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.
“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.