EU climate chief Teresa Ribera says European heatwave is a 'dramatic warning' to reject fossil fuel interests and climate denial
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Fiona Harvey
Summary
European Commission Vice-President Teresa Ribera argues that the ongoing European heatwave is a "dramatic warning" from nature that underscores the urgent need to reject climate denial and the "vested interests" of the fossil fuel industry. She criticizes ideologically driven falsehoods that attack green policy and emphasizes that the extreme weather events being experienced were predicted by scientists but not adequately acted upon.
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What we are experiencing today [in the form of record heat] is what we knew could happen, but we have not been
We must reject the ideologically driven falsehoods spread by those with vested interests in fossil fuels.
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