Climate Change Experts Have No Backup Plan to Replace Products From Oil

Climate Change Experts Have No Backup Plan to Replace Products From Oil
Wind turbines are viewed at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas, on Jan. 21, 2016. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Ronald Stein
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The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) was recently held in Egypt, attracting many global elites and more than 400 private jets. All attendees recognize that climate change is occurring, as it has for 4 billion years—but it seems most lack basic energy literacy, which starts with the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from unreliable breezes and sunshine and can’t replace fossil fuels.

Ronald Stein
Ronald Stein
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Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for Heartland, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”
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