This year’s United Nations climate summit kicked off Monday with a narrative it’s been building in the media and at political conferences for months: act now or face catastrophe.
British broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, purporting to speak on behalf of global peoples, warned: “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon” if nothing is done to fight man-made global warming.
Nearly 30,000 United Nations officials, diplomats, environmental activists, journalists, and academics traveled to the heart of Poland’s coal country in Silesia to negotiate the next steps of the Paris climate accord.
Attenborough did not mention the thousands of UN climate summit participants and observers who, like himself, who had to fly, drive or travel by rail to the conference in Poland. The UN has yet to disclose the conference’s full carbon footprint.
The UN set the tone for this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in October with the release of a dire report on the likelihood of keeping future global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
That report warned of catastrophe if the world warmed too much, and resulted in months of warnings it was the “last chance” to solve the climate problem.
Of course, that’s the warning that’s usually given ahead of climate summits the UN wants to hype. Attenborough’s speech is the culmination of months of alarmism in the media and political conferences.
“The world’s people have spoken, time is running out, you to have to act now,” Attenborough said in a speech at the UN climate summit’s opening Monday. Attenborough called global warming the “greatest threat in thousands of years” to the planet.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres echoed Attenborough’s dire message and called the summit, known as COP24, the “most important gathering on climate change” since the Paris climate accord was signed in 2015, three years ago.
“It is hard to overstate the urgency of our situation,” Guterres said in a speech Monday.
The ultimate goal of COP24 is to move forward with Paris accord negotiations. Support for the Paris accord got a boost from G20 leaders who issued a statement Sunday reaffirming their support for the international agreement.
However, the U.S. still plans on withdrawing from the Paris accord in 2020, the earliest date it is allowed to pull out. And now, there are questions about Brazil’s commitment to the Paris accord with the election of right-wing Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency.
It’s ironic then that the U.S. cut its carbon dioxide emissions more than any other country last year, while most of the world, including Europe, saw emissions increase.
But even if every country fulfilled its Paris agreement pledge, the UN says global warming is on track to top 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
A recent UN “emissions gap” report chastises world leaders for not doing enough to fight global warming.
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A $100B slush fund? If China, India, Russia, America etc don’t contribute to it, that amount of money would be a tremendous burden on the rest. Won’t happen.
It is useful to know more about COP 24. It is considered vital to set the Paris Treaty into motion. In 2015 COP 21 resulted in the Paris Treaty where goals were set for emission reductions. Using the faulty climate models they set a goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C. What Paris Treaty is lacking is rules to govern how it is run. The negotiating teams are said to be very far apart on these rules and have been haggling about them since 2015. As such the goal to finish the rules in COP 24 probably will only be partially achieved.
There are move significant nations that are not behind this fraud than ever before. The biggest if of course the United States with the largest economy and second highest CO2 emissions. Australia isn’t far behind the US. Both Brazil and Mexico have elected leaders hostile to this movement. Brazil has the fifth highest emission. The host of the conference has a great deal of influence. This year it is Poland, a nation that gets most of its energy from coal, and plans to continue doing so.
The developing nations only interest in climate change is to get something for nothing from the developed nations. At COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009 the developing nations were promised $100 billion a year. This was affirmed in Paris in 2015 and the money is supposed to start following in 2020. This last year these countries got together and decided among themselves that they were entitled to an additional $200 billion a year. It is obvious that not even the $100 billion a year will be achieved by 2020. Every year the conference has come closer to falling apart over this issue. Perhaps this will be the year that it does.
The greatest threat to socialists is failure of the global warming / climate change strategy. They’ve bet the house on it.
I like global warming . . . just wish it would come true.
There are countless thousands who agree with you, including myself. Unfortunately there is a much greater change of a mini ice age happening than warming.
They are backed into a corner as they know we are in a cooling trend.
Wow, the guy in the above picture looks like he has forgotten to take his medication for lunacy. Scary but true!
Have to remember that about 10% of people who take mind/mood altering prescription drugs find that the drug actually makes their problem worse. It’s not the ‘mental illness’ that’s the problem, but the (probably very profitable) drugs prescribed.
Tat guy looks more like Arnold Schwarzenegger to me…???
But the Eviroemntal Extremists the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons want Mankind to collapse they want Humans to go extinct and they have ready Paul Erliches fraurulent Books THE POPULATION BOMB and the POPULATION EXPLOSION thats why they oppose Fracking and Drilling