The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C.
A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up call for urgent and radical action to stop burning fossil fuels and save millions of lives and livelihoods. Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread, but it was not yet inevitable that it would be passed, if an extraordinary change in the pace of climate action could be achieved.
The Guardian got the views of almost 400 senior authors of reports by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Almost 80% expected a rise of at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a catastrophic level of heating, while only 6% thought it would stay within the 1.5C limit. Many expressed their personal anguish at the lack of climate action.
“The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is hanging by a thread,” said the official spokesperson for António Guterres, the UN secretary general. “The battle to keep 1.5C alive will be won or lost in the 2020s – under the watch of political and industry leaders today. They need to realise we are on the verge of the abyss. The science is clear and so are the world’s scientists: the stakes for all humanity could not be higher.”
I clicked the link to the personal reactions link, see if there was anything interesting. I didn’t bother reading all of it, because most of it seemed to be the usual rehashed tedium. They’re all sad and depressed because we are not doing what the scientists tell us to do. Not one word about nuclear energy, the zero carbon energy source which actually works. From what the Guardian wrote they want us to embrace climate communism (restricted choices, social change) and renewables.
I tried finding the UN source of the climate abyss comment, but all I saw were previous UN “climate abyss” warnings. Or maybe it’s the same warning, but the abyss is still really close but at the same time many years away.
World on the verge of climate ‘abyss’, as temperature rise continues: UN chief
The Earth’s temperature continues to rise unabated, with 2020 being one of the three warmest years on record, as extreme weather events combine with the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting millions.
According to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) flagship State of the Global Climate report, the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial level.
Lest we forget, this entire tedious, repetitive clown show is being funded by your tax dollars.
Next time you come up short trying to pay inflated green energy bills, take a moment to write to your congress critter and see where they stand on this nonsense. If your representative doesn’t promptly point out a long track record of trying to pull the plug on climate funding, primary them and find someone who will. Because as long as politicians don’t make ending all this a priority, the climate clown show will continue, and your tax dollars will continue to inflate your energy bills, enrich left wing donors, and pay for the tearful public performances of the crying climate scientist industry.
My commiserations. I have booked a trip to the Arctic (Svalbard) this northern summer, but sadly I won’t see any polar bears because they were all wiped out in the Eemian.
I hung in there until the Winter of Severe Disease and Death of the Unvaccinated, and then I kicked the bucket several times. Also the following winter.
This is eerily familiar to the silly 1989 we are trouble tripe by the U.N.
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.”
The link to the UN 1989 is a beauty, but as I have it on my screen by Associated Press, it is not dated. I would like to share it, but need a date. Forgive me if the answer is blindingly obvious.
Yet the UN leaders continue to ponce around the globe in private jets, limousines, have huge luxurious gatherings and generally make themselves obnoxious to all and sundry.
They do not do one thing towards “combatting climate” themselves, just try to tell everyone else what to do.
As you mention the hypocrite Charlie Chump …In 2022 Prince Charles was urging the world to stop using plastic;but in 2024 he was happy when copious amounts of single-use plastics were used to treat his cancer … Plastics for me but not for thee !!
“I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival”
— Prince (now King) Charles speech at a Reception for Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, July 11, 2019
[note: July 11, 2019 + 18 months = mid-January 2021, so we passed that point-of-no-return more than 3 years ago].
Substitute “infirmly” for the third word in the above quote and it truthfully becomes something Charles could have stated in his COP28 speech.
Can you actually name some of this mythical fossil fuel propaganda that you are always going on about.
You previously failed completely when trying to defend your claim that fossil fuel interests were funding skeptics.
Then again, you have failed completely when it comes to defending every claim you have ever made on this site.
Tell me, are you being funded by fossil fuel interests, with the goal of making alarmists look even more stupid?
Alarmists aren’t interested in being made to look stupid, they do that quite well on their own.
They are presently trying to scream the sky is falling louder than anyone else. It seems to be a contest they are running to be the most extreme blatant lying SOBs on the face of the planet.
