SubscribeUN Ratchets Up Its ‘Global Warming’ Hysteria
From the Chicken Little drum corp at the AFP:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri (L) and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon hold the IPCC report on global warming.
Grim climate change report prompts UN call for ‘breakthrough’
by Marlowe Hood
VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) - The world’s top scientific authority on climate change published on Saturday its starkest warning yet, declaring that the impact of global warming could be “abrupt or irreversible” and no country would be spared.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seized on the report by the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to demand that politicians next month smash the deadlock on tackling the greenhouse-gas peril.
The historic report “has set the stage for a real breakthrough,” said Ban, referring to a key conference running on the Indonesian island of Bali from December 3-14.
“We cannot afford to leave Bali without such a breakthrough,” he said, as he described climate change as the “defining challenge of our age.”
Ban said global warming bore the seeds of “catastrophe” but stressed that there was also hope.
The IPCC report was an “overarching message for all of us: that there are real and affordable ways to deal with climate change,” he said.
The new report is intended to act as a guide to policymakers for years to come.
It encapsulates the findings of three massive assessments, published earlier this year, on the evidence for global warming; its impacts; and the options for tackling the emissions that cause it.
The report said notably:
– Evidence of a human role in the warming of the planet is now “unequivocal” and the effects on the climate system could be “abrupt or irreversible.”
– Retreating glaciers and loss of snow in Alpine regions, thinning Arctic summer sea ice and thawing permafrost shows that climate change is already on the march.
– By 2100, global average surface temperatures could rise by between 1.1 C (1.98 F) and 6.4 C (11.52 F) compared to 1980-99 levels, while sea levels will rise by between 18 and 59 centimetres (7.2 and 23.2 inches).
– Heatwaves, rainstorms, tropical cyclones and surges in sea level are among the events expected to become more frequent, more widespread or more intense this century.
– “All countries” will be affected by climate change, but those in the forefront are poor nations, especially small island states and developing economies where hundreds of millions of people live in low-lying deltas.
– Reducing emissions can be met at moderate cost relative to global GDP, but the window of opportunity for quickly reaching a safer, stable level is closing fast.
“We need a new ethic by which every human being realises the importance of the challenge we are facing and starts to take action through changes in lifestyle and attitude,” said IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri.
“Every country in the world has to be committed to a shared vision and a set of common goals and actions that will help us move toward a much lower level of emissions.
Green groups said the Valencia document had rammed home the dangers of warming more forcefully than in any other assessment issued in the 19-year history of the IPCC.
“This is the strongest document the IPCC has produced,” said Hans Verolme, director of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) Global Climate Change Program…
Emissions are now spiralling, driven especially by carbon dioxide (CO2) spewed from coal-fired plants in fast-growing China and India, and Kyoto’s present commitments will not even dent the problem.
Reducing emissions implies a cost in converting to cleaner energy or more efficient energy use.
The cost of such a switch is a mighty political hurdle, even though experts say the cost of inaction will be many times higher just a few decades from now.
What a laughable attempt to panic the great unwashed.
The IPCC seems to think that the louder they scream the more believable they are. Science doesn’t work like that. Or at least it’s not supposed to. But maybe these days it does, which is the real danger here.
Hey, if global warming is “irreversible,” why get so exercised about it? Oh, wait, it’s almost irreversible. Well, that is convenient, isn’t it?
Mind you, this self-same United Nations doesn’t think that Ahmadinejad developing nuclear weapons is a threat to the world.
Instead, they think that a (highly questionable) increase in world temperature of perhaps a degree or two over the next century will bring about the end of the world. Of course the folks at the UN really don’t think any such thing. Or even care to find out the truth about such matters.
Rather, they see the global warming scam as just the latest way to redistribute some of the wealth in the world in a more just and equitable fashion. And they plan to skim off their cut — just as they always do.
Meanwhile, maybe the UN will do its part to cut carbon emissions by turning off the electricity, the heating and cooling at the UN building. They should also prohibit their members and employees from having cars.
