Posted on 12/02/2020 5:46:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming carbon pollution.
With new reports highlighting 2020’s record-breaking weather and growing fossil fuels extraction that triggers global warming, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres delivered yet another urgent appeal to curb climate change. It was tinged with optimism but delivered dire warnings, as the UN gears up for a Dec. 12 virtual climate summit in France on the 5th anniversary of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement.
“The state of the planet is broken,” Guterres said in a speech at Columbia University. “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.”
“Apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are increasingly the new normal,” he said.
In a report, the World Meteorological Organization said this year is set to end about 1.2°C (2.2°F) warmer than the last half of the 1800s, which scientists use as a baseline for warming caused by heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Most trapped heat goes into the world’s seas, and ocean temperatures now are at record levels. It also means 2020 will go down as one of the three hottest years on record. …
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CO2 is only the third strongest greenhouse gas on the planet although it is supposed to be the second most abundant.
Methane is much stronger, coming in at #2 and so far is believed to be less abundant than CO2.
The number one strongest greenhouse gas and the vastly more abundant in the earth’s atmosphere by far is.......
Drum roll......
water vapor
Puts it i perspective, doesn’t it.
Then, for all we are nagged on to conserve, one major forest fire set by an arsonist, negates all that effort.
And yet the globull warming/cooling/climate change Karens still justify their efforts with *Every little bit helps*.
But it doesn’t mean squat. But virtue signaling makes them feel better.
No life at all.
Everything living is made of carbon and emits carbon.
The Order of Null lives.
We need a good meme that would illustrate the statement ...
“Virtue Signalling Costs Lives!”
Shut up, UN, we gsve more important things to tend to: like the survival of the Republic.
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