Posted on 03/23/2023 2:49:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres seems not to know that the Academy Awards already happened. He delivered a highly melodramatic and unrealistic speech Wednesday claiming that global warming will cause glaciers to melt, sea levels to rise, and disaster to strike both humanity and the climate. Sure, similar predictions that the Arctic ice would disappear and global warming was in imminent danger of triggering a worldwide apocalypse have been wrong for at least forty years, but why learn from the past?
The United Nations (UN) has apparently decided that 2025 will be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Guterres delivered a fear-mongering March 22 speech to explain why 2025 has been so labeled:
Glaciers are also the world’s water towers. They represent the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet — supporting our nutrition, health, economies and energy production. And nearly 2 billion people — one out of every four people on earth — live in areas where glaciers and seasonal snowmelt supply their water.
But, these silent giants are facing a rude awakening. Human activity is driving our planet’s temperature to dangerous new heights. Global warming is a global warning that we are on the wrong track. And melting glaciers are the canary in the coalmine.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Cats and dogs, living together!
A succinct interpretation of his address: Give us (The UN) more money!
Yawn. It becomes more apparent that the US needs to cut funding to the UN by 100%.
Antarctica is losing an average of 150 billion tons of ice mass every year. The Greenland ice cap is melting even faster — losing 270 billion tons per year. To put that in perspective, that combined total ice melt in just one year is the equivalent of a wall of ice fully five metres high, covering my entire home country of Portugal.
Climate Depot and Climate Change Dispatch reported in September 2021, “Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Wednesday that the Arctic ice sheet extends 25 percent further than it did [the] summer [before].” As of Jan. 2022, Arctic ice was still stable. Has a huge crisis suddenly started since then? I’m going to go out on a limb—or an ice cap—and say probably not.
What, me worry?
Glaciers retreat and advance and retreat and advance...............
Why yes, there is no shortage of gullible dumbasses to be found. Anyone seen my Yosemite glacier? 🖕😵
Let me know when they start building seawalls.
Until then ... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
Critical Thinking is not his thing.
Get a butterfly net for this UN jagoff.
Except glaciers are bigger now than they were in the 1990’s
Poor guy. The cat-tastrophy for him is that is that it really
doesn’t matter. Water levels just aren’t rising. Plenty
of ice melt has taken place already.
Remember the good 'ol' days when a Nazi held that position? Boy, did they kiss his ass on that UN tour I went on as a kid when he was S-G.
Less than 8 years now until global warming causes the end of the world, per AOC. (It will end Tuesday, January 21, 2031. She did not specify what time of day).
......”Critical Thinking is not his thinga;.......
Right...he’s an emotional thinker....the more drama the better.
He must have gone to the same “STEM college” that loudmouthed little cupcake from whateverthehelll country she comes from went to ... you know, the technical school that awarded her an honorary Theology degree ... although it is appropriate as “climate change” is much more of a secular religion than it will ever be a physical science.
I wish they would explain how Ötzi the Iceman got under that glacier in the Alps 5000 years ago.
Quite a feat to go from Wehrmacht officer to UN Secretary General. What that say about the UN.... Mark Steyn once said the UN is what you get when you mix a quart of ice cream (Western republics) with a couple tablespoons of dog droppings (the rest of the UN members). The result resembled the latter much more than the former.
Yep, but I'd rather live under times of melting glaciers than through another ice age in a time of trying to feed 8 billion people.
True but they are advancing at a glacial pace.
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