Essay by Eric Worrall
Emissions of glorious CO2 plant food have hit an all time high, according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Naturally his solution to this joyful milestone is to try to shut it down.
UN chief hails launch of new expert group to boost net-zero climate change fight
31 March 2022 Climate and Environment
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged private investors businesses, cities, states and regions, to do more to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions, launching a new group of experts to help with realizing a net-zero future.
Mr. Guterres’s comments came as he unveiled his new initiative to develop stronger standards for “net-zero” pledges by partners below the national government level, in the fight against climate change.
“Despite growing pledges of climate action, global emissions are at an all-time high,” Mr. Guterres warned. And they continue to rise, he said, adding that “the latest science shows that climate disruption is causing havoc in every region already.
The key objective is to stop global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels – as the international community agreed in Paris in 2015.
Losing the race
But the UN chief warned that the world was losing the race to reduce global temperature rise.
Governments had the biggest responsibility to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century – “especially the G20” industrialized nations he said – before calling on “every business, investor, city, state and region to walk the talk on their net-zero promises”.
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has demonstrated that nearly half of humanity is already in the danger zone”, he said. “If we don’t see significant and sustained emissions reductions this decade, the window of opportunity to keep 1.5 alive will be closed – and closed forever.
“And that will be disaster for everyone.”
He praised the commitment being made at Thursday’s meeting to create a new brains’ trust to make the commitments on net zero, a reality, in the form of the new advisory High-Level Expert Group.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1115222
To me this is one of the starkest examples yet, of how out of touch the United Nations is with the needs of ordinary people.
This year could be very hard. The global grain harvest this year could be down by 25%, the 25% which normally comes from Ukraine. Ukraine may have already missed their optimum planting window, their short but intense growing season is very unforgiving of delays.
In addition, Ukraine and Russia are major fertiliser producers. The coming fertiliser price spike could disrupt the ability of farmers outside the war zone to cover the shortfall caused by the lost Ukrainian harvest.
In a situation this desperate, we should be seizing any small advantage which might help us feed the hungry.
Excess CO2 emissions are potentially such an advantage
CO2 is plant fertiliser. Even NASA admits the world has greened, thanks to anthropogenic CO2.
I doubt one year’s excess emissions will make a lot of difference. But in a time like this, the last thing we should be doing is attempting to cut the lifeline of excess CO2 emissions. Even a small difference might save lives.
But the UN is ignoring all this. In their manic fixation on climate change, they seem completely oblivious to the changing needs of the people who provide their funding.
The solution is obvious.
Assuming he serves two full terms Guterres will retire in 2027, three years before the end of the decade. So he will be well out of it when we get to the end of 2030 and the sky has not fallen in. He won’t be around to have to explain why the sky has not fallen in.
Not to worry, no one will bother to ask him about it.
Bad form.
When is more CO2 an excess? Plants thrived when CO2 was recorded in percent not ppm. Current level are little more than twice the survival level of most plant life.
Plants have already evolved to use over 1000ppm CO2 in photosynthesis and are still able to do so today.
It’s not a secret. So there is no excess CO2 in the atmosphere in all of human existence, in fact it’s quite the opposite.
That’s why people who claim CO2 is a pollutant in the atmosphere are nuts. It simply isn’t the case. Let’s call it what it really is. Purposely limiting CO2 in the atmosphere is bio-racism.
Separate comment concerning fertilizer and the Russian ‘exports freeze’ response to Western sanctions. Don’t think it is as big a deal as made out, after doing some basic research. Russian exports to ROW provide 23% of ammonia, 14% of urea (both N), 10% of phosphate (P), and 21% of potash (K). NPK is most fertilizer.
A dent, not a disaster.
And Russia’s two biggest NPK customers are Brazil and China (collectively about half of Russian exports), neither of whom has joined in Russian sanctions. So not even a big dent. Maybe a problem in EU, but not in Asia or US. More like an over-reaction to general inflation exacerbated by Russia specifically in NPK during the NH planting season about to begin.
This is the order of wheat exporters for 2020:
Who will be buying Russian wheat? Will Vlad demand payment in Roubles?
2020 was a poor year for Australian wheat. Australia is forecasting record wheat production and can certainly fill some of any gap that might eventuate.
If it goes high enough Brazil could clear some more Amazon rain forest and make the greentards heads explode.
I clicked the link to ‘UN News’ in the article. It’s all forecasts of doom & gloom, IN THE FUTURE (i.e. predicted by models) & not now, though they do have a go at trying to convince the reader that normal extreme weather in the present is being produced by ‘climate change’. Their evidence? ‘Scientists say’. What exactly DO the scientists really say?
You know I’m really glad they’re losing at convincing us we’re all going to die if we don’t accept their crap, though unfortunately this may be an indicator of a new & more sinister plan from them.
How much money has the world spent (wasted) so far on trying to reduce CO2 emissions, and how much (little) impact has all that money had on them? The graphs I’ve seen of CO2 levels would suggest that the impact to date is negligible.
More importantly (if we thought we were trying to fix the climate), how much impact has all that money had on the climate? Would we even be able to tell, or would we need a model to ‘show’ us (/s)? All I ever hear on NZ state propaganda TV is that we expect things to get (even) worse, so I guess that means our efforts to date have achieved little.
These days, the UN is making the old League of Nations look like a highly relevant organisation.
So, what if all human CO2 emissions were stopped? Zero. Would the plants notice?
“He said the carbon dioxide released by plants every year was now estimated to be about 10 to 11 times the emissions from human activities, rather than the previous estimate of five to eight times.”
