Bloomberg News: ‘Scare tactics about climate change have not only failed to move public opinion, but they’ve also undermined trust in government’
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-14/how-to-reset-the-climate-change-debate…
Paper: ‘Save the world, work less’ – ‘With climate change threatening life as we know it, perhaps it’s time to revive the forgotten goal of spending less time on our jobs’
http://www.sfbg.com/2014/04/15/save-world-work-less#.U07eqGhaXyw.twitter…
New York Times smacked down: ‘A new tax won’t change our weather’ – ‘It is dishonest to suggest that we are one tax increase away from arresting climate change, improving the weather or saving the planet’
Earth ‘Serially Doomed’: UN Issues New 15 Year Climate Tipping Point – But UN Issued Tipping Points in 1982 & Another 10-Year Tipping Point in 1989!
According to the Boston Globe, the United Nations has issued a new climate “tipping point” by which the world must act to avoid dangerous global warming.
The Boston Globe noted on April 16, 2014: “The world now has a rough deadline for action on climate change. Nations need to take aggressive action in the next 15 years to cut carbon emissions, in order to forestall the worst effects of global warming, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
Once again, the world is being warned of an ecological or climate “tipping point” by the UN.
As early as 1982, the UN was issuing a two decade tipping point. UN official Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned on May 11, 1982, the “world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now.” According to Tolba in 1982, lack of action would bring “by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”
In 1989, the UN was once again trying to sell their “tipping point” rhetoric to the public. See: U.N. Warning of 10-Year ‘Climate Tipping Point’ Began in 1989 – Excerpt: According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “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.” (LINK) & (LINK)
It’s all so confusing. In 2007, UN IPCC chief Pachauri declared 2012 as the climate deadline to act or it would be “too late.” See: Celebrate! UN IPCC Chairman Pachauri: It’s Too Late to Fight Climate Change! — Pachauri in 2007: ‘If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment’
Not to be outdone by the UN, Former Irish President Mary Robinson weighed in this week, issuing a more generous 20 year tipping point. “Former …
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions down almost 10% from 2005 through 2012 – Due to increased use of natural gas vs. coal
…Wash. Post asks: ‘What is the backup plan if the world overshoots its emissions goals?’
…The Other Climate Report – ‘Debunks the dire claims of the IPCC’s latest report’
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/other-climate-report…