....the annual growth in the use of dangerous natural gas. Again, after the expenditure of two trillion dollars in ten years, solar and wind combined don't produce 5 exajoules.
The natural gas industry gets away with using so called "renewables" as a fig leaf for its criminal intent to dump unlimited quantities of waste in the atmosphere.
In my experience there are zero advocates of squandering the world's resources on the toxic so called "renewables" industry who aren't apologists for dangerous fossil fuels.
History will not, and should not forgive this crime against the future, should history survive.
If you must know how coal is doing, you could look up something called "data" which is all over the internet and in the scientific literature. The coal industry in 2017 dwarfs the coal industry in 2000.
It's a very, very, very provincial view point that coal is dying. It's not. It is still responsible for a huge fraction of the world's energy, although the scheme to burn every last molecule of methane and dump the waste in the atmosphere is also moving forward.
Anyone who claims that so called "renewables" is an alternative to gas or coal is simply grotesquely uninformed, lazy, or venal, possibly all three.
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