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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for governments to ban fossil fuel advertising during a Wednesday speech at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Guterres, who has served as Secretary-General of the UN since 2017, compared the fossil fuel industry to Big Tobacco and claimed a ban on advertising for fossil fuel companies is necessary to curb climate change and end corporate “greenwashing” during his remarks. Guterres also called for “windfall” taxes on energy producers worldwide during his Wednesday comments.
“We must directly confront those in the fossil fuel industry who have shown relentless zeal for obstructing progress,” Guterres said. “I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies.” (RELATED: Wagyu Burgers, Asian-French Fusion And More: Here’s What’s On The Menu At The UN Climate Confab)
“Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet — they’re toxic for your brand,” Guterres added. “Your sector is full of creative minds who are already mobilizing around this cause. They are gravitating towards companies that are fighting for our planet — not trashing it.”
Beyond concerns about climate change, Guterres’s comments referenced “greenwashing,” a term that describes instances when corporations embellish their work on climate or the environmental benefits of their products, services and operations, according to the UN’s definition.
Guterres has repeatedly railed against the fossil fuel industry in his capacity as the UN’s top official, describing them as “godfathers of climate chaos” during his Wednesday talk after overseeing the commitment reached at December 2023’s UN climate summit to “transition away” from fossil fuel use.
The UN did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
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“United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for governments to ban fossil fuel advertising during a Wednesday speech at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.”
I guess it’s settled then. We will comply!
Actually, we won’t. I may be motivated to order extra fireworks for the 4th of July.
I call on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to resign for spreading human-caused climate change propaganda and trying to lead the nations of the world astray, to their detriment.
c’mon man… every time he opens his mouth, he spouts more fertilizer… more plants… more Co2… more life. He should lead by example, and keep his mouth shut.
The UN has exceeded its charter and time for the USA to pull out.
In addition, the UN Sec.Gen. needs to be tried for crimes against humanity with his propaganda causing a mental health crisis in our children, a large percentage of which now believe they will never make it to adulthood.
The UN has exceeded its sell by date by several decades.
Coming up on 8 by my count.
Com’on, it isn’t much to ask “to ban fossil fuel advertising during a Wednesday speech at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.”
I wonder if they visited the Mammoth that was quick frozen 10,000 years ago with food still in its mouth.
I wonder what Gutty uses to travel around the world.
I wonder how he heats his mansions and the UN building.
I wonder what delivers his food, which he seems to eat plenty of.
Hold on while I look up the definition of “hypocrite.”
Was it Kerry who when questioned about his use of private jets to travel to climate change conferences, dismissed such questions with a declaration that he was an important person and it was vital that he be able to get where he was going quickly and without hassles.
People don’t buy fossil fuels because of advertising.
The only advertising I see from fossil fuel companies is to promote their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, either directly, or by implementing wind and solar as part of their mix.
I never see gasoline or diesel being advertised on tv.
The companies don’t need to advertise their gasoline and diesel products. Everybody wants them.
Most of the time you see advertising on TV for FF companies they are talking about sustainability, carbon capture, or reducing missions. Ever watch the Valero Open golf tournament? Just saw an Enbridge commercial yesterday it hit on carbon capture and sustainability. The commercials on TV are suck up please don’t hurt pleas.
Energy companies are sad spokesman for their product.
More and more the FF industries Commercials seem to be the only ads that possess a modicum of intelligence. Most ads pander to the idiocracy. Perhaps that’s their end goal, to promote the idiocracy and ban intelligence.🤔
Tom A. — You are advertising your youthful age.
Search with the following terms using an ‘images’ tag. There are others.
Put a tiger in your tank
Texaco Sky Chief …and… Texaco Star Theater
That Good Gulf Gasoline
Shell V-Power
Chevron with Techron
Mobile (we’re the rocker arm assembly and we don’t like dirt)
Nice. And who can forget these guys?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMYcmk3qf0
Too bad Service Stations dropped their “Service”
That’s what they advertised in the past. They don’t do that today, as far as I know. They virtue signal instead.
