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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday

Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to speak at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday, December 12, reports Reuters.

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Co-hosted by the United Nations, the UK, and France, the summit is being held on the fifth anniversary of the international Paris climate agreement and ahead of U.N. talks next year in Glasgow, Scotland. From the Climate Summit website:

Leaders across government, business and civil society will gather for this online summit as the world deals with coronavirus. But the science is as urgent as ever and tells us that we need to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5C degrees. We know climate change will not wait. Action must be taken now, together, for our planet, so we can build back better.

The Summit will provide a meaningful platform for civil society, young people and Indigenous Peoples representatives, many of whom disproportionately experience the impacts of climate change. Climate change must also be tackled by entire systems and we therefore also want to provide a platform for businesses, cities and other non-state actors who are rallying together and collaborating to support governments and accelerate the systemic change required to reduce emissions and build resilience.

Cook will likely speak about Apple's environmental efforts. The Cupertino company recently pledged to make all of its products carbon neutral by 2030.

Apple's stores, offices, and data centers worldwide are already powered by 100% renewable electricity, and its operations, from commute to business travel, are carbon neutral. The company is aiming to transition its supply chain to 100 percent renewable energy as well to reach its carbon neutral goal by 2030.

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ilikewhey Avatar
77 months ago
are disposable airpods carbon neutral?
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
77 months ago
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3. 1970 ('https://www.newspapers.com/image/435402308/'): Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970 ('https://www.newspapers.com/image/934139/?terms=paul%2Behrlich%2Bblue%2Bsmoke'): America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
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10. 1976 ('https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/18/archives/the-genesis-strategy-a-chilling-prospect.html'): Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
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12. 1978 ('https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/01/05/issue.html'): No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link ('https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/'))
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15. 1988 ('http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102074798'): Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989 ('https://www.newspapers.com/image/247922164/?terms=global%2Bwarming%2Bnoel%2Bbrown'): Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
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19. 2002 ('https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver'): Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
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23. 2009 ('https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html'): Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
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29. 1970 ('http://www.mining.com/the-world-is-not-running-out-of-natural-resources/'): World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002 ('https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354'): Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006 ('https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2015/06/01/media-fail-no-major-hurricanes-in-9-years/'): Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 ('https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/06/12/flashback-abcs-08-prediction-nyc-under-water-climate-change-june') : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970 ('https://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/'): Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970 ('https://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/'): Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970 ('https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/27/nolte-only-anti-science-suckers-believe-climate-change-hysteria/'): Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s ('https://groovyhistory.com/killer-bees-1970s'): Killer Bees!
42. 1975 ('http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm'): The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969 ('https://books.google.com/books?id=azwQStEZq-8C&pg=PA606&dq=%22even+money+that+England+will+not+exist+in+the+year+2000%22&hl=en&ei=DCQYTa_XBI-q8AaF1ZWLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22even%20money%20that%20England%20will%20not%20exist%20in%20the%20year%202000%22&f=false'): Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972 ('http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf'): Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970 ('https://www.newspapers.com/image/934139/?terms=paul%2Behrlich%2Bblue%2Bsmoke'): Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
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48. 2000 ('https://web.archive.org/web/20150912124604/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html'): Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
49.1989 ('http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7304FF9A84273&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM'): UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
50. 2011: ('https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/could-cherry-blossoms-one-day-be-blooming-in-winter/2012/03/14/gIQAnas1CS_story.html') Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

What's old is new again. Now we have to wait until 2030 until irreparable damage has been done.....but we'll all forget about that prediction by the time we get there....
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
77 months ago
i hope he doesn't forget to mention the removal of the power brick with iphones. that took a lot thinking to get it done right.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
GadgetBen Avatar
77 months ago
I bet he's glad he will be able to work with Biden on this from January.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
77 months ago

Thank you for making this common sense comment!! Every few years the sky is falling!
Truth be told, when I was alerted that someone had replied to my comment, I got all excited waiting to see the mental gymnastics that they would have to accomplish to disregard the past failings of the alarmist community, only to see that you are in agreement with me.

I guess my wait continues.....
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
77 months ago

Covid kills a few million, when the climate runs beserk it kills most of us, so yeah, it's much more important than most think.
Maybe dial the hyperbole down? Climate change isn't a nuclear holocaust and this sort of over the top rhetoric doesn't help things.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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