Pirate's Cove

I remember back in 2004 and for quite a bit after that people said I was nuts to focus on the authoritarian politics of anthropogenic global warming, which was redubbed ‘climate change’. They said “this is about science, and the Warmists say it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, and we say it’s not.” I said “it doesn’t matter causation, the global left is using the issue to attempt to force their Stateism on everyone. It’s about power, just like most things from the left. They will force you to comply.” And here we have more proof

We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say

Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in despair at the slow pace of climate action.

Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).

Their call came after it emerged that the United Arab Emirates had been planning to use its position as Cop28 host to strike oil and gas deals .

Sonia Seneviratne, an IPCC vice-chair and coordinating lead author since 2012, said: “At some point we need to say that if you want to achieve this aim set by policymakers then certain policies need to be implemented.

“As climate change becomes worse and worse, it is becoming more difficult to be policy relevant without being prescriptive.”

Let’s go to the dictionary

A prescriptive approach to something involves telling people what they should do, rather than simply giving suggestions or describing what is done.

Do you need more evidence as to what this is really about?

Gert-Jan Nabuurs, a coordinating lead author on three IPCC reports, said: “The IPCC’s critical, independent and guiding roles seem to be less and less evident. As they decline, countries seem to be exerting a larger and larger influence.”

The problem for authors was that “we can’t be policy prescriptive, so we can’t make hard statements on what should be done”, he said.

How dare countries have their own policies. Kinda gives the One World Government folks something to hang their hat on, eh? The Left is not really on the left of the political scale: the further left you go the less government. These folks are to the far, far right, wanting dictatorial government.