The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns. Quick! You barely have time to cancel your membership in this collapsing number org.
David Albert
May 11, 2024 6:38 pm
“Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread” It must be because it never had a foundation to sit on.
It’s over folks. The green blob is dead. The increase in hysteria on those whose fortunes lie with it is all the proof you need. Utter dispair reigns. Buuuu bye.
Again, they are the ones CREATING the FAKERY, just so they can spread the alarm.
Chris Hanley
May 11, 2024 6:41 pm
Here’s another ‘hockey-stick’ ‘Guardianistas’ want to reverse.
moringa man
May 11, 2024 7:10 pm
They are desperate for this one world govt nonsense and will say and do anything to scare the cold out of humanity. In Tucson there has been a major increase in the chemtrails and in addition in the last two years we have had the coldest winters into spring in memory and that goes back to the 70’s. Something is up and the blocking the sun/gates thing is just pure evil and would cause mass death. Geo-engineering is the CCBS and CCBS is being used to push GE. Don’t let these unelected screwballs get power or we are done.
An earlier post on this included some of the comments. They were all about feelings devoid of a single fact. None of the commenters quoted had hard science backgrounds. There was an engineer who obviously found engineering too hard because he turned to cultural studies.
The reason the other half did not reply was because they know the wholes scam is a scam and are not prepared to be directly associated with the scam.
One of the people quoted in the article is Rachel Kite a “professor of practice in climate policy” (Eh?) at Oxford. She said
“It is desperately frustrating that our political, economic and social systems don’t know what to do with the science. We need…innovations in our democracy to give scientists the policies they deserve”
In other words forget democracy let the (my) science rule !
BCBill
May 11, 2024 9:11 pm
Oh no, we are on the edge of the brink of the verge of the abyss.
If you stare into the abyss (even if it’s your own making) the abyss stares back.
Bob
May 11, 2024 10:26 pm
We are not in a climate crisis, CO2 is not the control knob for our climate and we are not going to reach a tipping point and suffer irreversible global warming. Fire up all fossil fuel and nuclear generators, build new fossil fuel and nuclear generators and remove all wind and solar from the grid.
but it contains no link to the brief itself. If you can post a link to the actual brief that would be useful. It seems to have been published six months ago and sunk without trace.
Here are some of the claims in the summary.
Published last week (26 September) the brief anticipated that offshore wind alone could produce 2,121 TWh/year against the highest energy demand forecast for Britain in 2050 of 1,500 TWh/year.
Combined with solar, the brief claimed that the two technologies could produce nearly ten times the current electricity demand of 299 TWh/year.
“This is a question of ambition rather than technical feasibility,” said lead author Dr Brian O’Callaghan.
“The UK is already lagging in the global green race. Instead of hitting reverse, we should be turbocharging on renewables with US-style incentives and gearing up our grid for the surge that is already underway.”
According to the analysis, offshore wind would produce the bulk of the energy (73%) at 2,121 TWh/year whilst onshore wind would contribute around 7% (206 TWh/year)…..
….In turn, utility-scale solar would contribute around 19% (544 TWh/year), with the remaining power (25 TWh/year) by rooftop solar, covering 8% of Britain’s roof area….
….The brief’s authors noted that significant grid upgrades, as well as the scaling of battery storage will be required to achieved these results. However, this can be achieved with the right policy and support.
It seems that they think all you do is install a lot of off-shore wind and solar, and add batteries. How much battery? How much wind? Who knows. But if they are proposing to provide 20% of demand from solar, its going to be an awful lot of batteries. Solar just about vanishes from November through February. Dead calms due to blocking highs occur most winters and last for a week or more. ? We have just had one this spring lasting for a couple of weeks. You can see this for yourself on http://www.gridwatch.co.uk/wind.
All this is coming from batteries? They are going to output 40GW+ for several hours for days at a time, and lesser amounts for weeks? And where is the power coming from to recharge them when the wind finally picks up?
There are a couple of obvious problems with this, as summarized. One is scale. Two is cost. Three is batteries.
