Hollywood tough guy Arnold Schwarzenegger is talking tough on climate change, but it’s not what you think..In an interview with CBS’s Sunday Morning, the former California governor said efforts to reduce global emissions suffer from a communication problem that’s making people tune out the message..“As long as they keep talking about ‘global climate change’, they are not gonna go anywhere. ‘Cause no one gives a s--- about that,” he said..Although he identifies himself as an environmentalist, the Guvernator has criticized climate activists for promoting an overly negative message that turns people off..“I have to laugh, because 20 years ago when I ran for governor, environmentalists didn’t really buy in when I said I’d be a green governor. The conservative who drives Hummers and blows up everything in his movies? Give us a break.”.In May he wrote an op-ed calling on the environmental movement to adapt to changing times, which includes refining its message. .“We need a new environmentalism based on building and growing and common sense. Old environmentalism was afraid of growth. It hated building. Many of you know this style — protesting every new development, chaining yourself to construction equipment, and using lawsuits and permitting to slow everything down,” Schwarzenegger wrote..”I call for a new environmentalism, based on building the clean energy projects we need as fast as we can. We have to build, build, build.”.For a self described Republican, Schwarzenegger’s views put him outside the mainstream of his party. Opinion polls show only 28% of GOPers see climate change as a serious threat compared to 73% of Democrats..It comes as an International Energy Agency (IEA) report predicted some $1.7 trillion will be spent worldwide on renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, low emission fuels and appliances such as heat pumps — almost twice as much as the $1 trillion expected to go into upstream oil and gas and coal..Led by solar, low-emissions electricity technologies are expected to account for almost 90% of investment in power generation. Consumers are also investing in more electrified end-uses. Global heat pump sales have seen double-digit annual growth since 2021. Electric vehicle sales are expected to leap by a third this year after already surging in 2022..Global coal demand reached an all-time high in 2022, and coal investment this year is on course to reach nearly six times the levels envisaged in 2030 in its net zero scenario..Although global emissions rose about 1% last year, according to the EIA, the Canadian Energy Centre published a fact sheet this week that said the emissions intensity of the Canadian upstream oil sector fell 13% between the years 2000 and 2021 from 75.1 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per barrel to 65.2 kilograms..Over the same period, the emissions intensity of oil sands fell 29% from 111.8-kg of CO2 equivalent per barrel in 2000 to just under 79.3-kg CO2e in 2021..Since 2000, the emissions intensity in the conventional oil sector has fallen from 63.2-kg CO2e to 42.9-kg CO2e in 2021, a decrease of more than 32%.
Hollywood tough guy Arnold Schwarzenegger is talking tough on climate change, but it’s not what you think..In an interview with CBS’s Sunday Morning, the former California governor said efforts to reduce global emissions suffer from a communication problem that’s making people tune out the message..“As long as they keep talking about ‘global climate change’, they are not gonna go anywhere. ‘Cause no one gives a s--- about that,” he said..Although he identifies himself as an environmentalist, the Guvernator has criticized climate activists for promoting an overly negative message that turns people off..“I have to laugh, because 20 years ago when I ran for governor, environmentalists didn’t really buy in when I said I’d be a green governor. The conservative who drives Hummers and blows up everything in his movies? Give us a break.”.In May he wrote an op-ed calling on the environmental movement to adapt to changing times, which includes refining its message. .“We need a new environmentalism based on building and growing and common sense. Old environmentalism was afraid of growth. It hated building. Many of you know this style — protesting every new development, chaining yourself to construction equipment, and using lawsuits and permitting to slow everything down,” Schwarzenegger wrote..”I call for a new environmentalism, based on building the clean energy projects we need as fast as we can. We have to build, build, build.”.For a self described Republican, Schwarzenegger’s views put him outside the mainstream of his party. Opinion polls show only 28% of GOPers see climate change as a serious threat compared to 73% of Democrats..It comes as an International Energy Agency (IEA) report predicted some $1.7 trillion will be spent worldwide on renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, low emission fuels and appliances such as heat pumps — almost twice as much as the $1 trillion expected to go into upstream oil and gas and coal..Led by solar, low-emissions electricity technologies are expected to account for almost 90% of investment in power generation. Consumers are also investing in more electrified end-uses. Global heat pump sales have seen double-digit annual growth since 2021. Electric vehicle sales are expected to leap by a third this year after already surging in 2022..Global coal demand reached an all-time high in 2022, and coal investment this year is on course to reach nearly six times the levels envisaged in 2030 in its net zero scenario..Although global emissions rose about 1% last year, according to the EIA, the Canadian Energy Centre published a fact sheet this week that said the emissions intensity of the Canadian upstream oil sector fell 13% between the years 2000 and 2021 from 75.1 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per barrel to 65.2 kilograms..Over the same period, the emissions intensity of oil sands fell 29% from 111.8-kg of CO2 equivalent per barrel in 2000 to just under 79.3-kg CO2e in 2021..Since 2000, the emissions intensity in the conventional oil sector has fallen from 63.2-kg CO2e to 42.9-kg CO2e in 2021, a decrease of more than 32%.
