“This week, the UN discussed whether climate change, global warming, is a threat to global security. Russia said NYET!”
“Students of the Cold War who realize that climate change has been ongoing for hundreds of millions of years, and that carbon dioxide is a bit player in this ongoing change, may consider it ironic that Russia vetoed the latest UN effort, proposed by western leaders, to undermine the prosperity of the West by attacking reliable fossil fuels. See links under Defending the Orthodoxy.” ~ Ken Haapala in TWTW by SEPP.org http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2021/TWTW%202-27-21.pdf
UN Security Council hears of climate threat, does nothing
Russia warns against any move to recognize warming as a threat to global security.
By Karl Mathiesen, Politico, Feb 23, 2021
https://www.politico.eu/article/un-security-council-hears-of-climate-threat-does-nothing/
Meanwhile:
John Kerry: Climate Inaction is a “Mutual Suicide Pact”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Feb 24, 2021
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02…
Link to article: ‘Mutual suicide’: US issues stark warning on climate change
‘Our heads in the sand at our own peril,’ US envoy for climate warns, as leaders discuss security implications of global warming.
By Staff, Al Jazeera, Feb 24, 2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021…
Possible irreversible changes to sub-systems prior to reaching climate change tipping points
By Bob Yirka, Phys.Org, Feb 24, 2021 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-irrev…
Link to paper: The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points
By Christoph Heinze, et al. PNAS, Mar 2, 2021
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/…
[SEPP Comment: Like the sailors of old fearing that if they went too far from land, they would fall off the edge of the earth!]
UN calls for contraction and convergence to low living standards
By David Wojick, CFACT, Feb 23, 2021
https://www.cfact.org/2021/02/23/un…
Link to report: Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies
By Staff, UNEP, Feb 18, 2021
https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitst…
My sincere thanks to Russia.
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