Editorial: UN Should Sober Up — There Is No Consensus On The Threat Of Climate Catastrophe
As things stand today, there is clearly no global consensus on a climate catastrophe, or on the way the world should tackle it. We think the UN should sober up. It is its responsibility to review its climate agenda and change the message. If by the end of the Katowice summit on December 14, there is still no consensus on a plan of action, the UN should pull the plug on its climate agenda. The two-week UN climate summit, which opened yesterday in Katowice, Poland, is fraught with the conflicting beliefs and stands of nations on the largely UN-promoted threat of global climate catastrophe. The conference will last for two weeks, but despite the unusual length, there is little chance that the nations will agree on the existence of the threat, or on the drastic plan of action that the UN is assiduously promoting. Some, like the UN and many nations, are pressing forward with a policy of fear-mongering. Other countries are totally skeptical about the doomsday prediction, and reject the global warming problem itself. Climate alarmists have warned that the world needs to cut fossil fuel emissions by half by 2030 to avert disaster. The Poland summit seeks to firm up a plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. Climate skeptics on the other hand totally reject the UN doomsday prediction; they dismiss the alleged need to cut back on fossil fuels and abandon CO2, which would turn the world economy upside down. The troubles hounding the Katowice summit are a direct outcome of the extravagant promises and expectations raised by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In Paris three years ago, countries committed to limit global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius. Johan Rockstrom, designated director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said the talks in Katowice are crucial in nailing down how the Paris promises will work in practice. This objective faces a formidable wall. According to Rockstorm, delegates to the COP24 “cannot and will not discuss if governments worldwide must achieve rapid greenhouse gas emission reductions to limit climate risks and on how they can do this.” In Katowice, the nations will discuss a proposed rulebook palatable to all 183 states that ratified the Paris deal. This is far from likely. High among the obstacles is the decision of US President Donald Trump to pull out the US from the accord. Last Saturday, during the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, the US reiterated its decision to “withdraw” from the Paris agreement. Brazil, under its new president Jair Bolsonaro, has signified its intent to follow the American lead and withdraw from the accord. Many fear that the US withdrawal will have a domino effect and lead other nations to pull out from the Paris agreement. It is emblematic of the problems hounding the UN‘s climate agenda that the summit is taking place in Katowice, Poland, a mining city, which is sometimes called ‘the coal capital’ of Europe. Coal is a prime target for execution by the UN. Last week, the Polish government announced its plans to open a new coal mine. Meanwhile, the UN just keeps doubling down on its forecast of climate catastrophe. Just last week, the UN Environment Program said the voluntary national contributions agreed in Paris would have to triple if the world was to cap global warming below 2C. According to the Wall Street Journal, when the UN made its doomsday prediction, most of the world yawned. Full post The post Editorial: UN Should Sober Up — There Is No Consensus On The Threat Of Climate Catastrophe appeared first on The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF).
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