The world spent $3.6 trillion dollars over eight years, mostly trying to change the weather. Only 5% was spent trying to adapt to changes.
"Meticulous Research Review Questions Environmental Impacts and Feasibility of “Green Energy” Transition"
from an article at Jo Nova.com: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-clean-energy/
"Wind farms raise the temperature of the local area around them which causes more CO2 to be released from the soil. Solar and wind farms waste 100 times the wilderness land area compared to fossil fuels, and need ten times as many minerals mined from the earth. Biomass razes forests, but protects underground coal deposits."
"Green energy technologies require a 10-fold increase in mineral extraction compared to fossil fuel electricity. Similarly, replacing just 50 million of the world’s estimated 1.3 billion cars with electric vehicles would require more than doubling the world’s annual production of cobalt, neodymium, and lithium, and using more than half the world’s current annual copper production.
Solar and wind farms also need 100 times the land area of fossil fuel-generated electricity, and these resulting changes in land use can have a devastating effect on biodiversity. The effects of bio-energy on biodiversity are worse, and the increased use of crops such as palm oil for biofuels is already contributing to the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats."
"Overview of the paper:
The review, published in a Special Issue of the journal Energies on 16 September, covers 39 pages, with 14 full-color figures and two tables, detailing the breakdown of climate change expenditure and the pros and cons of all of the various options: wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, fossil fuels, bio-energy, tidal and geothermal. The review was published as an open-access peer-review paper and can be downloaded for free from the following URL: "
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/18/4839
The full citation is:
ÓhAiseadha, C.; Quinn, G.; Connolly, R.; Connolly, M.;
Soon, W.
Energy and Climate Policy
—An Evaluation of Global
Climate Change Expenditure
2011–2018.
Energies 2020, 13, 4839.