Burning fossil fuels is causing climate chaos, with increasingly deadly and destructive extreme weather events forcing record numbers of people to migrate. The Gulf region is among the most vulnerable to extreme weather and slow-onset climate disasters including drought, desertification, extreme heat and erratic rainfall, as well as environmental degradation, food insecurity and water shortages.
Now will you start to care, if not for the poor terrorist nation, then for the planet itself?
It is the third and most comprehensive analysis by a team of UK and US-based researchers into the climate cost of the first 15 months of conflict in which more than 53,000 Palestinians have been killed, in addition to widespread infrastructure damage and environmental catastrophe. It also provides the first, albeit partial, snapshot of the carbon cost of Israel’s other recent regional conflicts.
Just what we were sorely lacking, now can we add to thr 'War is Hell' concept?
“Whether or not States agree on calling it a genocide, what we are facing is severely impacting all life in Gaza, and also threatening human rights in the region, and even globally, due to the aggravation of climate change.”
You'll note that the 'Guardian ' doesn't use this new research as a lever to insist Hamas release the hostages...
Of course, not a single word of that first quoted paragraph is true. All these disastrous weather events were predicted thirty years ago and none of them happened. There isn't a shred of evidence that extreme weather events are becoming worse or more frequent. Even if that 97% of scientists figure was valid, the fact remains that it is the other 3% that turned out to be correct.
ReplyDeleteStonyground.
As a child of the Seventies, I'm still waiting for that promised Ice Age!
DeleteLooking on the bright side, there are 53,000 fewer persons who are producing CO2.
ReplyDeleteAlways a silver lining!
DeleteBurning fossil fuels is causing climate chaos (No it isn't) with increasingly deadly and destructive extreme weather events (Not happening) forcing record numbers of people to migrate (Nobody has been forced to migrate). The Gulf region is among the most vulnerable (No it isn't) to extreme weather (Not happening) and slow-onset climate disasters including drought (Always been there), desertification (Always been there), extreme heat (Always been there) and erratic rainfall (Always been there), as well as environmental degradation (Always been there), food insecurity (Always been there) and water shortages (Always been there).
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These articles are pure fantasy, aren't they? They migfht as well contain dragons and fairies.
DeleteDesertification definitely isn't happening. It was predicted but the exact opposite happened. More CO2 in the atmosphere makes plant life more drought resistant causing greening around the edges of deserts and reducing them in size. This is just one example of a litany of failed predictions from the climate doom brigade.
ReplyDeleteStonyground.
Monbiot has a new enemy - molinia grass.
DeleteScientist:
ReplyDelete"I've come up with a new theory of the causes of climate change. Give me money."
Penseivat
That's a more honest title for most of these studies.
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