The Royal Society addressed the storage problem, and their report is quite devastating about using batteries to deal with intermittency. It cannot be done. They also looked at weather patterns going back decades and observed that there are whole seasons of calm with low wind output. They accordingly advocated the mad idea that Britain should dig out 900 caverns, seal them, and then store hydrogen in them for decades, to burn during seasonal or decadal calms. The mount of stored generation capacity required is huge. And getting that amount of hydrogen is pure fantasy.
Using the UK as a test case, the historical output from the existing wind parc shows that you have to expect several week long periods of less than 10% of faceplate a year. This implies that with very large amounts of battery backup, maybe you could get by with 10 times the amount of faceplate that you have peak demand.
This would mean, for the UK, around 500GW of wind, up from the present total of 29GW. If demand is doubled by the move to EVs and heat pumps, you would need 1TW.
This is an engineering and public works impossibility, and its also a financial impossibility. And it would also be useless, even could it be done it would not affect the global climate one iota.
Show this is wrong. Just put up an estimate, based on actual performance of the actual UK wind parc, how much wind and how much battery storage would be needed to get through the calms and the peak demand we have records of. And state, while you are at it, how much effect UK Net Zero in power generation will have on the global climate.
We’ve been buying large amounts from Europe. Mainly French nuclear and hydro, Scandinavian hydro (they’ve not had much wind either), I’m not sure where the Dutch and Belgians are getting their spare from but it won’t have been wind as Germany has had the same May wind drought as the UK.
As you say Michel the Royal Society storage report dismissed battery storage on the basis that
“the TWhs needed are 1000 times more than is currently provided by pumped hydro, and far more than can be provided cost effectively by batteries”
Their proposed 900 hydrogen caverns is a fantasy (one would like to think they came up with it to further demonstrate the impossibility of net zero).
However there was another flaw in their reasoning which was not immediately apparent and only came to light later.
That flaw was they used the electricity demand of 2018 and repeated this 37 times in the study not allowing for the fact that having everything switch to electricity would require far more electricity production than was the case in 2018.
First off, the Guardian, really?
Secondly, as usual everything you believe is the opposite of the truth.
Nuclear energy hasn’t died, you environmental alarmist managed to damage it, but nuclear power is alive and well in most of the world.
The level of government support was tiny, just a few percent of what renewables get every year. Despite all the support, renewables still don’t work, and still don’t show any signs that they ever will.
Recently I began watching an old series Mystery Science Theater 3000 which does spoofs of old science fiction movies that had anywhere from questionable science to outright ridiculous (non)science. Two consistent themes throughout these absolutely ridiculous movies is that while these (usually) monsters are wreaking havoc on earth, we should turn to the scientists or children to help us solve this dilemma. I laugh at them, and notice a consistency with these global warmunists – I also laugh at them and their hysteria. I also notice that their hysteria has been going on almost for as long as some of these movies had been produced – definitely since the global cooling hysteria of the 60’s.
I just wish I could change the channel with them as easily as I do with MST3k when I’m done.
As Anthony and others have said: at least some big players are retreating from green policies or at least spend less money on it. The panic of the greens is clearly seen. That is why they want to rush legislation as to make it binding before the headwind gets too strong. But, on the positive side: a law is only as strong as the willingness to implement it and to punish. As we have seen in the past, when the big players get into trouble they bend the rules or ignore it. It seems to me that economic downturn is the key driving factor.
In terms of energy: the tech companies and the state need reliable, clean and cheap energy to run data centres and control the masses ie not unreliable sources like wind and solar. They are preserved for the masses as long as they dont put too much energy back to the grid to break it. For that the state needs to control in- and outputs. Digital control mechanisms are needed, digital ID, CBDCs. A bizarre and dystopian panopticum.
Let’s see . . . “climate change” (largely undefined) as:
— “alarming” — “unprecedented” — an “impact”
— a “danger”
— a “threat”
— an “emergency”
— a “catastrophe”
— the “greatest threat to humans”
— the “greatest threat to the world”
— an “existential threat to humanity”
— a transition to “boiling oceans”
So, now we have it as “an abyss” . . . sure, why not?
