Environment & Energy

In 2000, dangerous fossil fuels, in dishonest "percent talk," was producing 80.2% of the world's energy, which was at 420.19 Exajoules.

In 2023, dangerous fossil fuels in dishonest "percent talk was producing 79.8% of the world's energy, which was 642 Exajoules (EJ).

A little math, translating "percent talk" into absolute numbers by simple arithmetic operations, will clearly show that the use of fossil fuels is increasing rapidly; in the period between 2022 and 2023, in absolute numbers coal grew by 5 EJ, solar and wind combined by 1 EJ, or in "percent talk" coal use grew by 500% compared to solar and wind combined.

I prepared a table of this data, which produced zero comments, perhaps because truth is unpleasant, here, using data from the 2000 and 2016-2024 IEA World Energy Outlook here:

Table of EIA WEO Energy Sources in Exajoules, 2000, 2016-2023

For convenience I reproduce the table here:



The OP states the following: "People lie, to each other and to themselves, but numbers don't lie."

I repeat often in many of my posts.

Solar and wind are expensive, useless forms of energy, totally dependent on access to dangerous fossil fuels.

The most important numbers are, of course, those for the accumulations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide, which are increasing both in rate, the first derivative, but also in the rate of increase of the rate, the second derivative.

There are many reasons why the atmosphere's collapse is increasing at an ever higher rate, and from a social perspective, the abuse of numbers in "percent talk" is certainly smoothing the way.