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“Change Course Now”: Guterres Urges the World to Give Him at Least One Climate Achievement

Essay by Eric Worrall

“… Fewer than a third of the world’s nations (62 out of 197) have sent in their climate action plans …”

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Jonathan Watts and Wajã Xipai
Tue 28 Oct 2025 11.01 AEDT

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.

“Let’s recognise our failure,” he told the Guardian and Amazon-based news organisation Sumaúma. “The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs.

Fewer than a third of the world’s nations (62 out of 197) have sent in their climate action plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement. The US under Donald Trump has abandoned the process. Europe has promised but so far failed to deliver. China, the world’s biggest emitter, has been accused of undercommitting.

He said a transition away from fossil fuels was a matter of economic self-interest, because it was clear that the era of fossil fuels was coming to an end: “We are seeing a renewables revolution and the transition will inevitably accelerate and there will be no way in which humankind will be able to use all the oil and gas already discovered,” he said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head

Gutteres is due to retire at the end of 2026, with one of the most impressive track records of non achievement of any UN leader. The only question is who will succeed him?

My personal favourite is former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose 2023 speech demanding more global censorship to break the link between climate skepticism to gun violence surely put her in the running.

Another strong contender is current Australian Ambassador to the USA Kevin Rudd, who had to frantically delete lots of rude social media posts after President Trump won in 2024. Rudd’s unique ability to stuff up any role he is appointed to and pretty much everything he touches, yet still be appointed to new roles, surely deserves our respect.

Whatever clown show the coming year produces for our entertainment, one thing it won’t bring is a new and binding global climate agreement.

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Scissor
October 30, 2025 2:06 pm

He could give up food.

MarkW
Reply to  Scissor
October 30, 2025 2:19 pm

Like most socialists, he wants other people to sacrifice in order to achieve his goals.

SxyxS
Reply to  Scissor
October 30, 2025 2:31 pm

He could actually try to explain us the magic of the 1.5 degree limit.

What effect kicks in after 1.5 degrees that ain’t happen at 1.37 or 1.93 degrees more
and at which point does the supposed co2 runaway effect kick in and why?
351 ppm,
412 ppm
5012 ppm
or NEVER
as nature has proven for hundreds of millions of years.

My biggest concern is that the earth axis may shift as result of permantly moving UN goalposts.

gezza1298
Reply to  SxyxS
October 30, 2025 5:30 pm

It could be the weight of Horseface Arden’s teeth roaming around the planet.

SxyxS
Reply to  gezza1298
October 30, 2025 6:16 pm

Her horseface has been covering up the child rapes in England.

This qualified her to become a WEF young leader(award for the most traitorous traitors of IUSY)
and this qualified her to be NZ’s spokesperson for Arts and culture and justice and children and social development and small businesses with 0 knowledge and this made her of course a climate expert who declared a 100% non existent climate emergency in the greenest place on earth(New Zealand has experienced record meat,wool and fruit etc production throughout the climate catastrophy years)

She also pulled a Kamala Harris (Miss 1% instantly leading the polls after Biden stepped down).
Noone gave a shit about her or her party but as soon as she took over Labor,Labors ratings miraculouslydoubled.
A trick only left globalists can pull off on this planet – and they do it regularly.
The WEF and CiA can tell you why.

Reply to  SxyxS
October 31, 2025 3:58 am

“What effect kicks in after 1.5 degrees that ain’t happen at 1.37 or 1.93 degrees more
and at which point does the supposed co2 runaway effect kick in and why?”

On top of that, the temperatures have now cooled to the “1.0C” level. The temperatures are moving further away from the 1.5C “tipping point”, not getting closer.

And then we have Gutterres previously claiming that the Earth’s oceans “are boiling”. I assume he still thinks they are boiling. Not boiling enough to generate a decent hurricane season.

It’s all over but the crying,for Climate Alarmists like yourself, Mr. Gutteres. Net Zero as a global “solution” is dead. It’s not going to happen. It’s time for you to switch to “adaption”. Maybe you can raise a lot of money for adaption. But then the question will be: Adaption to what?

