Al Gore
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A 600-year-old city was completely destroyed by a glacial avalanche.
Now they're adapting.
Is this realistic, to put white sheets over the remaining parts of the glacier?
Well, God bless them.
I hope it works.
But these are the kinds of extreme measures that people are being pushed to in order to avoid reducing the burning of fossil fuels, because the fossil fuel industry and their petrostate and financial allies have control over policy.
In lots of cities, particularly in places like India, the water wells are going dry.
In Bangalore,
Four million people now have to buy expensive water trucked in because their wells have gone dry.
What about the food crisis that scientists are predicting?
Is it realistic to ignore that as well in order to avoid doing anything to reduce fossil fuel emissions?
Now, why also do these so-called climate realists ignore all the good news about the miraculous decline in the cost of the alternatives to fossil fuel?
Is it
possibly because their business models are threatened.
If there is a cheaper, cleaner alternative that creates many more jobs, it might not be good for them the way they calculate it, but the rest of us have a stake in this.
This could be why they've been consistently wrong in their predictions in the past.
For example, ExxonMobil, in the Year of the Paris Agreement, had a prediction about solar capacity in 2040, 840 gigawatts.
Well, this year, we've already tripled the number that they predicted for 15 years from now.
In OPEC ...
OPEC, the same year, predicted electric vehicle sales would barely increase.