Better still, the UN should simply prohibit anyone from using airplanes or using any other such harmful transportation.
In fact, they should make all of their delegates and their bloated staffs stay home in their mud huts and sit in the dark and the cold.
– And no burning cow pies!
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November 17th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
SG: “Meanwhile, maybe the UN will do its part to cut carbon emissions by turning off the electricity, the heating and cooling at the UN building. They should also prohibit their members and employees from having cars.”
…or breathing.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Argentina is having the coldest Spring in 90 years. The wheat crop may be damaged due to late frost. Austrailia has lost some crops due to cold weather too. Not very “global” this “global warming”.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
You realize what they’re on about here. Legitimate science? Don’t make me laugh. They don’t give a penguin’s poop whether it’s true or not. The UN has been pushing for a TAX on carbon emissions, payable to the UN. They’re going to keep on pushing this nonsense and crying danger until we’re all bludgeoned into submission. It will be a full-court press from now until they get to collect TAX from every blessed one of us.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
“…or breathing.”
Or passing gas polluting the environment with their methane. How about we just round up every useless POS that claims to be an employee of the U.N. and give them a choice. Go home now or be shot at sunrise. It would look like a den of scurrying roaches when the lights come on.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Just for the record, I don’t actually want to shoot them….just scare the crap out of them. Being mostly girlymen crapweasels, that shouldn’t be hard to do. Well maybe bloody some noses….break some kneecaps….you get the idea.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
WI
Why not shoot them, think of all the greenhouse gasses they give off every time they open their mouths. We could probably fly around the world at least twice by eliminating the UN - and think about the tax savings as well.
Got Glock?
November 17th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
45cal….
LOL…only because then we would have to bury them. I would rather see them retreat to where ever the hell they came from like rats from a sinking ship thinking we would shoot them. In any case I would be over joyed if the U. N. ceased to exist tomorrow. Fortunately, in 27 years of active duty, I never had to wear the U. N. blue on my uniform.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am
The UN serves no real purpose anymore, nothing that is actually helpful in bringing about world peace in that they enable despots and dictators to rob their countries of resources, and force the elected republics to fork out bulk cash to keep this going, and themselves to pocket what they can from it. Time to free up some valuable real estate in NY.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Mrs Artboy and I are back home until the end of the month, visiting friends and family in New Hampshire (”Live Free or Die”), Maine (”America’s Vacationland”), Vermont (”The Green Mountain State”) and Massachusetts (”More taxes? Gladly!”) and yesterday we drove through a global warming storm that covered half of New Hampshire. It was so beautiful; all the pine trees draped in global warming, the white carpet of warming underfoot, the pristine shroud of warming covering the White Mountains…the warming had abated by the time we got to Concord and I noticed all the glacial erratic boulders by the road side, brought here during the Ice Age, which lasted until Cro-Magnon industrialization caused the world’s temperature to rise and led to catastrophic changes, such as the backyard not swarming with sabre toothed tigers and the rest of us being able to walk around in July without having to wrap half a mammoth around ourselves….
November 18th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
artboy….classic…..just classic. Enjoy your vacation in spite of that global warming storm.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
What I find utterly appalling about these enviro-wackos is that if they really believe that CO2 levels need to be drastically reduced, then they should be campaigning on behalf on nuclear power.
But they don’t. Instead they campaign against it.
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte.....ns/nuclear
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk.....rgy05.html
Now think this through for a moment.
Suppose there was a virus as deadly as HIV, and as contagious as the common cold.
And suppose there was a “consensus” of scientists who believed that it could wipe out humanity.
And suppose that there was a vaccine that could protect millions of people.
But it was derived from fish oil.
And suppose that the vegetarian society was campaigning against the vaccine …
That’s the mindset we are up against.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Global warming! Global cooling! What’s the diff? We’re all responsible!! All of us. (Well, maybe not dems who buy make believe “carbon offsets or credits” that make them feel better about the rich life styles the live). Don’t use the toilet any more! Better yet, don’t do anything that’ll make you use the toilet! Don’t use your cars anymore! Kill all the cows due to bovine gases! No phones, no lights, no motor cars! Not a single luxury! And please, please, please vote for Algore since he’s the smartest man in the world. Don’t ya think he and Hitlary would make a great couple?