Edward Katz
May 12, 2024 2:32 pm
The fact that the mainstream media has to keep re-hashing its alarmist climate song-and-dance is additional further evidence that governments, businesses, industries and consumers aren’t listening or taking any of the measures that the eco-geeks keep advocating as essential. These are the reasons that fossil fuel use continues to dominate global power generation, air travel has rebounded from or exceeded pre-pandemic levels, EV and heat pump sales are slumping, red meat is continuing to be widely consumed, and very few are making the big operational and lifestyle changes that are supposedly going to save the planet. In other words, they’ve heard all this hogwash before and now are ignoring it almost entirely.
I am not writing this, as I died of the famine in the early 1970’s.
My commiserations. I have booked a trip to the Arctic (Svalbard) this northern summer, but sadly I won’t see any polar bears because they were all wiped out in the Eemian.
A word of advice, Mike. They won’t allow you to die up there. But I don’t think it’s due to a fountain of eternal youth. 😀
Many succumbed to the cannabyss in the 70’s.
but it’s a great way to go 🙂
You were lucky. I was obliterated in a cloud of blue steam in 1989.
I hung in there until the Winter of Severe Disease and Death of the Unvaccinated, and then I kicked the bucket several times. Also the following winter.
Didn’t we all perish on 12/21/12?
I know I’m not posting this comment thanks to the Y2K bug
Ha! I lasted until 2015, when I made the mistake of visiting the Maldives. Great swim though.
This is eerily familiar to the silly 1989 we are trouble tripe by the U.N.
LINK
Here we are today……, LOL
One of my favourites. Sadly the 1989 UN alarmist didn’t use the phrase “climate abyss”, otherwise it would have been too funny :-).
Excuse me, please .. I’ve looked everywhere! I can’t find where/how to Unsubscribe from emails from WUWT. Can you help me???
Never mind! I think I found it. Thanks.
I was going to suggest looking up the definition of “loser”, but I see that is no longer necessary.
We are definitely beyond the Idiocracy Tipping Point
Never underestimate Mr. Antonio Guterres. He is intelligent enough to be a socialist.
I didn’t know that embracing socialism required all that much intelligence.
The link to the UN 1989 is a beauty, but as I have it on my screen by Associated Press, it is not dated. I would like to share it, but need a date. Forgive me if the answer is blindingly obvious.
Despite their backpedaling, Snopes provides accurate context on this topic that you might find useful.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warming/
This one is a beaut! “Sea-level projections made in the late 1980s actually hold up fairly well to sea-level projections made more recently.”
So, old projections of the distant future hold up well with new projections of the distant future. No mention of the actual rates of sea level rise.
Completely dishonest by SNopes.
Here is an interesting youtube from the coldest Russia city that continues to set record lows. Two points to look for in video:
About have way thru look at what has to be done to keep cars running in winter.
Then the permafrost museum, I looked but could not find section on renewable energy.
Story tip
It seems the video fell into the abyss.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5dinUjWmLE
Sorry see earlier with link
I took Yakutsk many times in Risk. Didn’t seem that cold on the board.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5dinUjWmLE
Nice little video.. Thanks 🙂
Yet the UN leaders continue to ponce around the globe in private jets, limousines, have huge luxurious gatherings and generally make themselves obnoxious to all and sundry.
They do not do one thing towards “combatting climate” themselves, just try to tell everyone else what to do.
Of course they do. Climate change for thee, not for me.
The rumor is that King Charles will curtail his emissions sooner rather than later.
As you mention the hypocrite Charlie Chump …In 2022 Prince Charles was urging the world to stop using plastic;but in 2024 he was happy when copious amounts of single-use plastics were used to treat his cancer … Plastics for me but not for thee !!
That’s exactly the type of single use plastics he meant. 🙄
Yep.. everyone RELIES on plastic in many different ways.
Fossil fuels and their derivatives make up basically everything in your pitiful, insipid self-hating existence.