SxyxS
Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 31, 2025 4:45 am

Boiling Oceans may indeed result in more extreme weather.

The problem with boiling oceans is, as result of mass and density there has to be an extreme increase in Air temperature before there is even a theoretical chance of boiling,
which leads to the most contradicting part of AGW ever.

Oceans once used to boil.
Yet, despite the fact that co2 were at least 400* higher and the overallgreenhouse gas concentration were 10s of thousands times higher,
as all almost all water was vapor and atmospheric pressure magnitudes higher –
the planet cooled down.

Where was the runaway effect and why did the greenhouse gases fail back then?

Reply to  Scissor
October 30, 2025 7:35 pm

In elite circles he is nicknamed “the Portuguese Sausage”.

Reply to  Scissor
October 30, 2025 11:55 pm

He and his followers should give up consuming oxygen, the world would be a better place within less than 15 minutes

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  varg
October 31, 2025 5:42 am

Well, he certainly should stop exhaling. Oh the CO2 he produces with each breath.

Reply to  Scissor
October 31, 2025 5:23 am

He would be on food stamps
He could not get a job for a private company
He surely is the biggest idiot ever in that job.
He should know the Antarctic recorded its coldest temperature ever, and it is Spring there

October 30, 2025 2:10 pm

What is a “climate action plan”? Is that when we toss virgins into volcanoes and beat drums and dance?

Here’s a plan. Your current worldwide CO2 reduction plan isn’t working, so just stop.

Ed Zuiderwijk
Reply to  doonman
October 31, 2025 3:47 am

I do my climate action every morning when dancing my rain dance on the patio.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  doonman
October 31, 2025 5:43 am

I volunteer to help select and verify the virgins! 🙂

Tom Halla
October 30, 2025 2:11 pm

Kevin Rudd sounds like John Kerry.
We could do something constructive on
climate, and depose Guterres.

Scarecrow Repair
Reply to  Tom Halla
October 30, 2025 3:44 pm

My first thoughts went back to a California politician I mainly remember for his name: Quentin Kopp. Started as a San Francisco supervisor, elected to the state Assembly, termed out and elected to the state Senate, termed out and ran for US House, lost, and his fellow state legislators found a sinecure on the Public Utilities Commission for him. I remember nothing of his politics, but it’s California and San Francisco, so I can guess. Probably never did a lick of anything useful.

Reply to  Eric Worrall
October 30, 2025 8:38 pm

Priceless. Typical Trump. Yet he still was very complimentary to AU. Artful dealer. Not sure how Australians reacted to the put down, but I guarantee Rudd will not replace the current commie SecGen. The UN is already skating on thin ice with 47. And with most of the rest of America.

Bryan A
October 30, 2025 2:14 pm

Fewer than a third have sent Climate Action Plans because 2/3 will receive Climate Swindle Grift without needing to do anything and only a few are required to Pay the Swindle Grift

MrGrimNasty
October 30, 2025 2:16 pm

Sorry António, the dogs ate their homework.

Scarecrow Repair
Reply to  MrGrimNasty
October 30, 2025 3:45 pm

“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”

“That was the curious incident.”

MarkW
October 30, 2025 2:17 pm

Just a year ago they were telling us that the 1.5C mark was an irreversible tipping point that guaranteed doom for the entire planet.

I guess they didn’t mean it.

Reply to  MarkW
October 30, 2025 11:29 pm

This an excellent point I also frequently use, when discussing/arguing with a Green zealot: “Did you read, that we already surpassed the +1,5°C mark? So now tell me: Where is the emergency or the catastrophic consequences which were predicted?”

Reply to  Gerald
October 31, 2025 6:08 pm

Always conveniently in the future just distant enough future to never arrive.

SxyxS
October 30, 2025 2:17 pm

I second that.

