Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen Consensus’
Climate change policies hurt the poor
“Africa is the renewable utopia, getting 50 per cent of its energy from renewables—though nobody wants to emulate it. In 1971, China derived 40 per cent of its energy from renewables. Since then, it has powered its incredible growth almost exclusively on heavily polluting coal, lifting a historic 680 million people out of poverty. Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.”
Read MoreHa! So much for global warming!
It snowed in Iowa on May 3rd. Ha! So much for global warming! Global warming zealots have a quick retort: it’s not about global warming anymore, you conservative ignoramus, it’s about “climate change.”
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By Tom Quiner As seen in the Des Moines Register on November 29, 2009 Two heartbreaking tragedies hit Great Britain earlier this decade. Tragedy #1 killed 2,000 people . Tragedy #2 killed 25,000. If you went by the media coverage, tragedy #1 was worse. Those people died from a heat wave that swept the entire…
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