By Jo Nova
This week’s UN witchcraft is that a half a degree of global warming will kill babies and pregnant women, give us your money.
The UN COP29 meeting starting Nov 11th, fights for relevance in the shadow of the US Election, like a suckerfish under an aircraft carrier.
The latest confected attempt to get attention is to guilt trip the West — telling us that women and babies will die if we don’t install enough solar panels. This is despite humans being mammals which evolved to cope with the heat and the cold. We live a more closeted, protected existence than any time in the last million years. Not many people give birth in caves these days. Indeed we’re a species that inhabits towns with monthly temperatures that vary by 90 degrees Celsius and we are supposed to panic about another half a degree?
The truth is that being cold, poor and hungry increases stillbirths just as much as any heatwave, and the thing that saves babies on a hot day is an air-conditioner. The answer to all four killers thus, is cheap electricity and fossil fuels.
One day history students will study how the UN uses biblical paraphrasing to demand their tithe and control:
Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report
The report follows an ultimatum from the UN secretary general, António Guterres, on the climate emergency: “We’re playing with fire, but there can be no more playing for time. We’re out of time.” He said global heating was supercharging monster hurricanes, bringing biblical floods and turning forests into tinderboxes, and said governments had to rapidly wean the world off its fossil fuel addiction.
Naturally, only babies that die from heat stress are politically marketable, the UN doesn’t care about the ones that die from the cold:
Increasing climate extremes are causing more lost babies, premature births and cognitive damage to newborns, the report said. For example, a study in India found a doubled risk of miscarriage in pregnant women suffering heat stress, while another in California found a significant association between long-term heat exposure and stillbirth and premature birth.
Awkwardly, cold temperatures also cause stillbirths and miscarriages (Ruan et al) so if man-made climate change is warming the world, it must be saving babies too. Shh!
Five minutes of research, which the Guardian team don’t do, turns up a meta-study showing that poverty doubles the risk of death in babies:
Numerous studies confirm that mothers of low socioeconomic status and unemployed parents face a far higher risk of having a stillbirth or a low birthweight child [7–10]. It has been demonstrated that women or families living in adverse socioeconomic conditions have twice the risk of having a stillborn baby compared to their more privileged counterparts [11]. Unemployment and unfavourable economic conditions are usually associated with poor maternal nutrition, elevated psychological stress during pregnancy and limited access to medical supervision and prenatal care. Several studies show that pregnant women with elevated levels of stress have considerably higher risks of a stillbirth, independent of age, parity, education, smoking and alcohol habits or other compromising characteristics…. Moreover, in low income countries or deprived environments, poor maternal nutrition and low body mass index can result in higher stillbirth frequency [15]. — Tsimbos et al (2021)
Thus to save babies, and follow the science — we must burn more fossil fuels
Wealthier nations have higher CO2 emissions, more heaters, more air conditioners, better food, and their babies don’t die as often.
It is a crime the UN is not helping poor African nations build coal plants.
Child Mortality falls as CO2 emissions rise per capita. | OWID
REFERENCES
Cleon Tsimbos, Georgia Verropoulou Dimitra Petropoulou (2021) Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe, PLoS One, 2021 Nov 18;16(11):e0259623. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259623
Ruan T, Yue Y, Lu W, Zhou R, Xiong T, Jiang Y, Ying J, Tang J, Shi J, Wang H, Xiao G, Li J, Qu Y, Mu D. Association between low ambient temperature during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Chin Med J 2023;136:2307–2315. doi: 10.1097/CM9.0000000000002361
Hmm … concern for the safety of the gestating interval of human life?
I thought the hypocrisy of the global intellectual elite had reached its’ zenith.
Once again I have misunderestimated.
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“António Guterres, on the climate emergency: “We’re playing with fire, but there can be no more playing for time. We’re out of time.”
Well, if we are out of time, then not much need to do anything there, Antonio.
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Did I hear Prince Guterres say China?
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Latest: Harris 48, Trump 47. NB. This is not OT. If the cheating is contained, Donald Trump will be the next president and babies can breathe a sigh of relief – the climate won’t kill them.