Change course now – away from global warming, carbon tax etc.
Be it because we are past the point of no return and there is nothing we can do or that AGW ain’t real,I don’t mind. Any reason will do.
It is about time that we shift from climate change to change course
and leave warmophobia behind.

MarkW
Reply to  SxyxS
October 31, 2025 6:58 am

I for one embrace global warming.
A few degrees of warming will make the world healthier and happier.

October 30, 2025 2:20 pm

The UN has been a complete failure under Gutty’s non-leadership

Their one remit was to stop wars, instead they perpetuate them

POTUS has had to do their job for them.

Well, POTUS is also leading the way on climate, too…

Time for the UN to get off the idiotic anti-CO2 vendetta.. and start working towards world prosperity, instead of doing all it can to stifle it.

Reply to  bnice2000
October 30, 2025 3:31 pm

One of the best things DJT has done for “climate” is his appointment of Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator. What an action-packed program of regulatory relief they are pushing!

Reply to  David Dibbell
October 30, 2025 5:21 pm

Yet the endangerment finding still persists !! 🙁

Reply to  bnice2000
October 31, 2025 1:28 am

Patience. There is a statutory comment and review process.

MarkW
Reply to  bnice2000
October 31, 2025 7:01 am

In some cases, it’s too bad that Trump is not the dictator that the left accuses him of being.

mleskovarsocalrrcom
October 30, 2025 2:20 pm

There are many chicken little’s to choose a replacement from but rest assured it will be someone bleating the AGW/Globalist/Marxist mantra. The UN is passed its’ use by date.

Reply to  mleskovarsocalrrcom
October 30, 2025 8:41 pm

Maybe, maybe not. When the Gutster leaves Trump will still be Pres. The UN is swirling the bowl. Appointing a US friendly might be their only salvation.

MarkW
Reply to  OR For
October 31, 2025 7:03 am

The left has a long track record of putting ideology above even their own self interest.

Bob
October 30, 2025 2:27 pm

Just when you think the UN couldn’t be any more useless they prove you wrong. Isn’t there a limit to how useless an outfit can become?

SxyxS
Reply to  Bob
October 30, 2025 2:46 pm

There is no limit.
While there are natural limits = you can not go below absolute zero,
Institutions are limitless – they become destructive once they become useless to justify their existence by presenting themselves as the solution to the problem they created.
A bureaucratic Munchhausen by Proxy Syndrome (= they punch you with the left and help you up with the right)

And the UNO is the perfect example – the UNO only exists because of WW2.
Where did Hitlers money come from? NY.
Which family sponsored him,the Rudin- Eugenics programs,
the additives for his warplanes? (no warplanes, no WW2) – Rockefellers.
Who donated the UN territory? Rockefeller.
Where?NY.
We went full circle.

MarkW
Reply to  SxyxS
October 31, 2025 7:06 am

Elites from all over the world, supported Hitler. Even in Britain and France.
Your notion that he was being uniquely supported by NY bankers is not supported by historical facts. Once Germany stopped making reparations payments, they had a lot of their own money as well.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bob
October 31, 2025 5:45 am

Peter Principle, perhaps, perhaps inverted.

Reply to  Bob
October 31, 2025 6:13 pm

Not when it is run by leftists.

ntesdorf
October 30, 2025 2:55 pm

Australia and NZ have a vast army of Drongos and Politicians sufficiently stupid to fill Guterres’ shoes well.

Mac
October 30, 2025 3:05 pm

The UN has failed in it’s primary mission of peacekeeping many time over. Of course there have been multibillion scandals ie the oil fiasco. So how did their mission also become climate guardians so to speak? It’s a mystery sarc. Also how did NASA’s mission become climate re Gavin? Or Muslim outreach re Obama?
I think Trump should pull more funding from the UN being it’s also a socialist haven and a hate Israel organization.

Reply to  Mac
October 31, 2025 2:53 am

All big non profit organisations are targets for Marxist takeovers.
The UN is simply rotten to the core and should be abandoned.

