Are we still clinging to the notion that climate change is an issue of politics rather than science? Really? Ok.
It is very much both, and I got electricity bills to show for it from this past winter.
I mean, we have a frigging parliament election going on right now, and quite a few of the candidates use the word "climate" when nutshelling their personal political agenda. That's politics, the very core of it.
The climate change gets thrown in as an excuse for whatever policy someone wants to set up nowadays. It's very effective when you can effectively accuse the opponents for denying the climate change when they would otherwise say your policy is stupid and you're stupid for proposing it.
It wasn't the scientists who named the Seattle arena. Besides the science, there is also an ideological element to the climate change. The numerous doctorships that Greta got are of the honorary kind.
This comes from someone in whose whereabouts the natural gas transferred in easily blowable pipelines is considered to legally be renewable because certain someones are "emotional" over nuclear power:
Technical, legal, political and cultural hurdles mean Berlin doesn’t see nuclear as a solution to the current crisis.
www.politico.eu
Berlin still plans to phase out coal by 2030, “ideally,” and is betting on renewables and hydrogen in the long term. But replacing gas-fired electricity with far dirtier coal power inevitably produces more emissions.
“That’s why this can and must only be a temporary measure,” said Manfred Fischedick, vice president of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and one of the authors of last month’s U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
Still, he says the coal plan is a “legitimate” measure — as long as the current crisis “leads to the acceleration of the energy transition as a whole.”
abc11.com
