'Era of Global Boiling' Has Arrived, UN Chief Says

[Think. Again.]

By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
Published: July 28, 2023
Edited by Chris McDermott

Full article: https://www.ecowatch.com/global-boiling-era-guterres-climate-change.html

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks about climate change at UN headquarters in New York City on July 27, 2023

At a press conference on climate Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived,” a UN press release said.

“Today, the World Meteorological Organization and the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service are releasing official data that confirms that July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history,” Guterres said. “The consequences are clear and they are tragic: children swept away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames; workers collapsing in scorching heat."

Chris Hewitt, the World Meteorological Organization’s director of climate services, said that, based on 173 years of data, the eight warmest years on record occurred from 2015 to 2022, and that substantial warming had been happening since the 1970s, UN News reported.

“Climate change is here… And it is just the beginning,” Guterres said, as reported by UN News.

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“No more hesitancy. No more excuses. No more waiting for others to move first,” Guterres said in the press release. “It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the very worst of climate change. But only with dramatic, immediate climate action. We have seen some progress. A robust rollout of renewables. Some positive steps from sectors such as shipping. But none of this is going far enough or fast enough. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.”

"We have several critical opportunities ahead. The Africa Climate Summit. The G20 Summit. The UN Climate Ambition Summit. COP28,” Guterres said in the press release. “We need ambitious new national emissions reduction targets from G20 members… And all actors must come together to accelerate a just and equitable transition from fossil fuels to renewables – as we stop oil and gas expansion, and funding and licensing for new coal, oil and gas… And we must reach net zero electricity by 2035 in developed countries and 2040 elsewhere, as we work to bring affordable electricity to everyone on earth.”

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[BlueIn_W_Pa]

1. Sorry Guterres, scientifically and practically not true

“It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the very worst of climate change."

Unless you shut down Asia Pacific countries dumping 81% of GHGs into the world, this is mathematically not possible. It's generally accepted the 1.5 degrees is already baked in, heading for 2 degrees.

[NickB79]

2. At 420ppm and rising, I'd say 2.5C by 2050 is baked in

3-4C by 2100 seems like a forgone conclusion.

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

3. Pretty much