A flood devastated Valencia, Spain, on Oct. 30, killing over 200 persons and displacing over 120,000. There are at least 350,000 without water, and 50,000 without electricity. While rescue operations are going on, the local administration is accused of not having launched the alarm, and not telling people to stay at home, although meteorologists had warned that extreme weather was coming. Green vultures (media and politicians) are making so-called “climate deniers” co-responsible, and calling for speeding up climate action.
In reality, Spain has invested tens of billions euros in climate policies in the last decades. €1 billion was spent to reach the targets of the 1997 Kyoto protocol; €50 billion to reach the 20-20-20 target (20% less CO2, 20% renewables and 20% more efficiency) set by the EU; and €240 billion to reach the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Wasted money. Since the world climate is not like a giant refrigerator, where you can just turn the thermostat on and off (copyright F. Battaglia), E-cars and solar panels do not affect global climate. Had that money been spent in traditional water-control and water management infrastructures (dams, flood retention basins, etc.), nobody would have died on Oct. 30 in Valencia.
