Bernard's Life In The Tropicz

28/09/2025

🌬️ Fact Check: Does China Use Windmills?

📊 In April 2025, wind power accounted for 13.6% of China’s total electricity generation. That’s more than solar (12.4%) and part of a combined 26% from wind and solar alone. Zero-emission sources—including hydro and nuclear—made up 39% of China’s electricity in Q1 2025.

📉 Fossil fuel generation dropped 3.6% year-on-year, signaling a structural shift.

🔍 China is now the world’s largest wind energy producer by installed capacity. Wind farms span Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and coastal provinces—many visible via satellite and public infrastructure maps.

✅ The claim that China “doesn’t use windmills” is demonstrably false. While policy debates are fair game, facts matter.

Source via Copilot and ember-energy.org & climateenergyfinance.org

We conduct public interest financial analysis on the most profound economic transformation since the industrial revolution: the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

27/09/2025

🌍 Climate Change: Not a Hoax, But a Measurable Reality

Despite persistent misinformation, the science is clear: climate change is real, human-driven, and already reshaping our planet.

🔹 Scientific Consensus: Over 97% of actively publishing climate scientists agree that global warming is primarily caused by human activities—especially the burning of fossil fuels. This is affirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), NASA, and NOAA.

🔹 Observable Trends:

• Global temperatures have risen by over 1°C since 1900.
• 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded.
• Sea levels are rising, glaciers are retreating, and extreme weather events are intensifying.

🔹 Debunking the “Hoax” Narrative: Some viral claims—like declarations signed by non-experts or misinterpreted studies—have been thoroughly fact-checked. For example:

• A 2024 Nature study was falsely cited as disproving global warming. In truth, it confirmed steady warming since the 1970s.
• A widely circulated “no climate emergency” declaration included signatories who were not climate scientists—and some who were deceased.

🔹 Climate Change and the Philippines: As one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, the Philippines faces rising sea levels, stronger typhoons, and prolonged droughts that threaten agriculture, infrastructure, and coastal communities. According to PAGASA and the Climate Change Commission, these impacts are intensifying, with billions in economic losses and growing risks to food and water security.
I live in the Philippines and I can confirm that this is our reality. We will need more infrastructure to prepare against the above mentioned consequences.

🔹 Sources You Can Trust:

• NASA Climate Change
• IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
• NOAA Climate Data
• Nature Journal
• Philippine Climate Change Commission

Let’s stay grounded in evidence. Climate action begins with clarity.

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26/01/2025

Very good speech by the UN Secretary

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24/01/2025

Europe is awakening, I hope it is.
Interesting video to watch!

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05/01/2025

Un territoire zéro déchet aux Philippines : l’île d’Apo ambitionne de devenir un laboratoire environnemental .

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21/12/2024

Scary indeed.
The Philippines has been affected by too many natural calamities for so many decades. How to prepare better for the next one?

It's been a year of climate disasters, and it won't get any better

13/12/2024

The Philippines ranks 2nd as most attractive emerging market for renewable energy investment.

13/12/2024

Is EV vehicles with V2G a good solution ?

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