La comunidad internacional debería abandonar los objetivos de temperatura del Acuerdo de París, que buscan limitar el calentamiento global a bastante menos de 2 °C, afirma Roger Pielke Jr., investigador independiente y miembro del American Enterprise Institute, en una entrevista grabada con Marcel Crok, director de Clintel. Esto abriría la puerta a un enfoque más pragmático que evitaría sacrificar la prosperidad económica.
La communauté internationale devrait abandonner les objectifs de température de l'Accord de Paris visant à limiter le réchauffement climatique bien en dessous de 2 °C, affirme Roger Pielke Jr., chercheur indépendant et membre de l'American Enterprise Institute, dans un entretien enregistré avec Marcel Crok, directeur de Clintel. Cela ouvrirait la voie à une approche plus pragmatique qui éviterait de sacrifier la prospérité économique.
The international community, and especially the EU, should abandon the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, says independent researcher Roger Pielke Jr, in an interview by Clintel Director Marcel Crok. This would open the door to a more pragmatic approach that would avoid sacrificing economic prosperity.
The island of El Hierro only has about 11,000 people, but in 2008 it set out to show the world how to do a full transition to an electric system powered only by wind turbines backed up by a hydro-electric energy storage system. Francis Menton wonders what has happened since.
It is impossible not to notice the analogy between the events that led to China’s Great Famine in 1958-1962 and the ongoing energy disaster being imposed on various U.S. states and other Western countries by an equally ignorant clique of political ideologues, says Francis Menton.
The climate house of cards is collapsing, as became clear last week at the IPCC meeting in Ethiopia. The climate narrative has never had any substance, and now that the flow of funding is being cut off, there will soon be nothing left, says Wim Röst, Chair of the Clintel Board.
Tilak Doshi reviews “The Energy Trap” by Richard Lyon and thinks it is too pessimistic. “It treats present constraints as fixed limits rather than as problems that markets, technology and human creativity have repeatedly transformed for the better.”
In a recent podcast hosted by Tom Nelson, British engineer and former entrepreneur Ed Hoskins presented a detailed critique of Europe’s transition to renewable energy. His central message is that energy policy should be based on measurable performance and engineering calculations rather than political promises.
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has warned that Britain’s approach to energy has left the country dangerously exposed to hostile states, arguing that national security considerations have been pushed aside in the pursuit of Net Zero.
Europe is facing a growing energy challenge that cannot be solved by simply adding more wind and solar power, said energy economist Lars Schernikau in his recent ICSF/Clintel lecture. “Germany could see serious power shortages before the end of the decade.”
