Links tagged “ipcc”
- UN doubles down on ‘climate action’ amid coronavirus: ‘As the world is tackling COVID-19, there can be no delay in Climate Action’
- ‘Coronavirus fight could prove fatal for another global challenge: Addressing climate change’
- Amid coronavirus, UN posts a video of ‘UN Climate Change Program Officer’ answering ‘How do you ensure that gender equality is a key part of your work?’
- UN environment chief: ‘Nature is sending us a message’ with coronavirus & climate change
Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts ...
Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen.
Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging consequences, and warned that failing to take care of the planet meant not taking care of ourselves. Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a “clear warning shot”, given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today’s civilisation was “playing with fire”. They said it was almost always human behaviour that caused diseases to spill over into humans.
To prevent further outbreaks, the experts said, both global heating and the destruction of the natural world for farming, mining and housing have to end, as both drive wildlife into contact with people.
- Warmist Ben Santer: How COVID-19 Is like Climate Change – ‘Both are existential challenges’
- Climate Campaign ‘At Risk of Stalling’ — Loses Momentum As World Fights Coronavirus
- Growth will be a thing of the past if businesses choose ‘net zero’ emissions – ‘A blueprint for the extinction of capitalism as we know it’
- Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres: Slower economic growth from coronavirus ‘may be good for climate’ – ‘There is less trade, less travel, less commerce’
Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked former UN chief Figueres: "Is there any sense that this could be self-controlling -- that as we see economic growth possibly slowing down around the world, because of coronavirus -- that's actually good for the climate?"
Christiana Figueres replied: "Well, that is, ironically, of course, the other side of this -- right? It may be good for climate. But I think -- because there is less trade, there's less travel, there's less commerce."
Weaponizing Coronavirus: Figueres also said: Expect more disease outbreaks ‘if we continue to deny, delude and delay on climate change’
Figueres also used the coronavirus as an opportunity to plug the UN's campaign to reduce and stop meat-eating around the world. "If we continue to eat animals, we will actually be poisoning ourselves and being the genesis new diseases that we have not seen before," Figueres explained. [See: ‘Food Police’ –UN Meat report: UN seeks ‘massive expansion of the UN’s regulatory power…lifestyle controls’]
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- Mark Steyn on the death of UN IPCC’s Rajendra Pachauri – ‘The Warmographic Novelist who Got #CO-Tooed’
- Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: New Paper Shows UN IPCC baseline scenarios over-project CO2 emissions & economic growth