Many years ago I saw commercials extolling the virtues of natural gas for home heating.
Meanwhile in California, Reagan pushed the all electric house. Lucky for him, it was near the Pacific ocean or he could have froze during winter.
General_Electric_Showcase_House
In Oklahoma, natural gas companies still advertise their products and they will give you a rebate if you install a new gas appliance.
Well . . . many advertisements do feature claims of “miles per gallon (of gasoline or diesel, both fossil fuels)” as incentives for buying ICE-powered cars and light-duty trucks.
Meanwhile, there are, in fact, many ads on TV targeted for consumers to buy particular brands of gasoline, among the most prominent:
— Arco, with its bobble-head featured commercials
— Chevron, with its cartoon-like autos and “persons”
— Phillips 66, in the course of pushing its “Fuel Forward” cell phone app
(see https://www.ispot.tv/browse/L.km/vehicles/fuel-and-motor-oil )
Simple solution.
Each gas station put in an EV charger.
Then they can advertise!
But I’d advise them to put it way off to the side so as not to hinder access to the pumps by their real customers. (Or a spontaneous fire taking out the real pumps.)
I do not recall the last time I saw those ads, it has been that long ago.
Banning ads by oil and gas producers won’t make a blind bit of difference to the consumption of fossil fuels.
Tobacco isn’t essential for modern life, oil and gas are
Extending the analogy between oil and tobacco.
From the studies I have seen, banning the advertising of tobacco hasn’t made any difference in the amount of tobacco being sold.
If there has been any reduction, it’s because the taxes have double and tripled the cost of tobacco products. Much like they want to do with fossil fuels.
A pack a day for 30 days each month @ur momisugly $7.00 a pack X 12 months. 30x7x12 People (smokers) are absolutely NUTS! Ignoring the bodily health problems… more nuts!
I remember when a pack of cigarrettes cost 25 cents.
My father came home one day disgusted that the cartons were $5 each. He had two. He said they had gotten too expensive and after these two he was done.
Actually followed through, too.
$5 per carton (of 12). I wonder what he would think today.
Oh, but it will make a “bit” of difference. Think of all the electrons not wasted on those ads and the CO2 used to produce those electrons. That would be about 10^-15 of the total emissions saved.
And exactly what has happened to tobacco use since the “Commercial Ban” went into effect?
Vaping like JUUL came out with exotic flavors like Bubble Gum and Cool Mint and Banana with 3 times the amount of addictive nicotine as regular tobacco and even more young people are getting addicted
A phrase is beginning to form in my mind….un…uninten….can’t quite make it out.
The Biden administration has proposed banning flavored cigarettes.
But not flavored vaping. Hmmm…..
I remember in High School back in the late 60’s or early ’70’s going on field trip to an advertising company that handled a local beer account.
They were allowed to say things like “Brewed with Artesian Water” but they were banned from mentioning any nutrients contained in beer. (Niacin, thiamine, etc.)
It wasn’t Blatz beer but …
After all of the Pirate governments across the world have be replaced with legitimate ones, every “Green Fascism” organization and agency, including the UN, should be prosecuted under RICO or similar laws.
When will oil companies stop supplying the UN and every other anti-energy entity with their products? No gasoline or diesel to New York City starting tomorrow might force them to either live with their insanity or rescind it.
Not only that, but they will have to hunt for their own food, no guns allowed only stone, and their clothes of course.
Immediately remove all petrochemical products
No Make-up
No Rubber Tires
No Plastics
No Prescriptions
No Ink
No Petroleum Jelly products
No Cell Phones
Etc. Etc. Etc
We’ll leave them their paved roads but no repairs with asphalt paving
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/102980/#103410
But their clothes are dripping with oil. Think about it.
