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"In view of the 5th Assessment Report from the International Panel on Climate Change, none can reasonably deny that we are already seeing the effects of manmade climate change. Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events such as the last weekend’s Typhoon Haiyan and the storm which buffeted Sardinia yesterday: all are consistent with the science of climate change currently under examination in Warsaw. That is why an amendment crafted in this House – to the part of the Connecting Europe Facility which deals with energy interconnections – is so important. It means we will spend the lion’s share of this budget on electricity rather than oil and gas connections. The English writer HG Wells maintained that human history is increasingly a race between education and catastrophe. He is right. Unless we make the switch from fossil fuels to clean energy sources we have no chance of mitigating climate change. In order to do that we need trans-European electricity distribution networks – a smart supergrid, if you like – to exploit renewable energy sources and to balance supply and demand. Commissioner Kallas’s Connecting Europe Facility will help deliver this."@en1
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