UN Chief Goes On Unhinged Climate Fearmongering Rant
The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres said this week humanity must urgently find solutions to climate change because it “has opened the gates of hell.”
“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects,” Guterres warned in his opening remarks Wednesday at the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit in New York.
“Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods; sweltering temperatures spawning disease; and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage,” the Portuguese socialist intoned.
“Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge,” he inveighed, and humanity is heading towards a 2.8-degree temperature rise ushering in “a dangerous and unstable world.”
Yet some brave souls are working toward a solution, “fighters and trailblazers” forging a path forward, he noted hopefully.
These climate pioneers include activists “refusing to be silenced,” indigenous peoples “defending their lands from climate extremes,” chief executives “transforming their business models,” and financiers “funding a just transition,” he declared.
They also include mayors “moving towards to a zero-carbon future” and governments “working to stamp out fossil fuels and protect vulnerable communities,” he added.
Pulling no punches, Guterres said the move from ‘fossil fuels’ to renewables is being hampered by the “foot-dragging, arm-twisting, and the naked greed of entrenched interests raking in billions from fossil fuels.”
The U.N. chief said he has put forward an “Acceleration Agenda” calling on governments of developed countries to “reach net zero as close as possible to 2040” and emerging economies “as close as possible to 2050.”
Somehow the Acceleration Agenda will bring about a fair, equitable, and just energy transition “while providing affordable electricity to all,” Guterres insists, a task historically accomplished only by ‘fossil fuels’.
To whip global warming, countries must “exit coal,” end ‘fossil fuel’ subsidies, and set “ambitious renewable energy goals in line with the 1.5-degree limit,” he asserted.
The U.N. Acceleration Agenda also calls for climate justice, he declared, insisting that the poorest nations “have every right to be angry” because they are suffering “from a climate crisis they did nothing to create.”
The hyperbolic rhetoric employed by Guterres to decry global warming has heightened in pitch and intensity, making him sound more and more unhinged.
Just two months ago, he declared that “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived,” a curiously meaningless statement.
Earlier this month, Guterres said the “dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” adding the “climate breakdown has begun.”
Guterres [blamed] the climate apocalypse on “our fossil fuel addiction,” insisting that “climate is imploding faster than we can cope.”
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Editor’s note: this climate fearmongering and outright lies must stop, or these people will lose what little is left of their credibility. The terms ‘global boiling’ and ‘the gates of hell’ suggest Guterres is suffering from a similar mental illness to that which is afflicting ‘President’ Biden.
PSI’s position is that there is but one ‘greenhouse gas’; water vapour. I personally would be glad if England’s average temperature increased 2.8 degrees, it would benefit our crop production and increase tourism for a start.
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Herb Rose
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Hi PSI Editor,
Water is not a greenhouse gas and I am surprised to see you saying this. It is not warming the planet.
When the 250F temperature on the sunny side of the moon is mentioned people say that the atmosphere is blocking the energy coming from the sun. Then they turn around and say the atmosphere is not blocking the energy from the sun but some gasses are blocking the solar energy absorbed by the Earth from escaping into space.
Water absorbs 600 calories/gram from the surface of the Earth, when evaporating. It then carries this heat to the top of the troposphere where it is released into space, turns back into liquid water and falls to the surface to repeat the process. This is not heating the Earth but cooling it, preventing the temperature from reaching 250F. Every liter of rain is the result of 600,000 calories of energy being removed from the surface. The gasses in the atmosphere may act as insulation slowing the flow of heat but water is actively transporting heat away from the surface.
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Kevin Doyle
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Mr. Herb, I agree 100% with your comment. However, I would modify the claim about ‘Greenhouse Gases’. In reality, ALL so-called ‘Greenhouse Gases’ (Ozone, H2O, etc.) only serve to COOL the surface of Earth. None of them heat anything. If they did, then some annoying prick at Columbia University would be demonstrating this with laboratory, or other empirical evidence.
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Herb Rose
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Hi Kevin,
The ironic thing is that the non-greenhouse gasses (N2, O2) do heat the surface of the Earth by converting absorbed UV into kinetic energy. If it was true that the sun heats the Earth then the Earth heats the atmosphere then the temperature of the air over a snow covered land could never be greater than 0 C and the temperature over the ocean could never exceed the surface temperature of the water. Since these temperatures, in fact, do exceed these temperatures it shows that the sun, not the surface of the Earth, is heating the atmosphere.
