(LifeSiteNews) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
In a speech on July 28 at the U.N. headquarters in New York, Guterres addressed the “record temperatures” that were recorded this month.
The U.N. chief said that data released by the World Meteorological Organization show that “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.”
“The consequences are clear and they are tragic,” Guterres stated. “Children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in the scorching heat.”
“For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, it is a cruel summer,” Guterres continued. “For the entire planet, it is a disaster.”
“For scientists, it is unequivocal — humans are to blame,” he claimed. “All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here. It is terrifying, and it is just the beginning.”
As the sanctity of human life is degraded around the world, we are seeing a particularly horrifying phenomenon – the euthanasia of children.
As if killing adults is not bad enough, giving lethal injections to children was first legalised in Belgium in 2014, and the Dutch health minister has recently announced that the country is expanding eligibility for children to be given lethal injections, from infants and older teenagers, to include children aged one to twelve. In both countries, there were reports that these so called mercy killings of children occurred before it was legalised.
Sign our petition to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, calling on them to take action against states that permit this horrific practise.
In The Netherlands from 2005 to 2018, official reports indicate that 14 children between the ages of 12 and 18 were actively euthanased; that is, about 1 per year. However, a death certificate study in 2001, of children aged 1 to 17, in found that there were about 5 cases per year (0.7% of all deaths of minors; narrowly defined as only those with a request from the child).
Importantly, another 15 children per year (2.0%) were actively euthanased with no specific request from the child, but instead one from the parents. This 2001 death certificate study occurred before the law changed to permit euthanasia of minors, hence illegal euthanasia of minors (older or younger than 12) was happening.
In Belgium in 2007/2008, a death certificate study revealed that while there were no cases of active euthanasia narrowly defined as by request only, 7.9% of all deaths were in fact active euthanasia (by lethal drugs) without an explicit request from the child, amounting to about 10 per year in Flanders alone. Again, this occurred at a time when euthanasia of minors was illegal in Belgium.
Reports from Belgium and Holland up until 2010 show that between 7% and 9% of all infant deaths involved active euthanasia by lethal injection.
This push to kill sick children is not just happening in Europe. In Canada, a parliamentary committee has recommended that Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) should be extended to ‘mature minors’.
This Report of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, recommended that ‘the government of Canada amend the eligibility criteria for MAID set out in the Criminal Code to include minors’, with the stipulation that, without lethal intervention, their death should be ‘reasonably foreseeable’.
The committee emphasised that ‘MAID should not be denied on the basis of age alone’ and therefore, it should be accessible to any child whom doctors believe has ‘requisite decision-making capacity’. What child has the capacity to make a life or death decision?
Horrifyingly, the report further recommended that, ‘where appropriate, the parents or guardians of a mature minor be consulted in the course of the assessment process for MAID, but that the will of a minor who is found to have the requisite decision-making capacity ultimately take priority’. This means that parents would be powerless to stop an anxious teenager who wants to be euthanised from being killed by doctors.
Sign our petition to stand up for sick children and their parents.
We are calling on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to make a statement condemning the euthanasia of children, and to take action against state parties who practise it.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child states that “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, as the body responsible for monitoring implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, has a clear duty to take action to protect children from being killed by the state.
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“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
The U.N. chief continued his dramatization by stating that “The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.”
“It is still possible… to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the very worst of climate change but only with dramatic immediate climate action,” he proclaimed.
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Scientists rebutting the U.N.’s climate alarmism
Contrary to the U.N.’s alarmism about “climate change,” many scientists have pointed out that record highs in temperature are not surprising or concerning, given that precise temperature measurements started only around 150 years ago, at the end of what is often referred to as the “little Ice Age.”
Ice core researcher Jorgen Peder Steffensen from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen said that his research has shown that temperatures in Greenland 6,000 years ago “were 2.5 degrees warmer on average than today.”
Since temperature recording started at one of the coldest periods of the past 6,000 to 8,000 years, rising global temperatures are to be expected as part of a natural pattern.
“I agree completely that we have had a global temperature increase in the 20th century,” Steffensen said. “But an increase from what? Probably an increase from the lowest point we’ve had from the last 10,000 years.”
“And this means, that it will be very hard indeed to prove whether the increase of temperature in the 20th century was man-made or it’s a natural variation.”
Additionally, many scientists, for example, the members of the CO2 Coalition, have called into question whether CO2 emissions produced by burning fossil fuels are to blame for global temperature increases. One of these scientists is Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. John Clauser, who has argued that most climate models are wrong because the impact of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is overrated by “nearly two orders of magnitude” compared to the impact of cumulus clouds.
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Moreover, much of the alarmism around wildfires being caused by climate change has been shown to be unfounded propaganda, since many of these fires were deliberately caused by arsonists rather than increased temperatures.
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The push for radical climate action” rather appears to be an instrument to push for more government control, higher taxes, and “global governance” by globalist organizations like the U.N. and the World Economic Forum.
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