According to Météo France, the summer of 2022 is the second hottest summer after 2003.
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“Global warming has very concrete consequences on our daily lives today”, says Agnès Pannier-Runacher. The Minister for Energy Transition, invited on Tuesday August 30 on France Inter, points the finger “major meteorological hazards”droughts and mega-fires, as well as “health consequences”which they generate. “The experts are very clear on the subject, the summer of 2020 you will not find it and the summer of 2022 is probably the coolest you have experienced or will experience in the next twenty years”she says, while the summer of 2022 is the second hottest summer after the summer of 2003, according to information collected by franceinfo from Météo France.
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“These are facts. It is irresponsible not to recognize the reality of these facts”believes Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who considers that it is necessary “to agree on the diagnosis”, “It’s the best way to fight global warming”. Accused of spreading speeches “anxiogenic” by part of the opposition, the Minister for Energy Transition considers that it is the responsibility of the government to “say how we protect the French”. “We are there today and our objective is to remain in a scenario of an increase of 1.5 degrees on average, this is the scenario which is likely to limit the impact of this global warming on the planet and on humans”she adds while inviting “political opposition to make proposals”.
“When Mr. Mélenchon explains to us that renewables are good and nuclear is not good, that’s not the subject. The subject is that we have to get out of fossil fuels which warm the climate”believes Agnès Pannier-Runacher who accuses the leader of the Insoumis of being “in lies and irresponsibility”. “Today we need nuclear. We need nuclear and renewables to decarbonize”, she says. She also accuses environmentalists who are calling for a ban on private jets “to be next to the plate”. According to Agnès Pannier-Runacher, this is “of a limited problem in terms of climate impact” who “will not solve the problem”.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher on the debate around private jets: “That environmentalists are making a fight of it shows how far off the mark they are” #le7930inter pic.twitter.com/stALW0gumr
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