Tell it to the Chinese who keep building coal plants.
Reportedly, Biden closed coal plants. What gives him that right? Shouldn't people have the free choice to use coal if that is their best option? I'm not saying it is their best option, but do we live in a free society where people can make choices? Is coal so bad that the choice should be taken away? I acknowledge that it might be. I am also concerned about pollutants.
If solar and batteries are cheaper in 30 years then people will choose that, but I'm skeptical because I have been hearing this for decades. I'm also not sure that so-called renewables can meet our energy needs. For the moment, fossil fuels are the most reliable sources of energy.
We don't have infinite energy resources. Reportedly, we have about 45 to 50 years of oil reserves remaining. Likewise, I have heard that most fossil fuels will be depleted by the year 2100. Ironically, the fossil fuel that will last the longest, and the one that we will be forced to use in the next century, is coal.
I've long thought that geothermal would be a limitless source of energy, and I've heard that some progress has been made in that area.
I am a climate alarmism skeptic because of the data on temperature and CO2. Around 2010, actual climate scientists were saying that the Climate Sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is 6 to 12 degrees celsius. I watched many videos about this. However, the data doesn't support this at all. The data indicates that it might be around 2 degrees. Early in that decade, it was very common to hear them say, "We are on track to raise the average atmospheric temperature by 3 degrees by the year 2100, and that would be bad. However, if we can get it down to 2 degrees then this would still be bad, but manageable." I heard this repeatedly. However, by the end of the decade, I was watching videos where the numbers had changed. They gave the exact same speech, but said that 2 degrees would be very bad, but if we could just get it down to 1.5 degrees then that would be manageable. They moved the goal post. The reasons for this might be complicated, but I remember the IPCC accepting a paper that cited 20nth century data indicating that the climate sensitivity might only be 1.5 degrees.
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