Posted on 04/20/2023 3:22:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres bluntly challenged the climate efforts of President Joe Biden and other world leaders Thursday in a message for a White House summit, charging that expanded oil and gas drilling and other policies of the richest countries amount to a “death sentence” for the planet.
The warning marked a public rebuke from the U.N.’s highest official of what he described as “the major emitters” of gases from burning fossil fuels that are heating the planet.
The challenge — recorded by Guterres in a video for the White House virtual climate summit — came as Russia’s war in Ukraine and other threats to the world’s short-term oil and gas supply are leading the U.S. and some other nations to up production of climate-damaging oil, natural gas and coal.
Biden opened the summit recounting his administration’s billions of dollars in climate efforts and by announcing $1 billion in new climate finance for developing nations, as well as other recent and planned legislation and programs. In the U.S. and elsewhere, however, the renewed embrace of fossil fuels is creating conflicts with the climate efforts, plans and promises.
“Geopolitical divisions must not torpedo the world’s climate fight,” Guterres warned in his video.
“The science is clear: New fossil fuel projects are entirely incompatible” with keeping global warming within the limits that the U.S. and roughly 200 other nations committed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, said the U.N. chief. Current national policies are taking the world to a level nearly twice as high, he said, calling that a “death sentence.”
“Yet many countries are expanding capacity. And I urge you to change course,” said Guterres, whose calls for an immediate stop to new oil and gas drilling have sharpened …
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It’s too late, isn’t it?
New BWMs, Mercedes, ocean front villas, Swiss bank accounts, gold bouillon for Biden's pals in "developing" nations.
Anyone that sees the climate changing is Delusional
These global warming bastards are everywhere.
Guterres the Nazi needs his ass kicked. Damn third world BTH.
There need not be a climate fight. Nothing to fight about if you don’t like the climate, you can move. It’s nothing but a money grab for something we can’t change anyway. Even if you could change the climate, what would you change it to as there is no pleasing everybody anyway? Those who keep harping about climate change should get their climate changed to Gitmo. If we are going to have a U.N. then we at least need someone running it who knows what they are doing. Firstly, let’s get it moved out of the U.S. No reason for us to keep putting up with this crap when we don’t need to.
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