MarkW
Reply to  Leo Smith
October 31, 2025 7:09 am

Organizationally, the UN was doomed from the start. The vast majority of countries are dictatorships. Giving every country no matter how big, small or corrupt one vote in the general assembly was the cause of this disaster.

October 30, 2025 3:24 pm

“Let’s recognise celebrate our failure good fortune,” he told the Guardian and Amazon-based news organisation Sumaúma. “The truth is that we have failed to avoid are now likely to enjoy an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating amazing consequences for extending growing seasons and for avoiding deaths from cold conditions. “

Sr. Guterres just needs a little editing help, that’s all.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

kevc114
Reply to  David Dibbell
October 30, 2025 4:40 pm

Bring it on… It will not be long before they will be able to grow grapes again in northern england, just like they did in the roman days when world temperatures were quite warmer..

Reply to  kevc114
October 31, 2025 4:17 am

Assuming the temperatures are going to continue to rise is just pure speculation.

After ther 1930’s temperature high point, which was equivalent to the current temperature high point, the temperatures cooled by over 2.0C.

Today, we are 0.5C cooler than we were at the early 2024 temperature high point. Just 1.5C more of cooling and climate scientists will be fretting that the Earth might be entering a new Ice Age, like happened in the 1970’s.

Visions of bogus Hockey Stick Charts in their heads, is the problem. Some people think Hockey Stick charts actually represent reality. They don’t, and it is demonstrable.

Today is not the hottest time in human history. Not even close. Weather history and weather temperature documentation tell the tale.

Everything Climate Alarmists do hinges on this bogus, bastardized Hockey Stick Global Temperature chart. It’s the only thing they can point to as “evidence” that CO2 and temperatures are correlated, and it does not exist in reality. It only exists in the computers of Climate Change Charlatans.

Unfortunately, it also exists in the minds of the Public, including a lot of skeptics.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 31, 2025 4:45 am

“Assuming the temperatures are going to continue to rise is just pure speculation.”
Agreed. No one knows.

MarkW
Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 31, 2025 7:13 am

There have been 5 warm periods since the end of the Holocene Optimum, the first 4 have each been cooler than the previous and the cool periods between them have been getting cooler as well.
The current warm period is still cooler than was the Medieval warm period.

Just looking at the record for the last 5000 years, it’s unlikely that the modern warm period has much gas left.
On the other hand, the modern warm period is still shorter then the earlier ones, so there is a chance that temperatures could plateau for a few decades before falling.

Reply to  MarkW
October 31, 2025 9:33 am

“The current warm period is still cooler than was the Medieval warm period.”

Most Web references say that the MWP was not significantly warmer than today’s average global temperature, although it was certainly warmer in comparison to the period of the “Little Ice Age”.

As examples:

“Today’s temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are already hotter than the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere during the Medieval Warm Period. . . . To conclude, the Medieval Warm Period was not warmer than what is occurring today . . .”
https://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc/elevator/elevator16.html

“This means that there are now two independent accounts of the regional climate that both find lower temperatures during the Medieval, providing new evidence that this phase was not as warm as previously thought”
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tree-ring-study-medieval-warm-period

And, FWIW, this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period (my bold emphasis added):
“Climate proxy records show peak warmth occurred at different times for different regions, which indicate that the MWP was not a globally uniform event. . . . Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits have shown that the Earth may have been slightly cooler globally (by 0.03 °C or 0.1 °F) than in the early and the mid-20th century. . . . The nature and extent of the MWP has been marked by long-standing controversy over whether it was a global or regional event. In 2019, by using an extended proxy data set, the Pages-2k consortium confirmed that the Medieval Climate Anomaly was not a globally synchronous event.

Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 6:20 pm

The efforts to erase inconvenient history are strenuous. Yet the Vikings who were farming in Greenland are in permafrost graves.

Reply to  AGW is Not Science
November 1, 2025 4:00 am

Yes! There’s your evidence right there. It was warmer in the recent past than it is today.

