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Ignore the doom-mongers, says new UN climate change chief

Doom-mongers do more harm than good, the United Nations’ new climate change chief has said.

Prof Jim Skea, the newly elected head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that apocalyptic messaging merely “paralyses” the public and fails to motivate them to protect the planet.

The Scottish physicist also said that the world warming 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, to which the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global temperature rises, was “not an existential threat to humanity”.

“Every action we take to mitigate climate change helps. Climate protection is always cheaper and protects people from the dramatic consequences of global warming. This is all the more true if we have exceeded the Paris climate target.

“The world won’t end if it gets more than 1.5 degrees warmer. However, it will be a more dangerous world. Countries will struggle with many problems, there will be social tensions.

“And yet this is not an existential threat to humanity. Even with 1.5 degrees of warming, we will not die out.”



Ignore the doom-mongers, says new UN climate change chief (msn.com)

 

Bad news for the regulars at Costcutter.

 

When I briefly worked in the alcohol industry I made a graph mapping the decline of sherry sales with the death rate.

 

Sunak will not care because he don't even drink alcohol, you might remember the clip of him and Boris pulling a pint of beer each at a brewery, and fair play to him, he just left his pint on the bar. I've no problem with supermarket prices increasing, but if it's done for pubs and bars, then we will just see more closing. Our culture is gradually disappearing in this country, thankfully micropubs appeared which seem to be preferred by older drinkers and buy real ale from local suppliers. Much like we will become a smoke free country eventually, seems the death knell for anyone that dares drink or smoke.

 

Chuff

 

Just heard the duty on beer in pubs is frozen, so I'm ok with that. Beer in shops will go up.

 

'duty'

 

Hmm, he's the head of the groups people quoted as the people to listen to.

 

Definitely some right wing loon on the worst thread on not606

 

Really? What's Professor Skea's username?

Funny how quickly the IPCC and UN Climate Chief can fall out of favour with the uneducated and ill informed bigots.

 

Remind us what Labour done before her and who shut the most down..
Learn a bit of history

 

Please, teach us some history sir