An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
Our lead story this week features Australia, where the federal government has declared victory in meeting its 2020 renewables goal and will fix no new emissions targets after then. The mix to follow includes another oil price tweet from Trump; record oil production from Russia; the US-China trade war; natural gas and the coal phase-out in Germany; the coal crisis in South Africa; France and India to build world’s largest (9.6GW) nuclear plant; US court upholds nuclear subsidies; Ontario to scrap its Green Energy Act; the EU wants more hydrogen; the British Gas “unlimited tariff” and Gov. Jerry Brown (aka Gov. Moonbeam) sends California into space.
Earlier in the week, more madness from Jerry Brown:
re California goes carbon negative: Does this mean all the movie stars and rich silicon valley execs will fly on solar powered dirigibles?
I would suggest that going carbon negative means that they will all have to die.
UK residents ten times more likely to die due to cold
…“They said this meant people were almost ten times more likely to die from a cold home than a road traffic accident. And even though other winters have been much milder, there are still approximately 9,700 premature deaths a year due to vulnerable people being unable to heat their homes adequately, if at all. ”
https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/uk-residents-ten-times-more-likely-die-due-to-cold-home-than-a-traffic-accident-1-4800830
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The poor unable to afford to heat their homes dying due to the cold, are a sacrifice on the altar built to worship Gaia.
I guess that DeLorean is staying in the here and now…