Double standard - one for humanity and a different one for financial markets

I am grateful Professor Skea has consented to head up the IPCC. He is a more than valuable asset to the climate crisis strategy to end the danger.

However, the politics have to go!

Politics has already had its chance and it resolves nothing. Stark realities as reported by scientists all that is necessary. The UN General Assembly must act.

July 30, 2023

The newly appointed head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (click here), Jim Skea, spoke to two major German news outlets over the weekend, soon after his appointment to the role.

Speaking to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, in an interview first published on Saturday, Skea warned against laying too much value on the international community's current nominal target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared the pre-industrial era.

"We should not despair and fall into a state of shock" if global temperatures were to increase by this amount, he said.

In a separate discussion with German news agency DPA, Skea expanded on why.

"If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change," he said.

"The world won't end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees," Skea told Der Spiegel. "It will however be a more dangerous world."....

Power structures in the world excite the public about adaptation for space travel, but, do not inspire social and economical adaptation to save their home planet. 

There is not another planet people can engage to start over again. It doesn't exist. The human race must get along with Earth. 

Earth has become a threat to life due to human excesses, yet, the thirst for wealth accepts that reality as a side effect to a goal. Basically, the petroleum industry has decided human loss, no matter how many numbers, is acceptable so long as their cash flow is fluid and abundant. 

Minimizing the threat is a fool’s game. Becoming paralyzed to a resolve is only guaranteeing extinction, but, minimizing the threat is as well. Such statements will be exploited by the very petroleum industries that caused this tragedy to Earth in the first place. The petroleum industry has thrived on propaganda and frequently political propaganda.

I am certain the tempered message by Professor Skea met with the approval of Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber.

July 13, 2023
By Zia Weise

In a statement (click here) confirming his appointment as COP28 president-designate, Al Jaber said, “The UAE is approaching COP28 with a strong sense of responsibility and the highest possible level of ambition.”

The COP28 presidency’s long-awaited plan (click here) for this year’s climate summit in Dubai spotlights renewables but sidesteps questions over the role of fossil fuels.

With less than five months until the conference kicks off, COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber has come under increasing pressure to outline a clearer vision for the talks.

On Thursday, during a visit to Brussels, the embattled COP leader finally presented an agenda — a plan that was widely welcomed as a step forward but criticized for its muddled message on fossil fuels....

The statement from May 21, 2023 when Al-Jaber accepted the presidency of COP 28 and the final outcome is very different. The action plan needs to be drawn up by scientists and validated through the UN General Assembly. The petroleum politics is causing damage to the only planet humans have for a home.

The UN COP standard for leadership is grossly out of step with it's best outcomes.

People are dying. How much was that a part of the plan? Looking the other way achieves permission for death.

One of the most prolific deniers is the Republican Party of the USA. Crony profits and funding for their scorched Earth policies is the focus of the GOP now. They don't care about life, citizens' lives, the future of generations of Americans; only the citizen called MONEY.

August 4, 2023
By Lisa Friedman

Scorched Earth: (click here) Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature

During a summer of scorching heat (click here) that has broken records and forced Americans to confront the reality of climate change, conservatives are laying the groundwork for a 2024 Republican administration that would dismantle efforts to slow global warming.

The move is part of a sweeping strategy dubbed Project 2025 that Paul Dans of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank organizing the effort, has called a “battle plan” for the first 180 days of a future Republican presidency.

The climate and energy provisions would be among the most severe swings away from current federal policies.

The plan calls for shredding regulations to curb greenhouse gas pollution from cars, oil and gas wells and power plants, dismantling almost every clean energy program in the federal government and boosting the production of fossil fuels — the burning of which is the chief cause of planetary warming....

These horrible CEO bonus first attitudes are very dangerous to Earth as a benevolent home to people of any country. The bonuses have no conscience. But, Wall Street isn't about benevolence and/or an Earth that is livable. Wall Street likes to think it is immune from such decisions that involve morality and humanity. Why is it continuing? 

Crypto currencies are among the biggest polluters on the plant because they requires enormous use of energy sources. So, while the USA Grid is being brought together as one (which can be a national security issue, if one fails they all fail) to support areas of the country in high energy demand, crypto currencies are allowed to exist in the USA without any priority as to electric demand and supply.

Here are one of the crony companies endangering the air around Earth and every human life along the way. 

Hydrofluorocarbon 152a is a greenhouse gas that does cause damage to the ozone layer.

This particular deodorant was sold at a Walgreens. I did not purchase it and never will. The manufacturers of Dove 0% are looking for an aerosol to bring in more profits. Damn Earth, full speed ahead to that CEO bonus.

The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel (the Panel) (click here) reviewed the safety of Hydrofluorocarbon 152a, which functions as a propellant in personal care products. The Panel reviewed relevant data provided in this safety assessment, and concluded that Hydrofluorocarbon 152a is safe in the present practices of use and concentration described in this safety assessment....

It is pure corruption.

This material (click here) is considered hazardous by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200).

The danger to human life has reached a staggering potential and all the greenhouse gases must be outlawed. Death is not an acceptable outcome. What is considered minor is simply providing more denial of what is best for Earth's atmospheres. These are not minor dangers. They exist and should be considered significant until any point in the future when Earth's atmospheres are once again stable and benevolent.

The chances of unintended consequences are too high when realizing that heating changes everything. I remind, people are dying.

2018

...As a result of these concerns, (click here) HFCs were included as one group of greenhouse gases for which emissions controls were adopted by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Consequently, developed countries (those listed in Annex I to this Convention, or “Annex I” Parties) supply annual emission estimates of HFCs to the UNFCCC.

Since the Kyoto Protocol only specified limits on the sum of all controlled greenhouse gases, emissions of HFCs were not explicitly controlled. However, following the Kyoto Protocol, some countries enacted additional controls specifically limiting HFC use based on their global warming potentials (GWPs). Ultimately the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol was agreed upon in 2016, and this Amendment supplies schedules for limiting the production and consumption of specific HFCs. Although the radiative forcing supplied by HFCs is currently small, this Amendment was designed to ensure that the radiative forcing from HFCs will not grow uncontrollably in the future. The Kigali Amendment will come into force at the start of 2019. HFC concentrations are currently monitored through atmospheric measurements. All HFCs with large abundances are monitored, as are most with small abundances....