IPCC gives us our final warning on climate change – it’s time to be honest about what we face
IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning’ on 1.5C
Scientists have delivered a ‘final warning’ on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late
The IPCC report is out and it’s all over rover.
Heat created by human pollution will cause the frozen methane on the ocean floor to erupt in a vast methane burp which will cause temperatures to dramatically jump melting the Greenland Ice Shelf causing a desalination of the oceanic pump in the Labrador Sea which will shut down the Atlantic Oscillation global current which will counter-intuitively spark a new mini ice age in the Northern Hempisphere. Those not burnt from the face of the planet will quickly freeze to death.
We aren’t going to change our addiction to cheap hyper consumerism to fill the existential grief manipulated by a billion dollar advertising industry that warps the essence of humanity into a meaningless consumption beyond our biosphere’s ability to replenish itself.
We are going to continue exploiting the planet and those rich enough will build cities underground and in space stations to avoid the mad max apocalyptic collapse of Civilisation into competing blocks of Autarky.
I’m waiting for Matthew Hooton to start advocating for the ‘Mole People’ and their right to burrow deep underground to avoid taxation.
The reality is that we can’t stop what is coming and won’t stop what is coming.
We need to start thinking about what Fortress Aotearoa entails, what an isolationist NZ would look like culturally, economically and politically.
As Kiwis we are a very laid back culture and we are fastidious about ignoring things that might lead to conflict, until conflict is upon us and then we are unrelenting in fighting for a righteous egalitarianism.
I believe we are at a turning point on climate change.
For many of us, climate change has been a theoretical argument about something that might happen in the distant future.
It is no longer that.
It is now a present on going risk factor.
I’ve been following the IPCC reports on climate change from the beginning, and the criticism made against the IPCC was that due to its strict need for only unilaterally agreed science to make the official report, it was always underplaying the urgency and severity of the climate crisis.
There was always a section in each report where the science was presented that wasn’t universally accepted but included to show the reach and scope of debate.
Increasingly over the years, the worst case scenarios in the IPCC are playing out in real time.
The scientists were wrong, but only in their optimism.
You understand that each year that passes now will get worse or remain as starkly bad as they are now right?
You get that it doesn’t go back to normal after this right?
The extreme weather will get worse and worse.
More extreme than these extremes now.
Consider the baseline extreme current normal.
Sure the war run Ukraine is hurting food prices, but that’s damage on the baseline reality of a mega drought that has interrupted the agricultural calendar of major food producers globally!
The radical adaptation required to get us ready for what’s coming will splinter the political spectrum whether we like it or not.
Why shouldn’t we have our own basic pharmaceutical industry?
Engineering industry?
Industrial industry?
The supply side shocks caused by Covid and war are not going away, and they are being compounded by catastrophic climate change.
Radical adaptation and communal community resourcing alongside a Big State approach to lynchpin infrastructure for basic self-reliance as an Island country facing enormous economic shockwaves is the only means to build the muscle mass to respond to the ever intensifying external disruption of late stage capitalism.
The need to increase military spending to 3% alongside the new costs for this infrastructure must be funded via new taxes aimed at corporations and banks.
A financial transaction tax and windfall profit tax would take the yoke of taxation off working people and place it upon the shoulders of the wealthy.
National and ACT see mass immigration as a means to create fake growth at a time when we should be focused on de-growth.
The Climate Crisis is here and adaptation is now.
We need to start rethinking Isolationism as a strength and Hyper-Regional Think Big as Economic Sovereignty.
The geopolitical shock waves are only getting more intense.
As you look around at the devastation these extreme weather events have caused, doesn’t being carbon neutral by 2050 look pathetic now?
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounds like an organisation made up of government elected scientists, funded by governments also. You would think that this, or something close to this, are the foundations behind this organisation, given the upheaval humanity faces as a result of their findings…
“government elected scientists”
Are you sure they’re not lizardmen as well?
I’m not sure how much government involvement this so-called Intergovernmental panel actually has, is my query. If lizardmen are what government wants, so be it, if lizardmen is what another entity wants, then who is this entity? Who the heck is running, what to me appears to be one of the most important organisations in the world today, l realize now, is what l’d like to know.
First I want to make it clear that I am not having a dig at Prime Minister Chippie. Good now that’s out the way let’s dig.
Look Climate Change isn’t a war meaning all of us is not the enemy. But it will reap destruction orders of magnitude greater than all the wars before it with at least half of all life on the planet ceasing to exist (According to the IPCC report, and that’s the low ball number. The high ball number is 100% desertification if we increase emissions and increasing it is, even with Te Paati Gween in government).
So when chippie says oh we better do something about it he comes from a position that isn’t a leader of men. Chippie speaks more about theories because when it comes to war! He’s just not that guy. Neither do I think we will ever again see another Jacinda. Not because Jacinda ruined the intellectual no. We did it.
There is no straight line between intellectual greatness and being “wise!” Which I think Jacinda posed both wise and intelligence. She didn’t have a loud voice, spoke softly at times. No she WAS the voice.
