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Three decades ago world told to 'act now' on climate
France24 ^ | March 18, 2022

Posted on 03/18/2022 8:15:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Paris (AFP) – With the planet facing the "potentially serious consequences" of global warming, UN experts writing 32 years ago urged an indifferent world to take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Planet-warming carbon pollution has increased ever since.

In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced the first trio of reports in a cycle of climate change assessments -- one on the physical science of warming, one on the impacts and one on solutions -- that has repeated roughly every six years.

While the authors of the most recent IPCC report on impacts, released in February this year, can say the evidence of harm to humanity and the entire planet is "unequivocal", the authors of those first reports 30 years ago could not be as forthright.

The scientists writing the 1990 report underscored the need to reduce emissions of different gases -- especially carbon dioxide and methane -- across a range of different sectors, from energy generation to agriculture.

"Our understanding has been refined over 40 years, but the alarm has been ringing since the first IPCC report," said Celine Guivarch, one of the authors of the latest IPCC assessment of solutions, set to be published on April 4.

With each new cycle of climate evaluation, the description of risks in the IPCC reports has become ever clearer and more urgent. The forecasts have become increasingly catastrophic.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 03/18/2022 8:15:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They were saying that in the 1960’s. Back then it was the coming ice age.


2 posted on 03/18/2022 8:16:47 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, it is too late then. /sarc Considering Africa, China, India, South America will do little if anything to alleviate this so-called threat, what is the point of doing anything?


3 posted on 03/18/2022 8:17:27 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obamawhy's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And 2 decades before that we were in the throws of a Devastating ICE AGE threatening the extinction of ALL Life on this Planet.


4 posted on 03/18/2022 8:21:56 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It has actually been been about 45 years but hey who’s counting, this just proves what a HOAX this truly is!! The seas are supposedly rising YET our oligarchs are out buying beach front property everywhere BOTH Obama AND Zuckerberg in Hawaii, Obama again in Martha’s Vineyard, Pelosi right on the beach in FL. people that don’t have enough common sense to SEE this are just fools!!!


5 posted on 03/18/2022 8:22:22 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: gitmo

6 posted on 03/18/2022 8:22:52 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep..... need to start a company that makes corks for cows to alleviate the methane emissions though I might have a problem hiring folks to insert them into place.


7 posted on 03/18/2022 8:23:26 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The clock is ticking on a prediction made about 4 years ago that we would be underwater in about 12 years from then.


8 posted on 03/18/2022 8:24:06 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: gitmo

“Back then it was the coming ice age.”

Right, still pissed I wasted money on extra ear muffs and mittens for everything. Wont be fooled again. :)


9 posted on 03/18/2022 8:26:35 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Yeah. I was told that by 2015 all the world’s coastlines would be under 20 feet of water. I was down at Marina del Ray last year and the boat slips are the same level as 30 years ago. Am I missing something?


10 posted on 03/18/2022 8:27:28 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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And yet we’re still alive 30 years later.


11 posted on 03/18/2022 8:27:39 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: PghBaldy

Africa, China, India, South America DO want something to be done in response to the global warming threat. They want America to open up its wallet.


12 posted on 03/18/2022 8:30:13 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, then we are all SOL, so why should we even worry, now that it is apparently too late!!!!! 🙂


13 posted on 03/18/2022 8:30:56 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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This article is just one example of how tone-deaf these Climate Change fraudsters are. Thirty years ago they warned us about an impending climate disaster. Yet there has been no disaster.

So this article actually is convincing evidence that everything they said was wrong.

Real scientists correct their mistakes. Fake scientists double-down on their mistakes. And since Climate Change scientists are fake scientists, they will of course double-down now.


14 posted on 03/18/2022 8:31:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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I remember watching mr spock state unequivocally on television that glaciers were advancing across north america, and showed brutal film of snow storms in buffalo to prove it


15 posted on 03/18/2022 8:31:38 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: ArcadeQuarters
And yet we’re still alive 30 years later.

And...we survived all of it without solar and wind turbines.

16 posted on 03/18/2022 8:34:13 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Al Gore’s Doomsday Clock came and went and Earth is still here with no changes and now Jane Fonda wants to start her own 8 year clock was she drunk or asleep during Algores 10 year clock , LOL


17 posted on 03/18/2022 8:34:35 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: gitmo

Yep. Ice Age, then ozone hole, then global warming before they eventually settled on climate change. Boy who cried wolf status was achieved decades ago.


18 posted on 03/18/2022 8:34:42 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We should have used the end of the Ice Age as a warning. LOL.


19 posted on 03/18/2022 8:35:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Three decades ago world told to 'act now' on climate

And the climate scammers like Algore and all of the University Climate Study groups are extremely grateful that you didn't take action 30 years ago.

Because if you did, it would have ruined 30 years of their money grifting operations from governments and gullible NGOs.

20 posted on 03/18/2022 8:36:02 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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