboard in the face of the Ukraine crisis. But the UN is so detached from ordinary people, they simply don’t care. The message of necessity has yet to penetrate.
Don’t know, don’t care, just want to keep riding the gravy train!
Comrade Guterres looks rather prosperous.
The hand that holds the whip never feels the lash.
I can sure feel a lot of ‘smart’.
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Yesterday at six o’clock,
I went to Climate Scare.
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He should should try to get a UN resolution passed where all combatants agree to use LOW EMISSIONS ORDINANCE… then follow the mpg scheme: carbon per explosion cpe and strive for a 30% cpe reduction over the next decade.
Last year alone, global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by six per cent “to their highest levels in history,” Mr. Guterres said, as coal emissions surged “to record highs
I read that worldwide CO2 emissions were down 14% during the pandemic.
Quite a difference.
The life support system for the climate agenda has been turned off.
Details for the memorial service will be published by the Secretary General in due course.
One of the points of interest for me is how politicians who have pushed or even just quietly supported climate hoax will try to reposition themselves and explain the backflip to their constituents, particularly the huge amount of taxpayer’s monies squandered on stupid expenditure such as the transition to renewable (unreliable and intermittent) energy, so called.
They’ll pretend it never happened, just like last time. We’ll know we won when Democrat Presidential candidate Beto gives a speech denying the historicity of the so called global warming crisis.
Well, no they can’t pretend it never happened. They can pretend Global Cooling really didn’t happen because not much was ever actually done about it. Not so for climate change. They can’t deny the forests of wind mills and countless square miles of solar farms or the existence of the IPCC or the
billionstrillions spent.But the Climate Change juggernaut isn’t on track to fall apart any time soon. But, not if but when, that happy moment arrives:
They will just try to move on and ignore it. And that works sometimes, after all, they’ve been successfully ignoring the growing population polar bears for years now. The millennials that chose climate change as a career path and became bureaucrats will lose their funding. Some will just retire and some will have to be voted out.
But over the short term, when Russia successfully annexes Ukraine, climate change will be back on the front burner. It ain’t going away. It is too big to fail.
I think it will – look at how Hunter’s laptop was unstoried. The embarrassed will simply stop talking about it, and large numbers of people will find it convenient to forget.
Much bigger stories have been disappeared
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/why-politicized-science-is-dangerous/
Eric, thank you for bringing Crichton’s essay back into view. I think the following quote should be provided front and center in the education of our children:
‘But as Alston Chase put it, “when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.”’;
Well, no they can’t pretend it never happened.
Their willing accomplices in the MSM will make it a lot easier, and the vast numbers of easy dupes out there will buy it completely.
It’s not going to end. Just because everyone knows of the con doesn’t mean that the crooks retire. That Nigerian prince/millionaire is still trying to get his money out of the country and there’s still people willing to help.
As long as people don’t have a real religion and think they “HAVE TO” do something to “save” the environment they’ll be easy prey for the crooks and cronies.
“The life support system for the climate agenda has been turned off.”
“The cash supply for the climate agenda has been turned off.” There, fixed it for you!!! ;-))
It’s all about the money & always has been, a global wealth redistribution scheme, give all the wealthy western democracies’ dosh to the so-called developing world, for nothing in return naturally, we must all feel guilty for developing wealthy democracies, somebody must pay. The UN, as far as I am concerned – don’t want anyone else dragged down with me – & it always has been a lefty organisation seeking a one world guvment, un-elected, un-democratic (they all think, eat & breath the same way) organisation, Socialism by the back door. Can’t wait for the next globul scary story……………..where are you ET??? PS it’s glorious sunshine here in South-West UK, confirmation beyond doubt globul warming is here to stay, at least until the Autumn/Fall, when it starts to get cooler!!! For some reason we seem to have missed the UK Wet-Office’s chilling weather although I gather it’s still waiting out there when the sun stops shining & at the same time we’re in for a sunny warm spell!!!! Just love the way they cover their corporate rear-ends!!!!!!!!
Germany is begging Dubai to sell liquid natural gas, LNG, at spot prices of about $30 to $40/million Btu under a long-term contract, but refuses to buy Russian pipeline gas at $6/million Btu under a long-term contract, because the US told Germany it would not be selling Mercedes, Audie, Porsche, and BMW cars in the US.
This is called hardball and Germany blinked.
Climate goals? Based on pseudo science yielding about 70 nonsense scribbles that are averaged?
