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A speaker at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also called COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, said Wednesday that extreme heat events should be named in order to combat climate change.
The summit, which began Monday, featured speakers proposing taxes on the meat and dairy industry and “climate finance” initiatives for less-developed countries. One speaker, ClimateWorks Foundation CEO Helen Mountford, described the need for “innovative approaches” to fight climate change. (RELATED: ‘We Are Not Learning’: Bjorn Lomborg Says Politicians Hide Behind Climate Change To Duck ‘Responsibility’ For ‘Failures’)
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“This summer, in response to the secretary general’s call for action on extreme heat, we put forward an initial $50 million to help support action in this area, and we will be looking to do more,” Mountford told a panel at the conference. “I want to offer three specific areas where I think we can really help move this agenda forward. One is just, as the U.N. system comes together to work together on this … to provide some of the research and data, support some of that, to provide — to fund pilots and evaluation of heat action plans in key countries to help support getting access to other funds, public and private, in those countries. So that’s one.”
“The second is really, given the urgency and the unprecedented nature of what we’re seeing on extreme heat, we need to be open to different and multiple different approaches here. We need to test, trial things quickly, learn from them, move on, take risks and be innovative,” Mountford said. “One example for it right now is naming extreme heat events, and I’m happy to continue supporting that.”
Natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires are commonly named for tracking purposes and streamlined reporting, however, the National Weather Service has claimed that weather patterns such as heat waves have historically not been named because they are, “highly contextual,” NPR reported earlier this year.
Multiple officials from the Biden administration — which notably backed away from a major emissions initiative at the event — including Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, White House climate advisor John Podesta and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, are attending the event in Azerbaijan. Podesta told attendees at the conference during a Monday speech that despite the election of former President Donald Trump, the United States would still be involved in addressing climate change, Bloomberg reported.
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Is this the start of the end??
Don’t get too excited. All politicians love free vacations. And Argentina is one of those that will be lining up for the handouts.
Well, it is a ‘socialist lie’, isn’t it? He got that one spot on.
If they want to start naming heat waves, they should name them after the COP locales
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
Seeing as they have ALL been full of Hot Air
One has to wonder what those 10s of thousand of attendees contribute to CO2 levels just by exhaling.
If they were true to their religion, they would all stop breathing.
The Argentinian president
is a denier of climate science andcalls the climate crisis a “socialist lie”.Fixed it.
Speaker At UN Summit…
Wants you to be very scared. What a sad bunch they are.
Still waiting for light breeze Brian to show up…
I nominate Emily as the name for a nice, sunny day.
And the perfect number for it
You gotta watch the video. Watch the guy next to Helen (the talker). His facial reaction to climate stupidity is all you need to see. (is there anybody that knows who he is?)
(and I think that his notes during her spiel was just a little cartoon character of her with crap coming out of her mouth.)
OK, I’m in for this one. Us geologists have a scale for mineral hardness (MOHS Hardness Scale, a scratch test, which is, from softest to hardest: The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do), so we can help with the Heat Index (tracking numbers similar to Hurricanes):
5: Spontaneous Combustion
4: Fool, were you born on the sun?
3: More Cold Beer
2: Smaller bikini’s
1: Summer
Have you ever tried chatting up a woman by saying “Girl, you so fine you would be classed as ‘colloid’ in the Wentworth system for measuring sediment particles.”?
I’m not recommending it.
No, but I have presented myself as a cleavage expert (not recommended anymore).
Thank for the remainder of the scratch test. My geology was many blue moons ago, I have completely forgotten about it..
I now use a more simplified test: Rock, Clay, Sand, Dirt, Not doing the gardening to day.
A lot falls under “Not doing the gardening to day”.
many blue moons ago
MOHS Hardness Scale was in the mid-1960s textbooks. {1965 or ’66}
The mnemonic for the spectral classes of stars is: “Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me.” The mnemonic for the resistor color code is: “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.” In the first case, the spectral classes are: O, B, A, F, G, K , and M. The Sun is a spectral class G2 star. In the second case, the colors are: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, and White. Black is zero and white is nine. You usually have three bands; the first two are significant figures and the third is the power of ten multiplier.
In the Navy, I learned three mnemonics initially–as a student. To convert compass heading to true heading: “Can Dead Men Vote Twice At Elections.” To convert true heading to compass heading: “True Virgins Make Dull Companions At Weddings.” In the first case, you use deviation to change compass to magnetic; you use variation to convert magnetic to true, and you add east. In the second case, you use variation to convert true to magnetic; you use deviation to convert magnetic to compass, and you add west.
The third thing are anchor lights on a ship. The only mnemonic I remember is: “Red over red, the captain is dead.” There are lots of anchor lights, but if you see two red lights vertically on a mast, then the ship is not under command–no captain assigned.
Since 10 times as many people die from cold than from heat, it would be more appropriate to name severe cold weather events rather than hot weather events.
