‘NO progress on climate’ – US still consumes 82% of energy from fossil fuels in 2023 – despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent by Biden-Harris – In 2023, the world burned more fossil fuels than at any other time in history’ – Watts Up With That?
Marc Morano
Through the Committee for the Liberation of Prosperity: Kamala Explains the Change in Fracking
There has been NO “climate progress.” Today, we get more than 80% of our energy from fossil fuels – the same level as we did five years ago – despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars. …
In 2023, the world burned more fossil fuels than at any other time in history. Here are the facts:
Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.7%, led by China and India.
Fossil fuel consumption in 2023 hits record high, rising 1.5% to 505 exajoules.
China is the world’s largest consumer of primary energy, burning 34% of the world’s 170.7 million tonnes of energy consumption.
Almost no country has met the UN’s fossil fuel ban target.
Through the Committee for the Liberation of Prosperity: Kamala Explains the Change in Fracking
It’s interesting to see liberals explain why Kamala suddenly abandoned her progressive stances on everything from the border wall, the Green New Deal, reparations, shale gas extraction, taxing unrealized capital gains, to Medicare for All, etc.
She said that while her political views have changed, “my values remain unchanged.”
But her campaign’s explanation below for why she now PRO-shale gas drilling doesn’t make sense.
As we have noted many times on these pages, there has been NO “climate progress.” Today, we get more than 80% of our energy from fossil fuels—exactly where we were five years ago—despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent.
As for Kamala’s claim that other countries are meeting their climate goals, that’s also a myth. In fact, in 2023, the world burned more fossil fuels than at any other time in history. Here are the facts:
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- Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.7%, led by China and India.
- Fossil fuel consumption in 2023 hits record high, rising 1.5% to 505 exajoules.
- China is the world’s largest consumer of primary energy, burning 34% of the world’s 170.7 million tonnes of energy consumption.
- Almost no country has met the UN’s fossil fuel ban target.
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