Climate Armageddon is just around the corner, the United Nations said Monday in its starkest warning yet about environmental destruction — but it’s not too late to stave it off, the body added.
“Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast,” said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in remarks at the launch of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once.”
The report, released Monday in Switzerland after a week of talks among delegates from 195 countries , also addressed climate justice.
“Without urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaptation actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the livelihoods, health and well being of current and future generations,” the report’s authors wrote.
In the past 50 years, global temperature has risen at its highest rate in 2,000 years, Guterres noted.
“The climate time-bomb is ticking,” he said, calling the report “a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb” and a “survival guide for humanity.”
Guterres also called for achieving “net-zero” emissions in 2040 and 2050 for rich and developing nations, respectively — about a decade sooner than previous exhortations. This is what’s necessary to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial temperatures by the early 2030s, the IPCC report said.
Under the Paris climate agreement, countries have pledged to take concrete steps to reduce pollution by 2035. Sticking to that hinges on slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% below 2019 levels before 2035, the IPCC said. On the ground, that translates into ceasing exploration for new fossil fuels, and for the biggest consumers — the world’s richest countries — to stop using coal, oil and gas by 2040.
“Climate justice is crucial because those who have contributed least to climate change are being disproportionately affected,” said Aditi Mukherji, a water scientist and one of the 93 authors of the report. “Almost half of the world’s population lives in regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change. In the last decade, deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions.”
But humanity is heading in the wrong direction, the experts said.
“The pace and scale of what has been done so far and current plans are insufficient to tackle climate change,” said Hoesung Lee, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“We are walking when we should be sprinting.”
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In the past 50 years, global temperature has risen at its highest rate in 2,000 years, Guterres noted.
Notice they NEVER mention the exact numbers, and I don’t think anyone was concerned 2000 years ago. So tired of hearing this propaganda about Climate Change or whatever they will call it next week. If I ever had the power to withdraw our country from the UN I would , then I would throw them out of the country because they have become useless, IMO.
Maybe all the damn forest fires, explosions the world over, volcanic erruptions etc, HAVE HAD A BLOODY IMPACT on that?
“In the past 50 years, global temperature has risen at its highest rate in 2,000 years…” Note the other side of what they’re saying:
2000 years ago, despite the lack of industrialization or any other human activity that could have even possibly had an impact on climate, global temperature STILL rose at this rate. Which begs the questions:
What caused it then?
How was calamity avoided?
Why does anyone believe it’s any different this time around?
Too many believe the wrong science. The science behind this fear is bought and paid for by governments that demand certain outcomes. The Globalist use Climate Change as their weapon to get people under the control they want. There are real climate scientists that fight for the truth and present the truth. The most powerful fighter against this is CFACT, They are always at the big meetings by the Evil Ones where the big grand audiences are to lie to nations. The UN is one of those that want us to believe in the lies.b
When all you see are globalists, leftists, Hollywood, lame-stream media pushing this agenda, you know it’s all BS.
Which shows to me, its a CULT of lies, Not real science.
We have our own climate change wackos in this country. They travel around the world in private jets while preaching to the rest of us about electric cars, windmills, and riding bikes.
Just follow the money.
Anthropological global warming is a hoax. Anyone with an IQ higher than a doorknob knows that the primary driver of the Earth’s temperature is solar activity from the Sun. Increasing temperatures cause atmospheric CO2 levels to increase, not the other way around. This is basic chemistry. The IPCC report is patently dishonest (wow, what a surprise) since it does not admit that water vapor is, by far and away, the major greenhouse gas—over 70 times that of CO2. Since it is a scientific fact that CO2 only represents 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human contribution is only 3% of that, you can readily see that a reduction of 35% of anthropogenic carbon emissions won’t accomplish a damn thing. So, you can conclude that the socialist guvmints have a built in, ready-made reason to assert more draconian authority and tax increases.
Man made climate change is nothing, but a hoax designed to fleece hard working people of their livelihood and shift even more power to the elites. There will never be an end to what citizens will be expected to do to combat this fantom problem. Much like how the issue of racial tension will never be resolved because it is much too lucrative for too many people.
You all forgetting what the Lord said that he must shorten the time for no Flesh will be saved Period he did not save about the Climate change either it was the Weapons that may be use to kill everything Period
Translation: You have until 2035 to shamelessly exploit the greatest CON JOB in human history. I suggest those of us still thriving in 2035 exhume Kerry, Gore, and all the other climate con artists and expose them to the bright skies and warm breezes of——nothing.
OR they will just Kick the deadline date down the road again..
I ain’t a smart man but mama always said that I could always tell ******** by its smell, and this UN conclusion smells to high heaven.
Smell is right. When reading the details I feel like I’m in the bullpen, and I don’t mean a baseball pitchers’ bullpen.
Oh good, shutting down the greatest source of emissions! California and Washington DC, politics.
The UN was created by and is still run by the World Globalist CommuFascists!!! Whatever they proclaim as truth … believe the opposite!!! And … by the way … The WHO was created by and is still run by … wait for it … The UN!!!