The efforts to erase inconvenient history *is* strenuous. Erasing history is the only thing Climate Alarmists can do to bolster their claims that today is the hottest time in human history.

Climate Alarmism is based on lies and distortions. It is a huge scandal.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
November 1, 2025 12:42 pm

“It was warmer in the recent past than it is today.”

Yes, but it is equally true that it was cooler in the recent past than it is today.

Reference the scientifically-acknowledged and documented Little Ice Age that occurred from about 1300 to 1850 AD, more recently than the MWP that occurred from about 900 to 1300 AD..

NB: using the phrase “recent past” is fraught with peril when discussing Earth’s geological history as well as it’s climate.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 31, 2025 9:06 am

“Assuming the temperatures are going to continue to rise is just pure speculation.”

Hmmm . . . actually, a bit more than that.

If one carefully looks at the approximately 100,000 year long glacial/interglacial cycles that have occurred over the last million or so years on Earth, one finds that about one-third of each cycle (i.e., about 33,000 years on average) is spent on the “warm side” and the other 67,000 years is spent on the “cool side” of the temperature range mid-point between cycle-minimum and cycle-maximum.

In greater detail, at least the first half—and more statistically probable, the first two-thirds, or about the first 20,000 years—of each “warm side” period have gradually increasing warming before starting to descend.

Since we are only about 12,000 years into the Holocene epoch that followed the last glacial period on Earth, the paleoclimate statistics argue strongly that we have at least another 8,000 years of continued warming on average.

Reply to  ToldYouSo
November 1, 2025 2:31 am

No, wrong again.

Past interglacials have had a peak (in our case the Holocene Optimum) followed by gradually cooling. (in our case called Neoglaciation)

We are just lucky enough to be in a slight warming period at the end of the Neoglaciation, after the LIA, the coldest period in 10,000 years.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 1, 2025 12:56 pm

“No, wrong again.

Past interglacials have had a peak (in our case the Holocene Optimum) followed by gradually cooling. (in our case called Neoglaciation)”

Hmmmm . . . I guess you just did not understand:
— my statement about: “warm side” and the other 67,000 years is spent on the “cool side” of the temperature range mid-point between cycle-minimum and cycle-maximum, nor
— my statement about each “warm side” period have gradually increasing warming before starting to descend.

Oh well.

BTW the Holocene is still on-going and there is just no way to know scientifically if the warm part of its cycle has peaked or not.

Oh well.

Reply to  kevc114
November 1, 2025 5:50 am

And those were boom times!

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  David Dibbell
October 31, 2025 5:47 am

To repurpose a Clinton campaign slogan, “It’s the sun, stupid!”

And now Trump, a former democrat, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
(Energy drives the economy.)

October 30, 2025 3:25 pm

COP30 is shaping up to be the best yet, Full on satire with comic relief at every turn and gunfire in the streats.

I think Gates got weak kneed over attending so came out with his pronouncement that it is not as bad as he previously thought. .

I wonder if anyone will ask Trump to address the conference via video link – just joking.

If Xi wants to sell more wind turbines and solar panels he should get down to Brazil – after all they are trade partners.

Reply to  RickWill
October 31, 2025 6:22 pm

Yeah and they can route his motorcade right through the police raids on the narco gang.

October 30, 2025 3:35 pm

OK, António, I understand that in honor of your most significant climate “achievement” and to also serve as your retirement gift, there is one hard boiled ostrich egg waiting for you in the waters off of Florida. Enjoy.

Mr.
October 30, 2025 3:37 pm

There’s no way that KRudd hasn’t got some negatives on Albo.

Leading up to the last national election in Oz, Albo publicly vowed & declared that he wouldn’t be installing KRudd as US ambassador.

2 months after winning the election, Albo quietly installed KRudd as ambassador.
KRudd had leaked the pending appointment too before Albo announced anything.

