edit: According to the WSJ, the coming blackouts this summer are due to Green Climate Policies, not climate change: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-summer-of-rolling-blac...
This is a self inflicted wound due to bad policy.
edit: According to the WSJ, the coming blackouts this summer are due to Green Climate Policies, not climate change: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-summer-of-rolling-blac...
This is a self inflicted wound due to bad policy.
That's a bit of an absolute statement. Blackouts can happen for a lot of reasons, some of them are related to climate and climate change. Bigger weather events like floods and windows can take out power lines or dams easily.
Example: "Climate change leads to more extreme weather" - World Meteorological Organization
Source: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/weather-relate...
It's hysteria and it covers up other real issues.
Example: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/extreme-weather-events-have-inc...
https://www.space.com/2942-sun-activity-increased-century-st...
"During the last few decades, the solar activity is not increasing. It has stabilized at a high level, but the Earth's climate still shows a tendency toward increasing temperatures," Usoskin explained.
He suspects even if there were a link between the Sun's activity and global climate, other factors must have dominated during the last few decades, including the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.