“Code red for humanity.”
That’s the headline accompanying the latest report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), an arm of the UN, assuring us that climate change catastrophe is just around the corner, and that if we don’t all abandon our beef burgers and put on our peace sandals straight away, the Earth will be engulfed in a ball of fire by the end of next week.
On the face of it, this is a very worrying thing for a UN body to say and we should all pay a great deal of attention to it.
In reality, no one does. It will dominate the news cycle for a day or two and then we will all move onto something else.
Why is that? Is it because nobody cares about the planet and we’re all fine with seeing humanity melted into a burning pool of effluent?
Of course not. It’s because we have heard it all before.
Reports like this one have lost all credibility with the public – and especially with young people like me.
We have been told so many times that the end of the world is imminent and that we only have 12 years, 10 years, five years to turn the tide on climate change that it now sounds like a broken record.
The problem is this kind of dramatism isn’t founded in science. Bodies like the IPCC consistently conflate things we are very sure of, like the fact that humans are warming the planet, with other things where the science is muddied and there is plenty of uncertainty, like the idea that there will be a two-meter rise in sea level by 2034.
The result is that it is hard to take these reports seriously, but this kind of alarmism isn’t neutral. We can’t all laugh it off and move on.
It is actively harmful because it undermines genuine efforts to combat climate change and it plays into destructive narratives which reduce the poor’s quality of life and fuel inequality.
The people pushing the alarmism know full well that it will hit the poor harder than anyone else.
It’s all very well shaming people for eating meat, but vegan products like tofu and almond milk are still expensive and inaccessible and we’re a very long way away from lab-grown meat being an affordable meat replacement.
In a select committee appearance on climate change, Sir David Attenborough said boldly that the prices of flights should go up to deter air travel.
But won’t that hit poorer families hardest, while wealthy people like Attenborough himself can continue jetting around the world to their heart’s content?
“I’m afraid that is the case,” replied Sir David.
Feeling that you are doing your bit to save the planet is a luxury not everyone can afford, and headline-chasing climate alarmism shouting about how ‘the end is nigh’ only entrenches and exacerbates inequalities, not to mention ruining climate policy discourse.
It’s time for the UN to step back and allow for a more level-headed approach to climate change.
Read more at The Mirror
Do your Homework and turn off that Captain Planet crap on the TV
It is important that we keep in mind how the IPCC reports are generated. I have read three articles that sum up the process. One thing not in the articles that I’m sure is true is that climate realists are excluded from the process. This is the first step in generating a report that doesn’t match true scientific reality. As the technical working groups are doing their job, politicians circulate and badger them to make more alarmist conclusions. Then the reports of the technical committees are never published. What is published is a summary written by the politicians. This often contradicts the reports of the technical groups. For the last summary, there had to be 125 changes in the reports of the technical groups to match what the politicians wrote.
The ipcc is an agency of the UN and their job is to please their boss Antonio Gurterres
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/08/10/links-to-ipcc6-posts/
If I were granted three wishes, I am quite certain that I would use one of them to fulfill a requirement that national leaders and lawmakers learn about Earth history and the basics of planetary climate science. If the knuckleheads who meets at the IPCC meetings and issue their ridiculous statements actually knew what they were talking about, they would know better than to publish these comical essays and crazy claims.
To begin with, it must be known to everybody that the oceans, not the atmosphere, drive the climate. The thermal momentum of the world’s seas is 2300 times greater than that of the gaseous film that surrounds the planet.
What happens to the oceans, causes changes to the atmosphere, not vice versa. Secondly, an awareness of world geologic and climatic history over the past 32 million years would make all to obvious that climate changes frequently and sometimes rapidly and for reasons completely beyond human control. Do not ignore the FACT that we are still in a stage of the Pleistocene Ice Age, currently in an interglacial period where warming prevails between ice advances from the polar regions. This cycle has been going on at 120,000- to 150,000 periods for the past 2.5 million years and it’s probably not finished yet. Any warming we can possibly measure today reflects the natural warming that has been taking place for the past 15,000 years and will almost certainly reverse within the next 5- to 10,000 years.
The IPCC seeks to scare humanity into draconian recoil from modern advances, almost as if in shame, in a useless effort to reverse the course of perceived climate change. The scare tactic is that we must take these measures to prevent or diminish more future climate catastrophes. This is very interesting as I am still waiting to hear one just a single valid climate catastrophe that has happened to date. Citing hurricanes, wild fires, droughts and floods only highlight weather activity as they feature current climate conditions. None of these things indicate any change in climate, especially anything that resulted from human activity.
The only reasons that allow this Climate Crisis campaign to continue is that it yields money, influence and political power to those who advance it in hopes that the ignorant public will believe what they’re told. After so many decades of hearing this noise, many people who know better have become reluctant to speak out against the propaganda for fear that they will be seen as nut jobs, when it fact it is the NUT JOBS who are winning this propaganda battle. We must find a way to put this to rest and save our standards of modern society. The Global Warming nonsense is the idiots’ strongest weapon to squash freedom and intellectual honesty and we’re letting them get away with it.
It is basically astonishing that the UN IPCC, which itself has stated its aims are political and financial (redistribution of money) and is hardly concerned with environmentalism any more, appears to see planet Earth as something we alone control, our activity apparently solely to blame for shifts in climate. The centre of the whole solar system the sun and its cyclic patterns, its magnetic actvity, its gravity, its effects on other planets, is ignored. So is Jupiter, the massive planet which along with massive Saturn, also affects Earth in complex interactions. No, they tell us, it is our having changed the world with industry using the very substances Earth provided, and CO2, the trace gas of life itself, all to blame. That the period from around 1940 to about 1980 saw a massive advance of industry, all he gases of coal and CO2 release, far surpassing any period before = yet the media were full of reports of satellites having told us the world was moving to a new little ice age – passes them by. Industry got more intense, car use grew, and the Earth happened to get cooler. It seems that now, what is increasing is the hot air from the UN IPCC, BBC and media going into mass hysteria, the new belief system of AGW, led by a schoolchild from Sweden. We have about ten years left as red alert goes up. The BBBC even calls in the Labour leader, Starmer, as witness to the coming disaster. He is unable to lead his own Party into success. What can anybody still sane say?