Essay by Eric Worrall
UN climate warnings are like the village communist predicting the imminent demise of capitalism every week – and about as likely to happen.
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c
In 2021 it was a “Code Red for Humanity”;
IPCC report: ‘Code red’ for human driven global heating, warns UN chief
Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday.
Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole of Earth’s climate system; in the atmosphere, in the oceans, ice floes, and on land.
Many of these changes are unprecedented, and some of the shifts are in motion now, while some – such as continued sea level rise – are already ‘irreversible’ for centuries to millennia, ahead, the report warns.
But there is still time to limit climate change, IPCC experts say. Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases, could quickly make air quality better, and in 20 to 30 years global temperatures could stabilize.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097362
2020 it was Yale’s turn to issue the final warning;
Mark Lynas’s ‘Final warning’ on climate: ‘It’s all on us, here, now,’ says reviewer
British author Mark Lynas adds another ‘essential’ book for those concerned about our civilization and our planet.
by SPENCER WEART AUGUST 19, 2020
Global warming first became personal for me in 2010. I was backpacking in the incomparable Wind Rivers in western Wyoming. I can’t tell you how much, over many years, I have loved those mountains, the wildest great range of the Lower 48; my tent was the only human thing on the shores of a lake a mile long.
But the human imprint had arrived. Hillsides had turned brown with dying pines, acres were littered with gray dead tree trunks. This was the work of bark beetles no longer controlled by cold winters, and you can see it now all over the American West.
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Read more: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/mark-lynas-final-warning-on-climate-its-all-on-us-here-now/
You can find final warnings and last chances stretching all the way back to 1989 if you can find them using one of our woke search engines;
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 30, 1989UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.…
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
Before anyone tries to claim the 1989 claim was not a real UN warning, even Snopes fact checkers admit this was a real UN warning;
Did UN Official Say Nations Would Vanish If Global Warming Not Reversed by 2000?
An Associated Press article from 1989 is popular among climate-change deniers.
Claim:
In 1989, a senior U.N. environmental official said, “Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”Rating: Correct Attribution
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Read more: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warming/
The year 2000 passed, and no great nations got wiped off the face of the Earth by global warming. Just as nothing bad will happen in the face of the latest UN warnings.
My only concern in this ridiculous charade, is for the naive younger people who take these warnings seriously, and feel distressed that older people are not acting, are not showing any sense of urgency about preventing the imminent end of the world.
But for some people at least, that distress doesn’t last forever. As you get older, you get wiser, at least in terms of learning how to judge the credibility of others. How many times can a rational person watch the UN and other alleged authority figures get it dead wrong, and still give unquestioning acceptance to their latest wild predictions of imminent disaster?
After you’ve lived through thirty years of failed climate crisis predictions, end of world scares, and imminent catastrophes which fail to materialise, most people learn not to take such pronouncements too seriously, whether they admit it or not. My evidence for this assertion is the failure of various Green Parties to sweep the world’s parliaments and congresses.
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And our friends in Beijing doing exactly what?
Our friends in Beijing are enjoying the show. They are amazed and pleased to watch the Western Democracies self-destruct attempting to control CO2 (among other huge errors in judgement).
One thing China is doing is beginning to reclaim all the land that Russia stole from it. According to the YouTube site of Jake Broe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJq5kHSgUZ4&t=983s
China now says maps showing east Asia must now use the original names of all that land- not Russian names- and the maps should show the old boundaries of outer Manchuria.
Putin better watch his back. Xi may be a fair-weather friend.
Either party could pull a “Barbarossa.”
Desperate to get it over the line before AMO cooling starts
If it continues to cool, the UN and the IPCC are going to have some explaining to do.
Not really Tom, as we have seen so many times before. Global Cooling is caused by man made climate change, just as Global Warming was.
That CO2 is such a perfect villain it can cause any condition the Climate Alarmists claim it does.
I would love to hear the alarmists try to explain it if the temperatures continued to cool for another decade or so.
Not that I like cold weather, I don’t, but I lived through the cool 1970’s and it wasn’t much different from today. The scientists noticed some changes but most people didn’t notice.
