The real tragedy of Nepal’s flood was climate-driven dams—and the workers they put in the mountain’s path.
Fear of climate change–not climate change–was a killer in the Nepal floods
Wildfires can’t wait on climate-change policy
Leaders keep shelving the work of forest management. Why bother when you can just point at the sky, set a 2050 net-zero target, and look like a moral hero without lifting a […]
Was climate change the greatest financial scam in history?
The relentless war on fossil fuels has plunged countless lives into poverty, all while global temperatures remain unchanged for three decades: Stephen Moore.
BBC climate disinformation reporter attacks Kenyan farmer
When a Kenyan farmer expressed views contrary to the climate change narrative, a BBC reporter took him to task for sharing from his own experience and research.
China’s addiction to coal
The world believes China is leading the way on green energy. In reality, Xi Jinping’s political legitimacy depends on fossil-fuel powered growth for stability.
The Big Green Lie almost everyone claims to believe
The claim that the “science was settled” on climate change never withstood scrutiny. What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of […]
China uses climate fears to weaken the West while strengthening itself
The Chinese Communist Party knows that if they don’t keep the lights on, they’re in danger of being toppled. They need fossil fuels to appease a hungry nation and they will happily […]
CCP uses climate as a weapon to attack the world’s economy
Whatever climate promises the Chinese Communist Party might make, it cannot and will not be able to give up fossil fuels. Yet, the CCP will continue to push the US and others […]
Where are the environmental critics of China?
When it comes to climate change, China talks about reducing emissions but keeps building coal plants. So why are environmental groups so soft on China?
Green groups condemn UN plan to use $136m from climate fund for large dams
An alliance of green groups have called out plans for UN-backed hydro projects in Nepal, Tajikistan and the Solomon Islands, saying they will have “tremendous negative impacts” on ecosystems and indigenous people. Touted as a renewable energy source, large dams account for up to a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases a year due to rotting vegetation in the water, say critics. The Guardian U.K. reports.
Climate change a dam smokescreen?
(November 20, 2012) Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake, is experiencing a dramatic drop in water levels as a result of drought exacerbated by the effects of ongoing climate change — a dry-up that began in earnest in 2003, according to a report published by China’s state-run Xinhua news agency earlier this year. What the report doesn’t acknowledge is that 2003 also coincides with the year reservoir filling began at the Three Gorges mega-dam 500-km upstream of Poyang, on the Yangtze River. Responding separately to Xinhua’s claims, noted Chinese geologist and environmentalist Fan Xiao points to operations at the dam, as well as rapid development of the Yangtze’s upper reaches, as the culprits behind the distressing changes Poyang and other Yangtze tributaries are experiencing: expect worse, he warns, but not because of climate change.
China says research still needed before Nu River dammed
(March 8, 2011) In an apparent contradiction of national policy, General Secretary of Yunnan’s provincial Communist Party claims that the Nu River will not be dammed without further research. Is a schism emerging between the provincial and Central Party officials over the controversial dams?
China’s dam-building will cause more problems than it solves: The Guardian
(March 4, 2011) Peter Bosshard of International Rivers writes in the Guardian that China’s dam building frenzy threatens to destroy the country’s biodiversity. Ironically, trying to aggressively reduce CO2 emissions by building megadams will do more harm than good for the environment.
Chinese dams are seeking to outshine the stars in the sky
(February 25, 2011) French journalist Claude Arpi writes that the Chinese dam lobby is using global warming to ram through catastrophic dam projects.
Ecologists dread new dam boom
(February 10, 2011) Global Times recounts the dangers of dam building that ecologists have been warning about for years.
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