Climate change was a pillar of this week’s annual World Economic Forum, a recurring theme that featured gloom-and-doom warnings from global business and political elites who gathered in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss pressing issues facing society.
Several prominent speakers voiced alarmist rhetoric because countries have backslid on climate pledges in the face of volatile energy markets. However, some attendees jetted to the meeting in private airplanes. [emphasis, links added]
White House Climate Envoy John Kerry praised the attendees for being “extraterrestrial” in their pursuit of “saving the planet,” at one point equating climate change to World War II.
“It’s pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings… are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,” he said.
“It’s so, almost extraterrestrial, to think about saving the planet. If you said that to most people, most people would think you’re just a crazy tree-hugging, lefty-liberal do-gooder.”
Mr. Kerry said time was running out to prevent the planet from warming beyond a 1.5-degree Celsius threshold set by the international community that would bring irreparable damage.
“I am not convinced we can get there in time to do what the scientists said, which is [avoiding] the worst consequences of the crisis. Those worst consequences are going to affect millions of people all around the world,” he said.
Former Vice President Al Gore tried to make a connection between xenophobia and climate change, which he said is set to create one billion refugees this century. [Note the dire predictions are now being dated further out as short-term forecasts aren’t coming true. They’ll be long dead when proven wrong—so what do they care? –CCD Editor]
“Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees,” Mr. Gore said. “What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self-governance in this world. We have to act.”
Speaking at the 2020 World Economic Forum, Mr. Gore compared climate change to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and historical battles, including the Battles of Thermopylae, Agincourt, the Bulge, and Dunkirk.
Johan Rockström, director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, suggested the Earth is “facing something deeper” than simply a climate crisis — “mass extinction, air pollution, undermining ecosystem functions, really putting humanity’s future at risk.”
“This is a planetary crisis,” he said.
Joyeeta Gupta, professor of environment and development in the global south at the University of Amsterdam, labeled it a safety and justice crisis.
“Many areas in the world are uninhabitable,” she said. “This uninhabitable zone is increasing. If we continue with our greenhouse gas emissions, then by 2070, as many as 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones, and mostly in poorer countries.”
Conservative critics note that the most extreme and dire environmental predictions stretching back decades have failed to become reality.
Attendees were also put on blast by green activists for “ecological hypocrisy,” who at one point blocked a private jet airport used by forum-goers.
Private planes at last year’s World Economic Forum accounted for more than 1,000 trips to airports serving the Swiss mountain resort, or emissions equivalent to about 350,000 cars, a Greenpeace International study found.
That’s twice as many private jets going to and from the region compared with an average week, said the report, which was published last week.
“The rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors,” said Klara Maria Schenk, a campaigner for Greenpeace.
“This annual private jet bonanza is a distasteful master class in hypocrisy… It’s about time our political leaders start to lead by example instead of producing hot air in secret meetings with big business.”
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“a distasteful master class in hypocrisy” that India and China skipped. Together they add up to nearly 3 billion people, and they’re pouring the coal into Earth’s atmosphere. The WEF and the IPCC are impotent. They mean zilch to countries whose consumption of energy per capita is a small fraction of the Western world’s. Al Gore’s mansion in Tennessee uses 20 times the electricity of the average American house. Add that to his villa in California and his worldwide travelling. MANBEARPIG!
Good point about apocalyptic predictions: that the date predicted for disaster gets further in the future even as the rhetoric gets wilder, so that the climate crazies will be retired or dead by the time their predictions fail to come true.
The WEF as well as the UN and CFR are just a few of the Globalists behind this whole thing and with Biden their Puppet to make him dance for them by pulling his strings
Looking at the pictures of Gore and Kerry makes me think of dinosaurs.
Tyrannosaurus Rex once roamed Alberta, Canada. He was a carnivore.
He ate other dinosaurs that were lower down the food chain. Those animals would have needed vegetation year round for T Rex to live there. Something like 79 million years ago?
That’s a bit before the industrial age.
Those Dino’s were wiped out by an asteroid that hit the Gulf of Mexico and the Ice Age ensued. It seems to me that the Earth’s natural temperature might be higher than it is today.
One of my favorite predictions was that we were going to have a 100 million climate refugees by 2010. The earth isn’t warming as predicted and extreme weather events are not more common. The climate change movement is trying to compensate by making more and more dire predictions.
So just when will they start living in Grass or Mud Huts maybe Caves and live a simple life and never tray far from their home and that means not just the World leaders but for the Eco-Freaks themselves. Hollywood Ding-Bat Sonna Mills says Americans need to give up their High Ways of Living(You First Mills)and quit making movies and have all of the Power used in the movie making coming from Wind and Solar Power