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UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left 'to save the world'
msn ^ | 04/11/2024 | SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN

Posted on 04/11/2024 1:18:32 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

OXFORD, England (AP) — Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations climate agency said.

With governments of the world facing a 2025 deadline for new and stronger plans to curb carbon pollution, nearly half of the world's populations voting in elections this year, and crucial global finance meetings later this month in Washington, United Nations executive climate secretary Simon Stiell said Wednesday he knows his warning may sound melodramatic. But he said action over the next two years is “essential.”

“We still have a chance to make greenhouse gas emissions tumble, with a new generation of national climate plans. But we need these stronger plans, now,” Stiell said in a speech at the Chatham House think tank in London. He suggested that climate action is not just for powerful people to address — in a not-so-veiled reference to the electoral calendar this year.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

I feel sorry for anyone, including brainwashed children who are scared to death because of these Pollyanna’s. And seriously if anyone truly believed this then we must presume San Diego and Miami will be under water, and do real estate there should be on for a fire sale.


81 posted on 04/12/2024 3:44:33 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: JBW1949

From many I hear, especially children, earth will have the toxic atmosphere of Venus.


82 posted on 04/12/2024 3:45:40 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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