Posted on 08/11/2022 5:35:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS (Reuters) - The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change.
Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters successive heatwaves along with wildfires, shrinking rivers and rising land temperatures as measured from space left no doubt about the toll on agriculture and other industries from climate change.
"Today, we are very concerned about the energy crisis, and rightly so. But this crisis is very small compared to the impact of climate change, which is of a much bigger magnitude and really has to be tackled extremely fast," he said.
“It's pretty bad. We have seen extremes that have not been observed before," Aschbacher told Reuters this week.
Soaring air temperatures are not the only problem. The Earth's skin is getting warmer too.
“The first is that people think one can wait and by waiting somehow we will tough it out," he said. "The second is that it will cost a lot of money to deal with climate change ... and affect the poorest people, and we shouldn't do it," he said, adding that failing to heed warnings like this year's weather crisis could cost hundreds of trillions of dollars this century.
"Of course, you always have weather fluctuations ... but never of this magnitude. There is no doubt in my mind that this is caused by climate change," Aschbacher told Reuters.
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These people have brought stupid up an order of magnitude
He’s lying.
The level of climate change fear brainwashing is out of control. It won’t end well. I hope Europe serves to wake the US population up before too much more damage is done.
Gee, look
Another embedded bureaucrat jumping on the “Global Warming” bandwagon
Right on cue
Not that China, which is now spewing about 40% of the world’s carbon, was going to do much, but since Pelosi’s trip, they’re through even talking about doing anything.
For China, it’s China-first, and if the Europeans want to drive their economies into the dirt (such as by placing solar panels in Scotland), that’s their problem, not China’s.
So, it’s game over now for ‘saving the planet’ (as the Leftists claim)...unless they’re up for nuking China off the map (and thereby watching the same happen to our country).
Ignore the article or be ignorant
space chief or space case?
Guy runs an organization with a near unlimited budget and has yet been able to go to the moon, something the USA did in 1969.
Yet somehow he knows how to save the planet’s climate, something no one has have managed to control and is near infinity more complicated that going to the moon.
I cannot begin to wrap my head around the levels of hubris and incompetence this bozo practices.
Director General Josef Aschbacher has dog pudding for brains.
What a dolt.
Exactly so.
It can be easy to think "He's stupid" or "He's a bad scientist" or "He's confused by the data".
No.
He's an evil person and he's lying to the public because he is trying to hide the evil plan that he is executing, which is de-population.
We have unprecedent rise of agricultural yields caused by the rise of atmospheric CO2 and widespread use of fertilizers.
If we ban both, we ARE going to starve!
Um, no.
Maybe, just maybe, when a huge swath of the population is freezing in the dark; burning whatever wood, paper, books they can find to stay warm; then, just maybe will they wake up and take back their nations.
Maybe. However, history shows us how people are cowed into killing themselves over and over again.
Is it OK to call BS on this after reading only the headline?
Climate change, in whichever direction it takes, warmer or cooler, must be observed with appropriate countermeasures in place.
Pretending that climate change is caused by mankind is a political choice, not based on fact or science.
The dominant by far, greenhouse gas is water vapor, and its interaction with the Sun. Carbon dioxide has nothing to do with climate change.
The energy crisis was created by you mouth breathing morons pushing this global warming crappola.
“...he called for urgent action to tackle climate change....”
Like what? Be specific, idiot.
“PARIS (Reuters) - The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe’s energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change.”
And there is the magic word; “COULD.”
Climate change COULD be reduced by my dog only crapping 3 times a day instead of 4. That is a 25% reduction in crap.
Don’t believe anything you read in the LEFT WING MEDIA.
ANYTHING !!!
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