Interesting too was how KRudd stole Albo’s limelight by inserting himself into the Julian Assange repatriation to Oz from prison in London (costing taxpayers $700k).
KRudd even made sure he rode in the plane himself.

What official function would the Australian ambassador to the United States have in the repatriation of a prisoner being held in the UK?

The big question now is who does KRudd have the negatives on when it comes to voting for the UN supremo position?

Could be a case of –
“keep your friends close, but keep you enemies closer”.

Reply to  Eric Worrall
October 30, 2025 8:48 pm

Really? Trump has Albo by the shorts. He’s a lap dog. Big yap no bite. Do Ozzies think he’s tough? Strange. Is Australia self-destructing like GB?

October 30, 2025 3:38 pm

Most of the world climates are water, rocks, sand, ice and snow. Activities of humans can no effect on the climates of the vast Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Andes and Rocky mountains, or the Sahara and Gobi deserts.

I live in Canada with an area of 9.98 million square kilometers. The climate plan for Canada is to do nothing.

He mention that there should a phase out fossil fuels. Never going to happen. He obviously has no knowledge of the heavy industries and heavy transportation systems.

It is time for this this guy to retire early.

SxyxS
Reply to  Harold Pierce
October 30, 2025 3:49 pm

A warming would probably free up quite a few additional million squaremiles of potential farmland in Canada and Russia and extend growing seasons for the existing parts.

Dunno what’s so bad about that.
Sadly the warming ain’t happening.

Reply to  SxyxS
October 30, 2025 5:26 pm

“Sadly the warming ain’t happening.”

Hah, that depends on where one goes to get “data” on the subject . . . hopefully solid, objective scientific data.

In rebuttal to your assertion, the best available scientific means for obtaining average temperatures of Earth’s global lower atmosphere—as well as some defined regions therein—is available from UAH reductions of satellite MSU data (see https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/02/uah-v6-1-global-temperature-update-for-september-2025-0-53-deg-c ).

That data source clearly shows GLAT warming has been happening over the last 46 years at an average linear rate of +0.16 °C/decade.

Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 4:31 am

Not even remotely “linear”…

Warming has happened in spike/step changes at major El Ninos, with basically nothing in between.

Reply to  bnice2000
October 31, 2025 7:07 am

I guess you’ll just never understand that statistical analysis of a set of real data using least-squares linear regression (which always has +/- variations of data points around the average trend . . . please note the word average, that I used) ALWAYS yields a straight line which rarely passes exactly through many of the data points in the set.

Moreover, if you bothered to look at the UAH data trending graph available at the link I posted, you might have noticed (or not) that most of the data points (about 2σ – I’ll let you look that up) fall within ± 0.3 C of the linear trend line over the 46 years worth of data. IMHO, that’s a pretty good fit!

The last sentence of my above post is true, whether you like it or not.

But, oh well, do carry on.

Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 12:05 pm

Understand way more that you ever will. !

Pretending data is “linear” when it isn’t, is mathematical nonsense, reserved for climate charlatans, because it hides the real reason for the increase in temperature.

Reply to  bnice2000
October 31, 2025 1:57 pm

” . . . because it hides the real reason for the increase in temperature.”

Aha . . . at long last, we have a breakthrough! . . . please provide to all WUWT readers and editors the real reason for the increase in temperature.

There is a potential Nobel Prize in Physics awaiting you! Don’t be a charlatan.

BTW, a LS linear curve fit is a mathematical function requested by a data analyst to consider (NOT pretend) the data might be more-or-less linear in y-verus-x relationship, and the resulting coefficient of determination (expressed as the numerical value for “R^2”, from 0 to 1) indicates how well a straight line represents the data overall.

You may not be aware that polynomial functions of order 2 or higher can also be used by data analysts to best fit non-linear curves—even oscillating curves—to a given set of data using the least-squares mathematical method.

Professors John Christy and Roy Spencer, who develop and publish the UAH satellite data-derived temperature graphs and tabulated data on a monthly basis, are well-acquainted with various data analysis techniques, including curve fitting, and it is they that elect to present the linear curve fit of their data, not me!

