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Wright, a former oil man<\/a>, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had been exaggerated.<\/p>\n

“[T]oday your chance of dying from [an] extreme weather event is the lowest we have in recorded history, and 20 percent of kids record nightmares about climate change,” Wright said at a press conference on Friday, without citing the source of these statistics. <\/p>\n

“So we have got people very afraid of something that’s a real issue, but we overhyped it,” he said.<\/p>\n

He urged countries to stop subsidizing renewable energy because it was having little impact on emissions, but was costly for industry. <\/p>\n

In the U.K. earlier in the week he told the BBC<\/a> artificial intelligence would help solve climate change by cracking the problem of harnessing nuclear fusion to generate electricity in a decade or so.<\/p>\n

The EU has among the most stringent climate rules in the world, but is under pressure to wind these back, both internally and from other countries like the U.S.<\/p>\n

European industry is struggling with high energy costs and intense competition from China, and business groups and politicians from the center to the far right have argued<\/a> green rules add additional costs that industry cannot afford.<\/p>\n

EU lawmakers are currently reviewing a proposal to slash rules<\/a> requiring companies to report on their impacts on the environment, and member countries are struggling to reach an agreement<\/a> on the EU’s 2040 emissions target<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright, a former oil man, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[738,74,285,36206,261,4315,69,24071,23198,5495,746,525,124113,3195,3062,82,270,124114,3229,866,159,7840,24807,620,158,376,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-229947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-coal","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-electricity","16":"tag-emissions","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-environment","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-financial-stability","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-intelligence","23":"tag-joe-biden","24":"tag-oil","25":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","26":"tag-regulation","27":"tag-renewable-energy","28":"tag-science","29":"tag-stability","30":"tag-steel","31":"tag-tax","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115210994581704946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}