We set a new record for carbon dioxide concentrations this week, 415.75 ppm at Mauna Loa.
In this century, the entire solar and wind industry, after an expenditure of trillions of dollars, amounts to 1/5 the amount by which coal energy grew this century,
If you get your "data" from Rollingstone, you deserve it.
I get mine from the IEA, with input from people called "scientists" and "engineers."
In this century, world energy demand grew by 179.15 exajoules to 599.34 exajoules.
In this century, world gas demand grew by 50.33 exajoules to 137.03 exajoules.
In this century, the use of petroleum grew by 34.79 exajoules to 188.45 exajoules.
In this century, the use of coal grew by 63.22 exajoules to 159.98 exajoules.
In this century, the solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy on which people so cheerfully have bet the entire planetary atmosphere, stealing the future from all future generations, grew by 9.76 exajoules to 12.27 exajoules.
12.27 exajoules is slightly over 2% of the world energy demand.
2019 Edition of the World Energy Outlook Table 1.1 Page 38] (I have converted MTOE in the original table to the SI unit exajoules in this text.)
Personally, Trump putting children in cages in a time of plague seems far more criminal to me than pissing on people's fantasies about the solar miracle that didn't work, isn't working and won't work.
All this winning by solar I've been hearing about while the environment deteriorates at an ever accelerating rate rather reminds me of all this winning by Trump.
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