Climate Letter #951

An interview with Amory Lovins (Carbon Brief).  Lovins is a practical-minded energy engineer, very popular, who has been around for a long time.  Here he provides answers to eleven questions that are much debated.  There is a short version and a long version, fully recommended.

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A message from the noted economist Joseph Stiglitz.  He is very critical of Donald Trump’s arguments in favor of dropping out of the Paris accord, restoring the coal industry and so on, with plenty of backup information.  In drawing a comparison with North Korea’s nuclear ambitions he says, “…the world cannot escape the inevitable question: what is to be done about countries that refuse to do their part in preserving our planet?”  That idea will be tested this week at the G20 meeting in Hamburg.
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How fossil fuels are currently being subsidized by the G20 nations.  “The G20 nations provide four times more public financing to fossil fuels than to renewable energy.”  That is the subject of a new report that will come up for discussion at this week’s meeting, using data directly involving public finance for the benefit of industry.  It is a type of embarrassment that the G7 recently tried to deal with but in the end backed off.
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A description of thirteen major environmental policies that have been rolled back, so far, by the new administration.  (One dealing with relief from methane controls has just recently been successfully challenged in the courts.)  Scott Pruitt at the EPA is the point man for all of this, closely following the wishes of industry in each case.
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Paleoclimate science.  Five mass extinctions, excluding the one that killed off the dinosaurs, were all caused by environmental crises here on Earth.  One of these you may not be familiar with because much about it has only recently been learned, occurring only ten million years before the granddaddy of them all.  “The similarities between today and the past are uncanny. The majority of past extinctions are associated with carbon dioxide from volcanoes causing rapid global warming, which led to a number of environmental cascade effects. The cause may be different, but the results will be the same.”
Carl

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