“I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival”
— Prince (now King) Charles speech at a Reception for Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, July 11, 2019
[note: July 11, 2019 + 18 months = mid-January 2021, so we passed that point-of-no-return more than 3 years ago].
Substitute “infirmly” for the third word in the above quote and it truthfully becomes something Charles could have stated in his COP28 speech.
They seem to not understand that the more they cry wolf, the more unbelievable they get.
They need to do a better job spreading propaganda; they’re already amateurs at science.
They could learn from the fossil fuel industry.
Wrong again, they will never be in a position to supply what fossil fuels do for society.
Fossil fuel companies don’t need to do “propaganda”, because everyone needs them anyway.
Everything the AGW scammers do is designed for the degradation of western society.. you know, the one you are a tiny insignificant part of.
Fossil fuels and their derivatives are what holds western society together,
Even cretins like you are totally dependent on them for basically everything in your pitiful everyday existence.
Can you actually name some of this mythical fossil fuel propaganda that you are always going on about.
You previously failed completely when trying to defend your claim that fossil fuel interests were funding skeptics.
Then again, you have failed completely when it comes to defending every claim you have ever made on this site.
Tell me, are you being funded by fossil fuel interests, with the goal of making alarmists look even more stupid?
Alarmists aren’t interested in being made to look stupid, they do that quite well on their own.
They are presently trying to scream the sky is falling louder than anyone else. It seems to be a contest they are running to be the most extreme blatant lying SOBs on the face of the planet.
The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns. Quick! You barely have time to cancel your membership in this collapsing number org.
“Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread” It must be because it never had a foundation to sit on.
Personally, I won’t be happy with anything less than 5C. I finally was able to (hopefully) safely plant the rest of my tomato seedings today.
We just got the snow melted and then got 6 more inches last week. Warmer in Montana is not catastrophic.
Ohio is pretty cold as well. Almost everyone outside of the Tropics has to live and work in heated buildings.
The Sword of Damocles is only a threat when it is hanging by a thread.
Once it falls, then it loses its value as a tool to stoke fear.
The alarmists will ALWAYS claim there is a sword just above the neck of the entirety of humanity.
They think they are at the top of humanity.
If the sword falls, it takes them first !!
It’s over folks. The green blob is dead. The increase in hysteria on those whose fortunes lie with it is all the proof you need. Utter dispair reigns. Buuuu bye.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you are about the death of the climate scam !
It’s not dead, it’s metastasising. AI will be the next focus of the alarmists.
Again, they are the ones CREATING the FAKERY, just so they can spread the alarm.
Here’s another ‘hockey-stick’ ‘Guardianistas’ want to reverse.
They are desperate for this one world govt nonsense and will say and do anything to scare the cold out of humanity. In Tucson there has been a major increase in the chemtrails and in addition in the last two years we have had the coldest winters into spring in memory and that goes back to the 70’s. Something is up and the blocking the sun/gates thing is just pure evil and would cause mass death. Geo-engineering is the CCBS and CCBS is being used to push GE. Don’t let these unelected screwballs get power or we are done.
An earlier post on this included some of the comments. They were all about feelings devoid of a single fact. None of the commenters quoted had hard science backgrounds. There was an engineer who obviously found engineering too hard because he turned to cultural studies.
The reason the other half did not reply was because they know the wholes scam is a scam and are not prepared to be directly associated with the scam.
One clown said ”
“It is the biggest threat humanity has faced, with the potential to wreck our social fabric and way of life.”
Then STOP DOING IT, fool !!
One of the people quoted in the article is Rachel Kite a “professor of practice in climate policy” (Eh?) at Oxford. She said
“It is desperately frustrating that our political, economic and social systems don’t know what to do with the science. We need…innovations in our democracy to give scientists the policies they deserve”
In other words forget democracy let the (my) science rule !
Oh no, we are on the edge of the brink of the verge of the abyss.
Teetering and tottering, ready to lurch and stumble…..
a reeling and a rocking….. til the break of dawn.
That’s hilarious 🙂
If you stare into the abyss (even if it’s your own making) the abyss stares back.
