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The year 2021 could be our last chance to tackle the so-called climate crisis.
That is, of course, if you believe UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his minions in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
In remarks highlighting the release of the WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2020 report, Guterres claimed that “global temperatures [are] higher than in a millennium,” and that we’re currently facing “the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere for over three million years.”
The new report has been updated since a preliminary report was released in December of last year.
Guterres called 2021, which we’re already four months into, the “make it or break it” year for global climate action.
“This is a frightening report. It needs to be read by all leaders and decision-makers in the world,” Guterres told journalists. “This report shows that 2020 was also another unprecedented year of extreme weather and climate disasters. The cause is clear. Anthropogenic climate change, climate disruption caused by human activities, human decisions and human folly.”
The study details a list of recent weather events, including floods, droughts, tropical and extra-tropical storms and, absurdly, extreme cold and snow as evidence that the climate is warming beyond our control owing to humankind’s gluttony for fossil fuels.
Remember when the climate hysterics used to say that current weather was not predictive of climate? Now, they’re arguing that the worst effects of climate change are already here — they’re just disguised as the abnormal weather we always experience somewhere in the world.
The report states that, despite the presence of a La Niña cooling pattern, 2020 was one of the three hottest years on record with global temperatures reportedly averaging 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
“Our challenge is clear,” cautioned the UN secretary general. “To avert the worst impacts of climate change, science tells us that we must limit global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees of the pre-industrial baseline. That means reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.” “We are way off track,” Guterres warned.
Guterres further sounded the alarm in writing the report’s foreword:
“This year is pivotal,” he stressed. “At the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in November, we need to demonstrate that we are taking and planning bold action on mitigation and adaptation. This entails scaled-up financial flows from developed to developing countries. And it means radical changes in all financial institutions, public and private, to ensure that they fund sustainable and resilient development for all and move away from a grey and inequitable economy.” [Emphasis added.]
“Great Reset, anyone?”
It seems odd that globalists are placing such importance on this specific year, given that many don’t believe that COP26 should happen this year owing to the Chinese virus — not an in-person event, at least.
The head of the WMO, Petteri Taalas, offered the obligatory bashing of carbon dioxide — a good and necessary gas, which is essential for life on Earth to continue.
“Concentrations of major greenhouse gases continued to increase in 2019 and 2020. Globally averaged mole fractions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have already exceeded 410 parts per million (ppm), and if the CO2 concentration follows the same pattern as in previous years, it could reach or exceed 414 ppm in 2021,” said Taalas.
At 410 ppm, carbon dioxide is 0.041 percent of all atmospheric molecules — less than one half of one percent of the atmosphere as a whole. Yet scientists such as Taalas want Americans to believe that this one gas is the ultimate control knob for global temperatures.
Princeton’s Dr. William Happer and other scientists are of the belief that the Earth needs more carbon dioxide, not less. Calling carbon dioxide a pollutant is absurd, as the gas is completely necessary owing to its role in photosynthesis.
The release of such reports are meant to do one thing — frighten casual observers into believing the claims are true. There is literally no way that Guterres’s claims that the world is warmer than it’s been in 1,000 years can be proven. Similarly, his assertion that carbon dioxide — a good and necessary gas, which is needed for life on Earth to exist — is in the highest concentration in our atmosphere than it’s been for three million years. Or that it would be harmful even if that were true.
