Spain’s interim prime minister said Monday “only a handful of fanatics deny the evidence” of climate change, urging those who disagree to admit they’re wrong, change their mind and join the “global consensus.”
Pedro Sánchez said “alternative facts” about climate must be fought back with actions as he addressed the opening of a two-week COP25 U.N. climate summit in Madrid, El Pais reported.
He spoke the day after former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry argued climate change must be treated “like a war.”
The leader of Spain’s Socialists, who is trying to assemble enough parliamentary support to remain in government, offered to host the summit after Chile was rocked by a wave of anti-government protests.
”These days, Madrid will be the capital of the fight against climate change and for a real commitment. But above all, it wants to be the capital of dialogue and words.”
“For years, several versions of climate change denial were in circulation. Today, luckily only a handful of fanatics deny the evidence,” he added. “No one can escape this challenge by themselves. There is no wall that can protect any country, regardless of how powerful it is.”
“If Europe led the industrial revolution, Europe must lead the decarbonization [effort]. At a moment marked by the silence of some, Europe has a lot to say,” said Sánchez.
“There is no wall that will protect any country, as powerful as it might be,” he concluded, calling for Europe to lead the global efforts for de-carbonization while ignoring the massive contribution to global pollution made by China.
Sánchez also said development should not ignore women and the environment.
Noting the contribution of Eunice Foote, the 19th-century U.S. female scientist who was one of the first people to see signs of global warming, Sánchez also said that development should not ignore “women or the physical limits of the environment.”
U.N. chief António Guterres said earlier the world has a choice to tackle climate change or surrender, asking countries to decide whether they “really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?”
Guterres said new data shows levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have hit a record high.
COP25 has drawn upwards of 25,000 participants and 1500 journalists to the Spanish capital for a full two weeks to talk about climate and weather.
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In their attempt to discredit the very effective arguments against the climate change dogma its supports have labeled deniers as a small group of fanatics. Pedro Sánchez has apparently only heard this view point. He should fire his advisers and get some that keep him better informed. There is not only the 700 scientists who signed the petition presented to the UN stating that there is no climate crisis, but the 38,000+ scientist who signed the Oregon petition. Unless I’m unique, it is much larger than that. My friends and acquaintances are mostly conservative and many are technically competent. None of them buy into the climate change fraud.
We had snow last Tuuesday and were suppost to get rain here on Friday I sure would lke to see it snow on some Eco-Wackos in their little shacks while their meditating in a field and get covered in snow
I’m still waiting to see any evidence of climate change. All we have so far are ridiculous claims that say how humanity is bad for the earth, but there is nothing they can point to that is convincing in any way that humans are forcing a warming of the atmosphere. You can try to force me to accept this nonsense, but I will not be a believer. I will always stand in defiance of the campaign.
What evidence are we in denial of? The failed model predictions or the fiddled data?
This is starting to sound more like a fanatical religion than sound science. When do we start ‘sacrificing’ deniers to the climate change Gods?
Okay there Rosebud you can start by living in a cave or grass hut without any heat or light no way to cook your food and walking a long way to get to where you wan to go set a example for us