I am surprised the OilCo execs aren’t lawyering up for defamation
There is now a “billionaires row” in Manhattan- very, very tall slender buildings with apartments that cost tens of millions and some are hundreds of millions of dollars. Time to turn off the elevators since most of the NY grid is still not “green”. I’m sure those billionaires won’t mind climbing stairs, assuming those buildings have stairs, to save the planet.
Any building taller than one story must have at least one set of stairs.In a building of any size, there is at least a second set located farther away as an alternate escape. My roommate had double knee replacement and we seek out the stairs to rebuild muscles that were weakened during recovery.
So you get to the second floor… then what? One set of stairs implies the builder has complied by building stairs from the first floor to the second (one ‘set’)… o.k., I’m being silly.
Unfortunately no one oil company can do what you ask. If one company stops selling fossil fuel products to NYC, that just means more business for those who don’t quit.
They only way to do what you want is for all of the oil companies to get together to agree to stop selling in NYC.
That unfortunately counts as collusion, and the oil executives involved would be quickly trundled off to jail.
Who controls Barter Town?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-UZ4DvYBg
Who Runs New York City?
Guterres’ term ends December 2026, unfortunately we have to put up with his rants until then…
Think of him as the warm up (geddit) comedian.
In the mean time maybe we should ban him from speech making, that should reduce the hot air at least.
Gutwrencher by name and by nature.
I don’t need an advert to fill up- unless it’s a drop in price…
ATTN: EVERYONE!
RE: CLIMATE SCIENCE FRAUD!
Please use Google to obtain the essay “Climate Change Reexamined” by Joel M. Kauffman. The essay is 26 pages and can be downloaded for free. I recommend that you print out the essay because it is easier to read and study, and is an important reference work.
Shown in Fig 7, is the IR absorption spectrum of a sample of Philadelphia city air from 400 to 4,000 wavenumbers. A wavenumber is the number of IR light waves per centimeter. The wavenumber scale is linear in energy and spans an order of magnitude in energy.
Integration of the spectrum determined that water absorbed 92% of the IR light and CO2 only 8%.
Since the wavenumber scale is linear in IR energy, water absorbed much more IR light energy than CO2. Since the air sample was city air, it is likely the concentration of CO2 was somewhat greater than that of a remote or rural location’
Unfortunately, Kauffman did not measure the concentration of CO2 in the air or indicate the time of day when the air sample was obtained. In 1999 at the in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in air was 367 ppm by volume. This is only 0.721 grams of CO2 per cubic meter of air.
At 28 deg. C and 76% RH the concentration of water in the city air was 29,549 ppm by volume. This is 23.7 grams per cubic meter air. Thus, water is the main greenhouse gas by far and CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas. We need not worry about CO2 causing any “global warming and climate change”. The small amount of CO2 can only cause a small amount of heating of air.
Finally, I have concluded that the claim by the IPCC that CO2 is the cause of the recent global warming is a lie, and that the IPCC is perpetrating a great scientific fraud. The objective of this fraud is the transfer by the UN of very large amounts of funds from fines from the rich countries
(i.e., the big polluters of the environment) to all the poor countries to help them cope with “global warming and climate change”.
This fraud can not go on forever.
RE: Typo in my above comment: “In 1990 at the in Hawaii…” should be, “In 1990 at the MLO in Hawaii…”
Adding to Harold P’s comment – for people that like to read:
“In 1990 at the MLO in Hawaii…”
Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO)
https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/mlo/
Regarding trends:
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
ccgg = carbon cycle greenhouse gases
Note the name: Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML)
So, “global”, not just one site
That paper and other similar ones are the reason why ‘climate scientists’ have found it necessary to bastardise the temperature record to restore the correlation with CO2.
Harold I found this “It comes as a surprise to many, but water vapor is the most dominant greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. It accounts for about 60% of the greenhouse effect of the global atmosphere, far exceeding the total combined effects of increased carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and other greenhouse gases. From JPL AIRS.”
