brenthutch

I think you mean renewables can lessen the increase of CO2 but emissions increase nonetheless. As you can see, despite trillions spent on renewables, CO2 levels continue to increase. https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

Wrong! 50% comes from natural gas. Not to mention California is the largest importer of electricity, much of which is generated from coal. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2021-total-system-electric-generation

As long as FF use continues to rise faster than renewables, the best that can be claimed is that renewables supplement increasing FF use. If you think that renewables will in anyway lower CO2 emissions you are sorely mistaken, the best they can do is mitigate the increase.

Wow one vehicle from one manufacturer and it’s not even a true EV, try again.

Not enough to keep up with the increase in demand. The notion of renewables replacing fossil fuels is a wacky lefty pipe dream.

“The U.S. electric vehicle market is growing, but not fast enough during the latest quarter to prevent unsold EVs from stacking up at some automakers' dealerships or to allow Tesla to avoid new price cuts, according to analysts and industry data. Rising inventories and price-cutting could represent only a short-term pause in EV market growth. But they could be signals that boosting U.S. EV sales above the current 7% market share level will be more costly and difficult than expected, even with federal and state subsidies.” https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/slow-selling-evs-are-auto-industrys-new-headache-2023-07-11/ And EVs are costing Ford Billions “DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.'s electric vehicle business has lost $3 billion before taxes during the past two years and will lose a similar amount this year”

Still not enough to even keep up with the increase in demand let alone replace the hundreds of coal plants now under construction

Still did better than the guy who predicted EVs would overtake IC vehicles in four (now two years)

As I said that was my ‘going out on a limb’ prediction. BTW we still have five more months.

“A new report from Cox Automotive has revealed that the likes of General Motors, Ford, Hyundai, and Toyota currently have more than 90 days’ worth of unsold EVs at their stores. Additional data reveals that dealerships across the U.S. have more than 92,000 new EVs in stock. That’s more the triple the number of EVs at dealer lots 12 months ago and may suggest a brief pause in the market growth of EVs across the country.” (EV inventories piling up while IC vehicles fly off the dealership lots) “The January–June global surface temperature ranked third warmest in the 174-year record at 1.01°C (1.82°F) above the 1901-2000 average of 13.5°C (56.3°F).” (Third, AKA not a record) “According to our analysis, the key driver for coal consumption in this decade will be continuing growth in major Asian emerging markets such as India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The need for higher power demand, as a result of rising income and population, will continue to be met largely by coal fired electricity in these countries.” (What No windmills and solar panels) “As of this post…ice extent for July 17 is twelfth lowest in the 45-year satellite record.” (Did you catch that? More sea ice today that at this time in a dozen other years) “Even with limited data, scientists are confident that there are more polar bears now than there were 50 years ago”

Ok folks I know you have been waiting…. Global YTD temperature: Still not a record - WIN Energy Transition: Can’t even keep up with increasing demand let alone replacing FF- WIN EV adaption: Demand slowing as inventories build up on dealer lots. Nowhere near to replacing IC vehicles-WIN CO2: Continues to rise unabated as predicted - WIN Floods, droughts, cyclones, and wildfires: Remain within historical range on a global scale - WIN Arctic sea ice: Still here (despite alarmists’ predicting it would be gone a decade ago) - WIN Polar Bears: More now than fifty years ago - WIN Coal use: Expected to set another record for 2023 - WIN Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Given Olof claimed the lack of warming was do to LaNina it is only reasonable to blame the current warming is due to ElNino. No spin required

Technically turns into economically with the passage of a few years. I remember in a geoscience elective I took in the late eighties we learned Marcellus gas, while plentiful and technically feasible to recover it was nowhere near economical. To channel Kamala, what a difference the passage of time makes.

https://www.worldometers.info/coal/china-coal/ “China holds 149,818 million tons (MMst) of proven coal reserves as of 2016, ranking 4th in the world and accounting for about 13% of the world's total coal reserves of 1,139,471 million tons (MMst).” China has coal the EU has natural gas and EVs are nowhere close to replacing IC vehicles. If this were baseball you would have struck out and be sitting back on the bench.

“According to a 2013 study by Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), there are an estimated 14 trillion cubic meters (tcm) of technically recoverable shale gas reserves in Europe. Poland and France have the largest estimated shale gas resources in the region. The study, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration, said shale gas reserves amount to 4.2 trillion cubic meters in Poland and 3.9 trillion cubic meters in France. Romania had 1.4 trillion cubic meters, Denmark has 900 billion cubic meters and Germany is estimated to have a reserve of 500 billion cubic meters. "About 70% of LNG imported into Poland from the US is from shale," Przybyło said. "And this threatens the EU’s CO2 targets. The EU has wandered down a blind alley on the green transition. Basically, it panicked."” Looks like Europe has plenty of economically recoverable natural gas reserves, which they will need as the green energy transition continues to fail.

That report was from the IEA or the International Energy Agency and the demand to which they were referring was for energy and not for feedstocks.

Manifest? You flatter me, I was the janitor and refueling guy.

Yes, but according to the IEA, the demand for fossil fuels will remain strong for the next several decades.

No need to move. All of their CO2 makes it over here for my tomatoes plants to enjoy.

Don’t forget India “India is expected to produce 1,255 terawatt-hours (tWh) of power using coal in 2023-24, the official said, compared with 1,180 tWh of power from coal this fiscal year.”

I will have a comprehensive mid-year review when NOAA publishes their June report in ten days.

Nearly $150 billion invested in new production? Hardly looks like a “dead end” energy source now does it? “About 40 GW of new coal plants were approved in 2022 -- the highest figure since 2016 -- with almost all of these being in China which is focusing on energy security after many regions in the country faced blackouts in the recent past. The report noted that robust coal demand and high prices during the energy crisis in 2022 are also feeding through into higher global investment. Coal investment had increased to $135 billion globally in 2022, up 20% on year, and is expected to rise to $150 billion in 2023.” https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/coal/052623-global-investment-in-coal-to-rise-10-in-2023-to-150-billion-iea#:~:text=Investment in global coal production,the International Energy Agency said.

“Three to nothing jefe, three to nothing”

Replace lamb with steer…better? The size of the animal is not the salient factor. It is someone being compelled by the government to do something at odds with their religious beliefs. As far as who’s had a bad week? I will just paraphrase South Park’s Eric Cartman… ”look at the scoreboard jefe, it’s three to nothing. No matter how many times you say the Rs cheat the scoreboard says three to nothing”