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Never mind the African nations, it’s a crime the UN isn’t helping Australia build new coal power plants. And it’s a crime the Liberal Party has completely ditched the resource as well, as we fill huge trains with the stuff on its way to Newcastle to China. Most insane thing I have ever seen in my life.
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1) For comments like this, one needs to differentiate between thermal (steaming) and coking (steelmaking) coals. China imports very little thermal coal – it has sufficient Resource of itself – but imports almost all coking coal as it has very little of those deposits
2) The Hunter Valley mines export both thermal and coking coals, although the thermal subset comprises the vast majority by tonnage. Who buys that ? Most of South-East Asia (Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, India …), excluding China. Indonesia also exports large quantities of thermal coal to these countries but the quality of these exports (ie. the proximate characteristics) are way below the Aus coals
3) the insanity isn’t in exporting these products, it’s in destroying the Aus power grid baseload supply without a truly reliable, inexpensive replacement. Broken Hill is a perfect recent example – syncing the “renewabubbles” to the grid’s exact voltage tolerance was done by the La Trobe lignite generators, so when that fell over (a storm, could one believe), the renewabubbles were utterly useless.
4) Fining Transgrid eleventy leven zillion dollars (or even more than I can count) will not resolve this in the slightest. It will simply increase the consumer price of power as it is adjusted upwards to pay the fines.
5) Aus coal-fired generators are now in the graveyard. No one will put up $100 million dollars per generator to re-maintenance them with only a few legislated years left. Examine Broken Hill’s black start experiences very carefully. Why not shut down another area to “conserve” energy (say, Sydney’s eastern suburbs) ? Most people do not understand what a black start means as they have been so protected for so long. So it will take two black starts for the panic to rise. Then look carefully at contemporary Cuba to view the results.
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At least QLD with the LNP now in charge will be supporting Coal Fired Power Stations. Great stuff.
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Planned parenthood must be s#itting themselves. “Climate change took our jobs”.
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CCCrap™️ “took our jobs”? No problem, they can slide over to the next seat and become psychologists (an ever-expanding career) as Giblets Wobbling, ie. an extra degree of warmth, causes cases of ‘Climate Denial’ to skyrocket! (no apologies for all the pun fun).
UN Green Nutjob (can I say that?) Dave Hansford, a NZ bush enthusiast, inspired me to almost make an official complaint to the NZBS regarding his M.A.D. aired over our state broadcaster y/day. His anti-carbon doomshyster preaching breached all standards of well-balanced science reporting. NB. My previous complaints have been rebuffed with the (yawn…) 97% consensus settled science cut-and-paste reply.
Ten seconds of interwebbing found a slew of propaganda – oops, I mean articles – penned by this prophet of doom. One, from the far-left extremist Spinoff online magazine dated Aug 18 2017 (easy to find) titled, ‘Climate change is happening – but don’t bother trying to convince a denier’, is a doozy of Loopy Lying Lysenkoism (LLL).
It opens with: ‘Global warming is a fact, it’s caused by humans… Dave Hansford explores the psychology of denial’. He then lists 5 traits these alleged science deniers exhibit which, as I’ve come to realise over the past 36 years, are the exact traits of Climate Believers, ie. cult-like religious fervour for their leader’s sacred pronouncements, no matter what the evidence shows.
Doozy Dave probably thought he was being a comic genius by accompanying the article with a stock photo of Donald Trump, at a rally, pulling one of his classic eye-rolling faces in complete mockery of Carbonistas and their belief in green faeries at the bottom of the garden. My rating? 0/100 or F for FAIL.
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Of course, the Guardian promotes itself in the fight against dis/misinformation. Voelkischer Beobachter couldn’t do it any better in the mind-numbing repetition.
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The Democrats and their violent thugs AntiFA dressed in black are precisely the 1930 Fascists. The newspaper barons and steel makers aren’t what they were in Hitler’s day. So it’s the new Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
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Planned Parenthood weeps for all that lost abortion income. Nobody gets paid for a miscarriage.
