The Earth is heating up at an unprecedented rate – and many of us feel that politicians the world over aren’t doing enough about it. Ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which kicks off in New York on Monday September 23, a global strike is being held in cities across the world to bring this point home.
World leaders are gathering at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 to discuss the climate emergency and detail each country’s plan to enact the policies they’ll adopt to help meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement.
The Global Climate Strike is specifically aimed at the leaders of countries like these, to show that their people want action to be taken. Already this strike has kicked off in New Zealand and Australia, with more countries joining in as Friday September 20 rolls around the globe. Others will take place next Friday the 27th.
New Atlas has covered environmental science for close to two decades, and throughout that time the evidence of human-induced climate change has been steadily mounting. Globally, July 2019 was the hottest month on record, and the last five years have been the top five hottest years since 1880. Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” will be needed to combat the worst effects. Unfortunately, we’re far from on track to meet that goal. The science is clear. Urgent action is needed to tackle the climate crisis.
First, ignore CO2; fossil fuels; They are a big red herring and just a political tax scam, designed to force countries whose economies are dependent on fossil fuels into the clutches of the banking mafia.
The real cause of climate warming is desertification, caused by deforestation.
Massive deforestation also started with the industrial revolution, and has been increasing ever since.
Trees cool the climate, remove them, and the climate heats up, remove them entirely, and you have scorching hot desert, and that heat can then be transported worldwide, by the trade-winds etc.
Deforestation has increased to incredible levels, worldwide, recently, especially in the tropics, where its hottest, and causes the greatest effect on climate. Viewed from the ISS at night, whole areas of the tropical forests are burning right across their respective continents. Paradoxically, this heating can have the opposite effect from that predicted, and can tip the planet into a new glacial age. More heat means more evaporation, which in turn means more rain and more snow, which falls in the cooler temperate areas. More snow reflects more sunlight, which cools the temperate areas, and allows more snowfalls. This is a positive feedback process, which becomes exponential, leading the planet into the glacial age, as the permanent snow lines start to spread towards the equator, and from deep sea and lake core drillings, the change from temperate climate to tundra has occurred in as little as 20 - 50 years! The northern and southern hemispheres have experienced record snow falls, AND record cold in the last few years, so the signs are there. In addition, Antarctic ice is advancing rapidly, even in summer, contrary to the mainstream media propaganda. So much so, that recently, a colony of penguins were stranded miles from the sea, and faced extinction. The Arctic will continue to be warmed by the North Atlantic Conveyor, or gulf stream, but when that stops, the climate change in the northern temperate regions will be catastrophic. Local to me, in France, demand for wood has reached the point where Chinese companies are buying all the wood they can find, and are putting local sawmills out of business!
It's really just a way to get the masses of unintelligent people (unable to learn for themselves and think coherently) to accept less (no cars, no flying, no eating meat) to save the planet, while the elite will consume more. I myself plan to consume more while polluting less. We should be more concerned about surviving the next catastrophic occurrences as a species than climate change.
More sky-is-falling bullshit! Climates change, get used to it!!