The world of climate hysteria is replete with examples of overheated oratory about how dire the alleged climate emergency supposedly is. However, last week UN Secretary General António Guterres turned up the heat, so to speak, as he proclaimed that “the era of global boiling has arrived.”
Guterres made the remarks at a UN press conference on climate change last Thursday.
Claiming that July just past is on pace to be “hottest month ever recorded in human history,” Guterres pushed his industry-killing emissions reductions recommendations along with his Climate Solidarity Pact and Acceleration Agenda.
“Humanity is in the hotseat,” Guterres began. “Today, the World Meteorological Organization and the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service are releasing official data that confirms that July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.”
The secretary-general added, “We don’t have to wait for the end of the month to know this. Short of a mini-Ice Age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter records across the board. According to the data released today, July has already seen the hottest three-week period ever recorded; the three hottest days on record; and the highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.”
Guterres called the current weather conditions a “cruel summer,” claiming that climate change was responsible for “children swept away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames; workers collapsing in scorching heat.”
Gutterres said that it was clear that, in his opinion, human beings were the cause of these weather events.
“And for scientists, it is unequivocal — humans are to blame,” Gutterres said.
Nevermind that certain scientists are actually blaming factors that humans couldn’t possibly have anything to do with — undersea volcanoes, increased solar activity, and El Nino spring to mind — Gutterres is convinced that human emissions of CO2 and other trace gasses are the cause of this summer’s slightly warmer than average weather.
Gutterres even coined a new term for this summer’s heat in the northern latitudes: global boiling.
“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived,” Gutterres announced.
So-called climate change has gone through many iterations over the years. First it was called global warming, then when it was found that the warming part was unreliable as far as their narrative was concerned, it was changed to the all-encompassing term climate change. Eager for credibility and governmental intervention, climate change has morphed into climate “crisis” or climate “emergency” over time.
But “global boiling” is a new landmark in climate rhetoric. How much worse can it get than “global boiling”? Is global melting far behind?
Gutterres somehow found room for more hyperbole: “The air is unbreathable. The heat is unbearable. And the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.”
The secretary-general sounded a slightly hopeful note, despite the fact that the planet is, in his words, “boiling.”
“It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the very worst of climate change,” Gutterres explained, but only if we quickly adopt his level of fear and adopt his economy and freedom killing brand of climate intervention.
According to Gutterres, we must adopt “ambitious new national emissions reduction targets from G20 members,” and “we need all countries to take action in line with my Climate Solidarity Pact and Acceleration Agenda.”
That agenda was announced in March when Gutterres referred to climate change as the “climate time-bomb.” In short, it asks for nations to do away with coal entirely, commit to so-called net-zero emissions by 2040, and pony up more dollars to developing nations — with those funds allocated by the UN, of course.
Gutterres hopes to make a more direct pitch for his version of climate intervention in September when he will host the Climate Ambition Summit in New York.
Fear is the main weapon of the climate cult. By spreading fear, they believe they can get the world to bow to their unreasonable and freedom-killing demands. In António Guterres, they have found a willing accomplice to spread such fear. The UN secretary-general’s use of overheated and largely false rhetoric is second to none.