You just cannot make this up
The only reason the mega companies subscribe to the “goals” is to get more and more subsidies to make MONEY
It is like the Catholic Church selling go-to-heaven letters to sinners with money in the 1400s; A VERY BIG BUSINESS IT WAS, UNTIL THE REFORMATION PUT AN END TO IT
I do not have the link to President Trump’s address to the United Nations in New York but I did view it at the time, shortly afterwards, and remember his not so subtle criticism and suggestion for a return to the original charter of objectives. He said that the UN has expanded into too many areas and organisations and must stop interfering in the internal affairs (sovereignty) of member nations. And that he had already discussed these points with UN leaders.
Soon after the WW2 when the UN was established a plan was created to encourage member nations to enter into treaties and agreements with the UN that could be used to get around each nation’s constitution and constitutional laws by compliant governments that would then create legislation to enforce each one and regulations. UN Agenda 21 created around 1990 is an example, titled Sustainability but effectively undermining economic prosperity by banning activities in National Parks created from public forests such as building dams, logging, mining and in offshore Marine Parks banning or restricting commercial fishing activities.
The UN globalist left objective to become a “world parliament” and therefore no surprise now that the Secretary General is not happy as member nations turn away to refocus on nation building or recovery.
Major correction!!! A Parliament is a discussion forum for genuine discussion of a variety of issues, & the membership is or at least should be made up of democratically elected representatives, to paraphrase a former Colonist, to govern by & for the people!!! The UN is not a parliament for open discussion & a genuine exchange of ideas, etc. It is simply a totalitarian dictatorship to tell the World how it should work & operate, & it MUST comply, or to use the Dalek’s parlance, MUST OBEY!!! It is the very end of democracy, because ONLY the wealthy ruling intellectual elites know what is good for us all, & that “good” is enriching the wealthy ruling intellectual elites beyond the belief of ordinary hard working people & at the expense of hard working people, nothing has ever really changed despite valiant efforts by some, especially you peeps in the Virginian Colonies, gosh sure wish I’d emigrated there when I had the opportunity years back!!!
These people are a joke. The only thing that comes to mind reading trash like this is Baghdad Bob, reporting that the Americans were not in Baghdad right up to the point where the Americans entered the station. How pathetic.
He was a real star, right to the bitter end, believing the crap he spouted!!!
“Keeping 1.5 alive”
How much is this bloke paid?
Obviously he is paid as much as any other great actor.
Way too much, clearly!!!!!!!!!
Ask China, they’re obviously paying him for tuning the narrative in their favor
He follows in the footsteps of his master.
Maurice Strong who organized the first U.N. Earth Climate Summit (1992) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil expressed an underlying priority very candidly: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse. Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
….no appreciation of the much improved living conditions of the world brought about by industrialization….Strong himself stuffed his mattress with diverted UN cash and moved to China where there was no extradition treaty.
“Strong himself stuffed his mattress with diverted UN cash and moved to China where there was no extradition treaty.”
With over a billion slave labourers & no Human rights, he is the very model of a Socialist, knowing where he would be so well off & useful idiots would listen to him!!!
And in 1975 the United Nations presented the Lima Agreement or Protocol to be signed by member nations effectively committing to allow the transfer of manufacturing industry to developing nations, like China.
While he was alive I used to ask if Maurice Strong was in China rightly advising them or being advised of his rights.
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A little research into Strong’s many honorary degrees, business and political appointments, followed by his “where’s-the-money” controversies when some people were shorted on their “fair share”, help you realize that Strong was probably the greatest “confidence man” ever. He could turn on the tap of socialist sympathist, Marxist philosopher, pragmatic businessman, concerned ecologist, man-on-a-mission-to-save-the-world-or-your-company…comparatively, Frank Abagnale wouldn’t be allowed to carry Strong’s luggage.
He was so good at it, that his motivation is still a matter of debate…but his arc from farm boy to billionaire seems to be the biggest hint.
> where climate disasters have forced 30 million to flee their home
where weather and bad planning have resulted in disasters forcing 30 million (maybe!) to flee their homes.
I think that’s just retired baby boomers moving south after retiring from the northern states
Add to that 3 million more Ukrainian “climate” refugees. Seriously, eventually some talking head will come out and say the war was do to climate change. Same as with the 30 million existing refugees, if that is a verified number: nevermind the cleptomaniacs running the countries those poor souls came from or the warloads fighting to become the new management, all the problems are do to a fraction of a degree per decade increase in temps.
By my calculation, 1/7000th of a degree per year over 150 years, truly shocking, frightening, & we must all worry about living in the Holocene Inter-Glacial, not as warm as the previous 4 Inter-Glacials going back half a million years by, several degrees!!!
Russia is forcing a population of 43 Million to move in 27 days so far so 30 Million in 50 years would be barely a blip
“Keeping 1.5 alive requires a 45 per cent reduction in global emissions by 2030…”
Well if the UN had the guts to call out China, they could reduce the 45% to 15%.