Being intellectual can give off the ora of false confidence because confidence does not mean component. I think Chippie lacks a deep intellectual he can just lean on a billion dollars of consultants for that but he does have the qualities of competence and being wise. It’s just chippie ain’t winning no bar fights and when you lead men into the breach you have to have an edge which can only be taught in a ring.
Haven’t seen chippie in a debate with someone of the Calibre of a John Key or make Bill English cry but debating is one of the last areas where both opponents can go at each other 100% with everything on the line.
If we are going to get things done in the shortest amounts of time both Chippie and Aloha luxon, each them are going to have to enter the campaign trail with there shirts off and both go into the extreme areas of the left and right meaning chippie and Luxon go into both Extreme left and right areas yknow you Orange Tamariki, NZDF where all the Iraq / Afghanistan documents, ya federated farmers meetings know a trans rally, your Tamaki rally and so on. Put the spotlight on em. Burn em so to speak. Curb stomp them so when they come they just might have something to say come the national leaders debate.
Oh and no ducking. No research. We all know chippie went to uni and we all know Luxon can run a company this is an opportunity for all of us to make em wise men.
And remember if either Chippie and/or Aloha Luxon takes a back step they’ll just take a hiding in the polls.
It’s all irrelevant (sarcasm) and made up as seen by world wide flooding/cyclones droughts and Covid potentially from inhumane animal practises and over population, so that when there are disasters and pandemics, the reach and effects is greater and global.
As seen by the woke in Scotland and NZ, identity, culture and gender transitions are more important for those politicians. Climate change and pandemics can wait. (In fact are a conspiracy, not like choosing your own gender and banning language and books and biological woman as being too racist and homophobic.
This climate change catastrophe story right next to a poll that shows Greens down and ACT up!
Go figure!
Not looking good is it…50% of NZers live week to week…with not enough reserves for unexpected expenditure or surviving for even a month or two without income. Industrial Dairying has fucked our water ways.
So, yes fortress NZ it is because too few took Climate Disaster seriously enough.
Grow a garden, plus micro greens & herbs, start rain water collection, buy some survivalist books which do have some very useful info, eat less meat, keep a stash of cash, learn basic medical care techniques, make home brew, grow Cannabis, go solar–even small panels for gadgets, get bicycles, network with neighbours for transport, childcare and solidarity, grow community gardens–for starters!
All those dystopian shows you have watched should prepare you for the future. When the ATMs go down look out!
Climate change! If only there was something we could do immediately to address carbon emissions in NZ. Something to reduce our amount of greenhouse gasses, instead of increasing them. If only.
When I see millions of tons of forestry slash washed down rivers around Gisborne, I see millions of tons of carbon.
When I see millions of tons of effluent pumped out to sea from from sewer treatment plants, I see millions of tons of carbon.
When I see house roofs, I see ready made locations that electricity companies who love claiming environmental credentials on TV adds, could be fitting with solar panels.
How much electricity could be generated if every house was fitted with a solar panel roof?
How many millions of tons of carbon could be prevented from going into the atmosphere, if all the carbon in forestry slash and effluent was sequestered as compost or biochar? How much of a difference would doing these things that we could do today, make to our greenhouse gas emissions, compared to trying to force farmers into the ETS. Our efficient farmers who are already low carbon emitters, compared to overseas farming practices. Why not do, what we can do right now, or at least have a plan to do it, instead of lumping more ETS bureaucracy onto an already efficient farming sector. Of course farmers can always improve, with riparian planting, preserving wetlands, and other nitrate reducing strategies, and this is ongoing and occurring right now.
Chippy seems to be someone competent who can appreciate the bigger picture and is more likely to do more to combat climate change than his counterpart Luxon who seems prone to tripping over his own feet if given half the chance, and appears reluctant to announce an policy at all, and was recently ruffed up and clouted by a head high political tackle from climate change denier Maureen F U Pugh. At least National have the option of replacing him with Nicola a few months out from the election, like happened to Andrew Little, and there will be those in National contemplating this as the election draws closer, but it will require good timing, so Nicola can get a reasonable bump in the Polls right when it counts. It’s been done before.
In the meantime I’m planting fruit trees on my boundary fence lines, because I like eating fruit.
Everybody want to talk about reducing emissions but for some reason population control is off the agenda, it needs to be addressed urgently – preferably with family planning rather than an all out war, which is one of the likely consequences of overcrowding.
I have a long list of final warnings starting in the 1970’s and onwards.
None eventuated.
1-2 degrees over 100 year period isn’t going to do anything “catastrophic”. The planet has survived FAR worse climate events in the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3lTgb6V458
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sovzVS_NOOU
Oh and, Greta recently deleted her doomer tweet because just like all the climate change nonsense we’ve heard over the lat three decades, none of it has ever panned out as promised.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11862361/Greta-Thunberg-deletes-2018-tweet-saying-climate-change-wipe-humanity.html
Yes yes, wealthy unaccountable bureaucrats want us to eat bugs so they can fly to conferences and lecture us.
I think they’ve lost the room if you read the weight of comments around the internet. Too much dooming and wanting everyone else to change.