‘Surprise! Climate activists declare UN climate summit a failure’
action demanded by the people who voted for them.
“3. You believe walking to work or taking the bus is an important symbolic act, despite owning or renting a house full of energy guzzling plastic appliances. And of course you still ( mostly) own a car. And flying to holiday destinations or climate events is OK.
“4. You believe the world is going to end in 12 years (11 years? or is it all a joke? hard to keep track), but you still work your everyday job, live your normal life, and have an occasional cry
“5. You believe that if your friends mess up enough people’s lives by stopping traffic on busy work days, you will build an irresistible momentum for a green revolution.”
With such a verdict from the activists, who would pronounce the UN summit a success? UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres? Who will bear now the torch of climate change and climate apocalypse?
Population bomb crashes against world system
Climate alarmists are now experiencing the disappointment of population alarmists when their oracle of global disaster was proved false.
In 1968, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich published
( Ballantine Books, New York, 1968), wherein he predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s because of overpopulation, and other societal upheavals. He advocated immediate action to limit population growth. The book was subtitled: “Population control or race to oblivion.”
Ehrlich opened his book with this statement: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
The book has been criticized since its publication for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades for its inaccurate predictions.
Jonathan Last called
“one of the most spectacularly foolish books ever published.”
Believers in the population explosion were dazed and orphaned when world conditions and agriculture proved Ehrlich spectacularly wrong. Many nations now worry about their aging populations and zero or negative population growth.
Climate alarmists are in a similar situation today. The church of global warming may no longer have a message to evangelize.
More scientists sign noemergency declaration
Mike Billington of the
graciously sent me a most welcome update on the European Climate Declaration sent by scientists to the UN secretary general, which flatly declared: “There is no climate emergency.” Mike wrote me as follows: “At the end of this post is a link to the 500 [ and growing] leading world scientists who refute the anthropogenic cause of climate change, who deny CO2 is a ‘ pollutant,’ and insist that following the London bankers demand that we stop using hydrocarbons will be a disaster for mankind. Please take the time to ‘ google’ the scientists, to give you a sense that these are among the most prestigious leaders in the world of science.”
He attached 1) A copy of the declaration; 2) n updated listing of the signatories and their countries of residence; and 3) the print version of an article on the climate declaration in the Oct. 4, 2019 issue of the
The full list of 506 signers
as of September 26), includes EU scientists and professionals from Belgium (19), Czech Republic ( 1), Denmark (4), France (56), Germany (13), Ireland (15), Italy (113), Netherlands (57), Norway (17), Poland (3), Sweden (18), Switzerland (2), and UK (22). There are signers from nations beyond the European Union: Australia (75), Brazil (7), Canada (17), China (2), India (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (14), Russian Federation (1), South Africa (3), and the US (45).
Secretary- General Guterres has not replied to the scientists’ letter. It is doubtful whether he will agree to convene a meeting of the UN climate scientists in the IPCC and the top signatories of the no-emergency declaration, so they can argue their respective views on the climate issue.
climate alarmism?
The dynamic in the New York summit is not likely to change in coming conferences called by the UN for climate action.
COP25 (the Conference of the Parties) will take place from Dec. 2 to 13, 2019 in Santiago, Chile.
Nobel laureate Al Gore, the pope of global warming, surprisingly did not show up at the New York summit. He has been silent on climate lately. The latest report says that Gore has joined top US Democrats in calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
As for Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, who is touted as the new face of global warming, he air appears to have oozed out of her balloon. She was bypassed by the Nobel committee in its selection of the 2019 Nobel peace laureate. She is nowhere in the media these days.