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Greenpeace co-founder joins climate change skeptics

Climate Change

by Kevin Mooney
Washington Examiner

“Polar bears would not exist today without climate change, and they may even be thriving because of current climate trends. That’s what the co-founder of Greenpeace told scientists, economists, and academics who took part in an international conference challenging alarmist claims about global warming,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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Greenpeace co-founder joins climate change skeptics

Climate Change

by Kevin Mooney
Washington Examiner

“Polar bears would not exist today without climate change, and they may even be thriving because of current climate trends. That’s what the co-founder of Greenpeace told scientists, economists, and academics who took part in an international conference challenging alarmist claims about global warming,” according to Washington Examiner.

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Climate Activists Blow Smoke on Wildfire Fears

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by Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal

“In the early 1900s, about 4.2% of land world-wide burned every year, as you can see on the nearby graph. A century later, that had dropped almost to 3%. That decline has continued through the satellite era, and 2021 is likely to end with only 2.5% of the globe having caught fire, based on data through Aug. 31,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It

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by Tom Switzer
The Wall Street Journal

“But the timeline for the transformation is entirely unrealistic. The politicians who make promises about how energy will be delivered within three decades can be fairly certain that they will be merely footnotes in history. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims that all cars sold in Britain will be electric by 2030. But he doesn’t acknowledge that on current trend there won’t be enough electricity to power all of these cars,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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China’s Ambitious Climate Goals Collide With Reality, Hampering Global Efforts

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by Sha Hua and Phred Dvorak
The Wall Street Journal

“China, the world’s largest greenhouse-gas polluter, is heading to Glasgow climate talks next week with a bold agenda: For the first time, it promises to take major steps to wean itself off fossil fuels, committing to net-zero emissions before 2060.  But in the coming decade, the country says, its carbon emissions will continue to rise, peaking sometime before 2030,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Why aren’t current wind turbine blades recyclable?

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by Nichola Daunton
EuroNews

“Up until this point, blades have been made of a composite of different materials covered in resin which, like disposable coffee cups, has made them difficult to separate and recycle.  Many of the blades produced since the 1970s – when wind power became popular – are now stacking up in landfill sites. Around 3,800 turbines come out of service in Europe every year,” according to EuroNews.

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Twenty-four countries say global net-zero goal will fuel inequality

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by Zack Budryk
The Hill

“Ministers for 24 developing and emerging economies, including China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam, said in a joint statement that wealthier western economies are ‘pushing to shift the goalposts of the Paris Agreement’ by calling for worldwide net-zero by 2050,” according to The Hill.

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Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic

Climate Change

by Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal

“Adaptation doesn’t make the cost of global warming go away entirely, but it does reduce it dramatically. Higher temperatures will shrink harvests if farmers keep growing the same crops, but they’re likely to adapt by growing other varieties or different plants altogether. Corn production in North America has shifted away from the Southeast toward the Upper Midwest, where farmers take advantage of longer growing seasons and less-frequent extreme heat. When sea levels rise, governments build defenses—like the levees, flood walls and drainage systems that protected New Orleans from much of Hurricane Ida’s ferocity this year,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Emerging economies slam Cop26 net zero push as ‘anti-equity’

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by Chloé Farand
Climate Home News

“In a ministerial statement ahead of the Cop26 climate talks, which start in Glasgow on 31 October, the group of “like-minded” developing countries issued a strong rebuke to the UK host for calling on all countries to cut their emissions to net zero by the middle of the century,” according to Climate Home News.

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Democrats Struggle to Replace Climate Plan Manchin Rejected

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by Ari Natter, Erik Wasson and Steven T. Dennis
Bloomberg

“Democrats struggled to fill the void created by Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to a key climate program, with hopes fading that Congress will reach agreement on climate legislation before world leaders gather in Scotland for a summit on global warming,” according to Bloomberg.

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‘Brown recovery’ wipes out hopes that pandemic stimulus would drive climate spending

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by Zack Colman
Politico

“While the analyses compiled by policy and energy experts looked at different sets of countries and used a range of methodologies, their conclusions by and large were the same: Global stimulus efforts have favored business-as-usual practices, including government support for fossil fuels, that will do little to constrain greenhouse gas emissions,” according to Politico.

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Rubio Calls on Biden to Fire Climate Envoy Kerry Over Chinese Investments

Climate Change

by Alana Goodman
The Washington Free Beacon

“Rubio’s comments came in response to a Washington Free Beacon report on Thursday that Kerry and his wife disclosed a stake worth at least $1 million in a Chinese investment group that is a top shareholder of a Chinese tech company blacklisted by the United States for human rights violations,” according to The Washington Free Beacon.

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China Backpedals On Climate Commitments

Climate Change

by Irina Slav
Oil Price

“In a statement, Premier Li Keqiang said that the stable supply of energy must be the foundation of any transition to a less emission-intensive future.  ‘Energy security should be the premise on which a modern energy system is built, and the capacity for energy self-supply should be enhanced,’ Li said as quoted by Bloomberg,” and reported by Oil Price.

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South Pole posts most severe cold season on record, an anomaly in a warming world

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by Kasha Patel
The Seattle Times

“Amid a record hot summer in large parts of Northern Hemisphere, beset by devastating fires, floods and hurricanes, Antarctica was mired in a deep, deep freeze. That’s typically the case during the southernmost continent’s winter months, but 2021 was different.  The chill was exceptional, even for the coldest location on the planet,” according to The Seattle Times.

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