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Extreme droughts: a typical consequence of global warming due to high energy consumption<br />

Globalisation opens up completely new opportunities to<br />

those who can master the <strong>challenge</strong>s. But the unprecedented<br />

dynamics of the new global market are driven almost exclusively<br />

by finite fossil resources including above all coal,<br />

oil and gas. This headlong market development also has a big<br />

drawback: energy prices are rising according to the law of<br />

supply and demand. Furthermore, global warming is having<br />

an increasingly political impact worldwide – the exceptionally<br />

mild winter in Europe, disastrous rainfall in the USA, extreme<br />

drought in Australia... climate change is an international and<br />

political long-runner.<br />

Primary energy needs worldwide<br />

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Power tariffs in Europe, 1997-2007<br />

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