The amount of greenhouse effect due to water vapor depends on the relative humidity (RH), temperature, and air pressure. I n the Philadelphia city air, the RH was 76% and air pressure was 1 atmosphere. There really is no uniform distribution of water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Hence, climate models are not too meaningful.
In the day time water vapor and CO2 absorbed incoming IR light which results in rapid heating of the air, especially in summer.
In deserts, there is low humidity and the IR light in sunlight heats up the surface. The air is heated by conduction. Greenhouse gases help to keep the surface air cool since a portion of the IR light is absorbed in the upper atmosphere.
Plants thrive when the CO2 is between 1,000 and 2,000 ppm.
Photosynthesis stops in most land plants at around 150 ppm and they die and the land animals die with them.
In the last glacial period when it got colder and more CO2 could dissolve in the oceans the CO2 level dropped to 180 ppm, only 30 ppm above the extinction level.
We don’t know when another glacial period will occur but the time between glacial periods is usually around 10,000 years and it has been 12,000 years since the last one.
The Grand Solar Minimum that has just started may be the trigger. It’s better to have too much CO2 in the air than too little.
https://pioga.org/just-the-facts-more-co2-is-good-less-is-bad
NET ZERO FOLLY
As most self respecting scientists know, man-made carbon dioxide has virtually no effect on the climate. It is a good gas essential to animals and plant life. Provided dirty emissions are cleaned up, we should be using our substantial store of fossil fuels while we develop a mix of alternatives including nuclear power to generate energy. There is no climate crisis, it has always changed and we have always adapted to it. In the Ordovician ice age atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 4000 ppm and have been 15 times higher than now. There was no industrial revolution then to be the cause . The present quantity of man-made carbon dioxide is insignificant compared with water vapour or clouds which comprise a vast majority of green-house gases. Man has no control over the climate. Statistically we are overdue a period of cooling.The sun and our distance from it have by far the most effect. Most importantly, the Net-Zero (carbon dioxide) Policy will not do anything to change it. Countries like China, Russia and India are sensibly ignoring this and using their fossil fuels. They will be delighted at how the west is letting the power elites, mainstream media and government implement this Policy and the World Order Agenda 21, to needlessly impoverish us as well as causing great hardship and suffering.
“In the Ordovician ice age atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 4000 ppm and have been 15 times higher than now.”
The usual reply to that from greens is that “the sun wasn’t emitting as much energy towards the Earth as now”. There might be some truth to that, but I doubt that’s the reason so much more CO2 wasn’t a problem. But if it’s true that the sun was weaker- that factor should be determined- and probably has, only I don’t see it anywhere. Good to know to be prepared to counter their argument.
CO2 dropped sharply during… the Carboniferous…
The sun’s output is going up by about 10% every billion years. The difference in brightness between now and the Ordovician is only a few percent.
And the so called energy imbalance is 0.6%?
The “Agenda 21” [1992] wording has been replaced.
Its aim initially was to achieve global sustainable development by 2000, with the “21” in Agenda 21 referring to the original target date.
Having passed that date, we how have Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, that created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN produces such a load of verbiage, it is hard to keep.
It is the “2030” number that activists and governments are using for target-dates for EVs and other nonsense. Example: Joe Biden’s executive order setting a target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles.
Any UN declarations need to be put in the context that the original intention of the UN IPCC was to redistribute the world’s wealth through climate policy.
UN IPCC Official Admits ‘We Redistribute World’s Wealth By Climate Policy’ | Newsbusters
That the clumsy attempts at redistribution could collapse the first world’s economies doesn’t appear to have registered with those steering this ongoing misrepresentation.
The reality is that first world investment in clean energy and infrastructure change is key in achieving cleaner environments.
Further the history of aid funds is a checkered one with substantial amounts being misappropriated before reaching the intended recipients.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that industrial civilisations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” Maurice Strong, Founder of the UN Environment Programme
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy” Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.
And when he gave his talk- I hope they lit the room only with candles- not the power grid which as of now is far from “green”. And, of course, the microphone should have been turned off.
US out of UN. UN out of US.
