On Monday’s Amanpour & Co., PBS/CNN International host Christiane Amanpour echoed climate alarmists who have suggested that the Coronavirus has been good for the climate by depressing human activity as she suggested there has been a “silver lining” for the environment in China.
The show also gave an unchallenged forum to climate alarmist and author Christiana Figueres, an architect of the Paris climate accords, who made dire predictions about how difficult to inhabit the world will be in 2050 if carbon dioxide emissions are not cut in the next decade.
After doing a segment to discuss the latest on the Coronavirus outbreak, Amanpour then segued:
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So if there is a silver lining to this crisis, it’s visible in the skies above China. The dramatic slowdown in manufacturing and driving has caused a reduction in carbon emissions. We’ve all seen these NASA satellite images which show the improvement in China’s air quality.
The PBS host then introduced the pre-recorded interview, conducted by contributor Sheelah Kolhatkar, by noting that Figueres is promoting her book, The Future We Choose.
Kolhatkar was then seen hyperbolically claiming that there is an “environmental freefall” and “crisis” as she began her interview:
SHEELAH KOLHATKAR: So there’s a sense right now that we are in something of an environmental freefall —
CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, AUTHOR: Crisis maybe.
KOLHATKAR: Crisis is a good way of putting it. Just at the moment when things seem really dire and urgent, it feels, at least from the outside, that policy decisions, global cooperation, all of that is sort of moving backwards. What are the odds that we could turn things around in time?
You’re never going to get skepticism on eco-doom from CNN (who scared Americans in the 1990s with The People Bomb) or PBS (who in the same decade ran a ten-hour climate doom-fest called Race to Save the Planet). Back then, we had to act in a very short time!
After the two discussed the issue of the world allegedly needing to cut emissions by 2030 to prevent dire consequences that would around 2050, Kolhatkar followed up: “Could you describe a little bit what that world would look like if we just continued laissez-faire on the path that we’re on?”
Figueres began with doom and gloom predictions:
FIGUERES: So, in the year 2050, if we do not do what we have to do by the human race, we will walk out of our homes, and we will not be able to walk down the street without putting a mask on because the air is going to be so polluted that it will be life-threatening. We will not be able — because of heat — we will not be able to exercise or play outside.
She went on to predict millions of people migrating to seek food and water, and democratic governments being overthrown by unrest.
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Since CO2 (not carbon) is a colorless gas the clearing skies above Chinese cities has nothing to do with less CO2 being pumped out. What it shows is that Chinese pollution controls are woefully inadequate and way behind the US and elsewhere in the west. The ignorance of these people are incredible.
Zero chance of up staging the pandemic, but they can insert climate commercials. Jackals.
Typical liberal all mouth and no mind just a typical liberal too darn stupid to think without a remote in their hand and CNN on the screen
I agree 100%with Steve Bunten& Spurwing Plover
It’s turning out that CO2 has little or nothing to do with climate. Dr. Don Easterbrook (geologist) recently published a book entitled “The Solar Magnetic Cause of Climate Changes and Origin of the Ice Ages”. That title sez it all.
Easterbrook, looking at the past 800,000 years (which includes a few ice ages) claims that both warming and cooling, big or small, are caused by sun activity and how that controls the level of cosmic rays penetrating into the lower atmosphere.
While Easterbrook claims the data is independent of Henrik Svensmark’s theory, it nonetheless enforces Svensmark’s theory.
Easterbrook basically looks at only three variables (1) sun activity (2) cosmic ray influence (beryllium-10 and radiocarbon, and (3) temperature.
It’s over folks. The cherry-picked short period where both temperature and CO2 are increasing conflicts with the longer term correlation tracking both up and down trends. CO2 has iittle or nothing to do with our global temperature, hence nothing to do with climate.
Ms. Amanpour is very comfortable with death. Vast numbers of people must die to achieve what she perceives to be a solution. Its past time to reveal that climate change devotees embrace a death cult solution to a non-existent problem. Weather is not an existential threat to humans, but the mindset of elitists like Christiane Amanpour surely personifies genocide.