“world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns”

Thirty-five years ago the United Nations said we only have ten years left to save the planet from global warming.  Now they say we are running out of time to save the planet from global warming.

“The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C.

A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up call for urgent and radical action to stop burning fossil fuels and save millions of lives and livelihoods. Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread, but it was not yet inevitable that it would be passed, if an extraordinary change in the pace of climate action could be achieved.”

‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns | Climate crisis | The Guardian

“June 29, 1989
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.

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.”

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

 

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1 Response to “world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns”

  1. Colin Barton says:

    Their data is taken from the relatively short emergence from the coldest time (the “Little Ice Age”) since the end of the last major glaciation, some 12 000 years ago. Glaciers in North America are now retreating to reveal former forests of a warmer time 3 000 years age. Stumps in place in Canada showing the tree line was at least 120km N of today 9 000 years ago. Recorded observation of weather and climate, show that it was warmer in Minoan, Roman and Medieval times when CO2 was lower than today. Claims of recent hottest years ever are therefore rubbish. The IPCC totally ignore this definitive empirical data relying on hopelessly inadequate computer predictions that even their own scientists know are useless.
    IPCC is a political organization and a blot on science and scientific methodology.
    Their pronouncements sustain the monstrous climate scam at the enrichment of some and the degradation of people in western democracies. The science is far from settled

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