“This report should ring a dying sentence for coal and fossil fuels earlier than they destroy our planet” – Watts Up With That?
Guest contribution by Eric Worrall
In 2019, WUWT celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 10 years in 1989 to save the world UN climate emergency declaration. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shows genuine determination to keep this proud tradition alive by escalating the emergency to a “Code Red”.
United Nations Landmark Report finds the world is running out of time to slow climate change and people are “clearly” to blame
Nina Chestney and Andrea Januta
Published: 09/08/2021
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the latest IPCC report as the “Code Red for Humanity”.
The report, released on Monday, warns that the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that people are “clearly” to blame.
The greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are already high enough to guarantee a climate disruption for decades, if not centuries, the scientists conclude.
The UN chief called for an immediate end to coal energy and other environmentally harmful fossil fuels.
“The alarm bells are deafening,” Guterres said in a statement. “This report must ring a death sentence for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy our planet.”
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Read more: https://7news.com.au/weather/climate-change/code-red-for-humanityguterres-c-3637453
The 1989 climate emergency that promised entire nations would be hit by rising sea levels by 2000.
UN predicts disaster if global warming is not checked
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 30, 1989
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior UN environmental official says entire nations could be wiped out from the face of the earth due to rising sea levels if the global warming trend doesn’t reverse by the year 2000.
Coastal floods and crop failures would lead to an exodus of eco-refugees, threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
He said Governments have a 10 year window to resolve the greenhouse effect before it gets out of control by humans.
If warming melts the polar ice caps, sea levels will rise up to a meter, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Coastal regions are flooded; a sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded and a quarter of its 90 million people could be displaced. According to a joint study by UNEP and the US Environmental Protection Agency, a fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded and the food supply would be cut off.
″ Ecological refugees are becoming a huge problem, and what’s worse, you may find that people can move to drier soils, but the soils and natural resources cannot support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara? ”He said.
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Read more: https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 (PDF backup)
Interestingly, it looks like the digital copy of the 1989 AP warning has been corrupted, the title is missing when I see it. Maybe someone tried to delete it and pressed the wrong button.
I have to say that Gutteres was a little selfish with his language usage and left the organizers of the next COP conference a real headache. I mean, how do you top a code red?
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