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[Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has made many fear-mongering declarations about climate change over the last several years. This past July, he raised his decibel level of hysteria by claiming that the “era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.” To underscore his clarion call to action by world leaders gathering in New York City for the UN’s annual General Assembly High-Level Week, the Secretary General decided to convene a Climate Ambition Summit on September 20th. Never mind the huge carbon footprints created by all the foreign dignitaries flying into New York to blow hot air as usual.
The objective of the UN Climate Ambition Summit is to go beyond the commitments that countries made in 2015 as part of the Paris agreement on climate change. UN member state governments and private sector stakeholders are expected to step forward with detailed plans of action to combat climate change with mitigation and adaptation measures, and to deliver commitments for funding the achievement of “climate justice.”
Discussing his climate summit, Secretary General Guterres declared that “the planet can’t wait.” He wants rich countries to take “a quantum leap in their efforts to reduce emissions,” in order to prevent average global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels. China, however, gets a free pass, despite the fact that it remains the world’s number one emitter of greenhouse gasses and continues to build an abundance of coal-fired plants. The UN and other multilateral organizations still treat China as a “developing” country, even though its economy ranks globally as the second largest.
In the lead-up to the climate summit, climate justice warriors are taking to the streets, conducting disruptive protests to demand an end to fossil fuels now. This follows a years-long pattern of actions that have included defacement of works of art at museums, occupation of buildings, deflating tires of SUVs, and blocking traffic for extended periods of time – in capitalist countries, of course. Not in Communist China.
Although these militant tactics have often backfired by antagonizing many people whose lives have been significantly disrupted as a result of the militants’ actions, the climate justice warriors are doubling down.
On September 7th, climate militants from a far-Left group called Extinction Rebellion disrupted the U.S. Open tennis event, claiming that it was necessary, in its words, “to bring mass attention to the greatest emergency of our time.” One of the protesters glued his feet to the floor. An amateur tennis player, who is an Extinction Rebellion activist, stated, “The disruption generated is pale in comparison to the climate crisis, which has already surpassed its equivalent of a ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment.”
On September 14th, climate militants from Extinction Rebellion, along with New York Communities for Change and Stop the Money Pipeline, blocked entrances to a Manhattan Citigroup headquarters facility for two hours, preventing employees from entering the building. Twenty-four of the militants were arrested. Citibank is “torching the planet,” said one of the protesters, “so the least we can do is disrupt business as usual.” He warned, “Citi must change their ways, or we’ll be back.”
Agitators have periodically targeted Citigroup and other financial institutions such as BlackRock for financing fossil fuel projects. They won’t stop, and will probably escalate their disruptive actions, so long as their antics get attention from sympathetic media outlets.
On September 17th, the March to End Fossil Fuels took place in New York City, aimed at pressuring President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency and “take bolder action to stop fossil fuels.” Tens of thousands of protesters took part in the march. “Fossil fuels are killing us,” one sign read.
Democratic-Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez whipped up the crowd. “This issue is the issue, one of the most important issues of our time,” she said. “We must be too big and too radical to ignore.” Echoing the theme of the march, she added, “We are all here for one reason: to end fossil fuels around the planet.”
The organizers of the March to End Fossil Fuels espouse an anti-capitalist ideology that harkens back to the days of Occupy Wall Street more than a decade ago. Its website states that “Justice must ground the transition off fossil fuels to redress the climate, colonialist, racist, socioeconomic, and ecological injustices of the fossil fuel era.”
It is only fitting that the day after this march climate militants went back to the site where Occupy Wall Street was centered, Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. There they kicked off what its organizers described as mass civil disobedience to demand an end to the fossil fuel industry.
Members of local and national militant climate groups proceeded to blockade financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve building’s bronze doors, to show how serious they were in demanding an end to fossil fuel investments. Arrests followed but the demonstrators were unfazed. “If you arrest one of us, 100 more will come,” they chanted.
“I hope that the fossil fuel financiers understand this is an escalation and as long as they continue to invest in fossil fuels we will continue to escalate,” said Alicé Nascimento, one of the event organizers and the campaigns director for climate advocacy group New York.
Whether human-caused climate change is blamed for “boiling” the planet, “torching” the planet, or posing the “existential” threat of our time to the planet and humankind, such inflammatory rhetoric is fearmongering at its worst. It is counterproductive and utterly out of touch with reality.
People who are concerned about the climate but have good heads on their shoulders should tune out the alarmists’ heated rhetoric altogether. Instead, they should listen to Dr. Jim Skea, a renowned climate scientist who was recently appointed to head the UN’s flagship body offering scientific advice related to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A professor of sustainable energy at London’s Imperial College, Dr. Skea was a significant contributor to the work of the IPCC for years before becoming its chair. He takes a measured and nuanced approach to addressing the challenges presented by climate change.
Dr. Skea has warned against apocryphal warnings of doom if the 1.5 degrees Celsius benchmark is breached.
“The world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees,” Dr. Skea said in an interview with Der Spiegel. While acknowledging the dangers if that benchmark is exceeded, Dr. Skea debunked the idea that this would pose an existential threat to humanity.
“If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change,” Dr. Skea said in another interview. He pointed to the vital role that innovative technology “like the underground capture of CO2” can play in providing real solutions to the climate change problem.
Dr. Skea warned against efforts to tell people how to live or what to eat as the way to address climate change. “With all these things it’s about real people and their real lives, not scientific abstractions,” he said. “We need to come down a level.”
