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A 102-year-old woman died and around 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, following severe flooding that delivered 142 litres per square metre of rain. Persistent rain is expected, with another storm forecasted for the west on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns of severe heatwave in London, linking it to climate and energy crises driven by fossil fuels during his address at Climate Action Week.
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Insights director at global energy think tank Ember Dave Jones said: “The renewables revolution is gathering pace around the world, and renewables will soon overtake coal as the single biggest source of global electricity. Once, coal power was a byword for industrial growth, now clean energy is driving economies.”
In the absence of new infrastructure and technology, the shift to more intermittent sources of power could leave the national grid more vulnerable to power cuts than it has been for decades… The health of the country’s economy — and the willingness of other countries to follow — may very well ride on the experiment’s success.
Armstrong understood that renewables would be cheaper energy sources in the long run compared to burning dirty coal, but his was essentially a lone voice. The presumed abundance of coal led to the commissioning of the world’s first coal power plant in 1882. The U.K.’s coal plants have since burned through 4.6 billion tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4Gt of CO2, stresses Dr Sim Evans, deputy editor of Carbon Brief.
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