{"id":289836,"date":"2025-01-22T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=289836"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:15:45","slug":"289836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=289836","title":{"rendered":"Politics has ‘weaponised’ science: UN climate chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DAVOS (Switzerland), Jan 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s climate chief said that\u00a0the science of global warming had been “weaponised” by politics, a day after\u00a0Pres Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Stiell said that shifting geopolitical events could not change the hard\u00a0facts that underpin climate change and the disastrous consequences linked to\u00a0a warming planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year was the hottest on record, and the combined average temperature of\u00a02023 and 2024 exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius benchmark set under the Paris\u00a0climate accord for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stiell said that support for climate science was “far, far more significant\u00a0than those few voices that challenge” it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The science has actually been weaponised, and again that is reflective of\u00a0the politics,” he told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos,\u00a0Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the first day of his second term as president, Trump announced that the\u00a0United States would again withdraw from the Paris climate accord endorsed by\u00a0nearly 200 nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who has expressed scepticism of climate change and global efforts to\u00a0confront it, did the same thing during his first term but Joe Biden rejoined\u00a0the pact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’ve been here before,” said Stiell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the world was undergoing an “unstoppable” energy transition that\u00a0attracted $2 trillion for renewable power in 2024, he said, twice the amount\u00a0invested in fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Anyone who steps back from this significant forward momentum creates a\u00a0vacuum that others will fill and will benefit from,” Stiell added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said it was critical that these opportunities were better advertised “in a\u00a0language that resonates with the hearts and minds of ordinary people all over\u00a0the world”. — NNN-AGENCIES\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVOS (Switzerland), Jan 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s climate chief said that\u00a0the science of global warming had been “weaponised” by politics, a day after\u00a0Pres Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement. Simon Stiell said that shifting geopolitical events could not change the hard\u00a0facts that underpin climate change and the disastrous consequences linked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289841,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289836\/revisions\/289841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}