Plants release more carbon dioxide into atmosphere than expected – ANU
Now that is just plants and human activities, not the myriad other sources.
Termites emit more than 10 times the Co2 that humans do. This has been known for decades.
The 1982 observational study of global CO2 termite emissions is here. Science 05 Nov 1982: Vol. 218, Issue 4572, pp. 563-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.218.4572.563
I think that one has been walked back. Termites emit a lot of methane, but their CO2 contribution has since been deemed to be less than those 50 year old estimates stated. Or, they changed the rules to make human emissions look more significant. No way to tell.
But the fact remains that plants dwarf humans in CO2 emissions. So, if we emitted NONE, nothing would change.
“The world has greened”
Only we denihilists could possibly think this is a good thing. The Green side of the debate is deeply anti-plant. Capnophobes are, after all, chlorophobes.
Glad to see you back here. Hope all is well. Greetings from up over to down under. Alinsky rule 7: ridicule rules. Go for it.
Thank goodness you are back
And there is still no effect on climate as we are now at the 30 year average temperature!!!
Here is one line of evidence that man’s CO2 has no effect on climate:
5000 years ago, there was the Egyptian 1st Unified Kingdom warn period
4400 years ago, there was the Egyptian old kingdom warm period.
3000 years ago, there was the Minoan Warm period. It was warmer than now WITHOUT fossil fuels.
Then 1000 years later, there was the Roman warm period. It was warmer than now WITHOUT fossil fuels.
Then 1000 years later, there was the Medieval warm period. It was warmer than now WITHOUT fossil fuels.
Then 1000 years later, came our current warm period. You are claiming that whatever caused those earlier warm periods suddenly quit causing warm periods, only to be replaced by man’s CO2 emission, perfectly in time for the cycle of warmth every 1000 years to stay on schedule. Not very believable.
The entire climate scam crumbles on this one observation because it shows that there is nothing unusual about today’s temperature and ALL claims of unusual climate are based on claims of excess warmth caused by man’s CO2.
http://www.debunkingclimate.com/warm_periods.html
http://www.debunkingclimate.com/climatehistory.html
http://www.debunkingclimate.com
Feel free to disagree by showing actual evidence that man’s CO2 is causing serious global warming.
I think I have to disagree.
There is a straightforward reason for at least the Egyptian warming that you mentioned. I have it on good rumor that there are hidden, as-yet-undiscovered chambers inside all the major Egyptian pyramids, that in turn house Khufu-brand SUVs.
It is believed these, plus tankers of gasoline, were given to all the high nobility of ancient Egypt by extraterrestrials that visited Earth back then. It was considered high blasphemy at the time, punishable by death, to make any records of the nobility driving around in those “iron-chariots-not-needing-horses” (I apologize for not remembering the Hieratic-Demotic spoken phrase of this translation), hence there are no scrolls or tablets documenting such.
But trust me . . . it happened. After all, what else do you think was used to tow all those massive stone blocks into place in order build the pyramids in the first place???
I suspect, but cannot prove, that something similar happened predating the peak of Minoan civilization. And, of course, the Roman period was famous for having all those pitch-burning torches that were used for indoor and outdoor lighting, so they produced massive amounts of CO2 without me having to argue that they also used cars or SUVs, which is not supportable by historical records.
And my apologies, right now I cannot speak with authority about the ancient Aztec, Maya, Teotihuacan and Toltec civilizations that built pyramids throughout Mesoamerica, but there are good reasons to believe they had similar “ancient auto” assistance from ETs. After all, the paleoclimatology data dating back to these times shows the simultaneous increases in both CO2 and lower troposphere temperatures were a worldwide phenomena.
I should have a peer-reviewed paper describing all the evidence for the above coming out very soon, and it will neatly tie all of this together in a grand unified theory.
Have a good 040122!
Exactly! And how do you think they moved those massive blocks to build the pyramids? Slaves? Yeah, right! We can’t even replicate it today. And as for raising the monolithic obelisks without them cracking due to bending moments, forget it.
Clearly, they passed that carbon-based high tech onto the Mesoamericans as well.
You are right on the money JimK.
I have challenged the believers of man made climate change to explain these former warming’s We have organized public debates with scientists on both sides about mans role in global warming .
The believers cannot answer the question of what caused these historical warmings and now refuse to attend any debates as they claim that the science is settled .
No one has explained these former warm periods and what caused the little ice age .
They cannot explain the missing tropical hotspot which has never been found but the hot spot is integral to the theory of man made global warming .
Hmm. I look and I look but I don’t find any havoc in my region. What am I missing??
. . . Did you look under the rug in your bedroom?
You need special greentard glasses … ask Ghal or Griff if you can borrow them.
It’s time for the green zealots to face reality. Net Zero just isn’t going to happen by 2050, or even 2100 for that matter. Solar panels and wind turbines simply can’t make and store enough energy to power the earth, and the earth’s population isn’t going to give up being comfortable. That’s simply the way it is.
So what should they do? Note that I said ‘they’ not ‘we’. I plan to oppose any spending on worthless plans. Even if global warming and sea level rise continue at the current pace, I don’t believe it will be catastrophic, and likely will improve the lives of most of the world’s population. I note that Two of the greatest CAGW worriers, Obama and Gates, still own their ocean front mansions.
So, what should the rest of the CAGW worriers do?
Wait a moment. ‘Anthropogenic’ CO2 increasing? After so much of the world has been prevented from travelling during the SARS/COV-2 pandemic? Made to stay in their homes, not drive their vehicles so much over the last two years?
That makes sense. Not.