However, globalists and climate activists are so invested in supporting the climate-industrial complex with their doomsday prophesies that they are doing precisely the opposite of what Dr. Skea has advised. These ideologues are ramping up hysteria to pressure government and business leaders into doing their bidding, willfully dismissing the reasonable counsel from a well-respected climate science expert, IPCC’s current leader, who knows whereof he speaks.
The investment in climate hysteria and its effects on our worlds youth is a crime on humanity. The climate has always been changing. These people will never understand the slow rhythms of the earth. And they haven’t the humility to try.
If those militant idiots were made to go without all the things our modern civilization has provided, such as cars, planes, shops, clothes, houses, most food, electricity, TV, medicines etc. etc, they would soon change their minds – assuming they have a mind.
Eliminate Fossil Fuels!
If that could happen suddenly tomorrow all humans and most life on earth would follow shortly afterwards.
Agree. Where are the Ap developers whose inventive use of technology could identify all those so called Climate alarmists, and freely distribute said Ap to every gas/diesel/petrol dispensing station in the
globe, to help those alarmists get their dream by disabling the dispensation of fossil fuels to their automobiles.. That would be a great eye opener !
These people should be told that there desires will lead to the starvation’s and deaths of millions of people. Please! Somebody tell them that the oil in the ground is is used to make huge volumes of fertilizers for the food we grow, And that those farmers giant harvesters machines need diesel fuel to gather up the worlds food. Cow manure is no longer available in the volumes the modern world needs.
If you told them it would mean they’d have to do without their mobile phones they would all slink of home in abject panic. Oh, hadn’t thought of that………………..
This whole Climate Scam has become a radical and dangerous new a age Cult and soon they will be demanding their Seasonal Sacrifices just like the Aztecs
Yup, I believe they already have their UN 17 sustainable development goals that is being implemented with Agenda 2030 which is openly calling for depopulation!!
Don’t you wonder how many abortions are committed in order to “save the Earth”? There’s human sacrifice right there.
Would anybody deny the possibility that the UN is using Geo engineering to mess around with the weather to convince the plebs that they were right all along?
IF CO2 is so damaging why didn’t the damage reduce during the lockdown hysteria when we weren’t allowed to move?
Are those protesters with nicely produced professional signs being paid?
Not just some sort of Geo engineering of weather, but also another case of “changing history” or weather records.
I’ve heard news agencies claim that in Anytown USA yesterday it was 114 Deg. F. the highest temp. recorded there sense the beginning of time. Well, I was there in Aug. 1983 and it was 117 F.
They also use the term “since records began” to that I ask “Which records and when exactly did they begin” The answer is usually yesterday.
It is called HAARP for weather and DEW Direct Energy Weapons to cause FIRES – like they did in MAUI LAHANIA!!
Not just some sort of Geo engineering of weather, but also another case of “changing history” or weather records.
I’ve heard news agencies claim that in Anytown USA yesterday it was 114 Deg. F. the highest temp. recorded there sense the beginning of time. Well, I was there in Aug. 1983 and it was 117 F.
Climate change like systemic racism and gender fluidity is one of the key elements of American Marxism
The Climate Change Gurus value the earth over the lives of human beings. They could care less about mankind or the future generations. Who thought we would see the day when America would decline to make way for Global government, even if it would induce starvation on much of the world and intentionally put farmers out of business to save the earth and engineer the climate. What kind of lunacy is this?
These militant groups are immune to reason, and have maxed out at a mental age of two; their aggression on others in the name of “protest” being the equivalent of a screaming brat, face purple with rage, thrashing on the floor. They need the same remedy too.
Skea? Skea?!
He will lead “UN’s flagship body offering scientific advice related to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
UN….flagship body…..scientific advice…… related to…..climate change
That’s the biggest laugh I’ve had in years.
Skea is there because the liars see their narrative imploding, because the CO2 scam is as phony as a transgender nutcase. They don’t like when a Nobel laureate in physics, Dr. John F. Clauser, essentially says the entire movement is a charade: “We are totally awash in pseudoscience”. What happened to him: his speech was mysteriously cancelled by the IMF.
People who desire to possess an analytical mind should visit WUWT dot com, and see for themselves the overwhelming amount of opposition data that has been accumulated, the scientists accumulating it, and the blatant suppression of these data by our mainstream media, so-called scientific journals, and the Michael Mann’s of science and academia.
There is no climate crisis. Period. If there were, people wouldn’t have to resort to unethical, and sometimes criminal tactics to keep their narrative alive.
These idiots think they can control the climate when in fact they cant even control their own minds.
I would like to srand these Nit-Wits in the Wilderness for a whole Moth without any GPS or any of teir popular conveneces teir so used to it would scare this Fragile EARTH dELICATE bALANCE OF nATURE LOAD OF TOTAL MALAKEY OUT OF THEM AND THER gARDEN gURGERS AS W ELL
The UN could set up disintegration chambers for volunteers to enter to reduce the population and they would get young people by the thousands to do so. But that won’t work because THEY want the young people to bow down to THEIR agenda (2030). It’s the older folks that must go; the burdens to society, but the old folks won’t volunteer.
The depopulation agenda was proudly proclaimed on the Georgia Guidestones.
https://wendelllmalone.substack.com/p/is-deagels-2025-depopulation-forecast
This will make way for One World Government.
If h those Nit-Wits gave up everything and when Cold Turkey on anything having to do with Fossil Fuels including the Transport of those Products they would be standing in a open field naked and freezing their toes off without any Food or Drink