We are not in a climate crisis, CO2 is not the control knob for our climate and we are not going to reach a tipping point and suffer irreversible global warming. Fire up all fossil fuel and nuclear generators, build new fossil fuel and nuclear generators and remove all wind and solar from the grid.
And died in the seventies, despite massive government support.
Waste and cost among drawbacks, as researchers say renewables could power UK entirely
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/fixation-on-nuclear-power-in-uk-may-not-help-to-solve-climate-crisis
Your Guardian link is a summary of a summary and gives no numbers. The summary it links to (which does give a few numbers) is here:
https://www.current-news.co.uk/oxford-britain-could-be-solely-powered-by-wind-and-solar/
but it contains no link to the brief itself. If you can post a link to the actual brief that would be useful. It seems to have been published six months ago and sunk without trace.
Here are some of the claims in the summary.
It seems that they think all you do is install a lot of off-shore wind and solar, and add batteries. How much battery? How much wind? Who knows. But if they are proposing to provide 20% of demand from solar, its going to be an awful lot of batteries. Solar just about vanishes from November through February. Dead calms due to blocking highs occur most winters and last for a week or more. ? We have just had one this spring lasting for a couple of weeks. You can see this for yourself on http://www.gridwatch.co.uk/wind.
All this is coming from batteries? They are going to output 40GW+ for several hours for days at a time, and lesser amounts for weeks? And where is the power coming from to recharge them when the wind finally picks up?
There are a couple of obvious problems with this, as summarized. One is scale. Two is cost. Three is batteries.
The Royal Society addressed the storage problem, and their report is quite devastating about using batteries to deal with intermittency. It cannot be done. They also looked at weather patterns going back decades and observed that there are whole seasons of calm with low wind output. They accordingly advocated the mad idea that Britain should dig out 900 caverns, seal them, and then store hydrogen in them for decades, to burn during seasonal or decadal calms. The mount of stored generation capacity required is huge. And getting that amount of hydrogen is pure fantasy.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/large-scale-electricity-storage/
The bottom line
Using the UK as a test case, the historical output from the existing wind parc shows that you have to expect several week long periods of less than 10% of faceplate a year. This implies that with very large amounts of battery backup, maybe you could get by with 10 times the amount of faceplate that you have peak demand.
This would mean, for the UK, around 500GW of wind, up from the present total of 29GW. If demand is doubled by the move to EVs and heat pumps, you would need 1TW.
This is an engineering and public works impossibility, and its also a financial impossibility. And it would also be useless, even could it be done it would not affect the global climate one iota.
Show this is wrong. Just put up an estimate, based on actual performance of the actual UK wind parc, how much wind and how much battery storage would be needed to get through the calms and the peak demand we have records of. And state, while you are at it, how much effect UK Net Zero in power generation will have on the global climate.
Answer in degrees C please.
We’ve been buying large amounts from Europe. Mainly French nuclear and hydro, Scandinavian hydro (they’ve not had much wind either), I’m not sure where the Dutch and Belgians are getting their spare from but it won’t have been wind as Germany has had the same May wind drought as the UK.
“dig out 900 caverns, seal them, and then store hydrogen in them for decades”
If only there were some way to find stored energy, dig it up, and power our civilization with it…
As you say Michel the Royal Society storage report dismissed battery storage on the basis that
“the TWhs needed are 1000 times more than is currently provided by pumped hydro, and far more than can be provided cost effectively by batteries”
Their proposed 900 hydrogen caverns is a fantasy (one would like to think they came up with it to further demonstrate the impossibility of net zero).
However there was another flaw in their reasoning which was not immediately apparent and only came to light later.
That flaw was they used the electricity demand of 2018 and repeated this 37 times in the study not allowing for the fact that having everything switch to electricity would require far more electricity production than was the case in 2018.
Wind and solar can NEVER power the UK for more than a few minutes.
They cannot power ANYTHING on a windless night…
Someone is totally delusional, and anybody that believes them is the most gullible, simple-minded idiot on the planet.
