Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #472
Guest Blogger
The Week That Was: 2021-09-25 (September 25, 2021)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Therefore, things must be leaned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.” – Richard Feynman, “Atoms in Motion” from Lectures on Physics. [Boldface in quote were italics in the original.]
Number of the Week: $11 BILLION a year by 2024
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: September 14 marked the opening of the UN General Assembly with Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives as the General Assembly President. The leaders of the Maldives have long claimed that they will drown with rising sea levels caused by carbon dioxide-caused global warming. In fact, examination shows that the land area of the Maldives has been increasing. Further, over the past few years the government-controlled Maldives Airport Company has been expanding the Velana International Airport to bring in international tourists. According to Wikipedia, a new terminal is under construction, designed to serve 7.3 million passengers at a cost of about $800 million US. The elevation of the airport is 6 feet (2 meters) above mean sea level. The extent of the new construction contradicts the claims by national leaders that the nation will soon disappear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velana_International_Airporthttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/27/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-472/
