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U.N. Climate Summit: A Meaningless Meeting Of Useless People
 [ISSUESINSIGHTS] Later this month, private- and public-sector "leaders" will meet in Glasgow, Scotland. Nearly all will fly to the conference, many in private jets. And what will they talk about? Saving the climate from greenhouse gas emissions, of course.The United Nations...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Conference of Parties on climate change, the 26th version of this long-running clown show, starts Oct. 31 and will run through Nov. 12. Media coverage will be both intense and obsequious; attendees, especially the ever-smug John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... , "special" climate envoy to the president, will speak in somber tones due to the seriousness at hand; warnings of impending doom will be issued; and absolutely nothing will be accomplished. This is because there’s nothing to accomplish. Despite the incessant screeching demands that we must save our planet by severely cutting our greenhouse gas emissions, it’s obvious that man’s impact on the climate is not creating an existential crisis. Every harsh weather event is blamed by activists, politicians, news hounds, editors, and celebrities as evidence that anthropogenic global warming is going to destroy Earth. Of course these are often the same people who tell us we cannot take a single weather event, such as a cold snap or an unusually heavy snow, and extrapolate from that there is no man-made warming. They want man’s greenhouse gas emissions to be an existential crisis. But they can’t have it no matter how much they want it. "An existential threat is one that threatens the very existence of mankind. Something that is simply a challenge or an inconvenience is not an existential threat," explains University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass. "An existential threat must have the potential to undermine the very viability of human civilization." Mass believes "global warming is a serious problem" that will have "substantial impacts," but he says "in no way does it seriously threaten our species or human civilization." "With reasonable mitigation and adaptation, mankind will continue to move forward — reducing poverty, living healthier lives, and stabilizing our population." For those who haven’t noticed, humanity has been enormously successful at adapting to, and in many cases, overcoming an environment that is hostile to its existence. Posted by: Fred 2021-10-20 |
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