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You Wicked Planet Wrecking Coffee Drinker – Think of the Climate Impact!

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From Watts Up With That?

By Andy May

We now have another year of energy consumption data, what does it tell us?

The graph from ourworldindata.org is shown below:

Energy use is going up. Are we transitioning to renewables? Do renewables matter? See the change from 2020 to 2021 below:

Total global energy use increased 8,650 TeraWatt-hours in 2021 and 83% of the increase was supplied by fossil fuels! Only 14% of the increase was supplied by renewables, with an additional 3% by nuclear.

But, what about total energy consumed in 2021? It was 176,431 TeraWatt-hours, 77% fossil fuels and 13% renewable, excluding nuclear. Sounds impressive until you realize that 83% of the added energy consumption in 2021 was supplied by fossil fuels, which means renewables are losing ground and fossil fuels are gaining.

Sorry environmentalists, your goal is moving away from you.