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It would be “madness” if countries “become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use,” Guterres said. ... “Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction,” he told the conference.

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The Atlantic: ‘On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem’ – Laments even ‘nuclear winter…would not reverse the effect’ of man-made warming

China "produces and consumes more than half of global supply, and it’s the biggest contributor to its world-leading greenhouse gas emissions." ... China will "boost domestic production capacity by about 300 million tons, according to people familiar with the matter. It also plans to build a 620 million-ton stockpile of the fuel."

The Daily Telegraph: With Sir David Attenborough by his side at the Science Museum, Boris Johnson declared “a year of climate action” in the run-up to the Cop26 summit. ... But soaring prices caused by Putin’s invasion mean Britain has now done a U-turn in rhetoric and is looking at whether it can eke out more years from its ageing coal plants, to help cut gas usage in the immediate term. ... “The UK remains committed to ending the use of coal power by 2024,” a spokesman for the Government added. “We will be setting out plans to boost our long-term energy resilience and domestic supply shortly.”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz spelled out a more radical path to ensure Germany will be able to meet rising energy supply and diversify away from Russian gas, which accounts for half of Germany’s energy needs. “The events of the past few days have shown us that responsible, forward-looking energy policy is decisive not only for our economy and the environment. It is also decisive for our security,” Scholz told lawmakers.

Nuclear, coal, LNG: 'no taboos' in Germany's energy about-face

Flashback: What Germany’s Effort to Leave Coal Behind Can Teach the U.S.

Marc Morano, the proprietor of Climate Depot, told The Epoch Times: “The G7 is the reason that Europe is in this mess and beholden to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Morano said. “Do you know how many G7 summits they’ve had, virtue signaling to the net-zero agenda for Europe’s version of the Green New Deal? Putin has them by the neck—he knows he has the power to tank their economy by shutting down his energy.” ...  “The effects on Germany will be far worse than the effects on Russia. It’s kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face,” Morano said.

Morano told The Epoch Times that the invasion is a scapegoat for spiking energy costs and inflation over the past few months. He drew attention to a new Heartland Institute study that found that Biden administration policies added $1,000 to the average household’s costs in 2021. “Putin has taken a very bad (energy) situation and made it worse,” he said.

Tucker Carlson Tonight - Fox News Channel - Broadcast February 23, 2022: 

Morano: ‘In 2020, the United States was back to 1952 with energy, not just independence, but energy dominance'

Lomborg: "In 2019, the latest complete year of data, 81% of the world’s energy supply came from fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency. Even if all nations were to fulfill their current climate promises, the IEA estimates that fossil-fuel use would still make up 73% by 2040. ... Renewables produce mostly electricity, which is only 19% of all the energy the world consumes. The rest is used for things like heating, transportation and the production of goods like steel and fertilizer. Even if all electricity turned green, most of the world would still run on fossil fuels. 

And most electricity isn’t green—almost two-thirds is still generated by fossil fuels, with nuclear and hydro supplying another quarter. The solar and wind favored by environmentalists generate only 8%. Though renewables are often touted as the cheapest energy source, it’s only true when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. If it’s a still night you need backup power, typically from fossil fuels—which makes electricity costlier because you need to pay for both the solar panel and the gas turbine. The European Union, which gets 17% of its electricity from solar and wind—the highest percentage in the world—also has some of the highest consumer electricity costs."