Essay by Eric Worrall
According to news sources, in August we just hit 1.5C warmer than pre-industrial. Hands up who wants to surrender their automobile?
UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat
Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
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“Climate breakdown has begun”, the United Nations chief has warned as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that the world went through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record.
The WMO, citing data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said on Wednesday that last month was the the hottest August on record “by a large margin” and the second hottest ever month after July 2023.
August is estimated to have been about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average. It also saw the highest global monthly average sea surface temperature on record, nearly 21C (69.8F).
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/6/un-announces-climate-breakdown-after-record-summer-heat
The full UN statement;
SG/SM/21926
6 SEPTEMBER 2023
Climate Breakdown Has Begun with Hottest Summer on Record, Secretary-General Warns, Calling on Leaders to ‘Turn Up the Heat Now’ for Climate Solutions
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting.
Our planet has just endured a season of simmering — the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun.
Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will unleash. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the planet.
Surging temperatures demand a surge in action. Leaders must turn up the heat now for climate solutions. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos — and we don’t have a moment to lose.
Source: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21926.doc.htm
Strangely the UN statement did not include a pledge by all climate concerned VIPs to give up their private jets.
As I sit comfortably in a comfortable subtropical house, filled with the wonders of fossil fuel technology, including the computer I’m typing on right now, I see no climate breakdown. Nor am I likely to see such a breakdown.
Global warming is no threat to a tropical species like us humans. Last time the world was really hot, The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 5-8C hotter than today, the species which did really well was monkeys. Our monkey ancestors colonised much of Eurasia and North America, feasting on the abundance which the PETM warmth delivered. The monkeys passed through the warm temperate forests of Greenland on their journey. Our monkey ancestors only retreated when the warm age ended, because they were driven out of their new homes by the encroaching cold.
My point is if, and this is a big if, significant warming occurs on top of the “climate breakdown” we are allegedly experiencing today, we’ll continue to thrive, just like our SUV driving monkey ancestors thrived in the warmth of the PETM, 55 million years ago.
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As for the UN – they’ll promote anything that will give them power/funding.
‘Leaders must turn up the heat now for climate solutions. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos — and we don’t have a moment to lose.’
Translation: “We want more money. You’ll die if you don’t send it. Now!”
We need to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
It used to be CAGW but nature didn’t cooperate.
So now they call this particular lever to power “Climate Breakdown”.
How different labels have they used?
Years ago I remember hearing that in training agents to recognize counterfeit money, they don’t focus on the latest techniques. They focus on the recognizing the genuine first.
If I was a counterfeiter with influence, I’d work to change that.
Where is the scientific method in “climate science”?
don’t know if it’s been suggested before,
but I’m hanging on for
SUPERmegaEXTREME CLIMATE
I like ”climate collapse” You know, that’s when there finally is no more climate.
The only time I’ve seen the term ‘CAGW’ used it’s been on silly websites like this. It’s just AGW, or man-made ‘climate change’.
Let’s see; the IPCC was set up in 1988 and the ‘CC’ part then stood for ‘climate change’.
It’s still called the IPCC and the CC part still stands for ‘climate change’; so that’s… one.
Does that mean we should expect your imminent departure? Or do you wish keep contributing to the silliness? Idiot.
“It’s just AGW, or man-made ‘climate change’.”
Meant to be from human released CO2
So… since there is no evidence that human released CO2 causes any change in the global climate…
… the whole “climate change” nonsense is a total FAKE.
Certainly all the other cretinous wordings they have tried are even more nonsensical.
I hope to see you roundly criticising any journalist, politician, self-style “climate scientist”, that uses any term apart from “climate change”.
But I bet you won’t… !
Come on, Foolish Nit-wit.
Let’s see you criticising the head of the UN for his comments.
Let’s see you arguing against the use of terms like “climate emergency”.
Bring out that skepticism you mouth-off so proudly about. 😉
Yeah, he is profoundly inconsistent in his complaints but that isn’t surprising.
Well, I survived the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer evah without air conditioning in my home in Colorado. Granted, we aren’t Arizona or Texas, but no A/C was no fun. Tomorrow will be our last unusually warm day, then everything changes on Sunday, and won’t look back…
We must have passed the critical threshold.
We had 60% more potatoes this year and the corn was larger with no worms.
We had more Monarch butterflies this year than ever before.
Should I blame “climate change”.
its funny the MSM in early spring were warning of scalding heatwaves, in the UK the net zero bill is going through Parliament with its draconian and straitjacket laws with other countries following suit. In the UK by 2035, combustion engines will no longer be made and all domestic heating and cooking will switch from gas to electricity. This will be nigh on impossible without ripping up the national grid and enormously expanding its capacity and the same for every domestic household.
The combination of renewable energy meeting an exponential rise in demand will as Obama said when President “necessarily cause prices to skyrocket. This disaster on the western world is being instigated not by the left wing nutters who are Renfield’s and useful idiots but the globalist cabal, the people who ensured COVID shut down the western economy, the people who ensured Trumps presidency and Brexit both massive symbols of good people having enough and speaking out, well both were conveniently scuppered by that man made gain of function virus and again globalist led government gleefully increased unbearable debt burdens. The COVID disaster is now being exposed and the penny dropping about the corruption and the role of NATO in Ukraine, so time to accelerate on the Climate Disaster front. and hey presto right on time we have a NH out break of arson masquerading as ‘global Boiling’ and July and August’s satellite temperature data show out of the blue heat hikes. In the light of all the drive towards epic impoverishment of the global population is it just possible , just feasible that the satellite data has been hacked. I did ask this of Dr Roy Spencer but my message wouldn’t deliver to his email. However with such high stakes at play is it beyond the realms of sensibility that just as we saw i the ‘climategate’ scandal that data is being made to fit the agenda. Sorry folks obviously I’m not a scientist but as a UK citizen I am very aware financially of my governments eargerness for net zero, 15 minute cities, ultra Low Emmision Zones and now talk of a vehicle mileage levy and how like Hitler needed the Reichstag the globalist needed a record high setting NH summer to push through their agenda. That’s it I’m now off for my medication