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Kerry: "We’re already seeing climate refugees around the world," he said. "If you think migration has been a problem in Europe in the Syrian War or even from what we see now, wait until you see 100 million people for whom the entire food production capacity has collapsed."

"We are driven not by politics, not by ideology," he said. "We're driven by mathematics and physics, by science, which tells us, and has been for 35 years or more, what will happen if we don't do X, Y, and Z." 

Marc Morano, executive director of ClimateDepot.com, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida on Feb. 25, 2022. (Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times)

“The interesting thing about China is that you can go back decades, and United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres has praised China’s one-party rule for, essentially, getting things done, [Canadian Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau praised China’s one-party rule because it could get things done on investments in solar energy, and you have many other prominent figures in the climate movement who have used China as a model,” Morano said. ...

“It’s just bonkers from a strategic and national security point of view for Europe, Canada, and the United States to actually start shutting down our energy and then play by some ‘Green New Deal’ rules when OPEC, Iran, Russia, and China have zero intention of playing by the same rules,” Morano added.

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Watch: Morano on Epoch TV: ‘Green Energy Movement Empowers China,’ Says Marc Morano; US-China 7-Hour Meeting Reaches No Results

Get ready for the media onslaught: “The IPCC’s horrifying evidence of escalating climate impacts is set to show a nightmare painted in the dry language of science,” Teresa Anderson, who heads climate justice issues at ActionAid International, said in a statement. Scientists won’t yet say specifically what’s in the report because its critical summary is still subject to intense negotiation between the authors and governments over next two weeks.

Consensus is needed for the final version. Drafts that have circulated publicly will be changed, sometimes dramatically, before it is publicly released on 28 February.

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Flashback: UN IPCC report is ‘the result of negotiations between governments. In other words it is a political statement, not a scientific document’

Flashback: UN ‘IPCC report is apocalyptic, catastrophic’ – ‘It’s really staring us in the face’ – Certain doom unless – we follow UN central planning dictates!

BBC Claim: "Climate change and racism are two of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century. They are also strongly intertwined." ... "The nations of the Global North have effectively colonized the atmospheric commons. They've enriched themselves as a result, but with devastating consequences for the rest of the world and for all of life on Earth."

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Also see: Identity politics invades the climate change debate

Kerry told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce he "is for gas" but only if it includes carbon capture technology. "If it's abated - terrific. If you can capture 100% (of the carbon and methane emissions} and it makes it affordable - that's wonderful. But we're not doing that," Kerry said.

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Climate Depot Response: "Who cares if Kerry will or will not support gas?! He is a bureaucratic elite hack who is seeking to crush American's domestic energy based on the farce of an alleged climate emergency. Why is the U.S. Chamber even entertaining this nonsense?" 

As the world is far off-track on limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, Guterres urged all governments to strengthen their climate action plans under the Paris Agreement, “until they collectively deliver the 45 per cent emissions reduction target.” This means “no new coal plants. No expansion in oil and gas exploration,” he said.

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres: "We must rescue the Agenda 2030." ...

Meanwhile, the climate crisis is fueling conflict and escalating humanitarian crises. ... At the same time, every country must strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions until they collectively deliver the 45 per cent emissions reduction needed by 2030. ... Every sector and every industry, including shipping and aviation, must be on a trajectory to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Wealthier countries must finally make good on the $100 billion climate finance commitment to developing countries, starting in 2022."