So, be my guest . . . curve-fit an n-th degree polynomial curve to the UAH plot of satellite data referenced above and let us all know how closely such matches the real reason for the indicated warming!

Reply to  ToldYouSo
November 1, 2025 2:23 am

OMG! a dolt that thinks higher level polynomials are any sort of relationship to actual reality.

Just fit any old line or curve.. you’ll be right 😉

You sound like a “climate scientist™”

Ignore what the data actually shows. !!

If I tell you that the only warming in the UAH data comes at strong El Nino events….. maybe you eventually figure it out… or not.

Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 6:33 pm

Real data? They lost track of what that is years ago. Adjusting recent temperatures UP and older temperatures DOWN in the “cause” of promoting the agenda.

Reply to  AGW is Not Science
November 1, 2025 1:32 pm

And what, exactly, do you claim the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) and/or Professors Christy and Spencer have as an agenda? . . . especially since a scurrilous claim of them “adjusting old data downward and recent data upward” is tantamount to defamation by libel.

IOW, put up or shut up! I hate to be so blunt in wanting to end discourse, but in this particular matter your deserve such.

SxyxS
Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 5:06 am

Yeah – warming data going back till the ice age scare 🙂

But I like that.
46 years ago was peak cooling.
That’s why arctic sea ice data officially only goes back till 1979,
which is quite interesting as they have ozone hole data that goes back to 1969
(below the ozone holes are the arctics,therefore arctic data should go back till 1969 even if we ignore the Nimbus satellites = 1964)

Of couse when we start at peak cold we will see an increase in temperature and a decrease in arctic ice,
just as we see a massive decline in temperature when we are so deceptive to use peak heat 1935 as starting point.
And cooling till 1979 should have been impossible as result of constant co2 increase.

That’s cyclical fluctuations + UHi.
But i ‘ll give you an overall 0.2 degrees as result of a 1/10000 co2 increase .
I can’t give you more as my phantasy is limited – but I respect your religion and the fact that you are simply too smart to be fooled for decades by people who have been wrong all the time.

Reply to  SxyxS
October 31, 2025 7:40 am

“Yeah – warming data going back till the ice age scare”

Obviously, you need to know that the warming of the current Holocene epoch began about 12,000 years ago. Was there an ice age scare back then?

Reply to  ToldYouSo
November 1, 2025 2:33 am

The Holocene trend over the last 3000-5000 years has been distinctly downwards.

Reply to  bnice2000
November 1, 2025 1:35 pm

“The Holocene trend over the last 3000-5000 years has been distinctly downwards.”

What? No Medieval Warm Period? Who knew that never happened?

And what? 46+years of satellite measurement data used by UAH to document a current global warming trend of +0.16 °C/decade. Who knew that has all been fabricated?

And what? So, so many scientists devoting their time and energies to investigating whether or not—and the underlying reasons to explain how—Earth’s surface will warm up by an estimated 3 °C or more by the year 2100 compared “pre-Industrial Revolution times”. What a waste.

Alternatively, it’s time to look up the definition of “distinctly”.

/sarc

Reply to  SxyxS
November 1, 2025 5:53 am

Cooling is great for skiing, warming is not

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 5:51 am

GAT is not solid, objective scientific data. It is statistics.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
October 31, 2025 7:39 am

Global atmospheric temperatures are metrics, derived from scientific measurements of a physical parameter. Statistics (the outputs from statistical analyses) are mathematical results, completely different from metrics.

To drive the point home, one can obtain statistics on the occurrences of repeating strings of numerals in the irrational number pi expressed to an arbitrary length of numerals.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 12:59 pm

In context, you are using metrics and data interchangeably. No argument, just clarificcation.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
October 31, 2025 1:33 pm

Thank you.

“GAT is not solid, objective scientific data. It is statistics.”

