U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

Subject: AGW-ICSC - U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked CLIMATE ALERT! July 24, 2019 Please act now before it’s too late. It’s a CLIMATE EMERGENCY! “The end is nigh”! Politicians are reporting that we have only 12 years to act before the greenhouse effect “goes beyond human control”.

On a positive note, this is a 20% improvement over the 10-year periods used by previous doomsday clocks.

Thorpe Watson, PhD Warfield, British Columbia, Canada

ASSOCIATED PRESS U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked PETER JAMES SPIELMANN UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

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Hi, again,

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Please accept my apologies for interrupting your perusal of the UN’s prediction of a climate disaster; that is, a tipping point in the year 2000. No, the year “2000” is not a typo. This Associated Press article was published JUNE 29, 1989.

Thanks are owed to Terry Donze for bringing the article to our attention, which is typical of many such dire warnings published during the last 30 years.

As a defense against the fearmongering of YELLOW JOURNALISM, may I offer some irrefutable facts (Letter to the Editor, below) proving we are victims of a ‘BIG LIE’ propagated by an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” and sustained by the fake-news media and our educational system.

Will our politicians remain sheltered from the truth and continue to take us down a carbon-free road to a rapidly approaching, economic tipping point?

Thorpe Watson, PhD Warfield, British Columbia, Canada

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Trail Times 3 July 2019 ‘Climate emergency’ just more fearmongering The Canadian Federal Government has now declared a national “climate emergency”, which may end the world in 12 years. With somber faces, they tell us that a carbon tax will save the planet from a CO2-induced, climate catastrophe.

Are you prepared to give the government more money, allegedly to prevent a climate catastrophe? Before accepting such a preposterous assertion, skeptical Canadians may wish to examine the facts that relate to the vilification of carbon dioxide (“CO2”) and its hydrocarbon sources; coal, oil, and natural gas.

If a trace gas can cause worldwide, catastrophic warming, then why are we not harnessing this phenomenal source of renewable, solar energy? The following indisputable facts will allow anyone, with a minimum of some common sense, to determine the authenticity of the government-declared, climate emergency and the validity of CO2’s alleged heat-trapping capacity.

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FACT 1 – CO2 is a colourless, odourless, trace gas that is as important as water and oxygen in sustaining life on the planet as part of the carbon cycle.

FACT 2 – The planet’s store of bioavailable CO2 has been severely depleted by the ongoing sedimentation process to form carbonate rocks such as limestone on the ocean floor.

FACT 3 – The residual store of CO2 is found primarily in the oceans (98 per cent). It represents less than 0.1 per cent of the original store and currently provides us with a CO2-starved atmosphere (0.04 per cent).

FACT 4 – The consumption of all known reserves of hydrocarbon fuels will produce a quantity of CO2 sufficient to increase our meager store by 25 per cent; that is, the augmented store will still be less than 0.1 per cent of the original store and the atmosphere will remain CO2 starved (0.05 per cent).

A grasp of the foregoing facts reaffirms the verdict that our CO2 emissions are innocent of the charge of being responsible for a climate emergency. The dinosaurs, with 5 times as much CO2, certainly did not experience a climate emergency.

In other words, it is impossible to generate too much CO2. Life on Earth will cease to exist when the Green Period ends; that is, when sedimentation reduces our CO2 level below 0.015 per cent or, earlier, if some fool develops a process to extract significant quantities of CO2 from our bioavailable store.

This would then be a true environmental emergency!

How do we explain the incredible traction of what appears to be climatechange groupthink? Many of the explanations are found in books describing the frailties of the human mind.

However, one specific explanation suggests that we are victims of an Orwellian thought-control strategy. This strategy is suppressing the truth about CO2 and climate change. Consequently, climate fearmongering is encouraging us to accept higher taxes and bigger government.

Will the Canadian electorate be able to follow the Australian electorate this October and reject the climate-change hysteria? Unfortunately, it appears we are being denied such a choice.

Thorpe Watson, PhD Warfield, British Columbia, Canada

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'UNITED NATIONS’ YELLOW JOURNAISM- CONTINUED FROM ABOVE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 29, 1989 As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.

Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study. ″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.

UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.

Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheat lands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.

The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.

The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.

Brown said if the warming trend continues, ″the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.″ 4

He said even the most conservative scientists ″already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a ... change″ of about 3 degrees. ″Anything beyond that, and we have to start thinking about the significant rise of the sea levels ... we can expect more ferocious storms, hurricanes, wind shear, dust erosion.″ He said there is time to act, but there is no time to waste.

UNEP is working toward forming a scientific plan of action by the end of 1990, and the adoption of a global climate treaty by 1992. In May, delegates from 103 nations met in Nairobi, Kenya - where UNEP is based - and decided to open negotiations on the treaty next year.

Nations will be asked to reduce the use of fossil fuels, cut the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane and fluorocarbons, and preserve the rain forests. ″We have no clear idea about the ecological minimum of green space that the planet needs to function effectively. What we do know is that we are destroying the tropical rain forest at the rate of 50 acres a minute, about one football field per second,″ said Brown.

Each acre of rain forest can store 100 tons of carbon dioxide and reprocess it into oxygen.

Brown suggested that compensating Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya for preserving rain forests may be necessary.

The European Community is talking about a half-cent levy on each kilowatthour of fossil fuels to raise $55 million a year to protect the rain forests, and other direct subsidies may be possible, he said.

The treaty could also call for improved energy efficiency, increasing conservation, and for developed nations to transfer technology to Third World nations to help them save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Brown.

This article is found at: https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

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