by Thomas Catenacci
Fox News
‘They really are running out of extreme rhetoric,’ energy expert tells Fox News Digital
The United Nations (U.N.) issued its latest climate change report which warned the “climate time bomb is ticking,” sparking renewed calls for nations including the U.S. to take more aggressive actions to curb carbon emissions.
The report, published Monday by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that sustained global fossil fuel usage has caused the world to warm 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, close to the 1.5-degree emergency threshold, and has pushed the world closer to a point of no return. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report represented the most stark warning for humanity yet.
“The climate time bomb is ticking. But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity,” he said. “As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action.”…
“The ticking time bomb stuff — I mean, they really are running out of extreme rhetoric,” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “What’s the rhetoric going to be like next time or is it just going to be the same? I guess it could just be the same. We could have another stark, stark warning.”
“Since they never report that they’ve been wrong before, it doesn’t really matter. They just go on to the next one,” he continued. “This is an elitist-driven scare. It’s very important to the green energy industry, to the greens and to Democrats, but it’s not really important to anybody else. I think people are kind of getting bored with it.”