In fact, if we killed all the humans on earth, then the planet would be able to maintain itself quite nicely…
But then, who’d care…
This message brought to you by the folks (okay, at least one) who think Global Warming is a lot of made up bunk to help Algore and other liberals get richer.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
“In fact, if we killed all the humans on earth, then the planet would be able to maintain itself quite nicely…”
That’s their agenda.
Even if all of algore’s worst nightmares for humanity were true, (you know, when he goes way beyond what even the IPCC consider to be reasonable) it would STILL be the case that the enviro-wackos have nothing to offer humanity.
Because back in the real world, people need energy for heating, lighting, cooking, water treatment, infrastructure …
The deep green environmentalists are bad for humanity.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
“Global Warming is a lot of made up bunk to help Algore and other liberals get richer.”
Don’t forget the UN………… they have a large stake in the carbon credit hoax also. (I guess people aren’t donating enough money to UNISEF to satisfy them.)
GE, you hit that nail on the head! If the environmentalists had their way we’d be riding bicycles and living in trees………….. and probably trading in coconuts.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
No texas, No bicycles, Producing the rubber and vulcanizing it consumes energy.
All that metal in it has to come from ore and has to be mined, Smelted and refined and formed and machined on fuel munching machines. And don’t get me started on the plastics.
Yeah I am picking on ya, Sorry. ;-)
Boy I cant wait till the environuts find out that vegetables feel pain.
They do, I swear, What are they gonna eat when that gets drilled into their lil heads.
Shale salad anyone? Mud pies?
November 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
“Don’t use the toilet any more!. ”
The enviro-tree-hugger-global-warning’s mantra…….If it’s brown, flush it down….if it’s yellow it’s mellow. I can hardly wait.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
*If it’s brown, flush it down….if it’s yellow it’s mellow.*
And you call me a sick puppy! ;-)
November 19th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Well, as Lurkin’ pointed out -it’s all our fault. We S&L’ers and those like us. Hairy barbarians from the hill country.
HolocaustClimate change deniers who drive useful vehicles like 4X4 pickups, and who often own firearms and eat meat and *gasp* even occasionally hunt the food we eat. Worst of all -or, at least, most bizarre of all- people who have jobs that actually produce something useful to society.Meanwhile, they -the poor beleaguered Eloi, who strum their lutes and nibble bark and leaves and just generally live in harmony with nature- are only trying to bring us all together and show us the error of our ways.
Fine.
Howz this? -let’s start eating the environmentalists. They gotta be tender -they’re grass-fed, after all. Not much muscle to have to chew through…
Easy to call out, too - just rattle a government cheque and watch through the scope as they come mincing through the trees…
(insert primal growl here)
November 19th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
LOL…..good DW…very good.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
“Holocaust Climate change deniers who drive useful vehicles like 4X4 pickups, and who often own firearms …..”
Yep DW, and some of us have two 4×4 pickups with one being a diesel engine. But, it is kind of hard to pull a renewable energy generator down the road with a bicycle. But, then we would have Dez the environmentalist on our case because bikes are bad. (Payback DEZ, haha!) ;-)
I guess DW and Lurkin_no_mo are right, it IS all our fault! :-)
November 19th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Yeah tps….you probably full your other pickumup’s tank at the McDonald’s grease trap….LOL. Fry grease fuel…just like Willie Nelson, the moombattiest of moonbat Texans.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
*The poor beleaguered Eloi*
Ah, An H.G.Wells classic.
*let’s start eating the environmentalists.*
Um, No, They are nothing but as****e from top to bottom.
But I will be glad to go along for the hunt.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Thanks WI. As you can see, this enforced time on my hands is doing wonders for my mood and social skills…
But, it is kind of hard to pull a renewable energy generator down the road with a bicycle.
