On the newsOn Tuesday this week, while I was beginning to prepare today's post, I listened to Midday Report on Radio New Zealand, National. In a climate change segment, announcer Meriana Johnsen, reported a statement from UN General Secretary, Antonio Guerres, then asked Wellington climate scientist James Renwick to comment. What I heard has worried me profoundly ever since. So I thought I'd share my worry with my blog readers. I've heard people say, 'A worry shared is a worry spared.' I don't know about the 'spared' but certainly this worry needs to be shared – widely. I've downloaded what I heard and I invite you to take nearly seven minutes to listen to it. Just turn on your computer's sound then click the arrow in the black box below. Action needed nowIf you've listened to the news item, I hope you ironically appreciate the deliberately cheerful faces! Worry words.To keep our focus on track, here are some key worry words from the RNZ news clip and from Guerres's statements launching the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Provisional State of the Global Climate 2020 Report, by which the news clip was prompted.
PerhapsWorry worried me the next few days from Tuesday and then on Thursday RNZ National threw forth another climate change news item. 'Time for action' - Helen Clark urges climate change response
Yes, I worryThe worry I really have about climate change is that all too few people worry. In the western world we are just all too comfortable – too wrapped up in our own self satisfaction. At present we hardly ever even talk about climate change. At least most middle-aged and older people don't. I know we have big-named problems such as racism, injustice, poverty and, in all our minds, the pandemic. But none of these get anywhere near the severe consequences for all humanity of what is happening to our world through human assisted climate change. When all of us start pushing our governments to move away from using fossil fuels to produce energy, I'll breath a sigh of relief. Do you have children and grand children, nieces and nephews? □ John McInnes Friday 23 April 2021 References: please click the red text. RNZ National news item as embedded above WMO Provisional Report of the Global Climate 2020 Helen Clark ##########
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