Posted on 11/27/2019 7:21:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Geneva — Countries have procrastinated for too long and need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting , a senior United Nations official said Tuesday. The appeal by Inger Andersen, who heads the U.N. Environment Program, came days before governments gather in Madrid for an annual climate change meeting.
Current national pledges would leave the world 5.8 Fahrenheit warmer by 2100 than pre-industrial times, with dramatic consequences for life on Earth, the U.N. agency said, adding that getting the world back on track to limit the increase to 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) would require a fivefold increase in measures pledged so far.
Even if the current pledges are met, the U.N. said it "would cause mass extinctions" and leave "large parts of the planet uninhabitable" by 2100.
"We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated," said Andersen. "If we don't do this, the 1.5C goal will be out of reach before 2030."
"Major societal and economic transformations need to take place in the next decade to make up for the inaction of the past," the Tuesday emissions gap report said, adding that these measures would need to include ending the use of fossil fuels in the energy, building and transport sectors.
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The UN is still beating that poor old dead horse to smithereens.
We could reduce our greenhouse gases tremendously if we closed the UN and sent all of the personnel to their home countries. The reduction in uneeded air travel would be enormous! Shut down the UN! Environmental pigs on the loose!
Shove it, U.N.
A greater collection of clueless science-illiterate boffins existeth not.
These folks are fun comic relief for me. If I lived in Europe, where this nuttery affects people’s daily lives, I would not be amused. I’d probably join the yellow vests.
The UN would have money if they didn’t waste it on Global Warming Propaganda
I don’t know what’s worse, that we host the HQ of a rabidly Anti-American Socialist World Government on our own soil, or that we underwrite it with tax dollars ...
No, they are consistent.
The developed world, the G7 need to pay taxes to the OIC’s UN irrespective of the fact the most backwards nations are the greatest violators.
The “west” needs to pay for the world of Islams (and marxisms) deficiencies.
How does the UN propose to block all future Ice Ages?
risk missing agreed targets for limiting.
So sorry, we are no longer in agreement.
(Well, maybe not... This IS Chicago.)
So then .... Invade China and shut down the pollution, UN morons.
Give us your money and we’ll lower the temperature.
That was easy.
Amen to that! I’d be a yellow vest in a heartbeat!
True story: my mother-in-law is from Europe and a few years back her sister visited here coming from France. As I was doing the dishes in the sink she got all huffy because I was apparently using too much water to rinse the soap off of the dishes. Stupid euroweenies are all in on “we’re all gonna die climate change”.
None of the UN's previous "climate" projections have had any predictive value at all. The chances of the opposite happening are actually greater because of a measurable drop in solar irradiance. And of course this is exacerbated by both the “wobble” in the angle of the tilt of the earth and the oval path of the earth's orbit around the sun. Rising CO2 levels have occurred after warmer time periods not before, they have not been shown to have predictive value.
Who would have guessed that Karl Marx, so long ago, could have foreseen that his philosophy could be used to stop Earth’s climate change and the slow warming of the Earth.?
Wonders never cease.
F/UN
And that don’t mean “fun”...
It looks like the little Swedish Meatball affected them greatly. Poor babies. She made them all wet their pants with her dire predictions. LOL. We’re doomed.
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