UN Kicks Off Climate Summit With Alarmist Message — Act Now Or Face The Collapse Of Civilization

This year’s United Nations climate summit kicked off Monday with a narrative it’s been building in the media and at political conferences for months: act now or face catastrophe. British broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough, purporting to speak on behalf of global peoples, warned “the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon” if nothing is done to fight man-made global warming. Nearly 30,000 United Nations officials, diplomats, environmental activists, journalists and academics traveled to the heart of Poland’s coal country in Silesia to negotiate the next steps of the Paris climate accord. The UN set the tone for this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in October with the release of a dire report on the likelihood of keeping future global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. That report warned of catastrophe if the world warmed too much, and resulted in months of warnings it was the “last chance” to solve the climate problem. Of course, that’s the warning that’s usually given ahead of climate summits the UN wants to hype. Attenborough’s speech is the culmination of months of alarmism in the media and political conferences...MORE