And you really should not bother reading anything that says there is a “climate crisis”
There isn’t one. ! So it starts and ends with a LIE.
First off, the Guardian, really?
Secondly, as usual everything you believe is the opposite of the truth.
Nuclear energy hasn’t died, you environmental alarmist managed to damage it, but nuclear power is alive and well in most of the world.
The level of government support was tiny, just a few percent of what renewables get every year. Despite all the support, renewables still don’t work, and still don’t show any signs that they ever will.
I must admit, that when I see pathetic simple-minded twerps like these getting all het up and “worried”…
.. all I can do is try to stop myself from laughing at them. 🙂
They bring it on themselves through their own ignorance. !
It is like watching them slapping themself in the face with a dead mullet over and over again.
Recently I began watching an old series Mystery Science Theater 3000 which does spoofs of old science fiction movies that had anywhere from questionable science to outright ridiculous (non)science. Two consistent themes throughout these absolutely ridiculous movies is that while these (usually) monsters are wreaking havoc on earth, we should turn to the scientists or children to help us solve this dilemma. I laugh at them, and notice a consistency with these global warmunists – I also laugh at them and their hysteria. I also notice that their hysteria has been going on almost for as long as some of these movies had been produced – definitely since the global cooling hysteria of the 60’s.
I just wish I could change the channel with them as easily as I do with MST3k when I’m done.
This will help.
Yes they have.. Much higher…
Proof bovine flatulence IS the ultimate power source
As Anthony and others have said: at least some big players are retreating from green policies or at least spend less money on it. The panic of the greens is clearly seen. That is why they want to rush legislation as to make it binding before the headwind gets too strong. But, on the positive side: a law is only as strong as the willingness to implement it and to punish. As we have seen in the past, when the big players get into trouble they bend the rules or ignore it. It seems to me that economic downturn is the key driving factor.
In terms of energy: the tech companies and the state need reliable, clean and cheap energy to run data centres and control the masses ie not unreliable sources like wind and solar. They are preserved for the masses as long as they dont put too much energy back to the grid to break it. For that the state needs to control in- and outputs. Digital control mechanisms are needed, digital ID, CBDCs. A bizarre and dystopian panopticum.
…….hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect ……
“Consensus science” is to engineering as “herbal remedy” is to medicine!
The louder they screem the more certain you are that they are lying.
Like Fusion, the Abyss is always 40 years away!
This abyss is going to be worse than the last abyss
And the next abyss will be even worse than this abyss
The abyss trend is rising at an un[receented rate, even worse than expected.
How abyss-mal
Who was it that sang that song ‘We are on the eve of destruction’? Something about nuclear, I believe…
Barry Mcquire
If it’s worth knowing, somebody here knows it.
Written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1965 and the most popular version done by Barry McGuire
OMG. How many times can they cry WOLF, before the people finally get sick of them. I, for one, am already sick of them. Go away, please.
UN’s climate fearmongering : that’s climate abyss holes !
(kind of spoonerism)
The big Communist countries, Russia and China, are ignoring the UN/IPCC scare tactics.
Just maybe they ain’t so Commie as you believe….
Let’s see . . . “climate change” (largely undefined) as:
— “alarming”
— “unprecedented”
— an “impact”
— a “danger”
— a “threat”
— an “emergency”
— a “catastrophe”
— the “greatest threat to humans”
— the “greatest threat to the world”
— an “existential threat to humanity”
— a transition to “boiling oceans”
So, now we have it as “an abyss” . . . sure, why not?
The fact that the mainstream media has to keep re-hashing its alarmist climate song-and-dance is additional further evidence that governments, businesses, industries and consumers aren’t listening or taking any of the measures that the eco-geeks keep advocating as essential. These are the reasons that fossil fuel use continues to dominate global power generation, air travel has rebounded from or exceeded pre-pandemic levels, EV and heat pump sales are slumping, red meat is continuing to be widely consumed, and very few are making the big operational and lifestyle changes that are supposedly going to save the planet. In other words, they’ve heard all this hogwash before and now are ignoring it almost entirely.