Just when you thought that the non-stop reports of climate disasters might be given a rest the UN comes up with yet another:
UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster - BBC News
Of course this was given the prime spot on yesterday's BBC news, complete with pictures of recent floods in Pakistan etc. The narrative is that all this extreme weather is due to "climate change" and it will get much worse, but there is still a chance that if we repent our wicked ways and stop emitting CO2 then we can save ourselves. Don't these people realise that by repeating this same message ad nauseum that many people will tire of it and simply turn off. Clearly not. This incessant message of impending doom is carefully designed to prepare us for the very costly and restrictive policies that will be foisted on us all.
But the public aren't fools, they will see that the climate they experience is changing very little. Sure, you get extreme weather, but that has always been the case. Pakistan has had many floods before. Most people will think the sensible way forward is for nations to adapt to try and protect people from these events. To try and claim that they are getting so much worse when the evidence does not support that is a very foolish strategy, for even if the media refuse to show the actual data which does not support this doom-mongering, the evidence will eventually come out via the internet and great websites like Not a Lot of People Know That and Watts Up With That.
No one is ever invited on to the news to suggest that any of these pronouncements made might be questionable. At one point the presenter said that the world was now warmer than for the past 125,000 years. I would say that is very contentious and there is a lot of evidence to counter it. For example how do they explain that a few years ago a melting glacier revealed beneath it the remains of ancient Alpine trees that were found to be about 400 years old, proving that only 400 years ago the Alps must have been warmer than they are today. Farming communities thrived on Greenland during what is known as the Medieval Warm Period. All this inconvenient material is swept under the carpet.
Such one-sided reporting is not normal in our open society, yet it is happening. In other less enlightened nations we call it propaganda. There is no discussion of the cost of the policies required to reduce our CO2 emissions to net zero versus the benefits to us. All we get is repetitive messages about how bad it all is and how we must do whatever it takes to get to net zero. No mention of the fact that we only emit 1% of the world's CO2 and so cannot achieve anything on our own and that nations such as China and India have no intention of reducing their CO2 to zero.
From the reporting the message seems to be that if we just drive a bit less and eat less meat, turn down the heating, then we can save the planet. Most of us know that this is nonsense, and our political leaders know it, but they just cannot bring themselves to admit it publicly.
Science is clear on this. This is not a happy scenario, but one that gets more grim with time.
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Already, the IPCC showed, Earth’s global average temperature has increased by at least 1.1 degrees Celsius over preindustrial temperatures. Evidence shows that effects are already being felt: dwindling fish populations, less productive farms, rising infectious diseases, and escalating weather disasters, the Post reported. The effects are felt strongest in poorer countries and low-lying island nations.
More than 3.3 billion people currently live in areas that are “highly vulnerable” to climate breakdowns, and half of the world’s population experiences severe water scarcity for at least part of the year, The Guardian reported. Severe weather changes are already driving displacement of people in Africa; Asia; North, Central, and South America; and the south Pacific. Mass migration and displacement often lead to conflict and political instability as well.
“Between 2010 and 2020, human mortality from floods, droughts, and storms was 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions, compared to regions very low vulnerability,” the IPCC Synthesis Report said. In all regions, increases in extreme heat events resulted in human mortality and morbidity, and the occurrence of climate-related food- or water-borne diseases increased.
Just quoting from the report does not make it any more accurate. For a start the term "climate breakdown" is meaningless. It's simply a new scary word for extreme weather event -and these have always happened and always will. Of course some areas of the world are more vulnerable to extreme weather. That has always been the case. As far as fish populations dropping, this is mot likely due to over-fishing by massive factory ships. In general crops are currently at record high levels, due to modern farming methods, fertilisers and pest controls along with genetically modified varieties.
DeleteRemember that extreme cold is far more deadly than heat. The rest is speculation with no clear evidence of the claimed link to the modest warming. Remember that there has only been 1 degree Celsius of warming in total and around half of that is not claimed to be due to CO2 according to the IPCC.
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