Posted on 03/13/2023 5:29:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations called Monday for scientists to serve up “cold, hard facts” to push governments into making policies that curb climate change before a key global warming threshold is passed.
In a video address to delegates, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “could not come at a more pivotal time.”
“Our world is at a crossroads — and our planet is in the crosshairs,” he said. “We are nearing the point of no return; of overshooting the internationally agreed limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) of global warming.”
Guterres stressed that speeding up the phase-out of fossil fuels is “tough but essential.”
“Show the urgent need to end global heating with cold, hard facts,” he told delegates.
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You exactly right, what difference it would made if we change another .2 degree.
For the last at least 30 years, I have been hearing, that we have only ten years left!
Before that, in seventies, we had only few years left before we would all froze!
the UN sure has strayed outside of its charter these days
Un chiefs cold hard facts nee to fond their way up his A hole
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