A prominent alarmist some time ago claimed that even a couple of decades of cooling would not negate the human-caused climate change hypothesis. Of course, that’s what we would expect these liars to say. They will try to extend the lie as long as they can.
We haven’t had any “hottest year evah!” proclamations from NOAA and NASA Climate in a while, have we. I bet those data mannipulators are pulling their hair out trying to figure a way to inject more warming into the temperature record.
Crimes against Humanity, is what these temperature record lies and distortions really are.
“Not that I like cold weather, I don’t, but I lived through the cool 1970’s and it wasn’t much different from today. The scientists noticed some changes but most people didn’t notice.”
Tire dealers in the Central Plains noticed. Lots of demand for studded snow tires!
Yeah, I remember a snow storm around 1978 that dropped about two feet of snow here where I live in Oklahoma. It paralyzed movement around here for a couple of days.
But, that’s not the first time we have had a big snow storm. We had them in the past and we will have them in the future.
It’s right and good to mock the latest “final warning.”
But it is not the failure of the serial predictions of warming doom since the late 1980’s by which we can know they were wrong and are still wrong.
It was a fundamental error – a misconception – from the beginning to have ever supposed that heat energy could be made to accumulate on land and in the oceans to harmful effect by what non-condensing greenhouse gases do in the atmosphere.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/16/wuwt-contest-runner-up-professional-nasa-knew-better-nasa_knew/
So let’s expose and dismantle the core error from which all these absurd predictions arose in the first place: that the static radiative effect experienced at the surface controls the outcome in a dynamic system.
I’ve been to a lot of hot air balloon extravaganzas. I’ve learned that hot air rises. Hotter air rises further and faster. As the air rises it cools. It actually cools without rising, just not as fast. As the air cools it sinks. As it sinks it absorbs heat thus cooling the surrounding area as an equilibrium is reached.
It *is* a dynamic system. It’s not apparent to me that the climate models or radiation budget models handle all the dynamics well. When you are speaking of *very* small differences that are almost, if not totally, unmeasurable then not handling the dynamics well means you can’t actually tell what is going on. It all becomes guesses – and subjective guesses at that!
I think the IPCC are missing a trick publishing these regular reports of doom. What they should do is build a super computer to work out what Climate Change actually is, they could give the computer a name, the name Deep Thought comes to mind and it could run it’s program for say seven and a half million years (far enough into the future to keep all the climate scientists in work) . After Deep Thought has given it’s answer it could then go on and design the most powerful computer ever built (with no exceptions) to work out what the question was.
Has the level of alarm of the Climate Howlers reached 11 yet? My hearing isn’t what it used to be. Maybe all that Climate Caterwauling has something to do with it.
Bolty asks Lindzen what should we do about the dooming?
Climate change isn’t ‘particularly dangerous’: Richard Lindzen (msn.com)
“Climate crisis”(TM) is another Ponzi scheme: it will survive only as long as new idiots will come to publicize it. When that chain of newcomers is broken all he system falls apart.
Hmm, they are queuing up to join – and, as any leave, there are many more to replace them. As Einstein possible said, there only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, of which he wasn’t sure about the first.
Canada’s Minister of All Things Climate Change, Stephen Guilbeault, is preparing to double down on Net Zero following the latest IPCC report. Carbon taxes on all fuels rise significantly on April 1, the same day he gets a substantial raise in pay. This madness has gone far beyond being the punchline in a bad joke and is forcing people into poverty. How do we take back the narrative from the trillion dollar green industry?
“Man goes mad in herds and recovers slowly one by one.”
I believe Charles MacKay had it right, but even he did not envision that academia and public school teachers would be completely indoctrinated and backed by the governments of most developed countries to instill fear in the next generation.
The hoax may have reached critical mass where it is self perpetuating, at least for OUR lifetimes.
You are reacting like it’s some sort of a new thing. Yet formation of a State totally-not-Church began with the Mugwumps and steadily advanced in USA. And didn’t the totally-not-Vatican in USA increasingly convert or displace competing institutions everywhere else after World War Ⅱ, as even Royal Society was washed downstream from Harvard?
