By Bjorn Lomborg
...Unfortunately, (click here) as the huge subsidies show, the claim is wildly deceptive....
The media picks and chooses the facts they present to attract whomever they believe will be a customer or whichever advertiser brings it the most income per inch.
...Unfortunately, (click here) as the huge subsidies show, the claim is wildly deceptive....
The media picks and chooses the facts they present to attract whomever they believe will be a customer or whichever advertiser brings it the most income per inch.
August 22, 2023
...Heat waves (click here) — defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as periods of two or more days where the weather is “abnormally and uncomfortably hot” and “outside the historical averages for a given area”— have become more frequent and longer in duration since the middle of the 20th century. In April 2023, 69.7 million Americans lived in counties experiencing higher temperatures than the 20th-century normal.
In 2023, Americans are increasingly grappling with prolonged heat waves — sometimes dubbed “heat domes” or “heat islands” by the Environmental Protection Agency — even in areas accustomed to particularly high heat. Phoenix, Arizona, for example, registered an average daily high temperature of 114.7 degrees Fahrenheit in July.
In 2004, 297 Americans died from excessive natural heat, the lowest figure recorded over the past two decades. In 2018, 1,008 Americans died as a direct result of heat exposure. But in 2021, heat-related deaths increased to 1,600, a 59% uptick from only four years earlier, and a 439% increase from 2004.
Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which actively tracks daily and weekly heat-related illnesses, shows that 1,714 US deaths in 2022 were due to “heat-related” causes....
It is time to bring about equity in the energy sector to allow the rapid construction of solar and wind projects. We are talking about a deadly trend of Earth's climate that has already killed Americans. There is no excuse for complaining. These changes in the energy sector in the USA should have taken place over 40 years ago!
Our children should not be looking at a world so very different than the one most Americans inherited from their parents due to a very dangerous climate. Heat deaths are only one aspect of the climate crisis. The death count is actually much higher.
Consumers pay for procrastinating, both with their lives and their fortunes. If the solar fields and wind farms had been built in the 1960s when scientists made testimony to Congress we would not be facing high costs or high GHG emissions.
Maybe there is a "caste system" in the USA where some lives are more important than others. Deaths are deaths and they are occurring in larger and larger numbers every year. THAT MATTERS! Too bad if costs are going up. It is time to pay the piper. This cost was predicted over and over since the 1950s.
July 29, 2019
...The United States (click here) provides a number of tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry as a means of encouraging domestic energy production. These include both direct subsidies to corporations, as well as other tax benefits to the fossil fuel industry. Conservative estimates put U.S. direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. European Union subsidies are estimated to total 55 billion euros annually....
