If you want to do something about climate change, you don’t spend that much effort and energy in Europe. Still, you are going to invest in fast-growing developing countries like Brazil, Nigeria, China, and India. “To be honest, the emissions produced in Europe don’t matter that much,” according to climate scientist Nic Lewis.
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We have to look more in developing countries. We have 'to help them' to grow faster in a cleaner direction, which involves less pollution, less CO2 emissions, and to become more prosperous. In Europe, we have the knowledge and expertise now to prevent developing countries from making the same mistakes Europe did in the past. We also have to try to limit 'for example' the building boom of Chinese Coal powered electricity plants in Africa. It is better to spend our money on these projects than putting billions in climate policies and subsidies that have hardly any effect in slowing down climate change.
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Shutting down coal-fired plants would be a good step forward. Also, investments in solar-, wind energy, and 'clean nuclear' energy or the techniques to suck CO2 out of the air, would be a significant step forwards. The acquired knowledge could be shared with the rest of the world.
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"The urge politicians are now 'promoting' and impose on their citizens is not necessary," says Nic Lewis. Like the Dutch government is doing at the moment brings a lot of unrest and some groups in financial problems by 'forcing' them making considerable investments to isolate their house and install heat exchange pumps.
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The discussion about the rise of CO2 is still not won. There is still no consensus about the exact reason our climate is changing. According to Nic Lewis, our environment is less sensitive to CO2 emissions than some models predict. The UN climate panels assume that there is a link between global warming since 1850. If you have a good look at the observations made since 1850, the rise of global temperatures has been less fast than expected. Nic Lewis sees only an increase of 1.7 degrees C. while IPCC models show around 3 C. of warming because of the doubling of CO2.
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The gexcellentnews Nic Lewis comes with is that we have much more time to keep the rise of global temperatures below 2 C. Work with countries who are the largest CO2 emitters and try first to limit their emissions by helping them with new cleaner techniques, to educate the population and help them get a better and healthier life.
Politicians in Brussels and den Hague who are now in such a hurry ,could be 'punished' soon for their claims if it gets clear how much their 'greening efforts' will cost and which limited effect it will have on the total of CO2 emissions and climate change.
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