I am reposting this press release by the Heartland Institute last Saturday. I believe that the benefit of fossil fuels, like 24/7 electricity with no blackout even for a minute, fast transportation in land, water and air, far outweigh whatever is the imagined social cost and 'damages' created by fossil fuels.
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International Panel
Calls for End to Global War on Fossil Fuels
OCTOBER 5, 2018 – More than 100 leading scholars
from 12 countries have issued a report contending “the global war on fossil
fuels ... was never founded on sound science or economics” and urging the
world’s policymakers to “acknowledge this truth and end that war.”
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate
Change (NIPCC), an independent
organization founded in 2003 to fact-check the work of the United Nations on
the issue of climate change, today released theSummary for Policymakers of Climate
Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels. The 27-page Summary provides an
early look at a 1,000-page report expected to be released on December 4 at
a climate science symposium during the United Nations Conference of the Parties
(COP-24) in Katowice, Poland.
In the new NIPCC report, 117 scientists,
economists, and other experts address and refute the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assertions that the impacts of
climate change on human well-being and the natural environment justify dramatic
reductions in the use of fossil fuels. The Summary provides more than 100
references to peer-reviewed literature, while the full report provides nearly
3,000 such references.
Click here to read
the Summary for Policymakers report in digital form (PDF).
For more information about the Summary for
Policymakers, NIPCC, and The Heartland Institute – and to talk to authors or
editors of this report – contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.orgor
312/731-9364 (cell).
Among the findings reported in the Summary for
Policymakers:
·
Fossil fuels deliver affordable, plentiful, and
reliable energy that is closely associated with key measures of human
development and human welfare. There is a strong positive relationship
between low energy prices and economic prosperity. Economic prosperity in turn
is crucial to human health and welfare. Wind and solar power are incapable of
delivering the affordable, plentiful, and reliable energy that is delivered by
fossil fuels.
·
Fossil fuels require the development of
substantially less surface area than renewable energy sources, rescuing
precious wildlife habitat from development. The power density of fossil
fuels enables humanity to meet its need for energy, food, and natural resources
while using less surface space, rescuing precious wildlife habitat from
development. In 2010, fossil fuels utilized roughly the same surface area as
devoted to renewable energy sources yet delivered 110 times as much
power.
·
The environmental and human welfare impacts of
fossil fuels are overwhelmingly positive.Sixteen of 25 identified impacts of
fossil fuels are net positive. Eight are uncertain, only one is net negative.
Some of the identified impacts include agriculture, air quality, extreme
weather events, human health, and human mortality.
·
Reducing fossil fuel use to achieve dramatic
reductions in carbon dioxide emissions would inflict tremendous economic
hardship. Reducing greenhouse gases to 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050
would require a 96% reduction in world GDP, reducing per-capita GDP to $1,200
from $30,600 now forecast. Per-capita income would be at about the level it was
in the United States and Western Europe in about 1820 or 1830, before the
Industrial Revolution.
Scientists and experts will be in Katowice, Poland the week of December
4 to publicly release the full volume of Climate Change Reconsidered II:
Fossil Fuels. Credentialed media are invited to attend the
December 4 symposium to learn more about the report and question some of the
scientists who agree with its findings. Details on where and when that
symposium will be held are coming soon.
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See also:
Energy 111, Coal demand about to soar, July 09, 2018
Energy 112, Green energy and Energiewende failures, August 22, 2018
Energy 113, First Gen/EDC's anti-coal drama, September 23, 2018
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