All this fear and wasted effort on the basis of PlayStation® climatology…
European cities are planning to adapt to climate change as the risks become more severe, a report by UK-based emissions measurement organisation the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and consultancy Accenture showed on Thursday.
Cities increasingly have to plan flood defences, ways to manage water in times of drought, ensure new buildings provide natural cooling to occupants and adapt old buildings and infrastructure to become more energy efficient.
The report surveyed 22 European cities – including Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, London, Manchester, Moscow, Paris and Rome – about their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies.
The report comes less than a week after a United Nations’ summit in Rio de Janeiro failed to define clear sustainable development goals and left many convinced that local governments and businesses will have to lead efforts to improve the environment.
The survey found that 17 European cities out of the 22 surveyed, or 77 percent, have completed or almost completed risk assessments to understand how climate change will affect them.
Eighteen of the 22 European cities said they face “significant risks” arising from climate change and 54 percent of them see these risks as “severe” or “very severe”.
Fear, wasted effort and wasted MONEY. Maybe someday a future generation will look at history and say “what the hell were they thinking”?
And then they will realise that they should have listened to Biggles in the first place.
“Green” local leaders are starting to plan to “mitigate” the effects of climate change even in the U.S. The most laughable part is that they have no clue what they’re doing nor why they should be afraid, except that some “dear leader” said so. You would have thought that European leaders would have begun to see the writing on the wall last winter, but obviously a couple of thousand dead from cold wasn’t enough to wake them up to reality. When the coming extreme cold combines with energy poverty they’ll start to figure it out, but for many it will be too late.
There’s a reason they now call it ‘climate change’ instead of ‘global warming’. The simple reason is a capitulation: climate is indeed unpredictable, but it *will* change for sure. And that’s something everyone can agree on.
But, if climate is unpredictable, what the heck are you going to do about it? It might be too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. Well, there is *one* thing that will mitigate *anything* — investment in robust power generation and distribution capacity.
I just can’t wait to give money to this!!!! Please take my money!
Don Quixote couldn’t do it any better.