IPCC World’s Last Chance (Again)

Posted: April 10, 2022 by oldbrew in climate, Critique, IPCC
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The climate last chance saloon never closes.

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James Macpherson reports on the latest deadline in his Australian Spectator article The IPCC say the world is ending! (Again?) .H/T John Ray.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds.

In the latest ‘now or never!’ since the ‘last now or never!’ the United Nations has warned the world that it is once again ‘now or never!’ to avoid disastrous Climate Change.

Forget Prince Charles’ warning back in July 2009 that we had just 96 months to save the planet.

Ignore former British PM Gordon Brown’s prediction, just three months later, that we had fewer than 50 days to avoid disaster.

And never mind French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who, standing beside then American Secretary of State John Kerry, told the world on May 13, 2014, that ‘we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos’.

The irony of that particular Chicken Little routine was that Fabius was scheduled…

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Comments
  1. Phoenix44 says:

    You can scare people into short term actions but you can’t scare people into long term behaviours. We will run away from a lion but we won’t lock ourselves permanently away from lions.

  2. oldbrew says:

    The ‘do as we say not as we do’ brigade will never give up on the climate nonsense unless it ceases to have any effect and they get laughed at.

  3. oldbrew says:

    Defying Modeled Expectations Again: The CO2 Airborne Fraction Has Been Declining Since 1959
    By Kenneth Richard on 11. April 2022

    Scientists have expressed consternation that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions has not been rising to any significant degree since 1850 (Knorr, 2009). The lack of an increasing trend defies modeled expectations.

    “Despite the predictions of coupled climate-carbon cycle models, no trend in the airborne fraction can be found.”

    https://notrickszone.com/2022/04/11/defying-modeled-expectations-again-the-co2-airborne-fraction-has-been-declining-since-1959/