Environment & Energy

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...can tell the difference.

Someone posting, for instance, figure 3.21 as if it were realistic, is crediting soothsaying, not reality. Actually, a person who wishes to use the word "reality" in any connection with soothsaying reveals exactly and unambiguously how unqualified they are to use the word at all.

Of course, I have in my file every copy of the WEO going back to the late 1990's, so I'm experienced with them. I don't think I qualify as a credulous rube. The "scenarios" year after year after year after year don't mean shit.

Apparently, there are people who can look at a graph and not glean what i says, which seems to be the case here. In figure 3.21, we can see, if we look at the position of "2023" one can see what the multiple trillion dollar (that's money already squandered) solar industry is producing Now, which is next to nothing. This is true of scenario "STEPS," "APS," and "NZE"

Particularly amusing is what the soothsaying says about hydro, when the overheated planet is already suffering extreme droughts and the disappearing of glacial sources that fed rivers for millennia.

Have a nice day.