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You can add all the money from sex change mutilation by sadists. It’s very profitable. And their victims live lives of perpetual pain and medical dysfunction and social hopelessness. Often inflicted on young people who are just confused and lacking direction, like most young people. It’s a crime of opportunity. Taxpayer subsidized and the parents are legally unable to stop the predation and destruction. Torture and maiming of pubescent and little children. Like Elon Musk’s son.
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Not to mention their trade in aborted baby body parts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/video-captures-planned-parenthood-doctor-detailing-sale-of-fetal-body-parts/
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These are deaths from poverty. They used to be 30%. Plus the same figure for material mortality even in Victorian Britain. And for children up to the first year, an additional 50%. The breakthrough was washing hands with soap discovered in the Crimean war. The second breakthrough was at the D-Day landings with antibiotics where 98% of soldiers who made it back to England recovered. A 10% death rate is actually a huge reduction and has led to a massive population boom worldwide. But it is presented as failure?
This new concern for infants is very odd when the Socialists are demanding universal and unconditional abortion on demand up to and including birth. In Australia the Socialist government in Canberra forcibly and without reason acquired the Catholic Calvary hospital. Now doctors are to perform abortions in what was a Catholic hospital. This is atheistic communism, not democracy. All hospitals were Christian. Health and even education was not the business of governments.
At the other end they are pushing assisted dying/murder. And in the middle you have 100,000 deaths of young people each year in the US alone from Chinese Fentanyl.
These are the policies of the WEF, the Club of Rome and China. And the vile Greens who see human existence as pollution and the entire problem in saving the planet. But for whom? What happened to save the dinosaurs?
Save the children, yes. From the UN and the Greens. As in Gaza where the UN is a major part of the problem and directly supports HAMAS terrorists and has declared the President of Israel a war criminal.
As for Climate Change, it remains a fantasy creation of the UN and Al Gore. The oceans are NOT boiling. That’s an astounding claim from the President of the UN himself. It’s not misinformation. It’s a ridiculous and evil and obvious lie. And not a single person in the media calls it out. Why?
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I would also point out that when the British arrived in India the average life expectancy for those who survived childbirth was 24 years. Like most places 50% died in the first year of life. Few made it to 21. These days a 21st birthday party has lost its meaning when everyone survives.
However as most countries now have an average life expectancy around 75 years, there has been a tripling of the world population which means people are having far fewer children. India for a long time had a population of 400 million. Like China. Now both are 1400 million, 3.5x. So most of the gain has come from longer life and family sizes have dropped dramatically. Even in places like Italy and Russia, huge families are gone.
So the world populations is starting to stabilize at 8 billion and will soon start to drop. We do not need the UN/WEF/Club of Rome to recommend killing people or treating life as disposable. That is our worst nightmare, the stuff of science fiction and completely at odds with what most people want and every religion.
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TL;DR
I guess there may be a confounder with child mortality and GDP per capita?
And just for fun, Progesterone raises a woman’s body temperature enhancing gestation.
So a little half a degree or degree of warming is beneficial to creating life.
Physiology is fascinating!
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As Dr Patrick Moore, ecologist and one of the founders of Greenpeace tells it, naked humans in 20C will die of hypothermia. But we now occupy far colder places because of our ability to adapt, but there is nothing fundamentally wrong with 20C. It’s our minimum origin temperature. And our internal temperature is 37C, which the President of the UN thinks is boiling because it is close to 100F. The world is being led by idiots or manipulative liars.
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Led by “idiots or manipulative liars”, or, as my Crosstian friends tell me, Servants Of Satan: oddly enough, SOS.
[‘Crosstian’ as they worship the Cross instead of enlightening their souls via the Anointed One… or Three… or the whole Heavenly Host. Whatever, there’s always a lot of blood involved].
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“The world is being led by idiots or manipulative liars.”
Both and more besides. Not one with an ounce of common sense.
