Former
Executive Secretary
of the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change,
Christiana Figueres, was
Foreign Policy Magazine’s
“2015 Global Thinker”.
She said:
“The question is:
Is the reduction
in emissions
enough to mitigate
climate change, and the
environmental dangers
that come with it ?
According to experts,
the answer is no.”
“this is certainly
not the last time
that we’re going to have
these kinds of disease
eruptions if we continue
to deny, delude and delay
on climate change.
We will actually have
a much broader
range of diseases
that already exist now
and we will have
new diseases
that erupt”.
That's the usual
climate alarmist
junk science,
linking mild
global warming
with diseases,
with no proof of
any relationship !
How about
past diseases
NOT associated
with a warmer
climate?
-- The "Black Death"
struck Europe just as
colder weather
caused crop failures
in the 14th century.
-- The Plague of Justinian
was during the
colder Dark Ages,
that followed the
Roman Warm Period.
-- The Spanish Flu
hit early in the 20th century,
long before long anyone
talked about global warming.
Ed Conway’s
revealing piece
in The
Sunday Times
made some
bizarre claims:
“Don’t take this
the wrong way
but if you were
a young, hardline
environmentalist ,
looking for
the ultimate weapon
against climate change,
you could hardly design
anything better
than coronavirus.
Unlike most other
such diseases,
it kills mostly the old
who, let’s face it,
are more likely to be
climate skeptics.
It spares the young.
Most of all,
it stymies the forces
that have been
generating
greenhouse gases
for decades.”
Conway says:
“Hardcore climate activists
have long railed against
economic growth,
and in the
months ahead,
they may have
their wish granted,
as GDP growth
from China
to Europe
and the US,
is hammered
by coronavirus.
Yet this would be
no normal
economic slump.
It’s not as if
most companies
have become
insolvent.
... And since this is
no normal
economic crisis
it’s not clear that any
of the normal remedies,
like cuts in interest rates,
or taxes, will help.”
When traveling
and mingling
is a risk,
working remotely
could become
the norm,
rather than
an aberration.
That this will
all help to diminish
carbon emissions
is an added bonus."