Oil Price.com (September 6)
“The leadership of the European Union has been hard at work these days, trying to find a lasting solution to an energy crisis that is worsening by the day. Yet the way they are approaching the solution is unlikely to produce any lasting results…. It has been compared to a Ponzi scheme.”
Tags: Energy crisis, EU, Lasting, Leadership, Ponzi scheme, Produce, Results, Solution, Unlikely, Worsening
The Guardian (August 9)
The IPCC’s sixth assessment report “makes for stark reading. It reaffirms that anthropogenic climate change is real, present and lasting: it is now unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen through the coming decades.” With this report, the IPCC “dispels any notion that the effects of the climate crisis are abstract or distant.”
Tags: Anthropogenic, Assessment, Atmosphere, Climate change, Human influence, IPCC, Land, Lasting, Ocean, Present, Reaffirms, Real, Report, Stark, Unequivocal
New York Times (June 26)
“This is just the start of the Brexit’s economic disaster.” Many of Brexit’s supporters distrusted experts and economists who were by and large supporters of the remain campaign. “Experts are, of course, known to make mistakes. But in this case, the people who voted for Brexit will pay a big price for ignoring economic expertise. The harmful effects of this vote are both immediate and lasting.”
Tags: Brexit, Economic disaster, Economists, Experts, Harmful, Immediate, Lasting, Remain campaign, UK
