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Originally Posted by Shifty86
This is just a terrible terrible antidote. Fossil Fuel give us life as we know it, feel free to venture into the woods with a pack of cigarettes.
I think you mean "anecdote"
And no it isn't. The oil, gas, and coal industries have been sponsoring climate change studies for over 30 years now. Paying for results that favor them.
It isn't that I am noticing it. Articles have been written equating their tactics. And executives have claimed to have studied the tactics of Tobacco companies.
Jul 23, 2019 · The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) recorded that renewable energy employment in the United States reached 855,000 direct and indirect jobs in 2018. IRENA reports that the biofuels, solar, and wind power industries provide the most renewable energy jobs in the United States.
By now we are easily over 1,000,000 jobs in the US.
Predictions are that another 300,000 to 500,000 jobs will be created by 2030.
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Literally impossible and will never happen, have a look at % of global energy consumption. If you are concerned about fossil fuel use and CO2 you should be pushing for Nuclear/Hydro.
As of now in 4 states it is cheaper to build solar/wind energy than new natural gas plants. By 2025 it will be cheaper in many more states.
Once this happens coal plants will disappear (as they have been), natural gas plants will stop being built. Eventually wind and solar will replace them. I can't say by when but I would guess in 30 years wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear will represent over 90% of energy production in the US.
It is possible that sources other than electricity will ultimately power cars (hydrogen fuel cells, etc.) but I doubt that the world will give up cars any more than they will give up burgers.
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Again you are repeating straight up propaganda, no kidding. It's hard to began to point out all of the things you are either wrong or lying about. Like every hot take alarmist talking point crammed into one stupid post, it's pretty amazing. I feel bad for people that live their lives thinking this way.
I studied this for years after the 1998 stats fiasco. It isn't even close. The global temperatures have been steadily increasing if you use 20+ year rolling averages or more. It was 10 year rolling averages that failed after 1998 because 1998 was so out of proportion hot.
But if you look at individual years since 2000, each year appears in the top 20. This isn't propaganda. It is the scientific truth. It is also very scary.
Similarly for years 1990 through 2000 although there were some that ended up outside the top 20.