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4. An operative line in this document comes early.
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:26 PM
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Even as many countries have launched their transitions to renewable energy, global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise to an all-time high.


I think this says something about whether this so called "transition," which in fact is as real as Santa Claus inasmuch as while everyone talks about Santa, he actually doesn't exist, similar to how people talk about "the transition" to so called "renewable energy" which also doesn't exist.

After trillions of dollars squandered on this scheme, the reactionary embrace of making energy depend on the weather, solar and wind, combined, produced just 18 Exajoules of energy on a planet now consuming 654 Exajoules.

World Energy Outlook, 2025 (Table A.1c: World energy supply, page 426.)

"Renewable energy" doesn't work.

The problem is not one about money or effort. We are no different than the Saudi Arabian delegates when we claim that "renewable energy" has anything to do with addressing the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.

It doesn't.

It never did.

It's sole purpose was to attack the world's last best hope, nuclear energy.

At the Potsdam Institute, they ought to acknowledge that Germany, the country in which they operate, they didn't phase out coal. They embraced coal.

Instead they shut their nuclear plants.

It's easier to point fingers than it is to look in the mirror, I guess.

In my opinion there isn't and never has been a serious look at reality either among climate deniers, or people who support the fossil fuel dependent so called "renewable energy" "solution."

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