Honest Review: The Climate

By: Anagha Vinay

Climate Crisis is entangled with every aspect of our lifestyle. The Climate Transparency Report is a comprehensive annual review of the state of climate performance of the G20 nations. Its assessment includes 100 indicators for climate adaptation, risks, protection, and finance. The G20 countries coming under this are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.

The report shows a comparative analysis of the climate actions taken by these nations to achieve a net zero emissions economy. It is a global partnership with a shared mission. It is a concise report developed by experts from 16 partner organizations from the G20 nations. The 2022 report theme is ‘G20 response to the energy crisis: Critical for 1.5°C.’ It bridges climate emergency to the energy crisis.

According to the 2022 report, climate change has had a massive impact across G20 countries with wildfires, heatwaves, tropical storms, and rising global emissions. Exploiting our environment for development at an unsustainable pace left us blind and deaf to the wailing cries and consequences of the ecosystem, and now the tables have turned. It is not Mother Nature who is pleading, it is us. We don’t have a choice, but to act, immediately. In this time of crisis, there are going to be no more excuses, and there are going to be no next times.

The report shows that the prices of fossil fuels rose exponentially in the second half of 2021 mainly as a repercussion of the Russia-Ukraine war. China, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom have the highest total fossil fuel consumption and production subsidies. Energy emissions were found to have rebounded across the G20 countries by 5.9 percent last year, returning to the pre-pandemic levels. In 2021, emissions in the power and real-estate sector were higher than pre-pandemic levels. The per capita emissions in these sectors in China and Turkey are currently higher than in 2019 levels. However, the share of renewables in the power generation mix has seen an increase in all the G20 countries between 2016 and 2021. Countries with the highest increase in renewable energy share are the United Kingdom (67 percent), Japan (48 percent), and Mexico (40 percent), and the lowest increase are Russia (16 percent) and Italy (14 percent).

India has suffered the highest heat-related labour capacity reduction, nearly 167 billion labour hours, resulting in a financially crippling loss of about 5.4% in the GDP, equivalent to $159B. India even witnessed reduced wheat crop yield due to record heat waves. It is estimated that around 142 million people or 10 percent of the population of the country may be exposed to summer heatwaves at 1.5°C. India stands third among the G20 nations with high methane emissions, with a soaring 10.5%.

Climate Action Tracker statistics have rated India’s overall climate action efforts as highly insufficient. For instance, the average temperature experienced in the summer of 2017-2021 has been recorded to be 0.4°C higher than the 1985-2005 global mean temperature increase. About 33% of the country is drought-prone, and approximately 50% of this area faces chronic droughts. This, right here, is the Code Red for Humanity. But there’s still so much we can do, together. This is why we need to be out there, making our voices heard as one, louder, and stronger than ever before.

Real change will happen when the concerns of all the vulnerable groups have been addressed and every possible action has been taken to protect our ecosystem. This is the need of the hour. Let’s join hands and be a part of this. Let’s strike to make them listen to us. Let’s strike to make them act. Let’s strike because now the time has come, when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or fully in measure, but very substantially. The real change is coming. All we have to do is be in this fight for what is just, and we shall triumph.

Climate Change: Reality or Illusion

-by Sutanuka Chanda

Climate change has been accumulating slowly but relentlessly over the decades, but we don’t see it. I mean, it’s just an increase of one or two degrees. I am pretty sure glaciers aren’t going to melt because there was a two-degree increase in temperature all around, and the temperatures up there on the mountain tops are well below zero degrees, and isn’t that what’s really needed for ice to be intact? Freezing temperatures. There is no way glaciers are melting and the sea level is rising because that is just not possible.

All of it is a hoax. It’s a government propaganda; they are very obviously making a fool out of us, civilians while they carry on stealing from us taxpayers. Climate change is not real. There’s a supposed increase in the greenhouse gasses – keyword being supposed. But honestly, if you look deeper into it, you’ll notice that the weather isn’t really warmer than last year, we’re just getting older so our perception of heat is changing. I mean it’s basic science really, but some people on the internet like to be idiots in the name of being ‘educated’ and ‘progressive’ when in all reality, they are just being the government’s puppets. 

A sixteen-year-old activist, Greta Thunberg sailed all the way from Sweden to America instead of just taking a plane. In my humble opinion, it’s very obvious that she is trying to grab attention so she can get a free pass into Harvard and Yale, and other Ivy Leagues of the world. Scientists and Researchers are going on and on about climate change but they can never pinpoint what exactly is causing their so-called global warming. If we can’t even see it in front of us, is it really happening? So just keep on taking your usual car instead of your bike because a carbon footprint doesn’t exist. 

How difficult is it to do some research on your own and find out what is actually happening? Climate change is a myth. People are becoming lazier every day and they just want an excuse to blame it on something other than their inherent slouchiness. It is a proven fact that going out in the sun and working out daily will solve all of their “climate issues” since their bodies will be healthy. 

So much of the world’s problems could be solved if people who whine about climate change, ever opened their eyes and did basic goggle research instead of blindly relying on the government and NASA. They just want us to suffer under their rule and work like robots as they take away our hard-earned tax money under the garb of protecting the environment. But then again, if President Trump didn’t believe in climate change, why were common Americans so hell-bent on proving to everyone that climate change exists? Shouldn’t they believe whatever their President says?

So please just keep on going snorkeling and if you see a dead, brown reef, just move past it unbothered, because it’s a living being, it will die one day. There’s no need to change your vehicular exhaust or switch off your fans and lights once you leave the room.

Climate change isn’t real, it’s all just a hoax. 

Reference: 

https://thecampanile.org/2019/10/23/satire-why-climate-change-is-fake/