The League of Nations failed miserably.
The United Nations has failed miserably.
Both were to prevent wars.
The US Senate was wise enough to vote to not join even though President Wilson championed it’s formation. Good move.
The US, regarding the UN, needs another good “movement”.
Many people know António Guterres for his position as United Nations Secretary-General since 2017.
Fewer people know that António Guterres was a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, and that he served served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.
Based on his worldwide call for for governments to ban fossil fuel advertising, it appears that sometime during the span of those two gigs, he picked up some ideas from remnants of the WWII National Socialist German Workers’ Party and its Herr Goebbels.
Calling the fossil fuel industry the “godfathers of climate chaos” . . . yes, Goebbels would be proud.
Commercial advertising is a net zero competition which drains everyone’s resources. We all need heat and fuel and don’t need to be persuaded we need to fill up the car or stock up on propane / fuel oil for the winter.
If they were not allowed to advertise they would all save billions a year in lost revenue.
Since “climate” has been redefined by the WMO to be only 30-year weather there is absolutely no way to stop it from “changing”. It always has changed over such a short time span and always will.
Every ad from an oil company that I have ever seen was promoting the company, not encouraging people to use more gasoline.
Ban ff ads? How stupid is that? They don’t even need to advertise. Everyone around the world knows that FF are essential for warmth, power and prosperity! You actually even know better than to advertise renubles. You, instead imply that renubles are crap, but, ya know, climate change?!
Let’s see . . . banning fossil fuel ads while simultaneously promoting ads for EVs, huh?
You know, encouraging the replacement of hundreds of millions of fossil fuel-power cars and light-duty trucks with electric vehicles that:
— CANNOT be supported by current electrical power generation capability above existing demand,
— CANNOT be supported by the current national electric grid infrastructure
— CANNOT be supported by the current national network of EV charging stations
— CANNOT be supported by EV production infrastructure expected over the next 10 years (i.e., by 2035), primarily with regards to mining the special chemicals/metals needed for EV batteries.
R-I-G-H-T!
It will take more than 4 times the current Global Copper Mining and Production just to replace the ICV cars/trucks registered in the UK (41M)
California alone has 32M vehicles registered and would require a 300% increase in Global Copper Production
The US has 276M vehicles and would require a 2700% increase in Global Copper Production.
Then there’s the additional Copper & Aluminum production necessary to upgrade generation and distribution of electricity to recharge those vehicles and provide electricity to replace gas heating and cooking.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for governments to ban fossil fuel advertising during a Wednesday speech at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
There, but for lack of power, stands Mussolini #2. As we saw with our arrogant, unfeeling State governors with their Covid diktats, when they did have their ’emergency’ power. About time to retire the whole UN, and give Senor Guterres an opportunity to work for a living.
So….the earth’s climate is a chaotic system because fossil fuels??? What a moron. Or, what a demon seeking control and power. How about we look at both sides of the equation, as Alex Epstein preaches. Cost versus Benefits, as most rational people do for decisions in their lives. The “Benefits” side of the equation for petroleum and gas outweighs the claimed “Costs” by at least a factor of 1000. Maybe the UN should be helping fund fossil fuel ads.
As I’ve said before, Guterres should make a single speech denouncing those groups and individuals supposedly contributing to climate change and replay it about every two months because every time he speaks on the issue he gives us the same message. He also needs to realize that no one’s really listening anyway because fossil fuel use and carbon emissions continue to rise along with populations, food production, life expectancy, and global GDP. So maybe fossil fuels are proving to be far more beneficial than he and the rest of the alarmists care to admit.
Guterres is a disgrace, the UN is a disgrace and the US is a disgrace for belonging to such a worthless organization. The US needs to get out of the UN and the UN needs to get out of the US.
The UN should be banned from the US and kicked out of our country. Guterres should be banned from any future personal CO2 emissions.
. . . and, especially, banned from any future personal methane emissions.
Let’s get our priorities straight!