COP26 – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Sun, 31 Oct 2021 15:20:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 COP26 – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 COP26 https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/cop26/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/cop26/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2021 15:20:59 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34144 Continue reading COP26 →]]> Conference of The Parties 26 is a climate summit being held in Glasgow. This is widely called the “last best chance” to address climate change.

Commentary and excellent perspective by Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (Amazon associates link*) interviewed on CNN:

Notice Mann’s comment on Russia (and Saudi Arabia). I’m not sure if people realize the extent to which Russia has made itself, under Putin, a specialized economy based almost entirely on fossil fuels. See Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth (Amazon associates link*), a must-read read, to read about that.

The opening of COP26:

See also this commentary in the Los Angeles Times.

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