They preach about an imminent catastrophe just as regularly and with the same fervor as another church would do about the second advent of JC that was always going to happen soon. So, repent your environmental sins and give them money to save the world!
By the way, they only have been doing it for something like 50 years… the other church has done it for a couple of millennia, and they still have not given up.
Fairly small comfort, but there was actually an article in The Daily Telegraph yesterday that was quite scathing of the IPCC report.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/20/uns-scientific-climate-report-nothing-confected-hysteria/
Not to get too excited, there is the usual ‘climate change is real’ and ‘we must do something about it’ stuff, and the basis of the article is that business, not gevernment, will solve the problem – well it was on the Telegraph business pages so only to be expected. However in making this case the author does have a good go at the IPCC and the governments behind it.
Quote: “The trouble is, the IPCC is not quite the expert or impartial body it is portrayed as, nor are its findings always impeccably “scientific”. It turns out that the report was delayed by several months following a “strike” by some of the support staff, while there were long disputes between the different authors about its final verdict…
In reality, there are two big problems with the IPCC’s work, and indeed with the wider drive towards net zero. The first is that it is driven by grand-standing politicians, committees and global bureaucrats. There is constant pressure to ramp up the alarmism, to double down on hysteria, and to fix every problem with targets and more state spending.”
OK so it’s only a diagreement over whether business or government should lead us over the cliff, but it does show that not only sceptics find the IPCC report less than honest.
My first thought was, surely such an article couldn’t have been written by AEP? And I was right, it wasn’t 🙂
how many of these “final warnings” have we had?
I seem to remember someone documenting them but don’t have the reference anymore. For all the good it does when trying to discuss this with a true believer.
“China’s final warning” (Russian: последнее китайское предупреждение) is a Russian proverb that originated as a Soviet political joke in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, referring to a warning that carries no real consequences.
Hey, the grifters are not raking in enough of the rube’s bucks, so gotta stoke the fear a little more to get the rape in high gear. Nothing more, nothing less. Key up the calliope and bring on the clowns. Their credibility is on the wane and they are in desperation mode most everywhere in the world. Simple answer.
The University of Helsinki confirmed this anew on Monday by announcing that it was giving climate hysteric Greta Thunberg an honorary doctorate…in theology.
Well. Now that sorta puts things in perspective.
But which?
Due to Poe’s Law satire is neither alive nor dead, like Schrodinger’s cat.
The phrase “Code Red” is permanently attached to Jack Nicholson in a military uniform.
IPCC is not boy cry “wolf”, it is chicken little “the sky is falling”.
The success record for the UN in averting crises is what exactly? They have failed politically, economically, socially and now scientifically,in an effort to improve the human condition.. Now, with the fearmongering over CO2, a false crisis btw — they now want to starve plants worldwide. Plants of the world unite before it’s too late(humans could unite against climate alarmism propaganda too, if they were less like sheeple); so maybe the plants can do a better job of resistance then.
IPCC: Impoverish yourself now, or the doggy gets it.
Pat, I’ve noticed that whenever I point a gun at one of my dogs, he shies and gets that same look. I wonder if it is picking up some of my emotion about the gun’s power?
Has any entity studied the physical and economic impacts of exceeding 1.5 ℃ above the Little Ice Age? I’m told we’re already 2/3 of the way there. All I’ve seen is an improved biosphere. Where are the negatives? I assume some SWAGs can be found in academia. Since there has been no increases to extreme weather frequency, intensity nor duration over a period of 100+ years, I wonder where they can get cost estimates as a result of current atmospheric concentrations of CO2.
Time to change the subject as the plant food dooming isn’t cutting through-
Earth is on the brink of a global WATER CRISIS, experts say (msn.com)
The IPCC cant be serious that this is “a final warning for humanity” when at the same time they give China and India the green light to continue burning as much coal as they like, build as many coal fired generators as you like. What a joke the IPCC are. The time bomb is ticking on the IPCC’s credibility.
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/
Only impoverishment, austerity and privation for the West, while China builds 100 coal fired generators a year.
China has been building coal plants faster than Carter can make those little liver pills
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