There is a huge cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels by 2050 and people are only now beginning to realise this. We need more leaders to speak out now before more extensive damage is done by moving too far too quickly away from the fuel source which has transformed the world into the comfortable and enjoyable place that much of it has become today.
Look around the world today and the real cause of misery and despair is not the climate, it is either war, or poverty.
Increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again, and will lead to the cost of living shooting up again.
Mr Sawan, the boss of Shell, said an international bidding war for gas last year saw poorer countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh unable to afford liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments that were instead diverted to Northern Europe.
"They took away LNG from those countries and children had to work and study by candlelight," he said. "If we’re going to have a transition it needs to be a just transition that doesn’t just work for one part of the world."
Oil giant Shell warns cutting production ‘dangerous’ | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
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ReplyDeleteWith the recent warmest days in the last 125,000 years and people dying from it, your view is just not true.
War is what created the natural gas shortage in the world. Also because of the war and Russia's ugly intentions around natural gas, Europe now is accelerating their adaption of renewable energy.
"With the recent warmest days in the last 125,000 years" - the recent days aren't even the warmest of this summer. These claims are completely unfounded nonsense and only serve to discredit the whole climate change scare story. No one knows the temperature of the world each day with any precision and certainly not for the past 125,000 years. That is why scientists only measure the change in measurement, rather than the actual measurement itself.
ReplyDeleteYou have an issue around fear. The science is actually pretty sound. 125,000 years ago was the last interglacial. We only have to warm one more degree and we tie that period of average temperature. Another issue is sea level rise. 125,000 years ago had sea level 30 feet higher than today. How do you get so timid around this issue?
Deletehttps://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/earths-hottest-weather-in-120000-years-its-just-getting-started/
How can we be so confident of any of these bold assertions? As a climate specialist, I’ll do my best to explain. It is fairly simple and fully expected by the climate science community.
First, we know using observations that temperatures over the past decade have been warmer than any we have seen since record-keeping began in the 1800s. Since then, Earth has warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit).
We also know through sophisticated methods of examining copious climate clues in proxy data like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc. that Earth’s average temperature has not been this warm since the ice age ended 20,000 years ago.
The rate of warming today is unprecedented in the 20,000 years shown. In fact, coming out of the last ice age, it took 10,000 years for the Earth’s average temperature to warm 3 degrees C.
Astonishingly, humans — due to the burning of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions — will likely cause the same amount of warming in 200 years. That means our current warming rate is 50 times that of the natural warming rate that proceeded the most recent ice age.
Between 10,000 years ago and today’s rapid manmade warming, Earth’s average temperature was relatively constant, allowing human civilizations to thrive. There were disruptive regional cooling episodes like the disparate Little Ice Age events, but the impact on overall global temperature was relatively minor.
Proxy data tell us that the average global temperature during the last interglacial was about 1 degree Celsius warmer than today. During that time, scientists estimate sea level was 30 feet higher than today. With continued warming, the past warns us that future generations may very well have to deal with that kind of sea level rise.
In fact, we can expect to gain another degree of warming by mid-century, putting us on par with the temperatures of the last interglacial. And by the end of the century, if we don’t curb our carbon emissions, we may very well experience the hottest temperatures in over 1 million years.
You aren't paying attention to the real climate science. This stuff is dangerous over the long run. There is such a thing as slow moving change like climate change that really has huge consequences if we don't change our energy habits.
ReplyDeletehttps://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4086841-were-experiencing-earths-hottest-weather-in-120000-years-and-its-just-getting-started/
(WFLA) — It’s quite the claim: This week, Earth broke an unofficial record for its hottest day in 120,000 years. Actually, the Earth broke that record three times — on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
El Niño (a natural cycle) is just getting started. As it gets stronger, and adds more heat to Earth’s system, this summer will continue to set new all-time global records for hot days. And along with that, many other records will be shattered as well.
But no matter how hot it gets, the summer of 2023 will soon be considered a “cool” summer in a couple of decades amid the steady drumbeat of human-caused climate heating.