UK Guardian laments lockdowns ‘too short’! – ‘Could Covid lockdown have helped save the planet?’ — ‘The short answer is: not enough…the respite was too short’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/could-covid-lockdown-have-helped-save-the-planet Slowdown of human activity was too short to reverse years of destruction, but we saw a glimpse of post-fossil fuel world By Jonathan Watts @jonathanwatts When lockdown began, climate scientists were horrified at the unfolding tragedy, but also intrigued to observe what they called an “inadvertent experiment” on a global scale. To what extent, they asked, […]
Prince Charles: ‘We can learn so much from indigenous communities’ on living in balance with the natural world – ‘Mother Nature is our sustainer’
Prince Charles warns human exploitation of nature is 'insanity' – says there is much to be learned from indigenous communities on living in balance with the natural world https://t.co/bCzhwJU4FH — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) December 29, 2020 https://news.trust.org/item/20201229105151-7rg4c Dec 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Humans should remember they are part of nature and stop exploiting it […]
Analysis: Wind and solar are losing ground to gas – USA ‘increased its fossil fuel generating capacity by 3 times as much as it did for renewables’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/28/wind-and-solar-are-losing-ground-to-gas/ By David Wojick The subsidies that never die — for wind and solar power — are back. With Christmas coming on the Lame Duck Congress elected to throw untold additional billions at renewables. What is amusing is that gas-fired power generation, a fossil fuel with no subsidy, is still growing faster than wind and […]
When Obama made the UN Paris climate agreement end run
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/29/when-obama-made-the-paris-climate-agreement-end-ru/ By Chris Horner Recently, conservatives have called on President Trump to transmit the Paris climate agreement to the Senate as a treaty requiring “advice and consent” before it can in any way bind the United States, which Paris on its face so clearly is with its promises of adding ever-tightening regulations every five years, in perpetuity. Doing so would restore […]