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WHO staffer says climate lockdowns may be necessary

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US: Millions of Texas Residents Still Without Water Supply

TeleSUR — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:27:38 +0000

8,800,000 Texans are still under boil water notices while 120,000 still have no water service at all. | Photo: Twitter/@NBCNews

More than 30 percent of Texas residents, United States, are still without water service today, after the blackouts caused by the winter storm that left some 60 people dead throughout the country.

The difficulties, aggravated by the lack of foresight of local authorities and rampant privatization, affect almost nine million people, or about a third of the 29 million inhabitants of the demarcation, distributed throughout 199 counties.

In this regard, the Houston Chronicle reported on Monday that the anger towards the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, grew due to the storm.

More than four million homes were without electricity amid dangerously low temperatures, and an increasing number lacked heat and running water.

The newspaper adds that this is one deadly disaster in a series that Abbott faced in his six years as governor: hurricane Harvey in 2017, which killed 68 people; six mass shootings that left more than 70 dead; and a pandemic (COVID-19) that killed nearly 42,000 people.

The governor said the day before that water services were being restored throughout Texas and that more than three million bottles of the liquid were distributed.

Meanwhile, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, noted that water problems were widespread, and many unavailable plumbing materials and supplies are needed.

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rtr: About a third of Texans still facing disrupted water supplies – Some 8.8 million people in Texas, about a third of the state’s population, still had issues with their water supply as of early Monday, authorities told Reuters.

About a third of Texas still facing disrupted water supplies. Some 8.8 million people in Texas, about a third of the states’s population, still had issues with their water supply as of early Monday.

Also, some Texans are facing unprecedented price increases on their electric bills due to the recent storm.

The unprecedented snowfall, which affected the state and 40 other territories across the country, caused a political firestorm that damaged at least three major Republican figures’ reputations in the demarcation.

Senator Ted Cruz was found to have fled to Mexico on Wednesday night, although he announced his return when he was caught in the act. At the same time, Governor Abbott was criticized for his lack of leadership and misleading claims about the power outages’ causes.

Meanwhile, former Governor Rick Perry suggested that Texans preferred blackouts to federal regulation, a note that major media outlets and the general population found insensitive at a time of widespread suffering.

Source: https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Millions-of-Texas-Residents-Still-Without-Water-Supply-20210222-0027.html

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‘No Climate Emergency,’ Say 500 Scientists Reports Physicians for Civil Defense

Physicians for Civil Defense — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:41:29 +0000

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — On the same day that 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made an impassioned speech to the UN, 500 highly qualified scientists sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, stating unequivocally: “There is no climate emergency.”

The lead signatory is Professor Guus Berkhout, founder of the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) based in The Netherlands.

The letter states:

The general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose. Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions of dollars on the basis of results from such immature models. Current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy.

We urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation.

Michelle Stirling of the Friends of Science Society has read the letter to more than 600,000 viewers on YouTube.

The letter has been criticized by six scientists who claim that its credibility is very low. One complaint is that most of the 500 are not experts in “climate science.” However, observes Physicians for Civil Defense president Jane Orient, M.D., the six reviewers study agroforestry, forest ecology, statistics and modeling, economics and policy, ocean sediments, and glaciers. “The only reviewer with expertise in factors affecting the atmosphere and climate appears to be Timothy Osborn from the University of East Anglia, the scene of the ClimateGate scandals.”

The models relied on by the reviewers, she notes, have been called “Mickey-Mouse mockeries of the real word” by prominent Japanese scientist Mototaka Nakamura.

“Policies affecting the lives and livelihoods of billions of the world’s people must not be dictated by emotionally distraught but ill-informed protesters chanting apocalyptic threats based on dubious computer models,” Dr. Orient stated.

Physicians for Civil Defense distributes information to help to save lives in the event of war or other disasters.

Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@gmail.com

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