So you use a horse. But then again, you’d get PETA on your case. You know, Pamela Anderson and the rest of those scantily-clad models who…umm…wait a minute….(let’s eat the environmentalists)…ahh…I’ll get back to you guys okay ?
(where’s that damn cheque…?)
November 19th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Has the whole world gone topsy turvy?
The more reserved I get in my posts the sicker DW’s posts get.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
No WI, I run it on cow paddy’s. (patties?) LOL
I’ve heard that the grease fuel is not that great for your engine. (who knows?) In any event sounds like a big mess to deal with.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Well I didn’t mean THAT! (whatever that means)…
Geez you guys. Get yer climate-denying, environment-killing, Gaia-insulting, productive minds out of the gutter will ya’s ?
Sheesh…
November 19th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
“…this enforced time on my hands is doing wonders for my mood and social skills…”
That’s why I un-retired after only a couple of months DW. The thought of winter in the cold, damp, rainy and dark Pacific NW with nothing to do all day but blog here on S & L, sitting on my ass drinking coffee, or visiting with Mrs. WI’s relatives every day (E-gads, worse than coffee with Shillary) just drove me nuts. Now Fresno has been called the armpit, or a-hole of CA, but hell, it’s warm and sunny down here. So we’re snowbirds with an income.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
ok tps….I surrender. But isn’t Whacky Willie selling bio-fuel on his ranch? Probably recycled bong hits.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Since I went back to work, Bourbon distillers have had to lay off hundreds of good people.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Yup DW, It was all our dirty minds, Wink, wink.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Had an interview with some folks from a nickle mine in Thompson, Manitoba today, WI.
(more raping of the environment -like everyone’s going to give up all -or any- of their toys that use nickle-cadmium -HA! Take that DEZ!- batteries…)
Not a snowbird (me)…maybe a loon ? Hell, I don’t care what I’m called, just let me earn an income !
November 19th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
DW, ( Snickers ) Its cadmium.
How did the interview go?
Yeah I am picking on you too.:-O
November 19th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Funny that you said that 1st, I drink less on vacation than when I have to work.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
DEZ,
So how do you get the gooey center in the cadmium…oh never mind…
We’re all just flirting with each other at this point. I’ve got a really neat resume, but unfortunately, having done cool stuff for years and years does not qualify you for doing useful stuff. Fortunately, their HR manager is a female, and when it’s necessary I can look exactly like a baby seal (a tactic I rarely use when interviewing for jobs in northern Newfoundland).
Only time will tell.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Gooey center, LMAO.
Not really sure how they get the gooey center in cadmium, But an owl told me it takes 3 licks to get to the center, One thing I am sure of, The paints I buy with cadmium have one ugly tax on them.
Good luck, Cause I do hope the job interview worked into a new job.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Thanks DEZ.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
‘But an owl told me it takes 3 licks to get to the center…”
Back in the day when I was young, dumb and full of….well you know….a very sexy girl told me that. She’s now known as Mrs. WI….and she’s stil sexy.
Seriously DW….good luck with the job hunt. Being out of work sucks….even for those of us with a pretty good retirement income without working.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Thanks, WI. As the old cliche goes- “The good Lord takes care of fools and drunks and I am thus dual qualified”. I’ll be fine.
Though I’ve not met the lady, I suspect you are to be envied for your Missus.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
“But isn’t Whacky Willie selling bio-fuel on his ranch?”
Yes ma’am WI……. he’s still making biodiesel. http://www.biowillieusa.com/ Although I believe he has a new business partner these days. Anyway, I really am disappointed to see ole’ Willie become so Liberal. I mean this guy supports Code Pink! What can I say?
“Probably recycled bong hits.” really! LOL
November 19th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
DW
Come to Texas.
P.S. It takes 312 licks to get to the center.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Awfully tempting, Zilla, but I fear that would offend 1st’s oft-offered cousin.
Now that I’ve completely disrupted the site, I’m gonna call it a day.
Good night all, take good care.