'London is cooking': UN chief issues warning as he urges countries to cut fossil fuels
He warned that climate chaos is “accelerating before our eyes” while the arrival of the El Nino warming weather phenomenon this summer risks “blowing the house down”
Speaking at the event on Tuesday, Mr Guterres said: “Crisis brings clarity and here in London – the city of Dickens – it is clear that our world is facing a ‘tale of two crises’.
It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches...
We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannize over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them.
He warned that climate chaos is “accelerating before our eyes” while the arrival of the El Nino warming weather phenomenon this summer risks “blowing the house down”
Speaking at the event on Tuesday, Mr Guterres said: “Crisis brings clarity and here in London – the city of Dickens – it is clear that our world is facing a ‘tale of two crises’.
It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches...
We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannize over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them.
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield (1849-50)
6 comments:
I'm without words, AKH.
Now here's a thought experiment... create a climate model with the assumption that humans had all died out overnight. there would be a lot of argument about what should be included and excluded but it would give a climate change forecast based entirely on natural factors.
It would also give a rough idea about the relative size of anthropogenic 'warming' by comparing the Human Zero forecast with actual measurements. My suspicion is that the anthropogenic effects would be comparatively trivial and to consider that humans could alter the direction or amount of climate change by manipulating those trivial affects would be like the tail trying to wag the dog. Or tilting at windmills, ahem.
James - I'm thinking of just stringing them together as they do.
What will power his private jet? Farts?
Stringing them up would be more productive. Parasites like him need to do honest research before spouting bollox aimed at the hard of thinking.
Mike - ha ha, it must be something like that or he'd be a creepy hypocrite... Oh.
Jannie - yes it is aimed at the hard of thinking - and the racketeers of course.
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