Herb
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Kevin Doyle
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Precisely, Herb. All gases have mass, and thus gather energy from the incoming sunlight, at various spectra. My analogy of sunlight spectrum is a piano. A piano has 88 keys, separated into seven octaves. Some gases are active in certain ‘octaves’. Some like high notes, some like low notes.
However, as you point out, they all make music…
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Whokoo
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Hi Kevin Doyle. Beethoven Sonata No. 8 ‘Pathetique’ Mov. 2 – Wilhelm Kempff makes for a near perfect climate.
Richard Greene
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From the infamous Herb Rose school of climate disinformation.
Non-greenhouse gases do not heat anything.
Snow absorbs some sunlight — it is not a perfect reflector. Snow is whiter than ice, so it acts as a reflector and insulator on top of glaciers. More than 80 to 90 percent of the sunlight falling on fresh snow is reflected back into space, compared to 15 to 35 percent of the sunlight reflected by most ice.
Earth’s surface is heated mainly by the sun and then heats the atmosphere by conduction. Earth cools itself with upwelling radiation, some of which is reflected back down by greenhouse gases and night clouds.
The ocean warms and cools slowly, due to thermal inertia. That’s why the atmosphere over the ocean will be hotter in the warmer months and cooler in the colder months.
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Moffin
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Richard Green. What happens in the thermosphere?
Could you please correct your own errors.
Herb Rose
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Hi Richard,
The reflection of light by snow is completely irrelevant and just searching for an excuse to avoid admitting you are wrong. If the air could not absorb the light when it came from the sun, it cannot absorb it when it comes from the snow. If the snow has a temperature of 32 F it cannot heat the air to 40 F. Since you live in Michigan you must have experienced days where the ground was covered with snow but the air temperature was greater than 32 F. Stop believing the nonsense you have been told and believe what you have observed.
Herb
Kevin Doyle
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I would point out the Earth albedo number everyone repeats, of 0.3, is incorrect. At most real albedo is between 0.06-0.08 on a cloudless day.
Only 70% of ‘top of atmosphere’ solar radiation reaches the surface, on a cloudless day. (Ask anyone who sells solar panels.)
So, where did the other 22-24% of the solar radiation go? I’ll give you a hint, it got eaten by Ozone and other atmospheric gases…
Richard Greene
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First of all SE Michigan barely has snow after many decades of global warming. Only three times shoveling snow off the driveway in three months last winter.
If the ait over the snow is 40 degrees F, then it will be melting the snow and eventually there will be no more snow on the ground. As temperatures climb above freezing, heat from the sun begins to melt the snow; the more intense the sunlight, the faster it melts. The top layer absorbs the heat, causing the snow crystals to disintegrate.
Why does snow melt on the ground?
When it is snowing and the snow melts upon contact with the ground, the snow is picking up enough heat to cause it to turn into water. That heat is probably coming mostly from the ground. I’m sure you must have noticed these snow melting processes as a child?
Herb Rose
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Hi Richard,
Which is it, does the ground heat the air (GHGT) or is the air melting the snow? You are saying contradictory things. First you say the sun is heating the Earth and the the Earth heats the air, now you say the sun heats the air and melts the snow on the ground. Before you start to argue you need to decide what you believe.
(No snow shoveling in Philadelphia area last year.)
Herb
Wisenox
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By “climate” they mean “second society”. The people live in “hell” symbolically, which is how he’s speaking: symbolically not literally. They’ve run this script many times in history. The enuma elis explains how it started, again symbolically.
Plant the seed, grow it green, cut it down, harvest it and start over somewhere new. Cities and empires fall from the inside because it’s designed that way. This is how they stay in power. They cut down society before it gains too much wealth and influence for them to contend with (Fenrir).
The middle class is always the enemy, and you always have to look up the words they use. They like to use alternate definitions.
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Kevin Doyle
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Unfortunately, humans are occasionally born with physical or mental disabilities. Handicaps they inherited, far beyond their own control. Downs Syndrome, etc.
On the other hand , we have perfectly, physically healthy humans who choose to be willful retards, such as Antonio Guterrez.
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Chema
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This guy knows well the hell. whatelse the UN are?
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Stephen B
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Communist agenda that’s all
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Joe
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We are past the point of discussions. It is time to charge, find guilty and execute !
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