Have to keep the scare factor going, you know
(Weather Channel) Climate change is the greatest threat to humankind, the head of the United Nations said Thursday, noting that “a tsunami of data that should create a storm of concern.”
Speaking at a press Q&A at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called climate change “the most systemic threat to humankind†and called on world leaders to reduce their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions.
Guterres said the world reached several “dire milestones in 2017,” including the economic costs of climate-related disasters that hit a record $320 billion and the atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide, which he said are the “highest they have been in 800,000 years.”
“Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent, to 32.5 gigatonnes, a historic high,” Guterres said. “In 2017, the hurricane season in the Caribbean was the costliest ever, un-doing decades of development in an instant.”
So, in the decade plus with minimal tropical storm activity, especially for major hurricanes, that was just nature. One big season, and it’s Doom caused by carbon pollution.
“I am beginning to wonder how many more alarm bells must go off before the world rises to the challenge,†Guterres said. “We know it can be hard to address problems perceived to be years or decades away. But climate impacts are already upon us.â€
Why should we listen to people who refuse to practice what they preach? Who have oversized carbon footprints?