They already do that. Remember “Winter Storm Eliot?”
Oh, and I recommend “Jack” as the name for the first frost.
Just one name needed for extreme, unanticipated snow events, they will just need officially updated numbers: Al Gore 1, Al Gore 2, Al Gore 3 ….
Helen wants extreme heat names … eg ‘Hot Helen’. It will be the one chance in her life for it to happen.
As you said, ‘Extremely Cold Helen’, is a more apt program.
re: Lomberg’s article: This is why politicians LOVE climate change so much despite limited support among constituents.
1) Allows siphoning large amounts of funds to something that will have virtually zero tangible results (so almost no accountability for taxpayer resources disappearing), and
2) Easy blaming their lack of preparation for weather, health, and economic effects on our (and others’) past sins. There was nothing THEY could have done about it – it’s because China and India are refusing to cooperate.
Story tip: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/15/al-gore-defiant-climate-doomer-agenda-will-triumph-despite-donald-trump/
Of note, after inventing the internet and climate change, Al Gore now claims to speak for God. I’m an atheist, so that’s doubly funny to me.
Al seems to be getting wider and dumber as he ages. Shorter too, I suspect, as older folks do.
I think he did start as a Devinity student, so maybe has a direct link to God.
Oh sure, naming climate events and then even creating printed tee shirts and badges to get attention… way to go climate changers or better call climb on boarders do everything to bring attention to yourself (not any real event). Look Dorothy, the sky is falling.
I propose naming stupid climate ideas.
Better have a good thick dictionary or you will run out of words quickly. 😉
‘Naming Extreme Heat Events’
Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Animal, Scooter, Rowlf, Beaker, Gonzo, Sweetums…..
How am I going so far ! 🙂
What about the Swedish Chef, or Count von Count? Oh hang on, he can count…
Let’s call the first one ‘Mickey’ and the second one ‘Mouse’.
Two can play this game. Let’s start naming every wind lull, every EV and grid battery fire, every “demand response” event where “smart meters” start curtailing electricity usage.
I like the EV fire naming.
Two can play this game. Let’s start naming every wind lull, every EV and grid battery fire, every “demand response” event where “smart meters” start curtailing electricity usage.
Can I remind everyone…
‘I assert that there is no connection whatsoever between CO2 and climate change. ‘It’s all a crock of crap in my opinion.’ – Dr John Clauser, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2022).
I can hardly wait until Mr. Greene reads this.
Has anyone ever stood before these people en masse and told them to their faces that they are idiots, on the idiot, imbecile, moron scale?
Well, at least using silly names won’t cost us any more money. (I think.)
Actually, it will cost us a LOT more money. Have you checked the differing price points where your homeowner’s insurance kicks in for “named storms” v. regular storms? YUGE! The ‘Name Game’ is a windfall for insurance companies.
I did not know that!
Of course it will cost a lot of money. There will be a committee of 500 people each on a salary of several hundred thousand dollars to produce the list of names
How many of the 60,000+ attendees are actually in Azerbaijan? This many hotel rooms seems implausible.
Translation: Terrify the proles and we can do whatever we want.
I have a list of heat event names to draw from:
Stupid
Ignoramus
WTF
Nazi or Hitler (favorites of the far left)
Hit Me
Duh
Hack
Troll
Woke
I think that’s a good start, don’t you?
I think that shaming climate extremists will help fight stupid climate policies.
I experienced the extreme heat caused by global warming: Three months where the daily summer maximum was never under 90F and many days above 100F (38C). It may have been the year that we had 4 inches (10cm) of rain. This happened in a semi-desert area 60 years ago in a town not far from a place called Hotazel pronounced Hot as Hell. I have a brother who lived in the Arab Emirates for over a decade before the modern expansion and thrived despite what would be called extreme heat.
The ignorance of these speakers at COP of actual empirical historical weather records as well of what they should have learnt about climate and weather at school level is on full display. Modelled climate is not the same as reliable daily records of weather data. They seem to know even less about the science of Carbon and CO2 without which no life would exist. These are the people who want to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives. They are a lot more dangerous than snake oil salesmen.
My suggestion for the first “extreme heat event” to receive a name: Waldo.
My suggestion for any climate alarm is “Where’s Waldo.”
” … extreme heat events should be named in order to combat climate change.”
First, we will need to agree on an objective definition of “extreme heat event.”
Point, set, and match.
Surely it’s up to the weather to identify itself as a extreme heat event?
After repeated reading of Helen Mountford’s words, I gather she wants to talk up heat waves in order to get more funds to talk up heatwaves.
Innovative.
And what’s Microsoft doing there, swaddled comfortably between ClimateWorks and the Asian Development Bank?
Naming these alarmists for what they are, Fabian Socialists.
Name hot air fronts?
Hansen
AlGore
Barry Obama
etc.