Posted on 03/19/2024 6:43:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.
The World Meteorological Organization, in a “State of the Global Climate” report released Tuesday, ratcheted up concerns that a much-vaunted climate goal is increasingly in jeopardy: That the world can unite to limit planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees.
“Earth’s issuing a distress call,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “The latest State of the Global Climate report shows a planet on the brink. Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts.”
“Topping all the bad news, what worries me the most is that the planet is now in a meltdown phase — literally and figuratively given the warming and mass loss from our polar ice sheets,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, who wasn’t involved in the report.
“Each year the climate story gets worse; each year WMO officials and others proclaim that the latest report is a wake-up call to decision makers,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, a former British Columbia lawmaker.
“Yet each year, once the 24-hour news cycle is over, far too many of our elected ‘leaders’ return to political grandstanding, partisan bickering and advancing policies with demonstrable short-term outcomes,” he said. “More often than not everything else ends up taking precedence over the advancement of climate policy. And so, nothing gets done.”
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The UN says a lot of stuff.
Any consequences when UNaccountable bureaucrats/deceivers are wrong? F UN
The U.N. “weather agency”?
Bwahahahahahaha.
That clown show is still searching for a single IQ point.
My theory for any alleged rise in CO2 is the increase in volcanic activity and the millions of acres of wild fires that took place.
My electric bill for January was the highest ever. Nearly 40 years in this house.
Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems.
Pure verified unadulterated incontrovertible 100% bull stuff.
“That the world can unite to limit planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees.”
So, what’s the point? Leave us alone.
Red alert.....don’t they mean BLOODBATH?
The UN is on drugs
I'll take life in the Modern Warm Period any day over life during the recent Little Ice Age (the centuries that many Europeans died settling in America, many in the Old World died from plague, centuries of starvation and taking over of crop land, etc.).
The asinine leftist agenda gets even more asinine with this lattest “warning”
My goodness, what would they have been like when miles thick ice covering g the us and other parts of the world all melted rapidly. They wou,d have been truly insufferable!
This is getting old.
Wanna save the climate? Repent and turn to God.
Timed perfectly to coincide with Traitor Joe’s ICE car ban this week. Not a coincidence.
It has to be the Environmental Impact of millions and millions of Illegal Aliens coming to America and Europe where their Ecological Footprint is now up by 300% from Mexico to 600% from Somalia.They are all now eating food produced by tractors, driven in gas powered cars, kept warm by fossil fuel, etc. We are all going to die!
Wisconsin has been having Spring-Like weather since February - when we even had a tornado!
We are 20” BEHIND on snowfall for the year, but not to worry - it’s ALL coming to us Thursday night into Friday!
Happens nearly every year. :)
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