UN vs. UN: UN climate chief declares humans have ‘two years to save the world’ – But UN scientist rubbishes UN claim as ‘meaningless rhetoric’ & ‘counterproductive’
United Nations executive climate secretary Simon Stiell: “Who exactly has two years to save the world? The answer is every person on this planet,” Stiell said.
“‘Two years to save the world’ is meaningless rhetoric — at best, it’s likely to be ignored, at worst, it will be counterproductive,” said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who is also a professor of international affairs. [Note: Oppenheimer has also served as UN IPCC Coordinating Lead Author.]
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UN COP29 Leader Urges US to Keep Climate Pledges Even If Trump Elected
https://www.newsweek.com/cop29-president-elect-mukhtar-babayev-urges-america-keep-climate-pledge-donald-trump-election-1887323 The incoming host of the next COP summit has called on the U.S. and other nations to maintain their climate commitments, even if Donald Trump is elected as president in November. In his third media interview since being named president-elect of the COP29 summit—due to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the week after the U.S. […]
End Times?! UN Climate Chief: Election of Donald Trump ‘could put world’s climate goals at risk’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/31/election-donald-trump-world-climate-goals-at-risk-un-chief Victory for Donald Trump in the US presidential election this year could put the world’s climate goals at risk, a former UN climate chief has said. The chances of limiting global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels are already slim, and Trump’s antipathy to climate action would have a major impact on the US, which is the […]
Property Rights Activist Margaret Byfield on Biden’s federal land-grabs & UN’s Agenda 2030: ‘Either you have the right to own property, or you are property’
"Either you have the right to own property, or you are property. And when you think about that, that's really where they are headed. So, when they say 'you will own nothing and like it', somebody will own that." – @Margaret_ASL on federal land-grabs, from NACs to Agenda 2030 pic.twitter.com/PwsV177KBr — Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) March […]
POLITICO: ‘How Trump could exit Paris — and make it stick’ – ‘Pull U.S. out of 1992 treaty that underpins the UN Paris deal’ & to re-enter it would ‘require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/03/12/how-trump-could-exit-paris-and-make-it-stick-00146504 By ARIANNA SKIBELL Prominent conservatives have devised a road map to cement climate policy rollbacks under a future President Donald Trump. Chief among their targets: exiting the Paris climate agreement for good, write Robin Bravender and Sara Schonhardt. The idea, included in a 920-page policy report, is to pull the United States out of the 1992 […]
UN Report titled ‘The Unjust Climate’ finds misogyny makes climate change worse for women-led households
UN IPCC’s New ‘Hockey Stick’ Temperature Graph
IPCC’s New “Hockey Stick” Temperature Graph by haakonsk The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their latest assessment report (AR6) in 2021. In 2023, the Clintel Foundation published a report which criticizes AR6. Clintel is short for Climate Intelligence, and the Clintel Foundation doesn’t think there’s a climate emergency. Overall, Clintel’s main criticism is that […]
Rupert Darwall: Net Zero’s days are numbered
Via Net Zero Watch: https://mailchi.mp/298bb2d0191b/apple-pulls-the-plug-kills-its-electric-car-201204?e=0b1369f9f8 Rupert Darwall: Net Zero’s days are numbered The Spectator, 23 February 2024 If a week is a long time in politics, then 2023 belongs to a different age in the politics of Net Zero. Less than eleven months ago, the government was saying that ‘Net Zero is the growth opportunity of […]
Biden admin shifting ‘Climate Czar’ from State Dept to White House – Podesta will wield the power without the title & without a confirmation hearing
The Biden White House is moving to shift work of the “Climate Czar” from the State Department to the White House. John Podesta will now reportedly wield the power without the title and, most importantly, without a confirmation hearing…https://t.co/i4Zf0T1dXu — Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 12, 2024 The Rasputin Effect: Biden Moves To Make Podesta the […]
Navigating the Complexity of Climate Change: A Closer Look at the Scientific Method and Its Challenges
https://mises.org/wire/navigating-complexity-climate-change-closer-look-scientific-method-and-its-challenges 01/31/2024Frank Hollenbeck The physical sciences have greatly advanced knowledge by elucidating the workings of simple phenomena. In a simple phenomenon, we have a limited number of important variables, all of which are identifiable and measurable. This allows us to run a scientific experiment. In such an experiment, we hold all other variables constant and […]