Posted on 06/26/2022 6:28:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seemed like an unexpected opportunity for environmentalists, who had struggled to focus the world’s attention on the kind of energy independence that renewable resources can offer. With the West trying to wean itself from Russian oil and gas, the argument for solar and wind power seemed stronger than ever.
But four months into the war, the scramble to replace Russian fossil fuels has triggered the exact opposite. As the heads of the Group of 7 industrialized nations gather in the Bavarian Alps for a meeting that was supposed to cement their commitment to the fight against climate change, fossil fuels are having a wartime resurgence, with the leaders more focused on bringing down the price of oil and gas than immediately reducing their emissions.
Nations are reversing plans to stop burning coal. They are scrambling for more oil and are committing billions to building terminals for liquefied natural gas, known as L.N.G.
Fossil fuel companies, long on the defensive, are capitalizing on energy security anxieties and lobbying hard for long-term infrastructure investments that risk derailing international climate targets agreed to only last year.
Above all, activists warn, rich countries need to resist the temptation to react to the short-term energy shortages by once again betting on fossil fuel infrastructure.
“All the arguments are on the table now,” said Ms. Neubauer, the Fridays for Future activist. “We know exactly what fossil fuels do to the climate. We also know very well that Putin is not the only autocrat in the world. We know that no democracy can be truly free and secure as long as it depends on fossil fuel imports.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/world/europe/g7-summit-ukraine-war-climate-change.html
If there are any Freepers out there who do not have the antidote link, here it is:
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
OMG! Now, Putski is trying to kill ALL of us!!!
Yes.
Predicting doom and gloom pays big $$$.
You have to be predicting it about 10 years in advance so people will get scared, but not less because people would realize they were hoaxed!
Hah hah hah. Should have thought of that before provoking Russia you goobers.
These goobers just want their cake and eat it too. LOL
Good news! Use this as a rallying cry to have all the eco nazis here run over to fight.
Keep in mind, David Hogg said Putin was behind abortion decision too.
Putin’s magic wand strikes again and again. LOL
“We know exactly what fossil fuels do to the climate.”
This is not factual but it is repeated often enough that many people accept it as fact.
I never knew Ukraine was so valuable. We are going to allow the planet to be totally destroyed by climate change in less ten years just to save Zelensky.
You can’t fix stupid
“With the West trying to wean itself from Russian oil and gas,”
Bovine excrement. Biden shut off the spigot on day one. The author can KMA.
The eco-terrorists have no plan except fear.
Even if you believe in man-made climate change, you do not have to believe in the solution because these are the same people who spent trillions in the war on poverty, war on crime, war on drugs, etc and failed time and again.
—ah ha—the silver lining in the cloud of war—
and oil prices went thru the roof, for which Putin says thank you Joe Biden, but now I’m the Big Guy.
Let the victim die.
Planet Earth invented and runs Climate Change and there’s no way to fight that you fools
If climate was exactly known, there would only be a single model and it would always be correct.
First, it finished off the virus hoax, now it’s doing in the climate hoax, too? There is the potential for the Biden family dirty dealing to come out from the Ukraine war (as if more is needed).
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