And you seem to be saying that when one obtains an average of a series of scientific measurements (aka an average of a data set of one or more physical parameters, in this case temperatures) that average is somehow no longer “objective” or “scientific” but should be considered as an “statistic”, perhaps comparable to a statistic covering the probability of a given number coming from the roll of a pair of dice. Just clarifying my read.

MarkW
Reply to  ToldYouSo
October 31, 2025 9:54 am

The late 70’s was the coldest period on this planet since the end of the Little Ice Age.

That’s the problem with such short time periods. There are lots of cycles in climate, most of them are decadal and longer in length. Where you are in each cycle matters.

Reply to  MarkW
October 31, 2025 11:29 am

OK. The Little Ice Age began a little more that 700 years ago and lasted about 550 years. We are now about 12,000 years into the Holocene and about 2.6 million years into the Quaternary glaciation/Ice Age.

So what? . . . since you didn’t define what you mean by “short time periods”.?

Reply to  Harold Pierce
November 1, 2025 5:52 am

He is retired upstairs.

cgh
October 30, 2025 5:15 pm

One of the things which makes me smile at this late stage in life is the disappointment waiting for this fat little communist piglet. He has managed to be even more useless and ineffective than nearly all the rest of the UN Secretary-Generals. It truly is enjoyable to hear him bleating endlessly about the ‘end of the world’.

REM did this far better more than 30 years ago than this little swine.
R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World

Reply to  cgh
October 31, 2025 4:42 am

Good comment! That made me laugh! 🙂

terry
October 30, 2025 5:41 pm

My tomatos ripened a couple of weeks earlier – woopee!

October 30, 2025 5:47 pm

Getting President Trump to say that human-caused climate change is a hoax may be his greatest climate achievement!

Reply to  purecolorartist@gmail.com
October 31, 2025 4:46 am

Got to love, Trump. He tells the climate change truth, but some people don’t like hearing the truth.

Too bad, so sad, your Dad.

ResourceGuy
October 30, 2025 6:03 pm

I wonder what Swiss village or beachfront compound he picked out for retirement.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  ResourceGuy
October 31, 2025 5:52 am

Maybe he will get a room in Al Gore’s beach front mansion. The one that should have been underwater years ago.

Forrest Gardener
October 30, 2025 6:13 pm

One thing? If I had to choose one thing it would be in education.

At see level water boils at 100C not 100F.

observa
October 30, 2025 7:24 pm

Not KRudd. Definitely Jacinda Adern as we need more lefty women in politics-
Furious landlords who were fined up to £30k for breaching laws blast Reeves for ‘double standards’

Ex-KaliforniaKook
October 30, 2025 9:44 pm

IIRC, this is the clown who announced the oceans are boiling! I wondered if he saw the steam coming off that body of water. Or maybe, like Greta, he can see things that just aren’t there.

I’m sure he heard about one thermometer reading that had gotten into shallow beach water in the US and got up to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Not understanding the units used in the US, he assumed that temperature was in degrees Centigrade. Even at that, if he thought any natural body of water not sitting on a volcano could get that hot, then he is an idiot.

Reply to  Ex-KaliforniaKook
October 31, 2025 4:54 am

I think Gutteres is clueless about the Earth’s climate. He’s just repeating all the scare stories he hears about CO2, and presents them as established facts.

This Climate Hysteria is slowly winding down, and there is nothing Gutteres or anyone else can do about it.

But don’t worry because it is, and was, totally unnecessary in the first place.

Delusional people’s delusions have timed out.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 31, 2025 1:00 pm

I wonder if he is getting his “information” from Greta.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
November 1, 2025 5:55 am

The oceans are boiling?

Quilter52
October 30, 2025 11:23 pm

Noooooooo! Neither KRudd nor Jacinda. The world will go mad,

Reply to  Quilter52
November 1, 2025 1:21 pm

Trudeau was angling for the job, but Jacinda has him out-woked…plus his seizure of truck driver’s bank accounts over CoVid rule protests made him unpopular with anyone in the world who has a bank account…