ENERGY Renewable energy barely even a fair weather friend*

The media hysteria blaming everything from bushfires to refugee crises on anthro­pogenic climate change continues unabashed. One result of the hysteria has been massive subsidies to renewable energy. Yet renewables remain only a tiny proportion of global energy generation. The BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2017, studied world energy consumption and revealed that renewable energy (wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and waste) comprised only 3.1 per cent of global energy consumpti…

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