China will, quite rightly, laugh at the greentards.
Or, more likely, highly encourage the greentards, as they would other useful idiots.
The UN is an organization long past its use by date. It is beyond redemption.
UNEXIT.
This way to the regrets.
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And for the same reasons
As if he actually believes the climate emergency is real! Academy Award level performance.
With the developing world tired of not developing enough and now trying hard to get out poverty, there’s no chance of even reducing the growth of emissions, let alone any of that net-zero stupidity.
Shows the climate accords are a scam. No chance for success and yet they still come crying.
They will always come crying just as long as some dumb idiot keeps dipping into their pocket for some loose change to hand out. Where I live in the South-West of UK (beautiful as it is), there is a beautiful structure called Exeter Cathedral in the middle of Cathedral Green, there was a young man who dressed very shabbily, looking unshaven & dishevelled, begging for loose change, turned out he actually lived in a very nice apartment in town & earned a very sizable income, so crying out loud does work for some peeps!!! I feel sorry for those in genuine need!!!
I know Exeter very well, and I think I’ve seen the same guy there recently.
On the London Underground many years ago I saw a scruffy indigent counting the day’s takings by laying out the coins on his arm. There was at least £100 there.
It’s like so many things in life, it’s the few who spoil things for the many! I don’t mind helping out those in genuine need, but I step back if I think I’m being had!!!
There are many ways to help those who are in genuine need. None of them involve giving directly to people on the street. Shelters and food kitchens are a good start.
Sherlock Holmes
The Man With The Twisted Lip
Though of course it is fiction it in fact also Sir Aurthor giving us a real look into Victorian London when the divide between the haves and have nots was even greater than today.
Why hasn’t the UN not started construction of their new HQ in Antarctica? That will soon be one of the only habitable places on earth according to “the science”. So to avoid disruption of their duties they should beat the rush of climate refugees and start building a new place there right now and move into it ASAP!
So Guterres is a top scientist then?
UN Secretary General says undermining his authority is madness. As did every dictator ever.
one MUST remember UN Secretary General Guterres’s background from his native Portugal to know from where he speaks.
“Guterres’s political career began in 1974, when he became a member of the [Portuguese] Socialist Party.”
“Guterres served as secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002.”
”He served as president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005”
He’s a life long, hard core socialist. Everything he does is to further the Global Socialism cause. Just like Jesuit Pope in the Vatican. Bernie Sanders is a small-time piker compared to Guterres.
The climate scam is the global socialist’s Trojan Horse. A political power grab hidden behind bad science to plunder a free and prosperous middle class to be forced into servitude to the state.
Was he an idiot before joining UN or it happened after?
yes….
“45 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030”
I’ll have what he’s drinking…
. Even green Germany has thrown climate purity overboard in the face of the Ukraine crisis.
Once again I remind you Germany has doubled down on roll out of renewables and net zero and any measures to the contrary are a short term fix for a year or so. NOT a permanent shift away from renewable plans.
If renewables are the cheapest option, why is a short term fix required? Why not simply switch over to the solar panels?
Logic does not work with trolls.
Please enlighten us as to how this is going to work given that there is no practical way to store renewable energy. I have yet to see a plan that actual fleshes this out.
Surely if solar and wind worked the short term fix would be to start building loads of windmills and rainbow catchers, would it not?
Oh yeah, I forgot, renewables are rubbish.
Please show us with energy balance data exactly how wind, solar, and battery systems are A: “renewable” and B: “net zero”.
I’ll wait…
Griff. a poem for you in response to your comment:
Splish, splash
Your opinions are trash.
Regards,
Bob
Griff to Biff,
Wax it, if.
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solar is useless at that latitude in winter . inevitably there will be periods of little or no wind . then what ? grid scale batteries for an industrialized economy that big are Enormously expensive if not impossible . so what’s your plan ? what do you foresee for baseload backup ?
Seriously guys, Why should griff care one hoot about if Germans have electricity in mid winter.
All part of the plan, of absolutely zero care for human life , that he seems to support.
The fact they rolled over short term means when the renewable bubble bursts they will become permanent 🙂
“This is madness” said the fool.
There is that great line from Star Wars, said by Obi One Kenobe, “who is the bigger fool, the fool, or the fool who follows the fool?”.
The Russian invasion into Ukraine points out the absurdity of a democracy of nations, but true believers will believe on.
Yes it absolutely is madness.
Simply translate ‘madness‘ as = dementia and, if you go look, you will be able to really actually measure/quantify dementia in people who are pre and actually Type 2 diabetic
That’s before they’re on a diet that low in Saturated fat, Sodium, Magnesium, B Vitamins and high in metals like Mercury, Lead, Aluminium, Cadmium. With added Arsenic.
