Toulouse stadium to invest in fight against climate change 02-03-2021
Time for the Planet aims to raise €1 billion to create 100 companies with the purpose of fighting global warming. As of Tuesday, more than €2.37 million have been raised within a little more than a year due to more than 15,600 citizens, investments, banks, companies, and entrepreneurs being able to invest as little as €1 in the initiative. [Maxisport / Shutterstock]
In the unfolding extreme winter tragedy in Texas as well as many other regions of the United States not prepared for severe winter weather, a notable point is that much of the vast windmill batteries across the state, supposed to generate 25% of the state electric power grid, have frozen and are largely useless. The recent severe winter weather across not only the continental USA but also large parts of the EU, and even the Middle East, warrants a closer look at a subject that has been too long ignored by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as by a new group of academics known as Climate Scientists. That is, the influence of our sun on global climate.
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This is a continuation of a five part series reviewing
False Alarm: How Climate Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg.
EXTREME WEATHER OR EXTREME EXAGGERATION?
About half of Wallace-Wells’s book,
Uninhabitable Earth, is devoted to what he describes as the “Elements of Chaos” that will result from man-made climate change unless fossil fuels are abandoned within the next several decades. This was the part of Wallace-Wells’s book that earned him an avalanche of criticism from Lomborg, Shellenberger, and others. As Shellenberger put it (quoting another reviewer), “like other activist journalists, [Wallace-Wells] simply exaggerated the exaggerations. He assembled the best of this already selective science to paint a picture containing enough horror to induce a panic attack in even the most optimistic.”
Instead of Fueling Cold War With China, Biden Should Collaborate on Climate
A man is seen watching the news report of the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden on a large screen in Hong Kong, China, on January 21, 2021.
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Slowing the pace of climate change and getting “tough” on China, especially over its human-rights abuses and unfair trade practices, are among the top priorities President Biden has announced for his new administration. Evidently, he believes that he can tame a rising China with harsh pressure tactics, while still gaining its cooperation in areas of concern to Washington