20 Nov Don’t buy NPR’s optimism–Our efforts to “combat” climate change are mostly bogus while our subsidies for making it worse are robust and sturdy
by Ed Newbold
posted from Seattle, WA, November, ____, 2024.
“For almost two centuries, greenhouse gas emissions have climbed steadily as humans have burned increasing amounts of oil, gas and coal” according to a story aired on Nov 14 on NPR’s Morning Edition, which continued, ” Now, climate scientists believe those emissions may finally be reaching a peak.”
The good news was attributed to the rapid growth of renewable energy and as the story unfolded it became clear that the “peak” notion was based on a slight decline in the rate of increase of fossil fuel in the last few years and a whole lot of conjecture.
The reality that subsidizing so-called clean energy does nothing to decrease and actually may increase climate pollution is emerging as the statistics come in each year. The NPR article inadvertently illustrated the economics of how this all works– (and I quote): “The growing supply of solar and wind energy has begun to displace fossil fuels, but so far in 2024, it’s been counteracted by a growing need for electricity. Economies are growing and airline and shipping traffic is on the rise. The increased use of artificial intelligence also requires intensive amounts of electricity to run data centers.”
We don’t know who or what will raise its ugly head to consume more energy in the future, we only know something will.
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