Untold millions of people throughout the world are facing a genuine threat – but emphatically not from a changing climate. Rather, we may be closest to World War III since the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred 61 years ago this month, in October 1962.
Barring a widening of the conflict in the Middle East, the United Nations’ 28th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP28) will take place just five weeks from now in the United Arab Emirates, in the very neighborhood of the fighting.
With war breaking out and wider conflicts on the brink, this annual UN climate summit seems more obtuse and irrelevant than ever. Nonetheless, count on many world leaders and delegates to declare the summit is more important than ever; that the world’s climate is now “boiling” and headed for catastrophe that dwarfs a potential World War.
Millions of people worldwide would beg to differ from this climate hysteria, especially after recent tragic and ongoing events. More than 1,400 Israeli civilians—men, women, and children—were massacred October 7th by Hamas terrorists who govern the Gaza Strip that borders southern Israel. More than 200 hostages were kidnapped by the same in the hopes of buying time to prepare against a full-scale invasion by Israel of Gaza in retaliation.
On Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist group is threatening a two-front war against Israel, with numerous military skirmishes underway. Looming over all of this is the Islamic Republic of Iran, just across the Persian Gulf from the upcoming climate summit in Dubai, UAE. Iran has long supported Hamas and Hezbollah to harass and threaten Israel, while Israel has surreptitiously sought to thwart Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon.
With the massacre on October 7th, Iran has significantly upped the ante in its war against the Jewish state, and it threatens further escalation if Israel counters with a full invasion of Gaza.
Meanwhile, the United States is beefing up its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean Sea within firing range of the Israeli/Gaza/Hezbollah war, and its bases in Iraq and Syria are being fired upon by Iranian proxies. Some politicians in the U.S. are openly threatening war with Iran, which, incidentally, is allied with Russia, which is fighting in Ukraine, which in turn is being sustained by the U.S. with more than $100 billion and counting.
Then there is China, which has been flying military aircraft into Taiwan airspace and sending ships into Philippine territorial waters.
If history is not repeating itself from the two world wars in the 20th century, it is eerily starting to rhyme – meaning military hostilities between neighboring countries with different alliances can rapidly escalate into wider conflicts and world wars. That is what occurred in 1914 and 1939. It could happen again suddenly.
This military tinderbox will make a bigger mockery of the climate-change-existential-threat chorus next month in Dubai, which will be strewn with hysterical warnings of having eight, ten, twenty-seven, or eighty years remaining on the planet before the tipping point, the point of no return, climate Armageddon, blah blah blah.
It all rings hollow, and more so than ever.
Amazingly, right after the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, President Joe Biden’s spokesman stood by the president’s climate existential hysteria spoken in September. Mr. Biden said, “the only existential threat humanity faces — even more frightening than a nuclear war — is global warming; going above 1.5 degrees in the next ten years;” to which spokesman John Kirby, after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, doubled down to say climate change “actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on earth over time.”
Even when you view climate change hysteria in isolation, apart from spreading wars, such arguments proffered by the Biden administration, the UN, and so many others funded by governments and sundry billionaires do not stand up to scrutiny. The most recent refutations come from the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) of more than 1,800 scientists and professionals, which asserted “there is no climate emergency” and debunked numerous other climate-related shibboleths.
In addition, nearly two dozen climate researchers, led by Dr. Ronan Connelly of the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Science, recently disputed the findings of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which claims that slight planetary warming is mostly human-caused. In fact, the study led by Dr. Ronan found that the IPCC failed to acknowledge natural factors such as solar effects also influence climate. Who knew the sun mattered when studying climate trends?! Evidently, not the UN’s IPCC bureaucrats.
Notwithstanding the CLINTEL declaration, another dispute with the IPCC, and escalating conflict and war in both hemispheres, it’s on to Dubai, which, to quote Shakespeare’s Macbeth, has all the makings of more “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”