Based upon rising temperature and CO2 observations, the nations of the world 35 years ago joined in the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Its stated original purpose was to combat “dangerous human interference with the climate system”, in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. To verify that CO2 emissions, which are a minor component our Earth’s greenhouse gasses, were the major cause of the rise in the Earth’s temperatures, the United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to collect scientific information, summarize it, and disseminate it to governments and the public.
Its first conference, informally known as the “Earth Summit”, was held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 where an international environmental treaty to reduce CO2 emissions was signed by 154 states. Subsequent meetings met annually beginning in 1995 in Berlin. In the third meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the conferees passed the Kyoto Protocol that obligated the signing developed nations to the first greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The United States abstained from signing the protocols of either of these conferences.
World leaders met at the 21st conference of the parties in Paris in 2015 where they set ambitious new goals, the “Paris Accords”, in the fight against climate change. President Obama committed the United States to these goals, but he did not ask for treaty approval by the U.S. Senate. President Trump voided the Obama agreement, but the Paris Agreements were reinstated by President Byden when he succeeded Trump in 2021.
Although Al Gore had promoted environmental issues while serving as Vice President to Bill Clinton during the 1990s, his big splash on the scene came in 2006 with the production of his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, fourteen years after the Earth Summit in 1992. Thus, Man-Made Global Warming, later morft to “Climate Change” when the “man-made” was found dubious, has been promoted from its inception by the United Nations and its own created panels.
The UN’s IPCC collects all, or as much as it can, of the scientific research related to Climate Change from researchers around the world. Through a highly bureaucratic U.N. process, the scientific data prepared each period of reporting is sifted, sorted, reviewed, debated, and ultimately voted on by the U.N. members to create Summaries, Special Reports, and Assessments on the state of climate change and its associated subjects. Ultimately, nonscientific U.N. bureaucrats and their staff create summaries. These are distributed to the media and ultimately reach the public as U.N. Climate Truths to support the various objectives the U.N. seeks to implement around the globe.
Instead of clearly dispensing the scientific information directly for the public to judge, the UN for many years published the results of climate models which forecast drastic increases in the Earth’s temperature based on the increases in atmospheric CO2. However, since CO2 and temperatures do not correlate, the models did not match with recorded temperature results. See the below chart showing these discrepancies between forecasts and actual temperatures from UN modelers.
IPCC Models Overstated Warming up to Three Times Too Much
Unfortunately, the original model forecasts were picked up by the obedient media anxious to forecast doom and gloom and never reporting that the forecasts had proved to be fallacious and their climate science specious.
In summary, the United Nations and its 192 member nations operate as a giant monopoly seeking to dictate the world’s climate change agenda. Their most recent report for 2023 from may be found at:
www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
Summary items from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change taken from their website above follow:
“It also makes for grim reading. Across nearly 8,000 pages, the AR6 details the devastating consequences of rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions around the world — the destruction of homes, the loss of livelihoods and the fragmentation of communities, for example — as well as the increasingly dangerous and irreversible risks should we fail to change course.
“But the IPCC also offers hope, highlighting pathways to avoid these intensifying risks. It identifies readily available, and in some cases, highly cost-effective actions that can be undertaken now to reduce GHG emissions, scale up carbon removal and build resilience. While the window to address the climate crisis is rapidly closing, the IPCC affirms that we can still secure a safe, livable future.
“Here are 10 key findings you need to know” as contained with the above summary – (Highlighted items are the authors – Items in CAPS present the alternate view.)
1. Human-induced global warming of 1.1 degrees C has spurred changes to the Earth’s climate that are unprecedented in recent human history. NOT SO!
2. Climate impacts on people and ecosystems are more widespread and severe than expected, and future risks will escalate rapidly with every fraction of a degree of warming. THEN WHO EXPECTED?
3. Adaptation measures can effectively build resilience, but more finance is needed to scale solutions. THE WEALTHY WESTERN NATIONS WILL BE EXPECTED TO MAKE A MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH!
4. Some climate impacts are already so severe they cannot be adapted to, leading to losses and damages. WHERE IS THIS OCCURRING?
5. Global GHG emissions peak before 2025 in 1.5 degrees C-aligned pathways. UNINTELIGBLE STATEMENT.
6. The world must rapidly shift away from burning fossil fuels — the number one cause of the climate crisis. NOT SO, NATURAL EARTH CLIMATE CYCLES ARE THE MAJOR CAUSE!
7. We also need urgent, systemwide transformations to secure a net-zero, climate-resilient future. WHAT IS A ‘CLIMATE RESILIENT FUTURE’?
8. Carbon removal is now essential to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C. THE 1.5 DEGREE C WAS AN ARBITRARY TARGET WITH NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS BY THEIR OWN DEFINITION.
9. Climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation must increase dramatically this decade. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY – OURS!
10. Climate change — as well as our collective efforts to adapt to and mitigate it — will exacerbate inequity should we fail to ensure a just transition. DEI IS ALSO ALIVE AND WEL IN CLIMATE CHANGE DOGMA!
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Along with many Western nations, the United States government is currently implementing the above U.N. recommended policies as part of President Biden’s NET ZERO 2050 CARBON EMISSIONS Industrial Plan signed by Executive Order on December 8, 2021.
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