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Old 2nd Dec 2019, 04:23
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At some stage this panic as got to be moderated by reality
Reality will set in when the last the sun goes down on the day the last coal fired power station is closed.

"renewable energy" is shorthand for energy derived from sources which are not depleted in our lifetimes - eg solar, wind, tidal - you use it today and it's still there tomorrow
But the material that makes "renewable energy" possible is finite.

As time goes and more data comes in from the same instruments over time it should gradually give a better picture, how hard is it to say "from our best estimates and assumptions, based on models built on what we currently know we postulate that this will happen in X years, but we must stress that this is only a hypothesis, we hope to get a better idea in future years, but in the mean time it might be a good idea to try and convince China and India to cut down on their emissions and for everybody else to do what they can within reason."
Well said.
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