Made massively worse by diets that are high in fibre and contain almost any amount of Roundup – chewed up by teeth/gums that are rotten but covered up by expensive dentistry.
Add alcohol & cannabis to that simultaneously toxic & nutrient-free stew and what do you get as a poster child…
The Man himself: Antonio (confession via projection) Guterres
and Brandon
and BoJo
and the Trump Derangement Gang who effectively kicked off Ukraine
edit to PS:
Anthony Fauci
“This is madness”. Yes. So-called “climate goals” are madness. It is tilting at windmills. And it is hurting humanity. It needs to stop immediately. I’m glad we agree.
Australia’s aid to Ukraine includes 70000 tonnes of thermal coal. That’s a practical donation that will be immediately useful, whereas 70000 solar panels would be almost useless.
I take it that is one ship load of coal.
Where are they going to send it?
“Where are they going to send it?”
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To China?
They’ll make sure Ukraine gets it. Scout’s honor, they said.
Well this unelected UN leach and all the rest of the fat rich c…T’s should lead by example, no more private jets, economy class for everyone, no more limousines, taxi only, no more mega yachts, no more penthouses, no more luxury cars, no more fancy restaurants and many more indulgences these scumbags have. Do as I say not as I do, scum of the earth.
the madness is that these mongrels managed to get where they have already!
brainwashing kids n teens for 30 yrs has worked for them
As I have said a few times, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol-Pot, they all knew that they must get into the minds of the young because they know no better, & the youth always want to change the world to how they think it should be, despite having practically no life experience!!!
I’ve always been amazed at how I knew everything at age 17. I did. I know I did.
Now it seems that I hardly know anything at all after years and years of reading and study, living and learning, successes and failures.
Funny how that works.
“Madness?…. THIS IS SPARTAAAA!!!”
*Spartan kick*
“highlighting how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatened to become a huge setback for the concerted effort to speed up climate action.”
I would think having a missile land in your family home may be a tad more of a setback.
The climate crisis will probably go down the same memory hole as eugenics and Nixon’s War on Cancer.
No, no, no: there is at least something to be said for both of those items!
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I’ve not personally noticed the planet burning. The only thing I’ve noticed burning are sparky cars, battery buses, and massive storage batteries.
I have a suggestion Antonio in your hour of need. Give Hunter back his laptop and send him off to see if he can do a deal with Putin and smooth this lot over. Might work. Got any better ideas with your climate crisis?
More bad news on the fossil fuel panic front I’m afraid Antonio-
Gas Rebate Act Would Give Americans $100 Per Month When Gas Hits $4 (msn.com)
The brains trust are into subsidizing consumption for your deplorables now.
But wait, the politicized doomsday clock stopped ticking after Biden was elected and Russia invaded Ukraine.
The UN was and remains a joke. It doesn’t protect human rights; rather, it puts the biggest abusers on the commission. It doesn’t help keep the peace.
Amazing how in three weeks a real abusive war fomented by Sec Council permanent member Russia blots out UN faux agendas like climate change.
Joker, not joke.
IPCC—C’mon man, that’s a punchline.
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Is he calling Putin “madness” or just the non-funders and non-supporters?
Russia is helping, by shutting down ‘evil’ nuclear plants, demolishing inefficient housing and reducing this year’s demand for methane sourced fertilizer.
You should thank Putin.
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Wikipedia:
Socialism is intellectualism for stupid people.
This is * the end of the * madness.
In Divinity School Al Gore got through the ‘Shamans shamin’ the herd for control’ lessons, then dropped out.
We’ll not only get, eat, the slavery of Neo-Feudalism but the superstition for sauce, too.
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Make that hypersonic madness from the UN.
“We need to destroy the village in order to save it”.
This is the core problem with ‘issues’ like Climate Change(tm). The principle of the idea appeals to people. If you generalise the question down to something like ‘Do you want a nice place for your children to live in 20 or 30 years down the track?’ then most people are going to say ‘yes’.
However if you say do you want to work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day for the next 19 years in order to gain this magical ‘nice place’ then the question becomes fuzzy.
Society is what we live in in the here and now. When people say ‘we are doing this to protect our society’ (cough – Covid restrictions – cough) it always has to be compared with what parts of ‘society’ are we being forced to surrender just to ensure we have ‘society’ in the future.
Put the argument another way. When you are comfortable in your life small furry animals are cute. When you are living on the edge small furry animals are food for your children.
If you want to protect small furry animals, protect your economy first.
“Keeping 1.5 alive requires a 45 per cent reduction in global emissions by 2030″ The ability of people to delude themselves is extraordinary.