Dr. Jeni Miller Discusses a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (October 4th)
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This summer the planet once again experienced record temperatures, droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events. Nevertheless, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency and OECD, global public subsidies of fossil fuel subsidies nearly doubled from 2020 to $700b in 2021. The US economy still remains significantly dependent on coal use; it generates approx. 20% of the country’s power or almost twice as much as the electricity generated by wind and solar. (To compare in the UK, 1.5% of power production is coal-fired.) Though the planet is currently projected to warm to well over 2.5C this century, per a recent report by United in Science global warming has already reached the lower end of five end game negative climate tipping points. (Think, for example, a collapsing Greenland ice sheet.) This finding led the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to state, “the report shows climate impacts heading into uncharted territory of destruction,” what he termed climate carnage.
Dr. Jeni Miller Discusses a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (October 4th)
Dr. Jeni Miller Discusses a Fossil Fuel…
Dr. Jeni Miller Discusses a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (October 4th)
This summer the planet once again experienced record temperatures, droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events. Nevertheless, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency and OECD, global public subsidies of fossil fuel subsidies nearly doubled from 2020 to $700b in 2021. The US economy still remains significantly dependent on coal use; it generates approx. 20% of the country’s power or almost twice as much as the electricity generated by wind and solar. (To compare in the UK, 1.5% of power production is coal-fired.) Though the planet is currently projected to warm to well over 2.5C this century, per a recent report by United in Science global warming has already reached the lower end of five end game negative climate tipping points. (Think, for example, a collapsing Greenland ice sheet.) This finding led the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to state, “the report shows climate impacts heading into uncharted territory of destruction,” what he termed climate carnage.