UN chief calls for ban on fossil fuel adverts to save climate | BBC News

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said the world's fossil fuel industries should be banned from advertising to help save the world from climate change.

Mr Guterres called coal, oil and gas corporations the “godfathers of climate chaos” who had deceived the public for decades.

Just as tobacco advertising was banned because of the threat to health, the same should now apply to fossil fuels, he said.

His remarks were his most damning condemnation yet of the industries responsible for the bulk of global warming.

They came as new studies showed the rate of warming is increasing and that global heat records have continued to tumble.

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[joermnyc]

Maybe next time don’t hold the climate conference in a middle eastern oil state!

[wHaTsThIsThInGdO]

The elected officials have lost any credibility at this point. It’s like a clown show.

[toyotahonda]

Tell that to Taylor Swift who uses a jet for a 20km trip...

[jenniferatkinson]

Private Jets are acceptable, no recycling plan for car batteries is acceptable, deep mining for nickel and cobalt is okay, using machines that need diesel, but you getting cleaning fuel for homes and cars is not. What garbage.

[tomhenry]

As he flys around and rides in limousines

[MyWasteOfTime]

Maybe it's time for us to leave the UN...

[sehaj_sahni]

This man is toxic as hell. Not leaving his post.

[MrAl]

He will be having a glass of Champagne after that speech washed doen with caviar

[tehmorbias]

Still waiting for the BBC report on the MET Office doctoring the historical temperature records

[dpharr]

These climate doomsayers are wrong all the time

In the 1970s I was promised an ice age buy now

[leet]

whats the carbon footprint of the wars in afghan, iraq, libya, syria, yemen and Ukraine?

[OldScientist]

He hasn't read his own report.
The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed:
Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions),
Aridity,
Avalanche (snow),
Average precipitation,
Average Wind Speed,
Coastal Flood,
Agricultural drought,
Hydrological drought,
Erosion of Coastlines,
Fire Weather (hot and windy),
Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods),
Frost,
Hail,
Heavy Rain,
Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms,
Landslides,
Marine Heatwaves,
Ocean Acidity,
Radiation at the Earth’s Surface,
River/Lake Floods,
Sand and Dust Storms,
Sea Level,
Severe Wind Storms,
Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets,
Tropical Cyclones.
How about some quotes from the UN's IPCC AR6?
"There is low confidence in the emergence of heavy precipitation and pluvial and river flood frequency in observations, despite trends that have been found in a few regions."
"There is low confidence in the emergence of drought frequency in observations, for any type of drought, in all regions."
"Observed mean surface wind speed trends are present in many areas, but the emergence of these trends from the interannual natural variability and their attribution to human-induced climate change remains of low confidence due to various factors such as changes in the type and exposure of recording instruments, and their relation to climate change is not established. . . The same limitation also holds for wind extremes (severe storms, tropical cyclones, sand and dust storms)."
There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.

[flemminggranzow]

Guterres could stop eating for a week, and Co2 emissions would go back to 10000 BC.

[ReesCatOphuls]

Typical BBC soft pedalling.
No mention that past 12 months is 1.63C
No mention of 11 consecutive months over 1.5C
No mention that 17 month average is over 1.5C (copernicus era5)
No mention of the impacts of 1.5C+, on farming, food security, international stability, tipping elements, feedbacks.
2:50 "shape the nature of the world for our descendants".. clueless that this is already massively impacting current generations.
3:00 "determine the temperature" ... Again underplaying what is at stake
When will BBC even engage with planetary boundaries.
Also BBC still invites Heartly Brewer / Tice onto flagship programmes and lets them spout denier rubbish without pushback.
Hopeless BBC

[julianruffles]

George Carlin saving the planet thats an interesting watch

[samcalvinist]

HA People with Private Jets giving Climate Lectures to the Peasants.

[PaulMoment]

All to the detriment and devastation of the Human race

[Worldturnedupsidedown]

Didnt Al Gore say ears ago " our children will never see snow again"

[julianskinner]

What about all the subsidies we give them?

[nickfisher]

The world cannot survive just using his hot air!