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Populations recolonised the Northern and Southern hemispheres after the ice age because warming climates produced more food. More food meant more mammalians that required more food. A circular exercise that continues but it’s not “Ad infinitum”. As past/extinct civilisations can attest man is not infallible! At some, undetermined, point in the future we will exhaust our pro creative abilities. Preferred genderisation may already have kick-started the change? Manmade catastrophes like war, climate change, medical meddling decarbonisation etc etc will be just “grist to the mill”. Best we enjoy whatever time on earth is allotted for as long as possible.
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Isn’t it strange how on the one hand the Left demand to be able to kill pre-born babies on demand, up to and including at birth (and even after it); then complain that “climate change” is killing babies?
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Succinct.
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Seriously, does anyone actually read The Guardian and more importantly are their readers important? I was listening to a discussion regarding science argument last year. The guest speaker was describing methods to convince the “other side” of your counter argument. That you didn’t use a red pill method, but a pink pill type method was always better. People will generally not like confrontational approaches to debate and tend to be obstinate, particularly regarding long held beliefs. You have to go slowly, not scare the horses. But this speaker also mentioned there is a group of people that you will never convince, even going slowly. They’re the intractables – which are more likely to be readers of The Guardian, I would suppose.
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China has finally recognised that people need an incentive to have children, nothing to do with global warming.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/policy/article/3284318/china-eyes-birth-friendly-society-population-stimulus-next-agenda?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
But the demographics won’t change until the CCP is swept from power.
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It’s not people causing climate change that’s killing babies (in or ex utero), it’s people using abortion in lieu of responsible contraception. Abortion practices account for the worlds highest death toll of human life during gestation.
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Is there anything that climate change can’t do?
This is amazing!
Maybe the “scientists” should try to harness the power of climate change and use it to better the world.
I’m peeved at all the rubbish that is emitted by numbnut “scientists” which is then latched onto by the ever compliant media.
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Not so many years ago, I was 183 cm tall, weighed in at 78 kg, had a full head of hair and was the bass player and lead singer in a semi professional rock band. Now, I’m 180 cm tall, weigh 107 kg, bald as a coot and can’t carry a tune in a bucket.
Damned climate change.
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haha
The trouble I have is with hair that’s sprouting in all the wrong places.
We all know that warming promotes growth, so I’m blaming that on climate change as well!
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Okay then, umm, look on that chart for China.
Hmm! Not there eh!
So Tony, go to the source and then type in the heading, and see the original chart. (Link to original chart is part of the text under Joanne’s image)
And again, China is not shown on the chart.
However, see that ‘legend’ there at the right of the chart. Well, go and tick the button for China. (scroll down – alphabetic order here)
See the Country orange text for Anguilla there. Well just to the left of that is another orange ‘dot’.
Just above and almost between those two orange dots is a ‘bluey green’ dot. Well that dot is China.
Okay, (at the linked original) hover your mouse over that dot for China. It comes up with the text (part of it) which states 7.99t per capita CO2 emissions.
Okay, so now hover over Australia and the same text states 14.99t per capita CO2 emissions. (almost double that Chinese figure)
(At both of them, the t stands for tonnes of CO2 ….. per capita.)
So, actual CO2 emissions are as follows:
China – 13,260 MegaTonnes of CO2 – 34% of the World’s total.
Australia – 373 MegaTonnes of CO2 – 1% of the World’s total.
So, for China, actual emissions are Australia multiplied by 35.55.
Can you see now why that per capita figure is used instead of actual emissions.
Tony.
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Huh, should have hit Click to Edit the comment while I had the time, eh!
I wonder if any of you wonder why such a mega important Country like China was ….. left off that chart with all the names of Countries on it.
No U.S. either or UK. India is there, Russia is there, tiny population Australia is there.
But no China.
Tony.
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No France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc, etc, etc, either…………..
Maybe they and others are not in the UN……lol
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The elephant in the room – vaccines . Proven cause of miscarriages and infertility . Look over there ! a squirrel…
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The sudden apparent concern for babies from the pro-abortionists is touching and oh so very sincere.
Not!
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