Italians’ electricity bills to rise by 30%, gas up 14%
By Max Civili | Press TV | September 30, 2021
Rome – On Friday, the Italian Energy Authority ARERA announced that electricity bills will rise by almost 30% while gas bills will increase by over 14%, effective from Friday.
Italians are not pleased at all. Some consumer associations have estimated that the sharp rise may cost Italian families up to 2,000 euros a year due to a ripple effect on the entire productive system.
On one side, ARERA has pointed out that without government intervention to stem the rises, spikes in electricity and gas bills would have been 45% and 30% respectively, on the other, people are saying that the executive should have been able to predict the increase and handle the situation more effectively.
In its bid to tackle climate change, the European Union has adopted an Emission Trading Scheme which covers more than 12,000 polluting (sic) companies across the old continent, today.
It consists in the establishment of a market where firms trade emission allowances to cover their annual CO2 emissions, increasing, this way, their expenditures.
Analysts are warning the world is heading into an energy crunch that will likely affect global economies. The prices of fossil fuels such as coal, carbon and gas have all hit record highs lately. This is while crude oil has pushed above 80 dollars a barrel.
Energy price could go much higher if the weather is as cool this winter as some meteorologists predict. It’s not only the people that are worried. Several European energy-intensive industries have claimed that the adoption of the Emission Trading Scheme may entail a significant loss of international competitiveness due to increases in production costs.
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By Prof. Richard S. Lindzen | Global Research | September 22, 2014
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For a variety of inter-related cultural, organizational, and political reasons, progress in climate science and the actual solution of scientific problems in this field have moved at a much slower rate than would normally be possible.
Not all these factors are unique to climate science, but the heavy influence of politics has served to amplify the role of the other factors. By cultural factors, I primarily refer to the change in the scientific paradigm from a dialectic opposition between theory and observation to an emphasis on simulation and observational programs. The latter serves to almost eliminate the dialectical focus of the former.
Whereas the former had the potential for convergence, the latter is much less effective. The institutional factor has many components. One is the inordinate growth of administration in universities and the consequent increase in importance of grant overhead. This leads to an emphasis on large programs that never end. Another is the hierarchical nature of formal scientific organizations whereby a small executive council can speak on behalf of thousands of scientists as well as govern the distribution of ‘carrots and sticks’ whereby reputations are made and broken. The above factors are all amplified by the need for government funding.
When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research. This paper will deal with the origin of the cultural changes and with specific examples of the operation and interaction of these factors. In particular, we will show how political bodies act to control scientific institutions, how scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions, and how opposition to these positions is disposed of. … continue
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Ouch. This is not good news on numerous levels. My sympathy for the Italian public. Can’t some sort of sane balance among all the competing interests, priorities, realities, ramifications, unintended consequences, pandemics, wars…be reached? Seems to me we need a lot more “futurist”-type thinkers…their vision, wisdom and advice to be followed, in concert and unity and common agreement on needs and priorities, by the “community” across the globe…cannot this be done without rancor or parochialism or “extremism” or recriminations or insults or economic sanctions or other violence on both (many?) sides of these fraught issues?
Remember, if you will: what we do for the “least” of us we do for all of us.
Viva “civilization” and its enlightened advancement, 22d-23rd Century-style (if we get that far)!
Where does religion or spirituality or a deity or a higher power — if there is one — fit into this picture?
(Why is this “not good news” centered on Italy? Aren’t Greece and many other surrounding and farther-away communities/economies in the same “pickle”?)
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